I remember Tim Cain made a video about how Fallout 1 wasn't really about capitalism and everyone called him an idiot and cited 'death of the author' but the actual text of Fallout 1 says extremely little about capitalism, that's mostly transposed on to it from later games

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No game with infinite containers can top the emotional rollercoaster moments in Sulfur where you find a whole fucking fridge and have to decide whether to empty out your inventory in the middle of a dungeon to carry it home because man, that IS a lot of storage space

Kris Wolfheart@kriswolfhe.art · last wk.

'containers have no limits' is one of those changes elder scrolls made that truly baffles me. You already let people upgrade their player housing with more storage containers. Why make all of them infinite

Enjoy the movie, which was excellent; enjoy the review, which was also excellent. These are not in conflict! Also enjoy comments which scold the review for being nerdy and pretentious, re: a film that obliterated the bombast, comedy, and vitalism of the OG work in favor of monotone self-seriousness

in his lane. focused. flourishing. he's got the bag but he doesn't let it control him. he knows to stay locked in on the grind but to stay mindful as well. you just know this dude keeps it humble too.

I'm increasingly fond of @polphilpod.bsky.social 's concept of conservativism as the belief that: A) there are natural laws outside of human control that don't and cannot be changed B) people may deviate from them at their peril C) the role of the state is to keep society in line with these laws

The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · 3w ago

Genuine question: is everybody who says Nolan is a conservative because his characters believe they have a moral duty or whatever also self-applying the label (if not why not?), and defining a rhetorical opposite to it (liberal doesn’t capture it, neither does radical, nor reactionary quite)?

food safety regulations probably second only to security regulations in terms of regulations that were explicitly designed to help rich guys and big business that rich guys and big business are constantly trying to destroy for ideological reasons anyway

Something I've been toying with for a while and need to take the time to articulate is that comics and RPGs share a lot of the same special qualities: identification with the inaminate, impact of icons, non-sequentiality, closure.

The earliest preview of Fallout (1997) that I've found yet, from before it even had that name. The GURPS licence that it initially had is first and foremost, with comparisons being drawn more to Wasteland's vibe and how it has more of a 'cyberpunk' flavour. 📖: Next Generation, June 1996

Got out to see Christopher Nolan's take on the Odyssey. Fascinating movie, but to use a metaphor - it is a remix, not a cover; it has its own themes and ideas. Which is fine - folks have been remixing Homer for basically the whole of the western literary tradition.

in GURPS Goblins, combat initiative went to the first player to say "I'll whack 'em"

This is why Fabula Ultima and Goblonia are the best ttrpgs ever made A) Fabula tells players to Seize the Initiative - you get to go first by declaring what you do B) in Goblonia the GM ticks up the Doom Track if the players begin planning and ticks it up again every 5 minutes they spend planning.

QuoProQuid@quoproquid.bsky.social · 4w ago

one thing i struggle with when playing tabletop rpgs (particularly one shots) is trying to take decisive action to move the story along and then someone else at the table going, "no no no, wait. let's discuss this" and then there's a short, 3-4 min conversation about how to optimally act

prince of persia forgotten sands pacifist strats

In case anyone missed my little X-Files point and click daydream

look at how awesome this program called "obsidian" is you can just paste screenshots into it and arrange them on a canvas and they snap to each other and you can add notes.... waow

if I speak….

Before that other ratfuck got the trove brought down, i was actively working to get my games on there, because of how often the trove led me to find ganes id never heard of i then went and bought.

ARBco ➫ GenCon@j-k.games · last mo.

Anybody who says a business failed because of piracy is, at best, making a guess. Most piracy studies are funded by anti-piracy software makers who--shock of shocks--charge exorbitant amounts for their services, and have every incentive to exaggerate the risk.

A cool part of how Deus Ex handled its dialog is that a lot of voice direction notes are in there still

going down to mcdonalds with the gang, n gin needs his happy meal. i gotta say i love how they just have a big fuck off m as the logo, no doubt following in my footsteps

Unfused Berly

Mean Sonofabitch has lived rent-free in my head for the past 16 years because he was written to have his tongue cut out, but they never told the actor what he's actually meant to be saying SO I FUCKING FIXED HIM Gone are the days of him possessing "bo go" or living in "Wess-ih-bay," now I can rest

Flicky@flickybirb.bsky.social · last mo.

i've been stewing on something that bugged me in Fallout: New Vegas for 16 years and today i finally snapped and started work on a mod to fix it

Refusing to engage with a game's systems as a form of its storytelling and overall design is why system-driven games like strategy games, builder games, management sims, and sports games get underserved by media while everyone capes endlessly for AAA single player action games or RPGs.

Will Borger@edgarallanbro.bsky.social · last mo.

This industry has a real knack for producing critics that hate gameplay and despise mastery