In my twenties. She/her /Sweden If you see this on a like search, look at
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the dumping ground of things I'm proud of, things I made that I am not proud of but want to post anyway and various other things.
Making a pinned post. Hi. Iâm Joe, people use she/her for me mostly, but any pronouns are fine. I live somewhere in Sweden. In my twenties.
I donât know what to really put here so... Eh. Iâll write something.
Iâm a sex-averse and somewhat sex-repulsed asexual and I often get uncomfy suggestive things, depending on context. I donât know, just telling my boundaries.
Iâm prone to spelling errors and I might not catch all of them. Not a native english speaker, but mostly fluent. I love puns. I also love robots, fictional sentient AI, artifically constructed sentience and thinking about that stuff. And weird biology. And mollusc and crustaceans. And cute and funny stuff.Â
So. Yeah. Hope you have a good day. Or if not, I hope your day is overcomable at least. Uh, bye? Or welcome to my blog? idk.
Amnesia is my favorite thing, so I wanted to take a closer look at what exactly Grace wrote on his heartbreaking little lists.
First up: the WHO AM I? whiteboard:
WHO AM I?
Science Teacher 7th grade[rs?]***
Bay Area
Single Doctor
Always Muscles??
GOOD AT MATH!!! *
Good at cursive
Carl ⌠(Foggy) **
Glasses ⌠All the time?
-OK w/ Cilantro
HOW DID I GET HERE?
[unreadable]
-*There's maybe a continuity error here: the earliest visible version says Friends? above good at cursive, but you'd think he'd write that after Good at math!!! (i.e. thinking through things he's good at) - but possibly he just erased Friends? and inserted Good at math!! at some later point after getting more memories back. (see end for my personal headcanon)
-**In the earliest version, there was a line that read Doctor of Teaching?. Clearly he erased that and put Carl down instead.
-***'7th grade' proof - apologies for the shitty quality, this is literally the only screencap I managed because it's only readable for a microsecond:
The widest shot we get shows there are at least three more lines at the bottom - visible after Rocky rams the whiteboard in his ball - but the board is in motion and the resolution is just not good enough to read much.
My best attempt:
L[left?? little?] Earth {maybe referring to his hackysack?}
Doctor [of ?] {of Microbiology, following up the erased Dr of Teaching?}
...yeah, I don't even know. I'll try again when I have something HD.
Moving on! The Petrova Taskforce whiteboard:
-Teacher of Astrophage for mission
-Not original volunteer for mission
-cool teacher?
-Dorky jokes?
-Made friends on boat?
-Who would you die for?
Thankfully this one is very clear because we never see it again. And heartbreaking. Did I mention it was heartbreaking? đ
I am going to be crying forever over how much time Grace spent trying to remember if he had friends. Definitely the most painful explaination for the erased Friends? line is that he got more and more memories back and couldn't remember anyone he thought was a real friend, and put the math line in to try and stop thinking about it.
(a nicer thought is that he stopped worrying about it as much, because he had Rocky â¤ď¸)
thing I am proud of: when the doctor started going on a weird rant about long covid not being real I paused and listened to his nonsense for a bit and then very calmly said, in a polite and curious tone, "you don't believe in post-viral illness?" and he like. stammered a bunch and was like OH WELL I'M NOT SAYING -- I DON'T...I just think ..! and backpedaled awkwardly while I just sat there like :3c interesting :3c thank you so much for clarifying your stance on this :3c
an important skill for chronically ill people to develop is the ability to treat the doctor as though they are simply a person you are interviewing to find out how much they know about your condition.
Holy shit op this is LITERALLY in the book 'Never Split The Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depends On It'. Written by a guy who did hostage negotiation and then tried doing business negotiation, and mopped the floor with industry experts.
I'm fortunate enough to have a primary care doctor who knows about hEDS, but it's occurring to me that the skills in this book could be medically life changing for chronically ill folks of all kinds. Like. Literally a matter of life and death, especially for BIPOC and/or fat and/or young people who are having their issues dismissed.
It's fun when the robot character in the sci-fi show gets cut in half because nobody working on this type of media knows anything about robotics and you never know what you're going to find inside. Green printed circuit boards? Meat and viscera, but like in a weird colour? Just a shitload of goo?
I especially like it when the robot appears to have realistic musculature which operates via contraction, suggesting some sort of fluid-driven or shape-memory-based actuation, and then it gets dismembered and a bunch of random gears and sprockets go flying everywhere.
unless its egregious, i'm not embarrassed to be fooled by ai. "oh i got lied to via something made by the Lying Machine the machine we made to Lie really well" like it's gonna happen it's no egg on your face. just be chill about it
oh boy it is sure cold out here i wish a nice warmblooded human would invite me into their house to warm up becuz it is too cold out here for my also human blood in my human body so i need to be in a house with someone else with warm human blood oh boy
i have the regular kind of blood. you can sleep in one of the stalls. what do you eat? is it timothy? we have a lot of that. i can put a bunch in one of those net bags for you.
[oh no,,,, if he finds out that im a vampire and originally planned to kill him and suck his blood he might take back the hand of friendship he extended to me!]
i meant 2 years
im actually a very articulate horse. neighhh whinny etc đ´
Case in point, this memorandum is from early on in TSACâs life⌠I should write another one much closer to mass ascension. Their relationship with the High Council didnât really improve.
i've seen the term "disco-like" used a lot lately. what features from disco elysium differentiate it so much from other CRPGs?
Twenty years ago we called them Planescape: Torment clones, and they're essentially the product of trying to implement investigative procedural VNs inside game engines designed for Dungeons & Dragons clones. Navigating that mismatch between the affordances of the game engine and the intended mode of play is what produces nearly all of the genre's distinctive features, including:
the sprawling recursive dialogue trees (i.e., because that's the only way the game engine allows you to interact with NPCs apart from fighting them);
the hilariously overengineered inventory system where your pants have separate stats from your shirt (i.e., because it was adapted from an inventory system designed for managing magic item slots);
the fact that most "cutscenes" consist of a narrator simply describing what you see in spite of the game being fully graphical (i.e., because the game engine just doesn't have the assets or the scripting capabilities to do non-combat cutscenes);
and, of course, the most obvious fact that your principal interface with the world is running about on an isometric grid with characters that look like animated minifigs opening and looting various containers (i.e., because that's the game engine's sole affordance for nonviolent environmental interaction)
Disco Elysium's innovation was simply subtracting a lot of the superfluous game-mechanical cruft carried over from trying to build an investigative procedural VN inside the Baldur's Gate engine, while carefully keeping the shape of the resulting gameplay more or less intact.
So if you're looking at your average Disco-like and thinking hey, this isn't all that different from what you might imagine some sort of fucked up fantasy Phoenix Wright mod for Baldur's Gate 3 would look like, this is because that's actually, literally the genesis of the genre.
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