Thanks!

That classic pasttime: making 3d work in Pico-8

I know just about everything sucks now but please hang in there. The world is a better place with you in it

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

People will yell about accessibility, but accessibility is a braille translation, not a book rewritten as if it was a simple english wikipedia entry. Sometimes the friction is needed to appreciate the art, and sometimes you have to build your fluency up to appreciate something. That's just culture!!

Lol. What would "natural" difficulty even look like through this lens? That art team balance the game?

battle garegga has diagonal movement speed boosting like most 90s FPS so therefore it is the best shmup

Sparknotes is a whole industry. "Inception Ending Explained" is a whole industry. How many people have you heard get frustrated over not being able to engage with Abstract Expressionism. The problem is certainly not unique to games

I can't think of a medium where that isn't true

But if "The Citizen Kane of Games" signifies the first entry of a medium that really establishes what's possible and which elevates it to an art form (whether Citizen Kane actually did that for movies aside) it's hard to think of a better candidate than Xevious. It even has two plane focus lol

Less trying to make a direct parallel and more trying to make the point that if we really think games are art, which I do, that we should be elevating the art of gameplay itself and the things that are unique to the medium rather than shape it into something it's not.

idk the line of "but what if I want to experience the art and story" just feels gross to me at this point it never feels like it's said in good faith and is more just "this game isn't what I want it to be and should change to suit my desires"

A lot of talk about the art in games focuses on turning games into movies. And from this lens gameplay is a gate keeping people from experiencing the true art of the cutscenes between the gameplay. But the art is the gameplay. The Citizen Kane of games isn't Last of Us, it's Xevious.

And like to be clear I'm all for training modes and god modes. It's not too much to ask to let the player tinker with the component parts. But I really don't think people realize that an easy mode is a second game. You're asking an artist to make a second work of art. It's wildly entitled.

In what other medium are you expected to make a whole separate version of your art for people who don't want to engage with it? Difficulty is framed as some cruel trick being played on the audience but like no one is forcing you to engage with art you don't like.

shit is bad enough for trans people. do not. i repeat. FUCKING DO NOT start talking about things that might happen in the future as though they are already happening now.

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

Transgender people are owed a retraction and apology from @wsj.com. The lie has already become canon to millions and it seems the least they could do.

The Assassin (2015) dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien

happy labor day

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Mandatory hrt until 30 for everyone. You need to wait until you're 18 to vote and 21 to drink, so I think maybe even 25 is a little too young to decide that you're cis. Your brain is still developing, what if you end up regretting it later? Might as well make it 40, just so you're absolutely sure.

The low grade discomfort ordinary people felt about trans people's medical needs was used to smuggle junk science and conversion therapy into the mainstream, and now you're running around like "how did all this junk science and broad based attacks on expertise get normalized?"