there’s actually a lot of other interesting stuff in this interview. the inspiration for bridget’s yo-yos was just that daisuke had a friend who was really in to them and was showing off tricks to him in the park one day
actually. delivery guys always existed, what really steams me about this is some amount of cars in a traffic jam are just Empty Cars, ronin wandering in search of a sandwich to carry
do you ever think about how since Doordash started, some amount of cars in a traffic jam are just someone's sandwich. a whole spot on the road just occupied by a guys lunch
the ai art discourse is the same as the scorsese was wrong about marvel movies discourse. it’s not a high-minded debate about the nature of the artistic impulse, it’s capital trying to convince people to lower their standards in the name of a new extractive frontier
"what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside products which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines" 🎯
“you’ve put a lot of thought into diversity in this game”
“i always have. ‘diversity’ is a trendy word now, but i just want to tell stories about people in different situations becoming various kinds of heroes, becoming various kinds of heroines”
“GG’s been that way for 20 years”
every tech capitalist that rose to the billionaire class on a wave of consumer trust and good will cashed out and turned evil the second they were too established to be accountable to anyone for it, go figure
the last paragraph here is big!!
“we wanted to just let people play the game and come to their own different interpretations, but people went as far as impersonating staff, so we had to make an announcement”
this part is a little dense but very cool, about the themes of guilty gear as a series
“these aren’t complete humans, they have incomplete parts or parts of themselves they can’t accept, and maybe as heroes they could come to understand each other better”
or this incredible bit about bridget’s original gender deal being a secret even from staff late in to development, so people had drawn doujinshi, found out, and said “so what am i supposed to do with this doujin”
i LOVE that for everything new zelda reflected on and made thoughtful changes to from the last game, their response to weapon durability was "they're worse now. the weapons are even more disposable and now they look stupid too"
you need to let queer people be evil, all right? here, i’ve collated an extensive list of exactly which kinds of evil are morally and aesthetically acceptable for reference
saddled w/ the arduous and thankless task of individually hugging each of these new friends, introducing them to their neighbors and making sure they’re comfy in their spot… it’s a tough job but someone has to do it
God remember when Amazon tried to buy seattle city council and kshama sawant was down a couple points tuesday night but by friday she had pulled ahead. And they lost five of the six races. They spent like $1.5m to fucking eat shit
“i wanted to tell people, just buy the game and confirm it for yourself!, but i wasn’t opposed to just announcing it again. but it’s a spoiler, so as a creator…”
i do think this anxietist-individualist tendency is annoying and naïve but also the root issue is context collapse. these places turn all of us into “good for you, good for her, but i feel the need to hit back”
the way i think about this is you gotta get into character. you are not a scholar studying the literature of a dead language, you are a child who just finished learning the alphabet
they do say flat out this was her arc from the beginning but reading between the lines i also feel like it’s implied that if they didn’t have this story for her, like, she wouldn’t have anything to do, as a character
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dub voice directing has gotten so much better better (and i think plenty of old dubs are charming) but i dont think there'll ever be parity on sound mixing
yesterday i found a real treasure at twice sold. a penguin deluxe moby dick on heavy discount because it was Extensively annotated all the way through by, i gather, a literature student reading it for the first time
incredible to write about this specific recession as if it’s an inevitable force of nature on the horizon when the guys in charge have been saying for months “we need to hit the big red RECESSION button, in order to put the workers in their place“
Meanwhile in the Wall Street Journal, the proprietor of an outsourced health care call center is audibly cackling at how a recession is going to put all you Spoiled Young Workers in your place
in the first article they mention the obvious, that a big part of bringing her back was just that she’s popular and that people wanted to see her again
and like her backstory in xx was even “i don’t know why this human is hanging around. probably doesn’t matter”
when i was like 6 or 7 i said “damnit” under my breath during softball and when i was 8 i came out of my room crying my eyes out to Confess to my mom because it had weighed on my conscience for too long
convenient i dont even have to play ffxiv to comprehensively understand everything going on with people managing to be horny over a character named “emet selch”
there’s a genre of phrases that sound like they’re from the bible or like paradise lost, but really, really aren’t. like “there are cathedrals everywhere for those with the eyes to see” which is ofc a jordan peterson tweet about a bottle of evian. what are the others?
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like if you Want class solidarity, if you Want economic justice, you have to start w/ the anti-Black and anti-Native economics that have always been the engines of capitalist exploitation here. that’s not “idpol” its literally the central material dialectic