Problem Machine

Jesus that is some fucking garbage. Reyturner's portrait is very true to life.

Well, to be fair...

Hm, okay, I guess I was misled in this particular, but regardless of whether it's a legal incentive it's certainly a cultural one, and such a strong cultural incentive that the 'ethics' of a corporation could be seen as being more in line of what will create the most good for the shareholders, IE maximizing share value, IE maximizing profits, rather than creating a global good. Which STILL creates an artificial entity with the rights of a human being but the sole motive to collect profits regardless of human cost, behavior which is largely regarded as unethical in a human being. Changing that culture is tantamount to changing our understanding of what a corporation is and is for -- whether it needs to involve a change of the laws themselves does not, I think, substantially shift the parameters of the problem itself.

Well, I think the way we regard corporations as legal entities kind of is. I mean, it's not a problem with small privately-owned companies, which are essentially a business extension of the will of the owners, but when you get into large publicly owned corporations you've created a situation where the people running it are then legally culpable for choosing a course of action which doesn't maximize profit, even if they believe it's more ethical. With the system as it is now, we've incentivized behavior which I think runs awfully close to how we define evil -- that is, choosing profit to the exception of all else, which is what I was kind of getting at with my earlier post. Oh, yeah, absolutely, but just because it's reasonable and accurate doesn't mean that I as a rational adult can't be frustrated by a dumb kid's bullshit. That's what being an adult is all about! edit: Actually it occurs to me that it's rather interesting that Arya's naievete, in the form of Axe Cop style "chop off all the bad guy's heads", isn't nearly as frustrating as Sansa's given that it's much more closely aligned with the actual, and actually really fucked up, ethic of justified force that that world operates on. Just because the shit Arya believes is echoed by grown-ass men who should know better doesn't really make it any less childish or naive than the shit Sansa believes, just more popular. It's kind of an interesting lens through which to view the characters that hadn't occurred to me before.

it did take her a while to grow into that though. Her naivete was pretty infuriating early on. Also, while I think she works as a character, man if Catelyn doesn't play into some of the worst hysteria tropes.

Haha holy crap. That game was so weird. If nothing else, it gave me a comprehensive familiarity with whatever stock sound effect library they were using. I still hear that damn door-opening sound used in tv shows and movies to this day, and that rat squeak is like the wilhelm scream of rodent noises.

I dunno, would we consider a human being who only cared about money and completely disregarded the wellbeing of others except as it affects those ends as ethically neutral...?

Oh man this shit blew my mind as a kid. I contracted lycanthropy somehow and got the same weird dream. Just to make the context clear, this was at a time when fmv was still pretty rare in games, and the vampire and werewolf dreams are the only cutscenes in what is otherwise an entirely first-person RPG. I seriously thought for a moment that one of my brother's weird art games had been left in the CD Drive and was interrupting my game with an autoplay. What I'm saying, I guess, was that this was the random NPC saying "Fuck you" of 1996. (PS, a slight pedantic note: MIDI is exclusively a format for storing music information, basically just a set of notes and velocities -- MIDI data is basically the text file of music. The speech in the files was, I think, just low-bitrate waveform data)

Extremely disingenuous arguments are also pretty typical of GG at this point. They love, love calling people racists and misogynists on the most flimsy pretexts, not because that's what they actually believe but because they believe it will score them points. Once again, TB's tactics are just a sanitized version of the same shit his awful followers use.

Man, it drives me craaazy when I make a joke, it gets no reaction, and then someone makes the same joke but a level more obvious and it gets a big laugh. I can only imagine it happens a lot more to funny ladies, since people aren't as primed to pick up on it. Man that would make me so mad, haha.

https://twitter.com/untimelygamer/status/568952499354390528

Ah, okay yeah I can see the problem, that's pretty appropriationy. Intersectionality!

Hm. Isn't that only a problem if you regard that as negative? Otherwise it seems like just naming it after a famous person with a distinguishing characteristic. Is there something I'm missing?

Leigh Alexander on the Law & Order: SVU episode 'Intimidation Game'

but won't someone please think of the rich white man ;_; .... okay, to elaborate in a more hopefully productive fashion, I don't think anyone's calling for Ken Levine to be burned alive or drawn and quartered, but certainly it's fair that someone who habitually says stupid and tone-deaf things develop a reputation as such. That's what reputations are and are made of. There's nothing so special about Ken Levine that he shouldn't be subject to this process, and I don't think calling him on the stupid shit he says is an unfair punishment. If he later apologizes or recants, then swell, but that's on him, not on the people (correctly) pointing out that the things he is saying are dumb.

Wow. There's a lot I don't like about how gaming websites handled the GG situation, but presenting a 'narrative of hate and fear' is not one of them since that was what was actually fucking happening. In fact, most of these sites really fucking dragged their heels in terms of describing a situation that was causing real and ongoing harm to vulnerable people in the games industry, a system of abuse that was in part enabled by developers staying silent. For them to now claim that that silence was the correct path and everything else clickbaiting yellow journalism... wow. I'd certainly think twice about buying the game of anyone who I knew signed that drivel

Well he obviously didn't want to be informative then, he wanted to be the avatar of righteous anger. Is that wrong or bad? I dunno maybe. Probably not the best way to get more interviews.

I have extremely limited sympathy, given the amount of other people's money he's wasted and apparent lack of remorse or personal responsibility in doing so. It may be a shitty question or a shitty interview, but I think the anger behind it is more than justified at this point.

What the fuck? That's an insane number

I don't really think it does, but okay.

Man I guess I'm well in the minority because I hated that Mickey Mouse 3d cartoon. I thought the whole thing was mean-spirited and not very clever and the 3d characters looked incredibly generic and ugly compared to their black and white 2d counterparts. Plus the entire thing felt like a goodbye to 2d animation in general, which doesn't sit well at all when the 2d animation in it is so much more interesting and full of life. Ugh.

Blue homicide / attempted blue homicide? As analogous to blue suicide.

Yeah I'm doing something similar, just trying to do a sketch a day for the first week of a month and then pick one or two out to develop into full pieces. It's a good approach I think -- much rarer to end up wasting lots of time on a piece that never really pans out. Though I tend not to worry about style and just try to pursue whatever interests me with each sketch. What are you using? I do pretty much everything in Reason (4, ouch), primarily because that's the only software I own legit and I don't want to pirate when I can help it.

Strings sound nice. Synths are a bit toothless, might be nice to have something with a bit more edge, but that's personal preference.

It's weird and distressing the ways that who we understand ourselves to be blinds us to who we are. I spent a chunk of my life convincing myself I was fearless, and in the end all that did was take away the word 'fear' while leaving the fear itself, shapeless and unnameable, to control my actions with no accountability. I feel like the same thing happens to these people, labeling themselves as logical and unemotional, so that when their biases and emotions come from underneath to twist their worldview they no longer have the words to describe it and it slips by invisible. Names are powerful, and when you rescind your ability to name something within yourself it's like losing a handle to an object in memory: Just because it's invisible doesn't mean it's no longer there, it's just lost, out of control, and possibly damaging you in ways you can't describe even as you've convinced yourself you've destroyed it by making it disappear.