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Lau R. Griffin
@thegreatsurf.bsky.social
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · Jan 7
big mood (bsky edition)
KLIMTON NICCHINI, SOWING: I am a genius! KLIMTON NICCHINI, REAPING: Oh no!
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 4h
never owned a game worse than 007 racing
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 4h
the playstation shovelware i was making my mother hire from video city when i was ten
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lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 10h
What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 7h
One of the greats. So many tie-in novels had this real sense of legitimacy because of his covers.
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 10h
Honestly really fun to see the Amano WoL design trying out regular street clothes
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 12h
ME TO HER: So true?
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 12h
It feels significant given how trends in gym attendance have appeared to change in my lifetime.
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 12h
Loved this game as a kid, still remember being completely bewildered by baccarat
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 12h
... you think this is going to end up in reflections on this period of society ten or twenty years from now
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 12h
This one feels a bit hard to sustain seeing as the Technos also invented debt based finance and railroading innocent people into jail :v
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 22h
Can't fault the Rachel design at least
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
A pedantry battle? Really?
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
Pure evil is way beyond being unsympathetic. Sympathy is the sense of understanding you reach after recognising a degree of commonality with another person, it's completely disconnected from any assessment of action or morality.
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
I have to say that I don't think that merely not being pure evil is itself a grounds for sympathy lol
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
You said '[h]aving all villains be sympathetic' as the alternative. If you meant something else then I apologise but that's what it sounded like.
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
The alternative to pure evil is not solely a sympathetic villain, there is a whole range of possible depictions of evil that don't turn on audience sympathy. It's not one or the other.
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
That seems to also be true of many other kinds of conflict, so if pure evil is not, as you say, in itself interesting, surely you can explore the complexity of victimisation via narrative tools that are themselves also interesting
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
What about is it about pure evil that you find interesting? Beyond the idea that it is realistic, which is pretty flimsy.
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
Key difference between writing a story and real life is that real life doesn't have to be narratively interesting
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
That map is cool as hell Szkin. Also love it when there's a geofront.
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
Grumbling because it seems like there are showings in Australia, but not in my state
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
Awesome, best of luck with it!
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
'That wasn't a great note' lol. Good stuff, do you think you'll try getting back into it?
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 1d
Congrats but also lol
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 2d
Good luck!
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Lau R. Griffin @thegreatsurf.bsky.social · 2d
The legend
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