See, this is how I knew you were just being a shit. You accuse me of complacency but you have no suggestions. Fucking turd behaviour.

Really. Lance what boil? Do what, exactly? What box are you imagining I haven’t ticked?

Say the same thing, but without using a single metaphor

Can I have like, the one scrap of false hope, just as a treat?

Tilga ibing loruso

Nobody really cares about the guy who died, despite corporate media insisting on our sympathy for months. They figured out we can’t be fucked about the sorry sonofabitch, so they’re hoping we forget about the whole business while trying to censor talk of LM off of all major social media platforms. Sure does help that so much news and social media are owned by the same fuckers.

The only real solution is to actually care enough about the work to read the email. The trouble is that so many companies these days do meaningless middleman shit that people couldn’t give a fuck about. We’re headed straight for an economy substantially consisting of work that doesn’t matter, largely being done by bots that can’t think properly.

… Which would be fine I guess, as long as the ruling class would be so good as to offer a substantial sinecure to the populace. But instead they will likely insist that we quietly die someplace they don’t have to watch.

I had really good success doing a daily page of A5, few months ago tried to upgrade to doing art least 1 page of A4 per day. I’ve slightly fallen off the habit.

Thank fucking god, it’s been a minute since I heard anything that makes sense from this government

I harbour a conviction that charisma is largely a skill, but being extroverted makes it easier to acquire. One of my best friends is a prom king daredevil life of the party type, but I know him pretty well after 3 decades. He’s bipolar, extroverted, and knows exactly the way to put up a front that will get people in a party mood - which is something he only does during a manic phase. When the high gives way to the low, he turns into more of the spooky enigmatic recluse type. The trick is to befriend both.

Still waters run deep - or sometimes that’s just frozen water.

I’ve got angry thinking face. That’s the best, every time you’re at the height of your mental powers some asshole who loves you says “Is everything ok?”

So rare to feel truly understood these days.

I’ve heard good stuff about blades in the dark, I’ve got time for that. Hell, more than half the time I’m a player I just play someone crazy about dying anyway

Super recommend Mario and the Rainbow Stars! It’s a free fan game with a ton of fun moments. They’ll have fun watching, and you’ll get something new to keep your interest.

Yeah it sounds cool but I use the mech to update spreadsheets

This is the real reason to have kids. I’m not up on the Mario Kart meta, but I’ll whup my seven year old around rainbow road any damn day.

You have a discman? Cooooool!

Nail on the head - the profit incentive is at it again. It seems like a combination of money being tight and the number of studios dwindling or getting bought up are leading to a smaller number of bigger studios, which is bad for creative risks. They’re wanting the comfort of bankable (read:expensive) faces, established IPs for which merch will sell, and CGI-laden flashy productions for…Reasons that frankly elude me since practical effects are evergreen, cheaper, and more charming. Maybe the problem there is that you need passionate and skilled people to do practical effects, and nobody’s passionate about an uninspired by-the-numbers script.

It’s so weird how game critique so often tries to skirt around treating games as art. Why do we have to tell highly-qualified developers and overpaid executives that their collective creative choices should be meaningful in order to make good art. It’s frustrating.

I’ve heard the inattentive type is more common among women. My wife definitely fits the description. People usually mistake the blank stare for intimidation, but I know better. (⁠っ⁠˘⁠з⁠(•_•⁠ ⁠)