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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 12h

*acting like suddenly our culture will collapse without open access to AI.

(Meant to say something more like that but was having some bad brain fog.)

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 15h

Second term and they’re still acting like in another day or two he’ll FINALLY start acting presidential.

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Mat Johnson @matjohnson.bsky.social · 16h

The president is clearly insane, is on a white supremacist government purging spree, has masked men in the streets abducting people based on their race, is trying to start a war with Venezuela, and is tanking the economy, and none of that would be apparent just going by most corporate news outlets
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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 16h

Who cares if a 16 year old can’t use AI to write an essay on Hemingway? The west coast is on fire 80% of the solar year—there are more pressing matters to give a flying fuck about.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 16h

Why does this loony toons caricature of a human being not understand that we need to seriously question whether minors really need access to AI programs.

(Rhetorical): Why are these people acting like AI is automatically a pivotal component of our culture?

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 16h

What confused me about the headline is that it’s acting like he’s bringing sexy back to fascism, but he’s a solid 6 on a good day. And like… as a submissive bottom.

I think if you find the Nazi Mystique appealing, that says more about you than the nazi.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Part of me doesn’t wonder if the GOP doesn’t do this deliberately. They fear monger about like… relatively sensible legislation. Which makes the dems go “holy shit no! We’re not like that. We’ll never do that. Please vote for us because we won’t do that.”

GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Oh… for a second I thought this was another case of the Dems talking about all the big dreams they’d work on if they won big, which we know by now would never happen.

But no it’s a Republican stumping harder for the left than the Dems actually do.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Honestly I think it’s deliberate. In-game instructions are kept vague—which can be charming. But provided the skill floor it results in much ado about a much easier task than what it seems.

As much as I want to keep going, I’m recognizing it’s taking a toll on my mental health.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Part of the problem with a history of gasslighting is that I have so much internal self-assurance, but this incredible mistrust of my own perspective that I doubt myself more than I am confident.

TL;DR I have no fucking idea what’s going on.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Part of the reason I don’t like the difficulty in Silksong (where I don’t mind it in other games, Hollow Knight included) is that it’s redundant. There are already mechanics that encourage the player to repeat the world—the in-game economy of rosaries already functions to present all of these themes

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

It’s like expecting Fury Road when mass audiences faun over Marvel movies. Maybe this just isn’t the medium I thought it was, and the get gud gaming really is about bragging rights, and not about the use of difficulty as a component of narrative. I don’t know. I’m tried.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know. Maybe I’m the problem. Maybe I’m foolish for trying to look for narrative value in game mechanics, and should just read stories instead of expecting the kind of interactive narrative I’ve only really gotten from a few games.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

The theme is perfectly clearly articulated by the very economy of this world; the skill floor says nothing that the use of rosaries does not already communicate. The difficulty adds little more to the narrative.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Coupled with the shells for the tool mechanics, the amount of farming you need to do is astronomical. You pay rosaries for benches that disappear after you use them—you lease rests, where they should be permanent, so the mechanical language says.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Part of the reason I don’t like the difficulty in Silksong (where I don’t mind it in other games, Hollow Knight included) is that it’s redundant. There are already mechanics that encourage the player to repeat the world—the in-game economy of rosaries already functions to present all of these themes

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

No. No I was not even remotely close. I was exploring areas way outside of where these characters were and would have continued throwing myself at mini bosses at a massive disadvantage to absolutely no use.

Lack of clarity, leading to challenge without reward. I just wasted 4 hours.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

I mean come on… I’m looking up a guide to “Infestation Operation” because I’m just so sick of wasting my time dying and trying over again. This is too much like real life. I don’t need this message.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

(Which undermines the aforementioned point of gameplay mirroring the theme. The game is demanding its players subject themselves to the toil it is trying to tell them is exploitative. Whilst not really affording any mechanical solutions. The game itself is the antagonist.)

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

The responsibility component here is that to promise a reward, without offering reward, feels like it is actively fostering addiction, and exploiting addictive personalities. And that’s the problem I have with “get gud gaming” is that the whole culture seems to delight in enduring stress.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

There’s “challenging”

And then there’s a 5-minute walk back through a horde of hostile mobs and environmental hazard with no rest or recovery, to find something you don’t know where it is, when taking one point of damage means “well I may as well give up” kind of “challenging.”

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

I just… wish I didn’t have to waste so much time to engage with something like this.

Just read Kafka. You get the same message without the cortisol.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Whereas I found bloodborne so compelling that I was actively investigation the game regardless of whether I was stuck or not.

With Hollow Knight, though, Team Cherry leaves the heavy lifting to the audience. And there’s a point where I think it’s to show off rather than demonstrate.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

Because I’m only really choosing to read into this because I’m stuck on this fucking parasite and getting so bored while playing the same part over again that I’m wondering why it’s so difficult.

And if I didn’t have that, I wouldn’t be reading into the game.

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GlitterFaun (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧ @ntherrgott.bsky.social · 4d

TL;DR… I’m getting to an age where I really don’t want to get gud. I just want to be able to analyze a narrative. And depending on difficulty as a means to keep people engaged with your story through repetition isn’t… a great narrative device. Give me something within the story to make it compelling

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