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redcharlie

This just in: Women who wear tank tops and have short hair are all lesbians.

deliriumbubbles

Wearing clothes is gay.

trilllizard420

isn’t this the same website that keeps insisting that that Cora woman from Mass Effect: Andromeda is “lesbian coded”?

you people keep insisting women with short hair are lesbians but get pissed off when idiot men say the same thing?

a little bit of consistency would be nice!

mutant-aesthetic

how much of a fucking killjoy do you have to be to think the one on the right is better than the one on the left

mitigatedchaos

The amount of clothing and its coverage isn’t the issue with the image on the right - the clothing isn’t interesting (even though a tank top is practical, so it depends on the context the character appears in), but what I’m really seeing here is a failure to make the most of that prosthetic arm. It looks like it’s trying to be elegant… but it isn’t. Maybe work in some sort of gold lace and drop the color to reflective black, *or* make it look a bit more industrial and reconfigure those glow lines - because glow lines are not necessary, meaning they’re aesthetic, so they should be arranged more aesthetically than this. There’s a lot of potential for a prosthetic arm, actualize it.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

So, this artist Penelope Umbrico made a collage of the incredibly large number of portraits people had posted to flickr of themselves standing in front of the sunset, and put it up as an exhibit for an art gallery. Unsurprisingly, this apparent tendency for people to take pictures of themselves standing in front of sunsets and posting them to flickr has inspired others to take pictures of themselves in front of the collage, and posting it to flickr.

argumate answered:

It’s like the tension in MMORPG design: if everyone does the same quest it destroys the logic of the game world to some degree (the bad guy is beaten millions of times!) but if quests have to be unique for each player you can’t share the experience.

mitigatedchaos

* twitches *

Time.  The answer is Time.

Set the MMORPG in a world where the timelines are divergent and there are thousands or millions of them, and the world itself is broken into thousands of planes/zones/worlds spread across a vast and diverse cosmos in a state of multiversal war.

The players are warrior-chrononauts, members of various factions in this cosmic war across universes and timelines.  Many of the same worlds, however, occur again and again, and thus they have a shared experience of intervening in them.  There isn’t just one Space Hitler, there are thousands or millions echoing out into the cosmic void.

Video games are almost perfect for this, since single-player games do the multiple timelines branching thing intuitively just by their structure, with saves and replays!

argumate

oh sure you can do that for one game, just gets a bit painful when you have to resort to it for all games.

mitigatedchaos

Ah, but thanks to Death of the Author, I already did.

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argumate

Anonymous asked:

So, this artist Penelope Umbrico made a collage of the incredibly large number of portraits people had posted to flickr of themselves standing in front of the sunset, and put it up as an exhibit for an art gallery. Unsurprisingly, this apparent tendency for people to take pictures of themselves standing in front of sunsets and posting them to flickr has inspired others to take pictures of themselves in front of the collage, and posting it to flickr.

argumate answered:

It’s like the tension in MMORPG design: if everyone does the same quest it destroys the logic of the game world to some degree (the bad guy is beaten millions of times!) but if quests have to be unique for each player you can’t share the experience.

mitigatedchaos

* twitches *

Time.  The answer is Time.

Set the MMORPG in a world where the timelines are divergent and there are thousands or millions of them, and the world itself is broken into thousands of planes/zones/worlds spread across a vast and diverse cosmos in a state of multiversal war.

The players are warrior-chrononauts, members of various factions in this cosmic war across universes and timelines.  Many of the same worlds, however, occur again and again, and thus they have a shared experience of intervening in them.  There isn’t just one Space Hitler, there are thousands or millions echoing out into the cosmic void.

Video games are almost perfect for this, since single-player games do the multiple timelines branching thing intuitively just by their structure, with saves and replays!

