ironleviathan.bsky.social

@ironleviathan.bsky.social

Amateur | Amalgamate | Amenable | he/him, Mid-30s | clean your water bottle

GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)

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I used to be a gameplay first purist, believing that the essence of a game is interactivity and that all games should embrace their interactivity, but over time my stance has shifted more towards a belief that the essence of a game is abstraction.

turned a video on about english history and had a night terror. turned a video about wales on and drifted off like a baby. repeated experiment several times. this is a pattern and it's not just cambrian chronicles. something frightening beneath the surface. how deep does the england rabbit hole go

Reminder for everyone - the CEO of ModRetro is Palmer Luckey, who is a war profiteer (1), AI weapons manufacturer (2), fascist surveillance state supporter (3), genocide enthusiast (4), and pedophilia supporter (5). Supporting ModRetro means you're supporting fascism. Sorry, that's just the truth.

industrial job simulator games becoming the stereotypical german gamer joke did a lot to wash everyone's hands of the fact that the archetypical central european video game is actually pretty uniformly some variation of an ultima online clone with asterix jokes and institutionalised multiboxing

Check out the steaming pile of AI garbage that just won $1,000 first prize in the Ohio State Fair poster contest. It's especially tragic since the 5th place, drawn by an actual human, is great. Rooster (OH fair has biggest poultry show in US) riding the "butter cow" (exactly what it sounds like).

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