There's just something about tiny versions of reality with lots of detail, isn't there? Choice! Big "Bobby Fingers" energy.
~scuse me, coming through, tryna make a connection here~ HELLO, yes Metroidvania/RPG indie dev? I'd like you to meet my friend live service gatchapon! They were just telling me the FUNNIEST story about something called "loot karma," tell it again, the one where your chances improve with every whiff
That bit about a ton of devs being blind to the little "soulful" elements in games resonates. Sort of terrified that if there's any GenAI threat to jobs, it's because we're already doing a human version of that same process of duplication without understanding; referencing but without the spark.
Psh, "Celebrimbor" sounds like the nonbinary deity of asexuality, vaping, and partying hard without hooking up. ...No, none of the rituals have worked... Listen, if I was already their avatar, would we even be having this conversation?!
...This is a very painful but important step in our own self-guided evolution, now that we're literally in charge of this rock, incapable of hiding under it. The bleating of those uncomfortable with the many layers of humbling equality this will take? Ugly sounds indicative of progress.
...Our ancestors proved they were "better" than Homo Neanderthalensis. Then we proved that we're "better" than all the other life forms we rely on and share a planet with. It's not surprising that some of us think that equality is unnatural; it's certainly not where we came from...
Take heart in the fact that you and MANY others posting from this perspective means that it is not, in fact, being normalized so much as forces are lifting old societal stones and logs, revealing lots of ugly stuff that's been there the whole time. Civilization confronting a lack of civility...
"The idea of writing ahead and posting from a backlog is highly appealing; what I wouldn't give to take a whole day off from UFO 50 and just play Metaphor Re Fantazio or Steam NextFest demos! Lofty, lofty goals..." www.xeneth.design/2024/10/fift...
I've got a few different blog entry irons in the fire at the moment, but none of them feel mature enough to edit and roll with today. The id...