having vague thoughts about E3 and the current state of AAA game development in general..
like yeah direct promotions have had more of an impact than Big Events for me, and the main thing I'd want to see out of E3 are trailers for new games or the conversations that follow online - but a few points on that
I can just as easily look up “new games for [platform] [year]” on youtube
Something about the way AAA games are built these days makes me get bored of them ⅔ of the way through, if I even make it that far, on top of them charging more for less content and hiding away the rest behind multiple DLC packs
I've mostly been buying indies the past few years and have gotten a lot of fun out of them; they continue to deliver a nearly unrivaled experience of fun gameplay mechanics and interesting/emotional stories at a ridiculously low cost
I also have emulators for going back and playing old games I really liked so I'm not exactly desperate for new games
and idk!! weird to see E3 officially ending but I also think the landscape is very different these days including the game companies themselves. I'm not a game dev so I can't rly speak to what the change has looked like on their end over the past 10-20 yrs.
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Rant about Harry Potter and JK Rowling, stick with me here
Ok, so, I hate JK Rowling. I feel like that's a given, right? Like, she's a transphobic homophobic bigot who hides behind feminism and routinely denies massive parts of the holocaust, and I despise her in ways that I don't think words can even express. I can't stand her, but y'know what I also can't stand?
When someone implies that my mother, who is one of the most supportive people I know, and a massive part of the founding, organization, and actions of a local group made specifically to fight Moms for Liberty and school boards in our area trying to harm trans and queer people, is transphobic because she likes Harry Potter
Wanna know why my mom likes Harry Potter? Because when she discovered the series at 12 years old, she quite literally lived in a cupboard under the stairs and was in an abusive household. The magic of the wizarding world or whatever was her escape, it's the reason she's still alive, and by extension, the reason I was ever alive.
But, sometimes, not even often, when I try to express even the most minimal amount of appreciation of that, someone says to me "but isn't JK Rowling transphobic? Why would you support someone like that? Are you transphobic?"
Which pisses me off beyond belief, as one might imagine
In this situation, "separate the art from the artist" isn't exactly a good phrase to use, given the fact that the goblins or whatever run the bank are Jewish stereotypes and the house elves generally being happy to work under their masters being a straight rip from the whole happy slave myth, and those are very very important things to recognize and understand, among others
I feel like it's a lot closer to "separate the hundreds if not thousands of lives she's helped from the hundreds if not thousands of lives she's ruined", or even better, understand that the good she's indirectly done for people makes all the bad that much more horrid
My mother is the closest thing to a hero in this entire world and I will not stand to hear one more person accuse her of being transphobic purely because she thinks fondly of a book series that saved her life. I will not stand for people saying she's just as bad as a holocaust denier because she owns every book in the series. I will not stand for anyone going entirely against their point of not judging a group as if it's monolithic by saying all Harry Potter fans are bad people, including my mother. And, once again, it's not often at all that this happens, but it happens and I'm pissed about it and needed to rant
Anyways rant over JK Rowling sucks don't believe a single thing she says and don't support her unless you wanna support someone actively trying to make the existence of queer people illegal
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I'm not the only one that has rewatched the "N calls everyone" video an unhealthy amount of times right? So fuckin excited for Glitch X honestly I think I will combust :]
Also genuinely made me smile to see Saberspark getting announced to be hosting the voice actor competition part, that man does great work
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the state of discourse on twitter about what celebrities are secretly gay is really astonishing to me. like i’m watching hordes of people making statements like “if you don’t recognise that olivia rodrigo came out in her song lacy secretly because she’s not allowed to be a lesbian even though she is then you’re homophobic. she was queer flagging her ass off. secretly. she said she ‘fell for [lacy]’ and if you don’t recognise that’s romantic then u can’t read’ even tho a second later she says she worships her and it’s clearly open to interpretation and more than likely means she’s infatuated and jealous of a girl she perceives as better than her (which doesn’t have to be anyone in particular since it’s a very common emotion to feel at some point in your life BUT ESPECIALLY WHEN UR 19 and still growing up and insecure and trying to find yourself etc etc etc).
like ofc i would never get involved in this discourse on twitter because it’s brain rot stuff but i didn’t realise how widespread and genuine people are about this when it’s just so. inconsequential.
like they take it SO seriously and it’s like. girl. babe. if that’s ur queer anthem then turn it up and sing ur truth. but u gotta stop projecting things onto these artists and being absolutely insane about it. whether or not u think ur “outing someone” who is apparently secretly telling u they’re gay on their hugely popular album despite never actually saying that. like put that all aside.
do you not just realise that that level of investment in a stranger’s sexuality is so deeply and disturbingly weird? YOU HAVE TO REALISE. like idk guys. it rlly blows my mind. your interpretation of a song is ur interpretation of a song and nothing more. dance ur little heart out to it. put it in all ur playlists. but stop being directly fucking weird to artists who are actual human people who DON’T KNOW YOU. like my god.
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Day 30/90 Days of Productivity
18th October 2023
With @academiawho and @docta1228
I will definitely say that it was a productive day.
I had my computer lab today and totally fucked it up as I was alone and had no teammate and was too scared to open Google and copy down the code from there while the professors keep roaming around us. So.. that was the worst part of the day.
HOWEVER, later on, I shared this thought of mine with my friends: "I'm just imagining how nice it'll be if I knew how to code. Cuz like, I'm great at typing, i type fast. And if I'll be able to code while typing fast???? Girl, I'd totally have a crush on myself I consider that super cool!!"
That was something nice.
I watched some videos for trigonometry. I think I finally understood the concept?? All that's left to do is make some time to solve allll the problems in the textbook for these chapters.
I also wrote a bit of my bio notes (a bit in the library and a bit in the room).
Also also!! I made formula sheets for both trigonometry chapters and also conic sections chapter.
Productive, huh?
Proud of myself. I love me. :> <3
Aaaaaand I think I'm kinda cute sooooooo
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I think one of the hardest things for privileged leftists have to learn is that they can’t just automatically agree with the majority. They can’t just automatically agree with the opinion of the POC, the queer, the Jewish person they’re interacting with in the moment because ‘they’re the experts in their own life.’ Which is true! But there is no monolith. POC and queers and religious minorities are not some mystical pure hivemind that always agree on everything and have correct opinions all the time. People are people. What one person finds offensive another might not care about.
I feel like it’s very evident these days where you have some people of a minority saying x is bad and some people saying x is good. Which is correct? Well, you have to educate yourself and make a critical assessment of the arguments before coming to your own conclusion. But now you have leftists who are desperate to be the most agreeable person in the room with the ‘right’ opinions who waffle and fail to organize in any meaningful way because they refuse to let the subject at hand have meaning for them, personally. They’re so busy ‘listening’ to minorities they’re not actually thinking about what they’re hearing, they’re not processing the biases underprivileged people can still carry, they’re not critical of reactionary politics or propaganda so long as it’s what the people immediately around them agree on.
Grow a spine, pick a side, and actually have a framework for your political and social involvement other than ‘let’s be real niceys with everyone :)’
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