Posts by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
 (DIR) Post #B4lRCvBQ0chNcblUwa by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy Oh, dang. I paid $15 on Itch so I guess I don't have any reason to reverse my payment, but that's a shame. I hope you can get to the threshold soon enough.
       
 (DIR) Post #B4vFyZWoZJqgUVKMRE by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy The Modern Warfare era did disastrous damage to the notion of gritty realistic graphics. Indie games collectively made a hard pivot into stylized cel shaded or pixelshit styles because they don't the artists to commit to decisions like textures and lighting. Meanwhile they all look worse than Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2, which made use of scrolling textures and displacement maps to look good with water.https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=8rCRsOLiO7khttps://noclip.website
       
 (DIR) Post #B4xXgpIDP9tpf86ef2 by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @lebronjames75 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCFHleLDZP8
       
 (DIR) Post #B5EjaSs4MCt5WRvd7A by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @PurpCat @Morghur @Vidmastereon This is the primary reason I've tried to disconnect from online politics in recent months and move towards making stuff instead. Blogposting will accomplish nothing.
       
 (DIR) Post #B61cYMyK8kPRiJwbom by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       I'm listening to a 24-minute Nightwish metal opera about the beauty of creation and it ends with quotes from Richard fucking Dawkins?Why are the Finns like this? I take back everything nice I ever said about you fucking mongoloids.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6354sv7sr6LwQhY0m by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       The Starfox 64 remake (part 3) is confirmed trash.
       
 (DIR) Post #B64R2gFQQC5YCzVgKe by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy @xianc78 Beard, I've gotta admit, this is an incorrect and frankly subhuman point of view to hold.
       
 (DIR) Post #B64oSWTbfgAyNWR1Vo by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy @pettanko The narrator said that Solar was "Lylat's second sun."
       
 (DIR) Post #B69F0T8Hz7A7II9PcG by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @sendpaws I got four types of mental whiplash reading these words from this guy about these guys on this website.
       
 (DIR) Post #B69F0TUyclJIQelWym by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @sendpaws SA members should be beat up on principle for paying tenbux to post on a shitty forum.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ARKcDrI9Wpsx5Zaq by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy This implies you spent the last 30 years hating that Starfox 64 looked the way it did and that you didn't respect the game as it existed on the cartridge/in the ROM.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6NGAwjxZyXIBQlnhA by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy Is this because of the announcement from Mina the Hollower?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6NRcV613JSI3BQah6 by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @mr_penguin Is there something about being a libertarian that requires you to cut out part of your brain with a knife?>implying 1.4 billion users are real people>implying the C-suite execs at roblox haven't spent years protecting pedophiles>implying there aren't thousands of spam/real accounts designed to target children and sexually abuse them, which easily find new accounts within minutes>implying the roblox company hasn't made legal threats against Schlep, who was abused as a kid on the platform and wants to help law enforcement target pedophilesTruly, what is your point?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6OFCqHCg1w7v3cSnI by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @xianc78 @mr_penguin Sure, but roblox does have a pedophile problem (as does VR chat, Discord, and the CIA). The digital ID lobbyists are only latching onto it because truth is good propaganda.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6Ofz5gTIDKAPg6bdg by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy It's strange to see otherwise intelligent people like you take this side in the discourse. A code which is literally called "cheat" is qualitatively different from an option in a menu - using either to trivialize a game's core mechanics is bad, and the prevalence of developer-approved cheat codes is part of a much larger trend to destroy the purity of game design as a whole. GTA is a dishonest comparison because it's never been anything more than a sandbox for fucking around with a mediocre story.What am I paying the developers for if 70% of the game is within my control?What is the "core experience" and why is it okay for me to play the game at 50% speed and ignoring death pits while still maintaining it?It's the exact same mindset as black belt dojo mills that just let people rush through the motions and get the credential. The point of the doing of things is to to go through the motions, and the credential merely acknowledges that.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6Ox9gd8Tsfj7HBRjM by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy >if YOU don't think that it is okay or fun for you to play the game at 50% speed, then just don't do it.>play the game the way it was intended to be played.These statements are pure doublethink. What is the "intended" way to be played if dozens of variables and modifiers are exposed to the player and there are billions of possible combinations?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6P0qHpEschaV4qjnk by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy @newt @pettanko The trend you're describing is a long psyop by media and the AAA gaming industry to remove the essential nature of challenge from video games and turn them into Epstein-approved skinnerbox slop. It's been happening in every genre, and many genres have been taxonomically killed because they didn't fit with this narrative.People are not trying to force/inject anything into games. What you're seeing is a small sliver of pushback against the "slushification" of gaming, and the notion that all games must be interchangeable and made for all audiences - that for a game to have a distinct form and a requisite challenge is an unforgivable sin.The games that Mina the Hollower is taking direct inspiration from, the 2D handheld Zeldas, didn't have modifiers that let you step over every pit and play the game with generous checkpoints. Yet they still sold mountains of copies to children like me. Why does Mina the Hollower need to have a 50% game speed option and a hundred other options?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6P7Jj8d0hotKeL9yy by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy The default modifiers are programmatically identical to any other combination. What makes them special? I'm sure you'll say that the devs tested the defaults and balanced the game with those as the primary case, and I can agree with that.But here's a real breakfast question: do you think Yacht Club Games would ever say that people who beat the game by removing all death pits didn't beat it the real way? That people who slowed down a chase sequence to 50% speed are less skilled?
       
 (DIR) Post #B6ZPdqdCbOAT7Qz5ii by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @beardalaxy I can only hope I live to see the Japanese reawaken their imperial spirit.
       
 (DIR) Post #B6hub6mVELHdXrwE0e by Hephaestic@stereophonic.space
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       @xianc78 >If it weren't for GamerGate you would probably be chasing your dreams instead of becoming a politisperg online.I've seen this point made by many people on fedi and I disagree with it. Gamergate, retarded name and retarded e-celebs aside, was what truly redpilled me on how corrupt the world is and how the media works in lockstep to destroy beautiful things. Video games were a normal, awesome part of the culture when I was a kid (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater, Unreal Tournament, Mario, whatever).Then they got really popular thanks to normalfag magnets like Halo and CoD, and that led to them being dogpiled to death by feminists and redditors. I used to think I was just imagining things, that the industry was a complex place full of nuanced business decisions which didn't necessarily always align with my tastes. But shit like the JournoList and Zoey Quinn/Chelsea Van Valkenberg's dies to DARPA, and the Crash Override Network's cringeworthy chat logs made me realize something simple: there are legions of people who think nothing like me, who hate me, and would laugh if I were destroyed.Yeah, I might have spent years as a political sperg because I still didn't truly grasp how to win friends and influence people - but if it weren't for gamergate (and its co-opting by bluepilled normalfags) then I'd have grown up to be a typical bluepilled normalfag. It was a shock to my system if nothing else. I got to watch AAA video games and media sites parrot the same exact lines in real time for years, and because I knew how video games worked it was all suddenly clear to me how this happened in other industries.I wouldn't have been able to finish growing up in my late 20s if I hadn't been hyperfixated with it in my early 20s, if that makes sense.