#not videogame related

[retrogamingblog2]

#luigi #mario #nintendo #gaming #video games #school #college #homework #study #studying #funny #lol #humor #meme #relatable #luigi's mansion #luigi's mansion 3 #switch #nintendo switch #videogames

[letterstomylouvre]

being called an npc shouldn’t be an insult. no i do not want to be the main character i want to wander around in a forest where my only job is to look pretty and give out side quests that will put others in great peril in the sanctity of my plot armor

#dark academia #dark acadamia aesthetic #light academia #dark academic aesthetic #light acadamia aesthetic #fairycore #forest #npc #videogame #game #video games #tumblr #funny #relateable

[idek-how-do-ifeel]

Ok but I legitimately will never understand this

Like bye

#accurate #relatable #true dat #apocalypse #zombie apocalypse #end of the world #the last of us #cordyceps #the last of us hbo #joel miller #ellie williams #ellie tlou #joel tlou #pedro pascal #bella ramsey #hbo #videogame #tv show #idk #just a thought #the last of us video game #personal #survival #beldro ramscal #zombie #post apocalyptic #apocalypse zombie

[estherax]

Generating plasm and stacking matchboxes: how to build a better future through collective consciousness.

Alternatively - Steban and Ulixes were building Tatlin's Tower so I have to talk about the symbolism or I will explode!!

While completing the communist vision quest you get an opportunity to build a model of "The Tower of History", depicted on the last page of "A Brief Look at Infra-Materialism": a leaning tower wrapped in a dramatic helix. The scale model you make is a mirror image of Tatlin's Tower - a design for a grand monumental building to the Third International: the government organization advocating for world communism.

The main idea of the monument was to produce a new type of structure, uniting a purely creative form with a utilitarian form. Meaning it would function as an office building while also serving as a symbol of cultural significance. And let me tell you, this bad boy can fit so much symbolism in it.

Tatlin was commissioned to develop a design in 1919, after the 1917 February Revolution - a parallel to Disco Elysium's Insulinde we're witnessing post-Antecentennial Revolution.

Tatlin's work was inspired by high revolutionary goals, which are evident in the visual direction of the tower as well, expressing the ideological strive for achieving something that has never been done before, overcoming the odds. The structure "oscillates like a steel snake, constrained and organized by the one general movement of all the parts, to raise itself above the earth. The form wants to overcome the material and the force of gravity..."

The tower has meaning packed even in the materials. For example, the glass structures (marked A, B, C on the architectural rendering) were meant to serve legislative, executive and informative initiatives while rotating around their axes at different speeds. The material signified the purity of initiatives, their liberation from material constraints and their ideal qualities.

But here's the best part. The spirals.

"The spiral is the movement of liberated humanity. The spiral is the ideal expression of liberation: with its base set in the earth, it flees from the ground and becomes a symbol of the suspension of all (...) earthy interests." They are "the most elastic and rapid lines which the world knows" that represent movement and aspiration, continuing the themes of progress and freedom, but they also refer to something else.

In the process of building the matchbox model Rhetoric points out: "It's almost exactly as Nilsen's sketch imagined, a physical manifestation of the dialectical spiral of history."

The shape of the tower is a representation of dialectical development of history, first visualized as a spiral by G. W. F. Hegel. He pictured transformational change as "both linear and circular in order to be short-term responsive, i.e. possibly negating itself, and long-term strategic, i.e. a process of development."

Hegel's dialectics would later be reinterpreted through the prism of materialism by Marx and Engels to create dialectical materialism - the basis for historical materialism.

"Still, this idea, as formulated by Marx and Engels on the basis of Hegels’ philosophy, is far more comprehensive and far richer in content than the current idea of evolution is. A development that repeats, as it were, stages that have already been passed, but repeats them in a different way, on a higher basis, (...) a development, so to speak, that proceeds in spirals, not in a straight line; a development by leaps, catastrophes, and revolutions; (...) the interdependence and the closest and indissoluble connection between all aspects of any phenomenon (history constantly revealing ever new aspects), a connection that provides a uniform, and universal process of motion, one that follows definite laws - these are some of the features of dialectics as a doctrine of development that is richer than the conventional one."

