i think the biggest lesson was Never make any major life decisions on the promise of charity if you are not capable of subsidizing any sudden lack of charity yourself lmao

oh mannn sounds like me lol (was offered mentorship and recommendation to get into digital architechture, guy just ended up going back on his word and did nothing for me and i ended up forced to work in fast food, which i was belittled for,)

i tried to make it work in honor of cheaper everything but the industrial district of arlington is such a shithole lol. its so impossible to go anywhere worth going if you dont allow a car to make you even poorer

my 50yr old roommate from a few years ago used to get so mad that i didnt wanna take commission based door to door salesman jobs with no car where the hiring seminar guy literally said stuff like "now in terms of pay, some people like to say all people are equal. we don't necessarily believe that,"

re7 would probably be an immaculately kino video game if it just focused on mysterious evil rednecks and didnt do the whole boat chapter digression to Explain Everything like i think its cooler to know the Why and not the How. i dont need jack to explain why hes fucked up to me it kinda ruins it

the stuff they showed for 9 looked really cool but i'm like. soo skeptical that theyll actually hold the focus on terrifying mold houses/ONE type of aesthetic tone. they have a really hard time sticking to One cool thing for a whole game, re8 was really lousy with wild genre shifts lol

i should probably try the remake eventually but i just read that they added limited durability to the knife and that just makes me question how the game is still functional on a basic level lol. that thing that was so crucial they mapped it to L2 inbetween the demo and release can be turned off now

i love how claustrophobic the fov is too, also little details like how when u get up on the rooftops in the chapter 1 village smackdown the camera force tilts downwards so u can see the crowds of braying psychos swarming you from below... i have to imagine the recent remake doesnt do that, right

its worth it just to get mercs/ng+ lol. the thing about it is i feel like the absolute best parts of it are frontloaded and everything after like mendes is a little worse.. but those village chapters are like one of the best video games ever made

hey man youre pretty cool, dont escape from new york tomorrow

yey

this whips. luv it

scp-wiki.wikidot.com/antimemetics... antimemetics is not quiiite as much of a numbers getter but shrug the guy got to turn it into a book thats pretty cool

there's a lot of meat to dissect basically! but the more high concept entries dont translate well to like, youtube explainers so they don't really get pop culture traction things more based in Lore do. this stuff is probably the weirdest to hit escape velocity scp-wiki.wikidot.com/system:page-...

the most recent stylistic movements circa like 2019 onwards have trended more and more towards like, full on experimental literature, incorporation of poetic passages, a taste for describing political irony in black comedy terms (i would describe the average user as Well Meaning Social Democrat)

like mary shelleys frankenstein satisfies most if not all of these criteria but you don't really see people comparing it to house of leaves. but really it's doing a lot of very similar things!

i think postmodernist is one of those things thats most usefully understood as "things we all mostly agreed satisfy the criteria of being Postmodern" and less as an easily identifiable contemporary set of unifying elements because a lot of those elements arent necessarily unique to it

in that to write an article for the website inherently requires the use of form/forMat and metatextual touches as the primary tool of communication prioritized over literal Content, in its bones it kind of requires caring extensively about how information is actually digested vs what the info Is