Blambo

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    Hotline Miami itself feels winky and abstracted because of its pixel art aesthetic, and the people you kill are direct threats to you. Also there was a read of the game by Campster that was basically that in HL, you're not thinking about killing people you're focused on the synesthesia and abstraction of the gameplay because it's tight, cohesive, beautiful and challenging. One ending of the game actually points that out, and it's supposed to be reflective of the damage you're doing while in a gameplay induced trance. The whole way through the gameplay is unforgiving and a struggle, and the feeling is constantly that you don't belong in this space and that your perception is imperfect, that something is clearly wrong with what's going on.

     

    So idk obviously Hatred isn't out yet but the comparison seems to be like...comparing a Tarantino exploitation film with an actual exploitation film. I dunno.

     

    EDIT: ok I'm just gonna gripe about it. It's just dumb. It doesn't look like the violence has any intentionality or is a consequence of an artistic goal (which is what should be protected, not violence itself), and it doesn't looks like a formal exploration that hasn't been covered (there's been muslim massacre, postal, postal 2, that scene in MW2, and CoD is one big unjustified murder thing), so it just looks like a silly adolescent wet dream.

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    Bjorn: Yeah haha this reminded me a lot about a comment chris made about the MoMA and how you would definitely expect it to have an exhibit that is just a dude's head exploding forever. This game reminds me of punk philosophy "pure aesthetic" stuff that is obsessed with isolating form and stripping out preconceptions.

    If only they actually did that instead of making another fucking shooter.

  9. Posted

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    A friend sent me this. I'm super weirded out by how the post ended up, sans even the transphobic stuff. The first thing is that I guess it makes sense that a female would be uncomfortable in a group ostensibly made for females filled with males, but then kind of weird that immediately it was attributed to their focus on social issues (maybe true?). I don't agree with the post at all and I think it's probably fake, but if you give the poster the benefit of the doubt you get that same sense of creepiness when people talk about "ladies nights" at bars being filled with dudes, or guys that tell you that they're taking a women's studies track in university "for the chicks". I dunno how widespread it is that people would view the "sjw side" as an extension of a boys club, and just a veneer hiding other motivations, and using the platform as a shield, applying #notyourshield with earnest. They're probably just not exposed to facts but I feel like its super sad that people can have this impression if made in good faith.

  17. Posted

    Last night I directly engaged GG for the first time in a couple weeks on Twitter. It was almost nearly a big mistake. I couldn't find anyone for a LONG time willing to discuss what was going on in good faith. Most of the replies were ridiculous defensive shit, including one guy who told me to stop "harassing" him because I was replying to him (not even close to aggressively). My favorite though was a guy who just kept using talking points at me. I gave him a pretty long set of tweets that were evenly worded about misunderstandings and such, and I just got preaching in return.

    Then fiiiiiiinally one GGer actually spoke to me. We talked about the idea of GG starting a website they can manage and police to show people they're serious about condemning harassment and such. He argued it'd be an echo chamber at first, but I told him it'd start that way certainly but would catch notice if it was policed into being a positive discussion zone. The only thing he had over on me was that if it was a small site startup it'd be prone to DDoS and other kinds of attacks, which have been going on during this shit.

    It still feels like the decent people have abandoned trying to make the GG tag legit. And when I say decent people, I mean they're still mistaken / wrong about shit going on.

    This is interesting to me cause it shows that they'd actually rather be scrappy, unclear, and politically invincible than articulated and organized.

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    How far in are you Blambo? If you're anything like me, you won't like it for that long.

     

    I'm three episodes into the second series and it's starting hurt to watch it. The first series was pretty good and kind of explored the consequences of certain powers but eh. Things started to devolve into TV plotland pretty quickly.

  24. Posted

    What's at over 9000 clicks? I don't understand.

     

    The Thunderclap is still at 3716. The number does not go up. The site is like Kickstarter, but for coordinating social media. So, basically, you set a minimum number (in this case, 500) and if you meet the minimum number of supporters, Thunderclap will automate a simultaneous tweet by all 500+ supporters. So, basically, today 3716 people simultaneous tweeted some gooberglerp support simultaneously, and that's it. The Thunderclap is over. The number can't be increased, because the campaign ended and the coordinated social message already happened.

     

    They were hyping it up pretty seriously as some kind of a game changer amongst themselves and pressuring people to sign up for the past week, so I think 3716 is probably a pretty good estimate of their core support. 

     

    "I support single mothers, peace, living space, and veterans. I am #LiterallyHitler."

     

    Anyway, here's from the other gamergate thunderclap:

     

    As someone who's been tracked down and harassed, at home and at work, by people radicalized by a hateful ideology, and who's personally seen the same — and worse — happen to dozens of #GamerGate & #NotYourShield supporters, I'm appalled by mainstream game journalism's take on the issue. I think it's ridiculous that they're make the baseless allegation that #GamerGate exists to harass two women most of us never even heard of — before the allegations, anyway. We came together out of concern for ethics in gaming journalism and proper representation in the media. We have faced far more harassment and abuse by our detractors than they have even claim to have faced — let alone actually faced — and we don't have Kickstarters/Patreons or daddy's trust fund to fall back on when it hits us home. TELL THE TRUTH: Devs are being blacklisted, women and children are being attacked, writers are being defamed, the only gay gaming convention that exists has been bullied into submission, and more, because of false narratives manufactured by a group of corrupt journalists. We demand an end to this corruption. That's why we stand for #GamerGate & #NotYourShield.

  25. Posted

    I know lots of people who are stuck in a quagmire of having an indie identity but lacking the willingness or confidence to learn and do things, who are perfectly capable of doing so. To them making and consuming video games is an identity first and foremost and only maintain themselves to the degree that they can uphold such an identity.

     

    Yeah they're mostly male teenagers and college students.