The tower embodies progress in materialist understanding of history while also indicating the connection to ideological plasm, a manifestation of "the proletariat's embrace of historical materialism", necessary to create a better future.

According to Nilsen, the proletariat of a revolutionary state can generate enough plasm to create extra-physical architecture that "disregards the laws of 'bourgeois physics' and instead relies on the revolutionary faith of the people for structural integrity."

This function of plasm implies that The Tower of History can be created only under revolutionary circumstances - without a sufficient amount of plasm even the matchbox model didn't stay up. The exact same sentiment is expressed about Tatlin's Tower: "We maintain that only the full power of the multimillion strong proletarian consciousness could bring into the world the idea of this monument and its forms. The monument must be realized by the muscles of this power, because we have an ideal, living and classical expression the pure and creative form of the international union of the workers of the whole world."

Nilsen called it "the highest expression of Communist principles, a society whose literal foundation is the faith of its people."

Tatlin's Tower was a symbol of faith in the revolutionary future, the global triumph of Marxist socialism. A monument "made of iron, glass and revolution."

It was never built in real life, and neither was The Tower of History in the world of Elysium.

But you can try to see if there's enough plasm between the three of you. And the matchbox tower stays up for a long moment, quivering with an improbable energy. You believe it can say up - and it does.

So you have to believe; whether it's for collective action or generating ideological plasm. Then, together, maybe you'll be able to build as much as 0.0002% of communism.

#i tricked myself into reading leftist theory for disco elysium #never thought i would be reading Lenin to write about videogame worldbuilding #tower related quotes are from ''The monument to the Third International'' by Nikolai Punin #infra-materialism #disco elysium #de #de meta #disco elysium analysis #disco elysium spoilers #disco elysium meta

[mashkara45]

#relatable #alan wake 2 #alex casey #alan wake quotes #videogames #horror games #videogames quotes #remedy entertainment #personal #favorite quotes

[the-fae-tricked-me]

#original post #original meme #gaming #gaming memes #video games #videogame #gamers of tumblr #gamer #gamers #new memes #relatable memes #memes #funny memes #relatable #atreus #god of war #god of war ragnarok #kratos #best memes #funny post #mood #playstation #xbox #pc

[marvelann]

Huge fan of the way Baldur's Gate 3 encourages you to savescum. Hell yeah I'll save every 30 seconds during every conversation and check every single outcome, thank you very much

#not sims related #my boyfriend came home last night and watched me play for hours #it was very nice... #finally managed to convince him that I am in fact terrible at videogames haha #baldur's gate 3

[theokusgallery]

Trashing that in your askbox or something *disappears in the wild*

(I know you've already seen it but idk funny)

Fun fact if you call Arsenic (normal version) babygirl he will fucking kill you

#i dont think ive posted the rant about that anywhere. mh. maybe i should #i don't post all my arsenic-related rants because they're‚ uh‚ often either spoilers or very sensitive content #as much as i love talking about him. i prefer talking about him to people who i know 1) want to see it and 2) can handle it #...which means that you guys are missing out on the little Sun characterization there is. because my boy is fucked up #anyway. this is hilarious. top 10 pictures taken seconds before a disaster #ask #tosteur-gluteal #fanart #arsenic #nicholas #this is historically accurate language. and also accurate to. the country they're in. for sure #... hey tosteur. nicholas but with the little necklace poison vial that dalhi.a hawthor.ne from hit videogame 'asexual lawer' has #imagine. #omori

[vikings-til-valhalla]

Me, at 4ft11 (149cm) drinking mead and eating an entire pork loin while in the tattoo parlor: VALHALLA IT IS LET'S GOOO!!!!

#dont EVER go get a tattoo while drunk though thats illegal in most places as it should be #food #funny #mun is a viking #tw slur #i have multiple tattoos and i love all of them #plenty are videogame related #next one will be lord of the rings and on my right forearm

[aretmaw]

Happy Birthday to Kaede the best protag ^v^

#myart #fanart #anime #anime art #digital art #kaede #kaede akamatsu #kaede danganronpa #ultimate pianist #danganronpa spoilers #danganronpa fanart #danganronpa v3 #danganronpa #videogames #i relate to her musician side alot I almost kin here hehe #*kin her. i'm not fixing that tag I'm lazy

[calagua]

#marine life #hablando #i was looking up nautilus fun facts for completely not videogame related reasons btw #just realized it unironically looks like a 2010 meme . whatever .

