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[psychopomp-namine]

thinking about namine and yozora as psychopomps in sora's "descent to the underworld" arcs. castle oblivion and quadratum as his metaphorical underworlds. sora in his second katabasis...............................

[permetutotheworld]

[jelloia]

link click event in shanghai!! their butts are so funny agdjfk

[gothicbloodlover]

The staggering audacity that when every game console is continually raising their prices, everything is being made worse with AI, censorship bills are restricting what you can see and access, and digital purchases are actively being wiped from your account without refund, PlayStation now says it’s stopping physical discs so that you cannot actually own your stuff whatsoever.

Genuine hellscape. Fuck this and fuck them.

[the-luckiest-guy-thanks-to-you]

this is also like a week after they wiped 551 movies from the playstation store and revoked everyones digital copy as a result. That was the lead up and this is part of the main event.

[hopeymchope]

PlayStation Bad

In just the past two months, Sony has:

Suggested the PS6 *may* cost more than $1000 at launch

Announced the end of all physical PS game releases

While simultaneously announcing the end of two of their console game stores — ensuring multiple games will die forever

Declared that they are wholly dedicated to (A) leveraging A.I. when making games and (B) creating live-service games above all other game types

Announced that if you bought any movies through their PlayStation Store, over 550 of them will soon be deleted from all users' libraries — with no restitution offered of any kind

Gamers, it is time — to paraphrase Robert Vann — to turn Sony's picture to the wall. Any one of these insults would be bad, and taken alone? Maybe it could be swallowed. But this is an ongoing campaign of disdain towards customers, with each declaration worse than the last.

PlayStation does not deserve your patronage any longer. The PS6 must fail. Leave them behind.

ETA: Regarding that first bullet? A Sony spokesperson was asked about reports indicating increasing cost means that the PS6 will logically cost $1000 or more. He simply shrugged it off by saying that Sony can't be expected to eat the rising cost of components. So that wasn't strictly a confirmation, in reality. It was more of a "yeah, that'd be fine if that's the case."

[thorst]

That last point is truly incredible when you consider that going completely digital will mean Sony gets even more revenue from every game sold than ever before. So they will ensure that we can only really buy games from them, while also refusing to eat any rising cost of manufacture? Fuck them

I don't even like Xbox, I've always found the controllers a little uncomfortable, but I won't buy a ps6

I mean listen I didn't buy a PS5 but that was because I umm haven't stopped replaying rdr2 for *checks notes* the best part of 8 years

I used to be serious gamer, okay, I just got old

[humbababa]

Damn. I didn't hear about the game stores being shut down.

I'm guessing the PS4 and PS5 ones

[psychopomp-namine]

it's the PS3 and vita storefronts that are being shut down. they tried shutting them down a few years ago but didn't go through with it after the backlash

PS5 and PS4 storefronts are still up and running, but they'll probably try to close them in the future as well. in an all-digital future, it's likely that you'll be forced to buy ports of games you already own, if they even get ports for the next gen

[psychopomp-namine]

one thing that annoys me about the playstation debate is when someone says, "we did this to ourselves. we paid for subscription services for the convenience. we are phasing out physical media ourselves. I mean, how many of us even own a CD player?"

because first of all, in the context of the playstation issue, the playstation IS a CD player. it's a console and a media machine. you can play DVDs there

second, it's not all about supply and demand. do you think the music industry makes vinyls because majority of people want to buy vinyls? of course not. and yet they still make vinyls and physical albums for fans anyway. it costs pennies for sony to put their games on discs

and you can't even use demand for digital as an argument when people still buy physical versions of the games, when developers use the line, "our new game will come out before 2028 so there will be disc versions! promise!!" as a marketing line. when sony shows its digital vs physical numbers and it's dishonest because it includes dlcs, games that never had a physical copy, games that are subscribe-to-play. there's a reason sony wants to pivot to live service games

not to mention them having a monopoly will give them the power to increase game prices, which may or may not affect how other companies price their games

the thing is, sony will probably not reverse their decision but I do need them to lose all good will they built up to this point

[luna-azzurra]

The thing about a good character flaw is that it has to be the same thing as their greatest strength just turned up too high. the person who loves deeply and therefore controls. the person who sees everything and therefore trusts nothing. the person who is so loyal they lose themselves. there are no clean villains and no clean heroes and once you understand that in fiction you can't unsee it in people. everyone is just their best quality at the wrong volume.

[the-tenth-arcanum]

my hot take is that tumblr should have a bookmark function as well as likes

[the-tenth-arcanum]

we'll never be the new pdf at this rate

[rhibbet]

top tier character trait will always be “I care about you deeply, even though I betrayed you. even though I would do it again” I don’t make the rules

[depressedlochnessmess]

sketchy little comic of dream eater riku

[the-big-mood]

[llamaisllama777]

I wanna find whoever thought getting rid of discs was a good idea and punch them in the teeth.

[scorpio-system]

AAA video game publisher voice: "Look. The goose layed a golden egg, and that's nice! Everyone loved that egg. But keeping the golden goose means paying for bird feed and I don't want to, so I killed the goose."

[namura018]

Am i a kid or an adult?

[elleldoe]

absolutely love abusing the power that comes with 3rd person limited pov and just ignoring things and being vague sometimes. does the character know all the details? no? then I don't have to either.

[stonelionhearts]

i think as a writer, the older you get and the more you read, the more you realize there are very few actual truly bad ideas. which is a relief. but! the other thing you learn is that stories live and die on the execution and ha ha. lemme tell you. unfortunately. there are lots and lots of bad ways to execute an otherwise fine idea

[maximumqueer]

Every time the monthly "discourse" roles around as to whether consuming audio books counts as reading, I cannot help but think of the Odyssey, of the Iliad, of the Shakespearean plays. Works of art that have become solidified within Western Canon as some of the greatest pieces of literature we have. And all of them were mean to be heard, to be watched. Were crafted for it.

The Iliad and the Odyssey were meant to be listened to from the mouth of a bard, a lyre in his hand and a song on his tongue, as the smoke from the fires drowned out the rest of the world, the honey words transporting the audience into the story.

Shakespeare was meant to be watched. The actors bent over themselves, emotion pouring down their faces as the audience bumped shoulders with each other, breath held for the next act.

I love the written word, do not get that wrong. But we owe the written word to the oral tradition. To the bards and poets who passed down story after story, who kept them alive to the point where they could be written down and preserved. We owe it to performance. To the energy of the theater that found the plays that sparked electric in the peoples hearts, to the point of ensuring they would be around for generations to come.

Why disparage the performance of a story, when it might just be the most human thing we have? Why act like it is an inferior art form? I adore reading, but I also know that my favorite pieces of literature were meant to be heard.

[otoxiush]