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the-grey-tribe
The worlds created by electronic games are more like playgrounds where experience is created by the interaction between a player and a programme. The player cannot claim to impose a personal vision of life on the game, while the creator of the game has ceded that responsibility. No one “owns” the game, so there is no artist, and therefore no work of art.
Sorry MoMA, video games are not art
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Does this mean that art installations are NotArt?

cyberpunkpixeljunk

Anonymous asked:

Okay heres what makes me dead on curious about this indie game about someone who only cares about the feelings of men (boohoo)... How do you make a feminist cyberpunk future? Isn't that kind of like the opposite?

cyberpunkpixeljunk answered:

Nah, just make sure the women in the setting fit the setting. Plus, what do we know about this game? It could be just fine.

mitigatedchaos

Ugh…

Transhumanism destroys gender/sex binaries by enabling mass alteration of bodies, sex, and gender.

Done properly it will be “Post-Feminist” because Transhumanism massively weakens the boundaries around what the term “woman” even means, and fundamentally alters the mechanics of human reproduction.  (I mean, just take the idea of artificial wombs by itself and you’ll get big changes.)

Feminism itself is already struggling to adapt to the world it has created with only modern technology levels.  The “Feminists” of 2065 (or whatever) will likely be very different from the ones of 2017.

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zoobus

I think e3 is over and I hope that means I never hear about whatever that cyber punk drama was about again
I learned more about the origins of a genre I’ve never read than I ever cared to know

ranma-official

Thankfully, as we know, people really quickly drop culture war stuff as far as videogames go

mitigatedchaos

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@e8u

IDK I fired up FO3 after playing NV a couple years ago and found myself enraged by the bullets moving at the speed of nerf darts. Had to install a mod to fix it. (And that kind of fucked the game balance.)

Admission time: While I enjoyed FO3 very much on the first playthrough, I did use the Wanderer’s Edition mod (or whatever it was called) for most subsequent playthroughs.  It makes the combat more lethal and changes the game balance deliberately, but also it feels like guns actually have a real bite to them.

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flakmaniak

I’ll put the people happy about the PewDiePie copyright strike on blast: This is terrible precedent, and you should know it.

Forget for a moment the issue of “giant corporations like Google deciding who can speak and how”. Let’s table that.

This is JUST about the copyright strike. We also will leave aside PewDiePie’s racist incidents. Why? Because the copyright strike does not depend on them. It is independent of anything PewDiePie did, EXCEPT for post videos of himself playing the game.

The precedent from this strike is thus: Any dev can, at any time, copyright strike any Let’s Player who’s ever played their game for an audience. The real moral here, if one supports the strike, is: Let’s Plays are illegitimate. (Streaming too, even if Twitch might not have the same type of copyright-policing apparatus… Yet.)

If this precedent were actually enforced, you can say goodbye to your Game Grumps, to all your favorite personalities on Twitch, etc. But it won’t be enforced, not in a real and consistent way.

It will be a different kind of bad. This issue is now bigger than just “megacorps like Google can shut you down on the biggest platforms”. No. This is even more insidious: As long as three fuckers with an axe to grind are willing to strike you, then you’re gone. Even if we think that Google should be the arbiter and decide who can speak (and I don’t), placing this control in so many hands is even worse. Imagine an internet where on any given platform, there were hundreds of people who could destroy you if they felt like it, and they all had different ideologies and preferences and things that offended them. Navigating that maze would be nigh-impossible. (And yes I realize I’ve just described social media, and why it’s hellish.)

“Ok, but that only applies to Let’s Players and streamers; this is overblown.”

Yes, this only applies to people who use bits of copyrighted works in their content… Even if it were ONLY the destruction of people who play games for an audience, I would mourn it. But imagine all the reviewers, all the people Seriously Talking About Games. This precedent could easily stretch to them. (Or to people criticizing movies, TV etc.) And in fact we know that Content ID is already used to chill media criticism. We should not cheer the empowerment of these tools.

If you say “this strike is fine because PewDiePie is a racist”, then you’re fucking unprincipled. Say “this strike is fine because Let’s Players are illegitimate and should be shut down at the will of game devs, or better yet altogether”.

I hope no one ever streams Campo Santo’s games again.

argumate

finally, no more video games!

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