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disco elysium is a game that makes you feel bad for hours on end and you absolutely should play it during a transitional period of your life and when you have a lot of other problems you arent dealing with. advice from me
the best time to read shit like this is at a moment when it feels way too applicable to your real life circumstances
People act like I'm just being an asshole but man the whole reason I'm so anal about hating gambling mechanics is because I've been down that road and lost a ton of money on games I just stopped playing eventually anyway and it SUCKS and the more you learn about dark pattern design the more you realize that this entire corner of the game industry is just fully focused on screwing vulnerable people out of their money and it's just evil, plain and simple. What do you want from me?? To promote this shit like every other streamer after knowing all that??? I will NOT be complicit in this shit. I'm gonna talk about how bad it is!!! You think that makes me an asshole?????
one of my friends is a mobile game designer who's worked for big companies before.
One of the things she's told me she's proud of before, was a time when one of the (older) users of the game she was designing discussed her strategy of drinking extra water to wake up early enough to claim her dailies, and how proud she was that she made a game people liked that much.
Even looking her in the eye and asking "getting 60 year olds to disrupt their sleep schedule by pissing themselves makes you proud?" did not get her to hear herself talk.
I think a lot of people don't comprehend the evil of dark patterns. They handwave it all away by "it's personal decisions people make", even while they see the patterns of behaviour they create on the populace. They read falling into those patterns as focus and grindset, if anything. And for a good number of people, pay-to-win is a *positive* thing.
I think if I were tasked with coming up with a way to make a populace depressed, unhealthy, and insomniac, even without getting them to pay me, I'd be heading towards video games stuffed with dark patterns. And such a video game would also produce profit for me, as it happens.
I studied game design and nothing disillusioned me like this one time I did an internship at a mobile game company because it was so obvious that the team only cared about how to screw as many people out of their money as possible. The only feedback I ever got for my system designs was "okay but how can we make it more addictive?" or "how can we get them to spend?" and shit like that. Nobody there cared about the game being fun. In their minds, a "good" game was a profitable and addictive one. I haven't been able to see these games the same way ever since. It was one of the big reasons I quit being a game designer. Dark pattern design doesn't happen by accident. They know what they're doing. They want to fuck you over.
Knowingly hijacking someone's reward pathways to weaponize them for profit is unambiguously bad. They are manipulating people on purpose with the sole intent of triggering maladaptive & addictive behaviors. They want you to financially harm yourself to enrich them instead. Being a Hater™ is the obvious moral position here.
Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!
Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.
Text: A PDF version.
Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.
recently my plug has offered free weed for:
bunch of ice
mw2 double xp tokens
new fetch quest dropped
pick one you bald genderless idiot
Gul’dan seeks power at any cost.
is this gonna get me fired you think
belongs in the post too in my opinion
From 'She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat'
i think every single airline and automobile lobbyist in washington dc needs to be shot
air travel is one of the most atmospherically pollutant activities we undertake as a species and the interstate highway system is a concrete scar across the land that does more to isolate communities than it does to bring them together. they both need to be burned to the ground
can you tell i just watched a youtube video about the history of rail travel in the us?
its less pollutant, easier to upkeep, a smaller footprint on the land, more convenient for travellers, and cheaper. god what i would give for a functional nationalized rail network
like. imagine for a second if the entire nj turnpike was demolished and replaced with a double track mainline. not only do you reclaim literal HUNDREDS of miles of forest edge, but ALSO building wildlife crossings over or under that mainline is MUCH easier than the 12 lane gash that was there before
oh and it goes without saying that every single one of these lines is required to have an indigenous consultant (or multiple) on during its construction to make sure they avoid any and all religious or ceremonial or historic sites
and then 100% of the money made (not just the profits, ALL money made) goes directly to the tribes that own the land
did you know that one of the main things that killed passenger travel in this country was the usps pulling its mail contract with railroad companies to use airlines instead? i dont know what asshole lobbyist was responsible for that decision but i am going to dig up his grave and shoot him in the head
Wakaba Shinohara, Nanami Kiryuu, Juri Arisugawa - Utena, la fillette révolutionnaire
There it is, a triptych of my favorite duels from each season, and coincidentally my favorite characters.
$300 swarovski bok choy
Something neuroscience-y that helps with prose: attention is selective. A character will not notice everything in a room. They will notice what matters to their goal, fear, desire, training, wound, or obsession. A jealous character notices hands. a hungry character notices food. A soldier notices exits. A lonely character notices pairs. Description becomes character when attention has a bias.
We visited an old glass factory that was converted into a park and the photos can get very surreal.
Dude, I hate it when I wake up as an Egyptian pharoah.