[retrogamingblog2]

#nintendo #mario #gaming #video games #meme #super mario 3d world #switch #nintendo switch #wii #wii u #funny #lol #humor #relatable #zelda #skyward sword #mario kart 8 deluxe #hyrule warriors #pikmin #videogames #super mario

[wakebymoonsleepbysun]

Had to throw away a wholeass project I was working on because what I was trying to do wasn't viable in html/js the way I wanted it to be.

I could probably remake it in Unity pretty quick. (As in, over a weekend.) But y'know. Fuck those guys.

So I'm finally attempting to learn Godot because indie game dev is one of my many backup plans for when I inevitably get laid off and this seems like a simple enough project that I can start ramping up on that before trying to make, y'know, a wholeass game. (Even a small wholeass game.)

All this to say I have a Play button in Godot now.

#wakey rambles #...yes it's dj related #no it's not an actual videogame just something that can be made in a game engine #which i mean...most software COULD be made in unity and probably godot #just not always the best way #but it's one i want to learn so and it'll PROBABLY work so that's why i'm doing it this way

[fridka]

Inktober day 13 RISE (Rise! Make em remember you)

It finally happened - my first idea turned out awful and I had to start over. In previous years this would be where my inktober journey would end, but just like in the song I pushed through hell and.. well the drawing I ended up with is pretty bad BUT I DID IT

So this is Madryn from day 1, after he’s become Gospel. This is kinda like.. him starting to view himself as a god, or at least as more than a mortal. I wanted to have Laurent on this drawing too, after he’s been well and truly fucked up, but as I said above, it was not to be

#inktober #inktober 2023 #my art #oc art #oc artist #original character #fantasy oc #might do some fun probably dota related doodles later #but my hand is in bits so I might also just play videogames

[scuopsie]

do u ever go down a rabbit hole trying to figure out who this blog u interacted with five years ago is? bc i just did lsijdflsdjf

#they remade a billion times dljsldjfldsf i don't even remember how i eventually found their current blog... #fbi needs to hire me #but omg? #i know i used to be friends/moots with them but idr anything abt them... #but trying to navigate my way thru 18 archived blogs of them was so funny sldjflsdjf #they went from vixx stan to mx stan (the url was ck related and i havent seen another idol named the same...) to a taemin blog #to kdrama to kinporsche to videogame and then back to kpop #IM NOT JOKING #this was interesting #lowkey wondering if they remember me (considering i don't remember them) #theyre much younger than i am so they might sidjldsjf my brain isn't as sharp as it used to be </3 #theyre an ateez blog now... or their kpop blog is for ateez #idk i just felt old and nostalgic... its like seeing a familiar face on the street and realizing you went to middle school with them

[lgbttruther]

i have such strong feelings about anime/manga culture in the the ought 2000's (mostly due to escapism) like most of my irl/physical manga library is built off of it. some of my formative con-going experiences are built off of the fact that a guy i saw at a con when i was 13 was still at the university anime club when in was 19 even though he must have been pushing his mid-30s. dude taught me a lot about zubats at that one con i went to. my less-monitored otaku peers still taught me more, though. I kind of want to make a list of the series that i personally felt defined that era

#anime/manga/videogames... i had a lot of peers with differing perspectives even at that time. #it made for a varied and interesting formative experience with these mediums #that had just been emerging at the time #and that contributed heavily to how i relate to media at the present time #I would love to write some kind of... ' #'snapshot in time' essay about the emerging trend of eastern/western media at the time #but all i have are emotionally charged snapshots of the experience #of growing up as a burgeoning otaku during the ought 2000s #with neglectful parental figures #but honestly? i wouldn't give it up for anything #it has made me appreciate creative and artistic endeavors in ways that most people wouldn't consider as being worth their time #tmi #long tags #talk #delete later #probably #man i used the word 'time' an embarrassing amount. anyway. #this is rambly bc im tired and stoned but. you get the point. 2000s anime nostalgia hits DIFFERENT