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Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · Oct 29

NEW VIDEO!
Horror and fantasy have always been strongly related through their shared gothic lineage and the survival horror genre in particular has long adhered to a dungeon crawling game structure which greatly influences the ways in which its stories are constructed. Let's explore that!

Survival Horror's Fantasy Lineage

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Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 8h

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Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 21h

I'm spending far too much time on the Giantess Wiki lately

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 23h

I'm kinda getting obsessed with multimedia CDs. Some of what I'm looking at is in my existing wheelhouse--digital magazines, electronic literature, etc--but I'm also trying really really hard not to buy "Wines of the World" right now. I don't even drink wine!

A screenshot of a screenshot in a magazine, displaying the user-interface of Wines of the World's Wine Browser. It has a pleasant, wooden texture and posh-looking fonts. The caption reads: "The browser feature accesses a database of more than 20,000 wines."

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 9d

I'll learn how to type on a phone eventually.

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 9d

this how you insert a break into your exposition

They could spit upon the fire and it would become a glowing ember. The flame-talkers came and began to burn the forests. The Urshuca opposed them violently." The communication stopped for a minute or so as Sorthalan rose to his feet, turned from us, and urinated impressively into the night.
"There were men controlling the fire that night when Christian came," Keeton whispered. I had not forgotten them. I had called them Neoliths. They seemed the most primitive of Christian's entourage, but apparently they had a mind control over fire and flame itself.

From Mythago Wood by Robert Holdstock

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · 10d

Actually speaking of the "kids these days" stuff I don't really have much patience for handwringing over zoomer “brainrot” humour because I grew up with "We Drink Ritalin" (actual title!) and other animutations on albinoblacksheep. We weren't an erudite generation

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 13d

It's defo not the only reason fewer people are reading books, but talking about reading as though it's like eating your veggies probably isn't helping.

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 15d

what's even more confusing is the FFVII modding community calls the original Windows 98 version "PC98". It's fuckin rough out here

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 17d

I frequently feel frustrated by horror literary magazine's restrictions on transgressive content but this is next level.
Especially the blanket NO to all epistolary fiction. What the fuck?

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 21d

People talk about how you have to play and beat Nier Automata multiple times to get the full story but you don't. That's a formalism. The game has distinct chapters and uses the "ending credits" as chapter breaks. The game you're thinking of is Nier Replicant. That's the sicko shit.

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 28d

Obviously the place a system has in the overall flow of the game is hugely important, but every critique I've seen has addressed that, tending to state that the hugely increased sophistication of the combat reduces tension and increases tedium compared with the simpler combat of the older games.

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 28d

I mean, it has dodges, parries, light/heavy attacks and a lock-on so I feel it makes sense to comment on the systems it's so obviously drawing on?

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 28d

The original French seems to have much stronger poetic form, but what's neat about this volume is that you get both the original text and the translation facing each other! I have some other Old French romances that were straight up converted to prose so this is greatly appreciated

Ont torné en fiens entasser;
Car qui violt avoir amasser,
Quant il n'en ist honors ne biens?
Assés valt certes mains que fiens.
Li fiens encrassce vials la terre, Mais li avoirs c'on entreserre
Honist celui ki l'i entasse.
S'il a .m. mars en une masse Trestolt icho tient il a nient, Et neporquant perdre le crient;
Et om qui crient n'est pas a ase,
Ains vit a dol et a mesaase.
Li avoirs fait l'ome lanier, Et sans preu faire travellier.
Il ne fait el fors soi sollier.
Si ne croit mie sa mollier:
Il n'a cure qu'ele le balle, Car s'i faloit une maälle Dont avroit il desparellié
Les .m. mars por cui a villié.
Ne sai que dire des haïs
Por cui cis siecles est traïs - De honte ont mais lor cort enclose.
Chi n'a mestier metre de glose,
Car jo n'i fas nule sofime.
Jal savés vus tres bien meisme:

Old French on the left page, modern English on the right

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 28d

the best part about reading old romances is always the poet going off on one before actually getting to the story tbh.

i mean in this particular case it does kinda relate to the themes of the work but it doesn't always!

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · 28d

Reading Roman de Silence (Sarah Roche-Mahdi translation) and I love how it opens with a lengthy tirade about how much the poet hates rich people.

What good does it do one to pile up wealth if no good or honor issues from it?
Assets are worth much less than manure: at least dung enriches the soil, but the wealth that is locked away is a disgrace to the man who hoards it.
If a man amasses a thousand marks, he soon thinks this is nothing, and yet he's afraid of losing it.
And a man afraid is not at peace, he is miserable and ill at ease.
Wealth only makes a man mean-spirited and makes him toil without profit.
All he does is soil himself.
He doesn't trust his wife any more: he doesn't want her to spend any of it, for one missing penny would mar the perfection of
those thousand marks he lost sleep over.
I don't know what to say of those hateful men who thus abuse this earthly life—
thye have enclosed their courts with shame forever.

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Misty De Méo @cdrom.ca · Sep 19

Gaming history blazing hot take: if recreating the experience of playing old games via CRT shaders is important, it's equally important to recreate crappy old emulators so you can experience what it was like to play these games for the first time on a low-env 90s PC.

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Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · Sep 16

the important context here is that dobbyn's lighting and shading were out of this world. often very soft and diffuse to create this moody, otherworldly atmosphere

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · Sep 16

ah god dammit I forgot the alt text

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · Sep 16

Total adoration for Nigel Dobbyn's work on the Knuckles stories, too. For as much as I love the IDW art, these two might still be my favourite Sonic artists.

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · Sep 16

Watching weekly (daily in DBZ's case in the UK) at a set time decided by the broadcaster really helped w this for me. It was just something I did for half an hour after school, not something I set out to finish, as such.

(that being said i get stuck into long ass shit all the time...)

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · Sep 16

the evolution of language is fun 💙📚

A passage from The Worm Ouroboros by E.R. Eddison. "Now were borne round dishes of carp, pilchards, and lobsters, and thereafter store enow of meats: a fat kid roasted whole and garnished with peas on a spacious silver charger..."

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · Sep 14

you ever read patchwork girl, the hypertext fiction by shelley jackson? it's not an adaptation as-such but it's the best attempt I've ever seen at building on the original novel's ideas.

Serah @etherealserah.bsky.social · Sep 13

MUDs were the first online multiplayer experiences I got to have in my own home. My internet was far too slow for the FPS games my friends were playing!

Richard Bartle has some great stuff preserved on his website, including emails between players of the early iterations mud.co.uk/richard/mud....

Richard A. Bartle: MUD