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How can I be hungover, if I'm still drunk?

"torment nexus posting" drives me insane, but there really is something confusing about naming your company palantír, after the orbs which are immediately compromised to point of being a permanent intelligence leak while also feeding you incomplete information that leads to incorrect conclusions

DRAGON’S DOGMA PAWN 1: our party numbers only women! DRAGON’S DOGMA PAWN 2: and yet no two of us are the same. DRAGON’S DOGMA PAWN 3: except we all got a fat ass

This is getting out there so I'm starting to get dumb comments. If you wanna say "Well people don't like other old things too!" like yeah no shit, but it doesn't get framed in the same lens outside of maybe music. And if you're like "Games are a young medium" mfer, we made games before language!

Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse

kayinnasaki

written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with  those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true

Mountain Goats albums of the 2020s so far ranked: Through This Fire Across From Peter Balkan Getting Into Knives Bleed Out Dark in Here Days Jenny From Thebes Songs for Pierre Chauvin note that I wouldn't call any of them bad per se

not a big fan of how people use "the ick" and similar terms. not the arbiter of problematic vocabulary of anything, but you should transcend the gendered implications here. let's start together. come now. approach a stranger, look down from your nose, and say "your weakness disgusts me"

and there's jon, first-year coach of the saints. he's lobbying the refs, let's see if we can lip-read what he's saying ... it ... it looks like "they practiced that." it seems he's accusing his opponent of practicing their plays beforehand. team practice is allowed by rule, but oh boy. he is furious