Nach 🛰 @Nach@mastodon.social

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A nice thing about realising that the industry has trapped videogames in a weird, culturally specific self-image is realising that the middle class hippie women who used to buttonhole me about videogame violence and what-about-the-kids are also trapped there.

I don't have to engage, I don't have to win that debate, I don't work for the industry. I can just fuck off and build something better. If anything has a chance of breaking all of those weird codependencies, it's that.

Used my augmented brain to escape cyberprison

FV didn't raise the banner as fast as I wanted it to, but it has started attracting a critical mass of people who care about games. They don't give a toss about the industry, and understand it's mutual.

No one I meet in games has heard of Star Stable; it's a fucking enormous MMO but doesn't fit the image/conference circuit requirements to be "videogames industry".

It's not exactly for FV either, but very few people I meet in videogames work seem to have any concept of the massive, culturally inflicted internal censorship they're doing. There's so much out there that on some level "doesn't count" as videogames, and so much that does but is extremely boring.

I've been thinking of videogames as trapped in their own self image, i.e. E3+ultraviolence.

Felt I was starting to look in from the outside, but Feral Vector is established enough that it feels like me and my friends just built something better. And it's like I left the rest of games without realising?

This was a very bleak ride. Torrential rain materialised at the least sheltered point, then someone's rear mech exploded.

(selfie) Been sent to cyberprison

Is it me or are the second series of The Handmaid's Tale and Westworld just cinematographers and CG artists having a wank over facism?

I'm about three episodes into each and they seem to have become "Look at us feed people through a meat grinder. Look. LOOK AT IT".

Anyway hi masto I wrote a review of some brakes today, went mountain biking and found a great new descent, then met game developer friends in the pub. How was your day?

I spent a lot of time getting my twitter to not do this and "breaking news at the top of your feed" will finish off for me.

https://twitter.com/sriramk/status/1006931148059144193

Spent the afternoon walking a friend's good dog through a load of good rocks.

(Yes I have read the discourse and understand it, but this was my immediate reaction).