your james somerton types are genuinely among the easiest people to manipulate for anyone with the resources and training to do so. several US rw talking-heads are functionally Kremlin cutouts on this plan: get them to use your words, get them to sign your checks, then get them to take your orders

it's definitely not something that emerged out of mutual contempt and misunderstanding towards the practice of criticism by fandom people with theater kid mentality & viciously entitled and intrusive silicon valley platform ghouls

it's probably fine that we're all downstream of a mass of performers play-acting serious criticism with so much inertia that their trash finds their way into basically everything

paypal.me/stompsite (this is the fastest/best way to help me out right now)

@forgetamnesia on venmo (this is the second-best way to help me out right now and easiest for me to reply)

ko-fi.com/stompsite (this is the slowest way to help, but it works.

$docseuss on cashapp

I still need to play wizardry, but I'm currently playing Etrian and the labyrinth games

I suspect a lot of devs would be genuinely pissed off at knowing they had a shot if someone who actually cared had been on the other end of that email line instead of someone who blithely goes "we'll give you a copy when it's out" and blows the game's chances to smithereens as a result

if the game's release date is after IGF jury is over, you're too late man! You have failed to provide a relevant build!

someone can only demand you be so small for them for so long before you just can't anymore. your brain no longer works that way. it's not real feelings they're expressing, it's justification to keep you small so they can feel big, or like they're in control. and so what? control your own life.

i think people on the internet just hate me for being autistic but it's not like i can do anything about it

at some point, you just go "you are doing this to make yourself happy, and you really only care about staying in control, and I think the only way I can be happy is to do the things I am interested in"

someone can only sob so much because you took someone to see godzilla 2014 and they think godzilla is evil for having 'god' in the name

like, someone tells you enough that jesus christ himself appeared to them in a vision to tell you that you need to give up on liking airplanes and wanting to work in an air museum as a teen, and then years later says "actually he says air museums are fine" and it breaks something in you

(mel brooks saying he loves movies where they say "search the perimeter" will never not make me laugh)