about a month ago i thought that one of these days, steven was gonna blow up at garnet for still hiding things, and here we are. steven’s not just growing up in the learning sense, he’s also growing up in the teenager sense. he’s becoming more counter-dependent: he knows his guardians care about him, but their word is not law. he’s too old for that. he needs to find out the truth, and the crystal gems need to stop sheltering him.
I love how in most horror movie franchises, the monsters are like either impossible to kill/don’t stay dead/there’s nothing you can to defend yourself against them
and then in FNAF, your ways of protecting yourself include things like
Boop the snoot
Slam a wooden door right in their fucking face
Pretend you just straight up died
Keep clicking a flashlight at them until they get pissed and leave
Play some music
Lead them around with audio like a cat with a $2 laser pointer
trump is literally showing dictator-like behavior and people’s heads are still in their asses?????????? he wants to ban to be over 100,000,000 PEOPLE????? he wants to censor the scientists??????????? he wants to call the feds on black communities????????? he wants to strip people of their healthcare and reproductive rights?????????? he’s hiring literal ass white supremacists to work with him???????? Is there……. something…….. y'all aren’t seeing correctly??????¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿¿
Imagine a typical FPS game where you start loaded out with grenades, machine gun, sniper rifle, etc, and are dropped into a war zone… but, in a starting cut scene, your character has taken a vow of nonviolence.
You now must use these weapons to puzzle-solve your way through environments (grenades make distracting noises, shotguns open locked doors, sniper rifles accurately knock things off ledges, etc.) and, if you accidentally DO kill or injure another person, you have to start that level over.
Forced pacifism is a huge backlash waiting to happen.
Well yeah, but that’s because gamers are assholes, not because there’s anything wrong with the concept.
Certainly nothing wronger with it than there is with forced violence, aka how 90% of all video games operate.
No it’s more because railroading is a terrible design strategy.
that’s why people hate mario, right, it forces you to stomp on goombas and drop bowser into a pit, the railroading piece of shit
or like pac-man, railroading me into eating all those dots, how dare that game have success perimeters i tell you
why won’t punch-out!!! let me calmly talk through my problems with these muscular men, who designed this thing, some kind of train engineer
It’s why Portal, which has a specific solution for each level, is so deeply unpopular. It’s why Assassins Creed, which desynchronizes if you kill anyone other than your targets, never got anything but hatred from the larger gaming community.
I would play that
i feel like this post is a good place to bring up dishonored, a game where you get those weapons and you totally can be violent and murderous if you want - but it makes the world a shittier and shittier place, whereas if you take the non-murderous option and use all your tools in the more pacificst way the game also encourages you to take, the world doesn’t descent into chaos around you and you get a different ending.
as far as i know, dishonored wasn’t totally hated by the gaming community and has gotten some pretty good reviews for this option, but i don’t really talk to gamers much. still. it’s definitely something game developers are experimenting with
UNDERTALE FFS
Don’t forget undertale where while the items don’t really change combat wise, you can still use them as items in pacifist ways such as waving the stick to make and enemy think you’re a wizard and respect you. And it encourages you to be pacifist by having the pacifist rout lead to the “True” ending.
I looked into the matter at the request of a friend (and because I was considering going if it was true) and could not find any info online regarding it. So, I gave in and contacted the number to get into contact with Fred.
What I got was a person who was upset that this FALSE information has spread so virally. The Facebook OP asked if he could tell some friends and was told ok, but the information above is inaccurate. The collection is not (and never was) being liquidated. The books are not in danger of being lost or destroyed. And in actuality there are only 3.4-4 million, not 10+. The owners have, in the past, allowed a few people in, family and friends and friends of friends, to browse and buy, but not strangers.
I asked if he wanted this to continue and he said no, frankly he wished it would stop. So PLEASE pass along this sentiment, and do not contact this man further. Leave him and the books in peace!
