8942 pts · August 18, 2021
I believe that is Crécy by Warren Ellis.
But it was not ever inflating, presumably, which I think is an important part of the comment.
#10 This is Alan Thrall, Untamed Strength, in case anyone is interested.
I guess we can at least agree that it was one of the most beautiful games in recent times. Amazing and unique art direction, incredible soundtrack, and fun and engaging gameplay. :)
...a real life without doom counting down, and simply left the canvas after having seen the damage wallowing grief does to her parents and her own family. For me, she was heading in this direction the whole game, and so to drop all these nuanced (I gave a brief summary, a proper treatment would be much longer) themes in favour of `sad bad' and what amounts to a jump scare was quite a disappointment. Instead all the character growth and development is dropped. It is what it is.
...quite happy to let pAlicia fade away. This deals with the claim she cannot deal with any more death, and the claim that she cannot lose pVerso. The characters diametric opposition comes almost out of nowhere, in a need to get to the ending the writers wanted: a trite commentary on the nature of grief. That there is no other option is absurd to me. Just as an example, Maelle could have ended pVerso, in accord with his wishes, restored Lumiere to give the painted their own chance at...
I don't agree at all, and I understand my opinion is a minority one, to no effect on its validity. I didn't say anything about wanting a happy ending. Should I assume in return that you got these talking points from your favourite YouTuber, repeated verbatim what I've read elsewhere? Anyway, your description drops the theme of survival and requires ignoring all the other characters. pVerso's ending involves a genocide of Lumiere. So that outcome is unacceptable to me. With Maelle, she was...
I've seen people say that. For me though the endings took all of the interesting ideas built up throughout the entire game and discarded them.
The kind of people who designed the advertising industry literally called it the 'engineering of consent' (see Edward Bernays' essay with that title), thought it was a good thing, and were on the liberal side of American politics. Tells you a lot, I think. And lest I be misunderstood, the conservatives are just so much worse.
https://i.imgur.com/URfpwIP.null
He was quite prolific too. I enjoyed his works Power: A New Social Analysis, In Praise of Idleness and other Essays, Three Roads to Freedom (comparing state socialism, anarchist communism, and syndicalism). But also his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. Some people dislike his takes on so called Continental philosophy; from a distance they make a lot of sense to me. They seem to be about establishing intellectual authority rather than rational inquiry.
#41 After reading Tolstoy's Resurrection recently I've been thinking that it tells you a lot about a Christian (or anyone) if they go for Dostoyevsky instead of Tolstoy.
This is literally in the video...
As far as I'm able to understand, Everett's claims don't challenge universal grammar at all, since UG doesn't (I believe) require that each language show some similar property. The claim is that each human has a faculty/organ/capacity/whatever that allows them to acquire whatever language they are exposed to developmentally. Trying to discuss that at the level of a kind of taxonomy of language structures (nouns, gender, cases, etc) pretty much completely misses the point of UG.
Or Martin Hatch from Quantum Break.
#10 I think it's understated how often people appear to present other people's jokes as serious takes, then respond to them accordingly, coming to believe that the joke world is actually the real world.
My favourite fiction from this year is probably Middlemarch. I know Eliot's reputation is good, but this was still an unexpected masterpiece for me.
"Socialism is the government doing stuff" is one of the useful capitalist myths to prevent socialism from coming about.
I was going to comment this. His book Propaganda, or the essay Engineering Consent, are pretty important reads. Important to recall that he represented the liberal end of the spectrum as well.
Thanks for that, I had been calling it competitive piety, since I lacked a term for it.
They were all in the wrong time signature.
#1 This image is used for Ulver's album Shadows of the Sun.
I had exactly the same thought.
I think I remember that being called the suicide grip, presumably with some reason.
It's a little chilling to hear the Locust Queen giving medical advice...
Fledgling by Octavia Butler.
Regarding realism in games, there is a recently translated interview with Miyamoto and Itoi (Mother, but I confess I haven't played it) that discusses realism, among other things. https://shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/
The word leftist does not occur in that quoted paragraph...
Detailed description here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/09/is-thomas-sowell-a-legendary-maverick-intellectual-or-a-pseudo-scholarly-propagandist/
I believe that is Crécy by Warren Ellis.
