@aescling @coriander honestly if your goal is to communicate messages to people you should pick a different medium than participatory performance art
i’m not saying games can’t contain messages, or that it’s bad to think about the messages in games
but if you don’t want people throwing the whole narrative in the rubbish bin for their any% speedrun, or if it hurts your feelings when players routinely play the game the “wrong way” because they really like the animation for this one mechanic and hate all the others, or (importantly) if it bothers you when people play your game without really thinking on the bus ride to work or school instead of in devoted hourslong sessions dedicated entirely to understanding your vision as an artist, maybe you’re in the wrong business
@noelle honestly before like the iPhone 6 because jailbreaking used to be a household term
re: “that’s how most people adopt cats! you find one you like—”
re: air purifier made out of computer fans
@aschmitz we have a https://www.cleanairkits.com/products/luggables and it’s fine i just constantly catch myself wondering why my laptop is working so hard before (1) remembering my laptop is an M1 mac and virtually never gets hot and (2) realizing it’s not my laptop at all
@aescling i have explorers of sky you can play it if you move in
and the thing is like, i’m not mad about scarlet and violet?? it’s a good story and i enjoyed experiencing it?? certainly it’s better than either of the switch zelda games
but it’s also like, just a visually buggy game with a good story that happens to use pokémon mechanics. and that’s fine but not what makes a Pokémon Game
cohost re: womanhood; whiteness; queerness; being online
cohost is/has been failing because of the identities of the people who founded it, because of the communities those people are in, and because of the failings of those communities. absolutely. it’s failing because of tech people and tech culture, it’s failing because of online leftists and online leftist culture, it’s failing because of furries and furry culture, and it’s failing because of neurodivergent queers and neurodivergent queer culture. and other reasons besides! if you are invested in any of those communities, it’s necessary that you recognize those failings, realize that they come from inside the house, and work on yourself and the people around you to fix that shit and get better. that’s the only way you will grow, and the only way your community will get to a place where it is effective, or even healthy
but it’s also fine to say nah. it’s also fine to not give a shit. because at the end of the day, these are just friends of friends, not a political organization or movement, and you don’t owe them anything. you can not associate and you can spend your time instead on those who have earned your care
womanhood; whiteness; queerness; being online
as a white trans woman who has been very online, of course i care about what other online white trans women think or say and what the general cultural currents are like in that space. those are my people, to some extent
but it’s very important not to mistake that personal sentiment for the idea that this microdemographic of white womanhood is remotely important, relevant, or even coherent on any kind of political scale. or that a culture which is steeped in white protestant ideas of gender, western european orientalism and racism, and feelings of exclusivity and sometimes outright bigotry inherited from forums like somethingawful or 4chan is actually, on the whole, a good or progressive force
it’s okay to recognize your personal attachments to these communities and still criticize them. it’s more than okay, even healthy, to recognize your personal attachments to these communities while deciding you don’t give a fuck what they think or whether their current Discourse has takes which are right or wrong. it’s absolutely crucial that you do form other commitments, to other cultures and communities which ARE politically meaningful and DO matter, if you want to get anything done
@coriander @Taweret@octodon.social it was only added for All Eevee in sword & shield and later games
it was introduced in let’s go!, but just for the partner eevee (presumably, to match pikachu)
@aescling right after the tackle
ASH: Cross!
CROSS: I’ve gotta do this! Go!
[this is what he’s shouting over his shoulder in the second screenshot]
CROSS: You bit me on the day that we met, too, remember? Remember?
CROSS: Lycanroc, REMEMBER!!
@aescling the “i have to do this!!” dialogue was extremely choice also but unfortunately the subs for that movie are severely off‐sync
@aescling the Bite was a pan there wasn’t a good single frame of it
pokémon the movie: i choose you is not a GOOD movie but it does go all in on the fanservice
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