Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

Someone made a Yoshi sprite for Zelda 2 randomizer. It replaces Link’s sword strike with a Yoshi tongue animation. And I think that is one of the best things I’ve seen today.

... and then I got to spend an extra 20 minutes manually fixing Slack’s dark theme on my machine again, because Slack.

Apple: *bugfixes, performance enhancements, all these zanny new productivity-assisting multitouch gestures I will never even use*
Me: *yawn*
Apple: And we added a dark theme.
Me: *SLAMS THAT UPDATE BUTTON*

@mawr (I may have been seriously thinking of how to make this for awhile, now.)

@mawr I think my question would be how to make that into a gameplay loop. There are quite a few options, ranging from elements drawn from Animal Crossing, Tamagotchi, Neko Atsumi, Pokemon-amie, or even match 3 and bullet hell (ie, Undertale pacifist).

I think the reason conflict is so readily used in Stories is it’s easy to communicate. I think if I were going to do this, I’d use a befriending system like Undertale’s framed as resolution to MH-style combat?

@JulieSqveakaroo @xurnami Yeah, if those were using G+ social networking features (as opposed to login), those will break.

Which is probably for the better, considering.

@xurnami @JulieSqveakaroo This. Even though apps claim to “login with Google+”, it’s the same exact mechanism used to log into your Google account and won’t be going away.

All they’re doing is killing the social network they stapled to their identity service. The identity service will remain.

@mawr This perfectly articulates why business people scare me. Until we are more than numbers to toy with without accountability, this is going to continue to happen.

Also, I contest that it’s even true for money at a bank, given the creative accounting and surge in white collar crime in the naughts that we still haven’t recovered from.

Which I guess is a good reminder to be skeptical about what personal data to give corporations, even ones with relatively good data handling hygiene at the time.

Oh hey, Google+ is shutting down after it was shown to be exactly the privacy and accountability tar pit I was concerned about. And oh cool, people that provided their “real name” and real info had their data scraped by parties unknown, too.

I totally did not see that coming at all. </s>

(As a reminder, I work for a Google competitor, so opinions my own. None of these observations are based on privileged info.)

Speedrunners: Here are all of the ways I figured out how to break each of these and look amazing. I will now clip into the fifth plane and end the campaign before it even begins.

All DMs ever: *sigh*

Adventure games I’ve played lately as D&D DMs:

Tomb Raider 2013: Here’s a puzzle. You glitch into a wall. You die.

Rise of the Tomb Raider: Here’s a puzzle. The orcs three rooms away hear you solving it. You die.

Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Here’s a puzzle. You try to jump down from a ledge. You die.

Breath of the Wild: Here’s a puzzle. You rolled what now? Cool!

Celeste: Here’s a puzzle. Here are all of the ways you die before succeeding. You climbed that mountain. It was _amazing_.

And I guess I'm writing that here, in part, to get it out of my own head and so I take my own advice. Please take care of yourselves and remember that it is okay to just be you.

While it's important to remain engaged and present while all of this is happening (also, for the love of everything good, please vote), it's a good reminder that you don't need to constantly be immersed in what's happening.

It's entirely fine to be yourself, to protect your sense of self, while bad things are happening. And it's pragmatic to plan for a better future, instead of putting life constantly on hold because of situations outside your control.

When I was in an emotionally abusive household (with parties I will not name, as their situations have changed substantially since that time), my way out of the abusive pattern was limiting my exposure to it and planning for my own future. I spent a lot of time reading fiction, and many of my art projects focused on building a better world than my day-to-day lived existence.

It's taken me awhile to realize that that isn't escapism. It's pragmatism when existence takes on an unreal quality.

The K nomination battle this week is the first time the news has physically made me ill enough that I couldn't function. As before, I've had to disengage from the news for my health.

Some parting words on it: this is not "just how the world works." Our leaders have chosen dysfunction and power consolidation as their only viable strategy for weak governance.

It's easy to become cynical, when this is the closer to how abusers convince you there is no alternative to an abusive pattern. There is.

@Oasus@snouts.online \o/

@Oasus@snouts.online Heh, I’d wondered if it was you when I saw the commentary tracker on Speedgaming. I’m assuming so, and I hope it’s been a blast!

@orrery @rootsworks Thank you. I don’t have much else to add, but these references seem like good starting points that I’m going to follow up on.

I guess I’m asking because I think there’s going to be a strong push to deradicalize after what I’ve seen described as the current uncanny valley of interpersonal communication (https://mobile.twitter.com/AstroKatie/status/984606232408461313), and researching that now may be helpful.

@orrery @rootsworks This may be a dumb question on my part, but what strategies exist to deradicalize people enough to be interested in reform instead of just the optics of reform?

I guess I feel much of what is causing people to disengage is the presumption that change is painful enough to not be worth the effort, and that it should be given infinite skepticism. Which seems to be part of why cynicism is in vogue lately.