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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 5h

I just put the finishing touches on my Easy Delivery Co review. It's a struggle to be funny about a game with virtually no flaws, but I did my best.

I imagine, given the game, this will have less complaints about its length, lol.

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Steam Community :: ZMannZilla :: Review for Easy Delivery Co.

I've been jokingly calling Easy Delivery Co "The Pathologic of Dinkums". Or maybe it's Snowrunner meets Animal Crossing? Eurotruck 64: Vorkuta Edition? Silent Hill DoorDash? In any case, it carries a ...

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 10h

It's all fun and games until you take a step too far. Then it becomes auto parts & supplies, because you're in a Walmart.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 5h

I just put the finishing touches on my Easy Delivery Co review. It's a struggle to be funny about a game with virtually no flaws, but I did my best.

I imagine, given the game, this will have less complaints about its length, lol.

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Steam Community :: ZMannZilla :: Review for Easy Delivery Co.

I've been jokingly calling Easy Delivery Co "The Pathologic of Dinkums". Or maybe it's Snowrunner meets Animal Crossing? Eurotruck 64: Vorkuta Edition? Silent Hill DoorDash? In any case, it carries a ...

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 6h

Yay, ChatGPT will finally be able to go fuck itself.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 6h

Dammit, capitalism.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 6h

If eating an entire tub of Greek yogurt is an option, why do you need a second one?

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 6h

Y'know what? At least it's not AI.

Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 9h

Also, as I move forward with learning how to code games, I've decided to make my games as text-dependant as possible. And, if possible, over-wordy AF.

I want to make a game so repellant to hooting bibliophobic trolls that it makes Planescape Torment look like 10-Second Ninja.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 9h

My MEGABONK review is blowing up. Especially amused by one quirk in the comments: someone claiming the game "respects your intelligence", followed by several doinks who just popped in to say "I'm not reading all that".

The punchline: I've already uninstalled it.

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Steam Community :: ZMannZilla :: Review for Megabonk

It's really tough to say I "recommend" Megabonk. I actually kind of don't, but I think I have to. I don't want to be over here saying "oh yeah, you should totally get addicted to a mindless frustratin...

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 10h

It's all fun and games until you take a step too far. Then it becomes auto parts & supplies, because you're in a Walmart.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 13h

In fairness I need to use the Plus thing more often to post my threads. And I can see how my response read as harsh, sorry.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 13h

This would be funnier if I was making a joke complaint, and not expressing a genuine frustration.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 13h

I suppose it's more aggravating than detrimental, and maybe if art is expression, then being a bit aggravated at something is-

Waaaaaitaminit, how am I gonna express that frustration in a way that reads as genuine?

It's a slop paradox!

Fuck.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 13h

This, I fear, is the effects of radiation from AI. The badness of the direct results *might*, under ideal circumstances, be a matter of "fine, whatever, you like what you like".

But now human artists are having their human art accused of sloppery by dim cranks with more attention than palate.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 13h

TWICE this week my writing's been accused of using ChatGPT. Naturally, by people who blurt "TL;DR" at anything longer than a paragraph.

I feel like a baker whose wedding cake has an overconfident moron standing over it yelling "It's a pile of Twinkies!" - & they weren't even invited to the wedding!

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 14h

I could go on for some time about BoC but I'll cut myself off here. Suffice to say, I applaud anyone that can get through my favorite book, which many thought was Vonnegut's worst. Thank you for reading it, and thank you for your time. 💜🐼Z

Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 14h

RE: the self-insert, he'd already used that technique in Slaughterhouse Five, and in many ways BoC is a low-key prequel to (& even parody of) SH5. In many ways, BoC was written as an indulgence, which explains why it's so raw & bonkers & juvenile (and also why critics of the time panned it).

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 14h

The narrative also has a recurring theme of how chance individual interactions alter our realities, usually in small ways. Trout would not be on his journey without Rosewater. Hoover wouldn't have gone to the festival unless Francine suggested it. And so on - or "and so it goes" I suppose.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 14h

There's a story about Vonnegut & Joe Heller at a fancy party, where Vonnegut asks Heller how he feels about billionaires having so much more money than he'll ever make with Catch-22, and Heller replies, "I have something they'll never have: ENOUGH."

I think about this when I think of Dwayne Hoover.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 14h

I'd go one layer deeper and say, the main dichotomy was between Dwayne, a well-to-do "success story" so eager to have a purpose that he uncritically accepted one from Kilgore Trout, a man with "a life not worth living, and an iron will to live."

I'll summarize a story about Vonnegut:

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 1d

I just Googled Typhoon Halong. AP, ABC, CNN, CBS, WaPo, and FOX all have stories about this.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 1d

"There's no rule saying a basketball player CAN'T lick his own butt."

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 1d

While not opposed to people being "horny on main" as they say, I do find it amusing how back when I worked at a smut shop, being boldly horny was something most folks waited til sundown to do with their whole chest, but thanks to the internet & a global audience, it's always horny o'clock somewhere.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 1d

*trying to cut some beef for stew*

This knife ain't cutting it. I need a butcher knife.

*partner hands me a blade with a drag-king mustache & tribal tattoos etched into it*

Perfect, thanks.

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Z. Mann Zilla, Semi-Pro Goofball @pandangit.com · 1d

"You need to go touch grass. Not like me, a normal person, who quote-skeeted your joke I didn't like & then diagnosed you with 1D6 mental illnesses for telling it."

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