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she/her. musician, writer, podcaster, weird vidgame person http://www.patreon.com/ellaguro
the right wing always needs to be reached out to and coddled and compromised with even as it completely destroys and poisons the entire world with no qualms. the left wing always has to be ignored and scolded, told its concerns are unreasonable and to be patient. just so sick and tired of it.
Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 12h agoWOOF no thank you
it's easy to make fun of hippies who thought that reading the right kind of poem or whatever would magically cause a worldwide change in consciousness. but it makes a lot more sense to me now that the world is filed with people who think they can psychically control world events by their posts
if you're an extremely annoying person and you're between the ages of 35-45 i've got a great website for you. it's called bsky.app - you may have heard of it.
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it's bandcamp friday again! if you haven't, consider purchasing my album if you'd like to hear some ambitious outta this world experimental art pop ellaguro.bandcamp.com/album/saint-...
Saint Elizabeth, by ella guro
10 track album
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i voted in the most influential bluesky users poll, but also: there is no honor in being voted one of the most influential users on bluesky. it is a deeply shameful thing. we should all be ashamed. i hope people know that, even if they show up on that list.
I want to make sure everyone in the city is aware that SUNY Downstate operates a large and extremely skilled LGBTQ and gender affirming care clinic, and we have repeatedly reiterated our intention to go to jail before we stop.
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
Hey so when is NY State going to come down on Mount Sinai like a ton of bricks for entering into an agreement that almost certainly violates state law
Chris Geidner@chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 2d agoBREAKING: The U.S. Department of Justice announced on Friday that it reached an “agreement” with Mount Sinai Health System in which it will “cease providing” gender-affirming medical care to minors and dedicate $2 million to providing care to those “suffering harmful consequences” of such care.
one of those days where you have to sadly admit to yourself that we live in a wheel where everyone steals. but hopefully, one day we'll rise out of this predicament... like strawberry fields
"It’s a wild album that encompasses pop hooks and spacey, haunted soundscapes alike, and there aren’t many of those to be found." from @etherdiver.bsky.social on www.untidydownloads.com/featurefrida...
#FeatureFriday Saint Elizabeth by ella guro
Saint Elizabeth by ella guro Saint Elizabeth by @ellaguro.bsky.social FeatureFriday: ella guro – Saint Elixabeth I reviewed ella guro’s Saint Elizabeth for Other People’s Music this past Marc…
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A lot of younger people have never heard of Gamergate, and that's probably for the best, but I do think there's some important lessons to be drawn from studying how it played out, especially for anyone invested in anti-fascist struggles today. But to do that you have to be clear about what it was.
A lot of the people experiencing the effects of Gamergate first hand were very aware that it was a fascist movement at its core. I remember being frustrated at the time that so few academics writing about it were willing to acknowledge this or draw on the abundant theory explaining how fascism works
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d agothere was no authentic "core" to gamergate that got twisted into right wing politics. it was a right wing, reactionary movement from the very start and it built upon the longstanding reactionary elements of gamer culture that still are very much present to this day.
another video that came recommended to me today in addition to the 6 hour Gamergate Lost Cause video was a youtube essay with millions of views purporting to provide "definitive" proof that Kurt Cobain was murdered. extremely bad youtube vibes today.
because of gamergate's role in presaging the current fascist hellscape, a lot of people in the future will pretend they were innocently hoodwinked into believing in it, or there was something else it was "actually" about, or there was no way they could've known. we should never let them off the hook
vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · 2d agoa recent 6 hour video "explaining" gamergate just came up on my youtube timeline. i just think it's so wonderful that for the rest of my life people are going to be re-litigating this thing that was soul-draining to be even in the proximity of and making it about whatever they decide it's about.
a recent 6 hour video "explaining" gamergate just came up on my youtube timeline. i just think it's so wonderful that for the rest of my life people are going to be re-litigating this thing that was soul-draining to be even in the proximity of and making it about whatever they decide it's about.
