Amogus

Life must be a rollercoaster for the D class. You live in a shitty prison cell for the remainder of your probably extremely short life. One day some security guards show up and take you to a big room where a scientist tells you to copy an image onto some paper. You do. The scientist shrugs and writes something down and you're taken back.

One day a scientist hands you a poptart and says "eat this". You say "is it full of some kind of fucked up interdimensional poison". The scientist says "eat it or that security guard will tase you and tie you down and make you eat it". You eat the poptart. It is not full of fucked up interdimensional poison, but it is kind of stale. You describe the taste to the scientist and he shrugs and writes something down and you go back to your shitty cell.

One day a security guard takes you to a big room and there's a flute sitting on a table. A scientist tells you "play Hot Cross Buns on that". You explain that you do not know how to play the flute. You are instructed to try. You play the flute and get immediately get dragged into some incomprehensible shadow dimension and torn to pieces for no reason that makes any sense to you. You are very lucky to have survived so long and died so quickly.

This guy will spend hours staring at his blank wall and wondering what the fuck was in that chamber and why they thought he might know.

Sometimes you get blindfolded and told to repeatedly roll a basketball across the floor of a room and then you have to draw pictures and learn piano and cooking and you accidentally become a big monster's beloved Emotional Support Human, though, so there are potential upsides.

#oh my god is this a fandom thing#you cant imagine my horror i thought we were talking about real people#oh my goddddd that makes so much more sense

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news but real prisoners also get used as human test subjects with alarming frequency. Admittedly not to play evil flutes but that's only because we don't have any evil flutes.

transgenderer

mathematicians are kind of like if wizards didnt do anything

Life must be a rollercoaster for the D class. You live in a shitty prison cell for the remainder of your probably extremely short life. One day some security guards show up and take you to a big room where a scientist tells you to copy an image onto some paper. You do. The scientist shrugs and writes something down and you're taken back.

One day a scientist hands you a poptart and says "eat this". You say "is it full of some kind of fucked up interdimensional poison". The scientist says "eat it or that security guard will tase you and tie you down and make you eat it". You eat the poptart. It is not full of fucked up interdimensional poison, but it is kind of stale. You describe the taste to the scientist and he shrugs and writes something down and you go back to your shitty cell.

One day a security guard takes you to a big room and there's a flute sitting on a table. A scientist tells you "play Hot Cross Buns on that". You explain that you do not know how to play the flute. You are instructed to try. You play the flute and get immediately get dragged into some incomprehensible shadow dimension and torn to pieces for no reason that makes any sense to you. You are very lucky to have survived so long and died so quickly.

kenxyro-deactivated20200731

This guy will spend hours staring at his blank wall and wondering what the fuck was in that chamber and why they thought he might know.

The Value of Your Life

I am serious. We can't keep doing things like "curiosity = bizarre male quirkiness"

tripp-pants-sora

time to break this out again

machine-unlearning

People keep saying “Creepy or Wet should be the next movie adaptation of a 4chan post” or "They're going to adapt Gregory Berrycone and it'll ruin the bit" or “Coming soon from A24: The Bottomless Pit Supervisor” but they forget we only got Backrooms because Kane Parsons started out small and spent years making Backrooms youtube videos. So all I’m saying is if you want Forcefem Bridget Tulpa to be the next hit indie film, you should put on the thigh highs

maddie-grove

I really like this website because somebody will be like “there’s nothing wrong with darting out from behind a parked car into traffic, bootlicker” and you can be like okay this clearly evolved from a valid point about how the US is too car-centric. But something happened to it.

jamiemccrimmon

things-that-are-not-true

2015 was 2 years ago

didn't you previously endorse depictions of and communities for depictions of pedophilia/incest/beastiality in fiction for the purposes of sexual gratification?

pretty sure it was just incest

um mostly for the bit though, if anyone was getting sexual gratification out of it that was incidental

not really sure about the "communities" thing either, I'm not in a club or anything. sort of a solo passion project if anything

I wouldn't say "previously" is necessarily apt either. sorry I'm poking a lot of holes in your ask I just like to be accurate.

sorry sorry sorry just one more, I guess whether or not I "endorse" anything depends of we're defining endorsement as a.) advocating for something that I think you should actually happen between human people in the real world or b.) entertaining that an idea might be interesting to explore in a work of fiction between made up characters who aren't real.

because if it's the first one then no actually, I haven't done that. I probably should have started with this one, because it really negates everything else.

A lot of people mention that Outer Wilds is an amazing game that is best experienced completely blind but then don't try to elaborate on that. I will elaborate on it while still not spoiling it.

Let's start with why exactly spoilers matter for this game. I am someone who normally doesn't care too much about getting spoiled and can even build anticipation and interest from hearing story spoilers, but there are a couple of areas where I think spoilers definitely matter even for me: Exploration and Mystery.

Outer Wilds is an open world mystery platformer that not only focuses heavily on exploration and mystery, it is easily in the top tier of games I have played for both elements. The system you explore in the game is immaculately crafted and dense, and it quickly introduces several enigmatic things for you to pursue with layered clues that have you venturing around very unique places so you can discover both clues to how to find other clues and also piece together the greater story.

And, notably, the game does not gate your progress by making you accumulate objects or reward progression with items. The one currency you accumulate as you play is knowledge. You have every tool you will ever need from the moment you complete the "tutorial", but there is a lot of information you don't yet have that will be necessary to progress.

(But something else that's pretty cool is that the game is truly open. You can explore any planet or space structure you wish as soon as you launch for the first time, so you can discover clues out of order or even solve certain puzzles without finding the clues for them by getting lucky, experimenting for a while, or being particularly observant).

This is why going in blind matters here. Spoilers for Outer Wilds don't merely ruin a surprise twist, they change how you experience the game on a very fundamental level and somewhat play it for you. This is also why that first playthrough is so different from any subsequent ones, to a much greater degree than with most other games.

The game's objectives are all tied to your own curiosity. You notice strange or interesting things, you feel curious about what is going on with them, you investigate, and your curiosity is both rewarded and expanded. It's pure joy for the part of you that loves to explore and discover.

I know for some people it might be daunting to be thrown into a star system with a handful of (small but dense) planets plus several other objects to look at with no clear objectives, but just give it an hour and you'll probably find your own way, especially if you paid attention at the museum in your home planet.

Also, while the game does not have realistic physics its setting does follow a consistent set of rules you can learn through experimentation, observation, and learning about the discoveries other characters have made. Mastering these laws feels very rewarding and they are also intimately connected to the core questions of the game. It's very well thought out.

It is the type of game that practically pets your head and calls you a good girl for using the scientific method, even if you get wrecked in the process.

You really can just observe something strange, gather information on it, think of a way to test it, and then actually do that. Like I said, the rules are consistent and a joy to discover.

dragongirlsweetie

it's actually so crazy how much the simpsons would fucking suck if it didn't have any of the simpsons characters. just a bunch of shots of empty houses and streets for half an hour while nothing happens. that would be so badddd lol

auroroboros1

yeah that tends to happen when you remove characters from media. without characters its all just background. i guess movies set in scenic locations would still land as kinda nature docs but even then

dragongirlsweetie

it only happens with the simpsons

auroroboros1

this same criticism could be applied to nearly any media ever.

dragongirlsweetie

it's just the simpsons. are you a troll?