But it was not ever inflating, presumably, which I think is an important part of the comment.
#10 This is Alan Thrall, Untamed Strength, in case anyone is interested.
I guess we can at least agree that it was one of the most beautiful games in recent times. Amazing and unique art direction, incredible soundtrack, and fun and engaging gameplay. :)
...a real life without doom counting down, and simply left the canvas after having seen the damage wallowing grief does to her parents and her own family. For me, she was heading in this direction the whole game, and so to drop all these nuanced (I gave a brief summary, a proper treatment would be much longer) themes in favour of `sad bad' and what amounts to a jump scare was quite a disappointment. Instead all the character growth and development is dropped. It is what it is.
...quite happy to let pAlicia fade away. This deals with the claim she cannot deal with any more death, and the claim that she cannot lose pVerso. The characters diametric opposition comes almost out of nowhere, in a need to get to the ending the writers wanted: a trite commentary on the nature of grief. That there is no other option is absurd to me. Just as an example, Maelle could have ended pVerso, in accord with his wishes, restored Lumiere to give the painted their own chance at...
I don't agree at all, and I understand my opinion is a minority one, to no effect on its validity. I didn't say anything about wanting a happy ending. Should I assume in return that you got these talking points from your favourite YouTuber, repeated verbatim what I've read elsewhere? Anyway, your description drops the theme of survival and requires ignoring all the other characters. pVerso's ending involves a genocide of Lumiere. So that outcome is unacceptable to me. With Maelle, she was...
I've seen people say that. For me though the endings took all of the interesting ideas built up throughout the entire game and discarded them.
The kind of people who designed the advertising industry literally called it the 'engineering of consent' (see Edward Bernays' essay with that title), thought it was a good thing, and were on the liberal side of American politics. Tells you a lot, I think. And lest I be misunderstood, the conservatives are just so much worse.
https://i.imgur.com/URfpwIP.null
He was quite prolific too. I enjoyed his works Power: A New Social Analysis, In Praise of Idleness and other Essays, Three Roads to Freedom (comparing state socialism, anarchist communism, and syndicalism). But also his Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy. Some people dislike his takes on so called Continental philosophy; from a distance they make a lot of sense to me. They seem to be about establishing intellectual authority rather than rational inquiry.
#41 After reading Tolstoy's Resurrection recently I've been thinking that it tells you a lot about a Christian (or anyone) if they go for Dostoyevsky instead of Tolstoy.
This is literally in the video...
As far as I'm able to understand, Everett's claims don't challenge universal grammar at all, since UG doesn't (I believe) require that each language show some similar property. The claim is that each human has a faculty/organ/capacity/whatever that allows them to acquire whatever language they are exposed to developmentally. Trying to discuss that at the level of a kind of taxonomy of language structures (nouns, gender, cases, etc) pretty much completely misses the point of UG.
Or Martin Hatch from Quantum Break.
#10 I think it's understated how often people appear to present other people's jokes as serious takes, then respond to them accordingly, coming to believe that the joke world is actually the real world.
My favourite fiction from this year is probably Middlemarch. I know Eliot's reputation is good, but this was still an unexpected masterpiece for me.
"Socialism is the government doing stuff" is one of the useful capitalist myths to prevent socialism from coming about.
I was going to comment this. His book Propaganda, or the essay Engineering Consent, are pretty important reads. Important to recall that he represented the liberal end of the spectrum as well.
Thanks for that, I had been calling it competitive piety, since I lacked a term for it.
They were all in the wrong time signature.
#1 This image is used for Ulver's album Shadows of the Sun.
I had exactly the same thought.
I think I remember that being called the suicide grip, presumably with some reason.
It's a little chilling to hear the Locust Queen giving medical advice...
Fledgling by Octavia Butler.
Regarding realism in games, there is a recently translated interview with Miyamoto and Itoi (Mother, but I confess I haven't played it) that discusses realism, among other things. https://shmuplations.com/itoimiyamoto/
The word leftist does not occur in that quoted paragraph...
Detailed description here: https://www.currentaffairs.org/2023/09/is-thomas-sowell-a-legendary-maverick-intellectual-or-a-pseudo-scholarly-propagandist/