This bandcamp friday give the AI frauds and nepo baby brats the middle finger and please support self-taught working class music: stolenflowersofthedead.bandcamp.com/album/carnat... #bandcampfriday #newmusic #DIYmusic #ambient
Carnations Near The Sorrow Factory, by Stolen Flowers Of The Dead
6 track album
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it's bandcamp friday again! if you haven't, consider purchasing my album if you'd like to hear some ambitious outta this world experimental art pop ellaguro.bandcamp.com/album/saint-...
Saint Elizabeth, by ella guro
10 track album
ellaguro.bandcamp.com
just because it needs to be said: the reasons for the current game industry crisis don't have much of anything to do with what caused the 1980's western game console market crash, and it's a bit disingenuous to compare the two beyond just like... the general size of the crisis.
GamesIndustry.biz@gibiz.bsky.social · 3d ago"This is the worst crash we've seen since the 1980s," says Tim Sweeney Industry experts speak to Edge magazine's Alex Spencer about how the industry is facing "Crash 2.0" www.gamesindustry.biz/this-is-the-...
tbh if GTA 6 ends up being the last big AAA game it would be only appropriate, given that 25 years ago GTA 3 was probably the first big AAA game
in America we think learning about Kant or whatever is stupid nonsense designed to waste your time but the 8 minute Looney Tunes short where Elmer Fudd explains capitalism is crucial sacred knowledge containing deep truths about the nature of humanity
RADINSKY 🏳️⚧️🪬@thisisradinsky.bsky.social · 3d agoEvergreen
having some kind of horizon that suggests at something greater but you can't reach is really important to a lot of media. part of the promise of AAA is that you could actually reach those horizons - but in practice it often ends up disappointing and repetitive. one of the big failures of AAA tbh.
Steve@stevetown.bsky.social · 3d agoWe talk about early games abstracting game worlds so you can traverse them quickly and it's fine, then modern games wanting to "flesh things out" and you end up with world bloat and slogs of games that take way too long to do anything and go anywhere. Rebirth had this problem.
I keep thinking of this as a way modernized games simply do not trust their audience to have imagination. Like when people joked about turn-based combat because it's unrealistic and yeah... that's the point. It is *representing the feeling* of battle, not a 1-to-1 display.
Steve@stevetown.bsky.social · 3d agoWe talk about early games abstracting game worlds so you can traverse them quickly and it's fine, then modern games wanting to "flesh things out" and you end up with world bloat and slogs of games that take way too long to do anything and go anywhere. Rebirth had this problem.
Ecstatica (1994) and Ecstatica II (1997) will be re-released on GOG and Steam on October 26. Rejoice!
my large "California Problem" post is a few years old now but relevant re: the conversations here of marketability and weird art games, and just a general history of indie games to those who follow me on here who haven't seen it before ellaguro.blogspot.com/2023/02/the-...
The California Problem
greetings! this is a very long post about video games and capitalism. feel free to take breaks if you need them. make sure to stick around t...
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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor@ellaguro.bsky.social · 3d agoon the one hand it feels bad to have niche art games with weird aesthetics that represented some kind of idea of authenticity or integrity in the past getting cravenly pushed by some as a marketable aesthetic now. on the other hand it is funny to imagine normies trying to scramble to look weirder
in the absence of greater and more nuanced critical discussion of games in general, the sonic meme about wanting shorter games with worse graphics and the linkedin/forbes 30 under 30 normie professional types both easily converge under "it's what the market wants, folks!!" as a self-justification
on the one hand it feels bad to have niche art games with weird aesthetics that represented some kind of idea of authenticity or integrity in the past getting cravenly pushed by some as a marketable aesthetic now. on the other hand it is funny to imagine normies trying to scramble to look weirder
i'm not sure to what extent i still identify with the glorious trainwrecks philosophy but it was a really nice scene to "grow up in" as a gamedev. also explains my disdain for things like "polish" and "quality" and "putting music and sound effects in your game"
these are deliberately acoustic because i'm trying to write on other instruments than just keyboard/daw. also it means i could theoretically actually play them live at some point, unlike most of my music lol. anyway here's a more upbeat one.
desperate to post something that's not discourse, so here's one of the off the cuff little songwriting demos i recorded about a month ago. this one has a good chance of ending up a song on the next album. i'm probably calling it "when the sun explodes"
