here's my new game, a small pseudo-RPG about what it's like to be a monster. you can play it for free in your web browser! please check it out and share, it would mean a lot to me
actually a little bit sick of video games trying to subvert themselves. like, "why did you shoot those guys, hmm??" idk maybe bc that's literally the only vocabulary you gave me to interact with the world you created
something that's been on my heart a while: judging art primarily on the grounds of its social/ideological function is media illiteracy for smart people. if you can't begin by surrendering to an aesthetic experience, you have no business writing criticism
The new Christopher Nolan film tackles afresh “what made Oppenheimer tick.” But if you’re already convinced of the dangers of nuclear war, superseded only by the ongoing series of climate catastrophes, this film is going to lack a certain urgency.
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i can't see how these patents can possibly be enforceable but also it seems like it should be easy to prove that they're either obvious or non-novel. everyone else's lawyers just asleep i guess
the thing that kills me about those misleading mobile game ads with fake gameplay is that the fake gameplay looks both fun and easy to make so like... why don't they just make it? why isn't that the game??
something that bores me about a lot of current art - music, movies, whatever - is how steeped it is in an explicit awareness of psychological concepts. that's the exact stuff you're supposed to be sublimating into a landscape of mercurial and unsettling symbolism
chatgpt writes in the exact voice of a bright college freshman who didn't do the reading and that tells you a lot about the people who are impressed with it
some days, u r left skeleton, forgot ur blanket at home… some days, u r middle skeleton, doing cool vuvuzela solos w ur friends… some days, u r right skeleton, got a job to do, bills to pay