It is *exactly* the reason why Disco Elysium, Pathologic, and Bloodborne are cozy games

I remember when my metaphysics professor showed us our entries in the list.

Mine was just ”believes in true contradictions but never actually read Priest”

but what if they go for that prequel short story Martin wrote for pre-production

↑delusional

“apes together god”, you could say

Re: clanker propaganda, I'm afraid nothing will rival last century's sci-fi in pushing the message that robots are cool and useful and can help humankind

Re: weirdness, I disagree entirely. It's a PR event; look, we're discussing it and we're continents away. It is about as unusual or as impactful as Russian robots playing football or dancing for Putin: entirely impractical but a mark of prestige of technical achievement (or pretending to be one)

To be clear, my argument isn’t “this is amazing news for robotics” (I wouldn’t be able to evaluate that; human form seems to be inefficient for robots anyway, so I’m not sure why even replicate it). It’s just denying that there’s anything sinister about this either.

Prestige, I’d assume?

Because it's a mark of technological advancement to be able to replicate natural motions? It's a self-contained goal already. With downstream things like prosthetics and, sure, many varieties of dystopian humanoid robots. But you wouldn't need humanoid robots to discipline and punish.

This is a bit nonsensical. For all manhunt and dystopian control needs, we already have cheap drones.

The “competition” part is obviously about the development of technology for human-like motion (remember when robots could not even hold balance?) — and that’s more or less harmless.

If your werewolf is not suspiciously hairy and weirdly-proportioned while in human form, it's no werewolf but just a sparkling shapeshifter

therefore, not a monsterfuck

Yesterday @reified-systems.itch.io pointed out that Basil's face from this Fawlty Towers VHS collection is nearly exactly The Expression from Disco Elysium, and my mind is blown.

I genuinely think this may be the original inspiration! So many details match up

I’ll pass it on

Cat 1 — Hand 0

It‘s also an interesting contrast to his work with Kon, where the storyboard followed the music and, if memory serves, disregarded the lyrics

Susumu Hirasawa - "Aria" Interview ---- "Creating the music for "Berserk" is similar to the sensation of unlocking one of the restraints I've built up within myself." To original author Kentaro Miura and fans of the series alike,...

"Luckily, Miura-sensei is a fan of my music and listens to it while he works, and it seems I got the offer in light of this background. I’ve actually almost never received a specific song request from him because of that."

and it can
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I've been thinking about it. And I think there might only be three types of narrative game

1. Explore the Psyche of Man
2. Stuff Already Happened, And Now You're Here
3. Lesbian Bartender

misread "genre" as "gender", but it still made sense

*Aldia voice*
Many twitters have come and gone. One drowned in poison, another succumbed to vibe code. Still another slumbers in a realm of federalism.

never thought I’d be fighting side by side with a g-toilet

Close enough, welcome back Cicero

so what's the council's position on reginos homoousion

This is the funniest thing I have seen in some time.

Resounding victory for wordcels. Good job encoding all your shape rotations in tokenizeable natural language, dummies. Your puny mathematics exist as a low-dimension subspace inside the machine that generates infinite reddit posts

For my Roman games and spectacles class their final assignment as well as all the ones leading up to it were to plan a rebellion to take down the empire starting with Domitian and the Roman elite in Rome. Using the power of spectacle and guilds.

do I want to google it?

Editing a systems-driven narrative game

Could it be, an IMDb-credited voice from the acclaimed game TR-49??

Scale as the opposite of texture is a recent thing anyway; you can do both, as seen in Eisenstein, or Kurosawa, or, for that matter, theatre since always and forever