FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 6hI was there, I watched it happen over the course of my lifetime, and during the same period crime has done nothing but go down across the board, except among the ruling class 040
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 6hno they fucking didn't lmao, they shut them down because of pressure from business owners to make it easier to monetize people's time 140
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 11hTbh I would be shocked to see a Democrat take even that strong a stance at this point 020
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 11hKayin I'm sure would tear me a new one for saying this but uhhhh this is why Smash Bros fights are inherently more dynamic than traditional fighting game fights - fighting games have one axis of positioning (basically), and Smash has two. That simple 120
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 11hWhen you dodge an attack by changing your position, you are also affecting the future of the battle, changing how the enemy has to respond to hit you later, making your future options more or less limited depending on your strategy. Positioning is offense and defense combined 110
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 12hAnd, I also think that ultimately spacing provides a more dynamic design space, specifically because timing based combat inherently forces the player into reactivity. When you are spacing, you are responding but you are also actively affecting the battle 210
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 12hThe distillation of timing combat is the rhythm game, and the distillation of spacing combat is the SHMUP 210
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 12hThis is more or less the exact same conclusion I came to when pondering this subject after Silksong came out and Kayin posted about how the combat in it asks you for spacing rather than timing 110
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 12hI have yet to see any evidence that Asia likes generative AI any better, given that every single Asian artist I know on this site puts a giant "no training generative AI on my art" watermark on all their art 291
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 12htfw someone doesn't listen and tries to work magic on you 020
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 12hsilly Adrian he got spaghetti sauce all over his face, someone give the poor guy a napkin 010
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 13hAlmost, business owners still commit the most, via wage theft. Police are #2 220
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 13hwhat public life are you talking about, this country hasn't had public life in at least 20 years because they shut down all the public places 100
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026He wants to escape his life but doesn't even have the imagination to come up with an alternative, only a digital recreation 050
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm afraid we've lost him. We'll never get him now. 040
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I'm absolutely in favor of this game going around again, it slaps. I learned about it from Retronauts back in the day iirc 000
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Well, I haven't called the US a civilized nation in a long time, but after this I don't think the US will be able to credibly call itself one anymore. This is crossing a line that no Democrat administration is going to be able to uncross no matter how much it wants to 000
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ultimately, creative depth isn't really about originality, but about exploring fruitful contradictions. That's both why, for example, there's never been a perfect JRPG and also JRPGs remain a rich vein of creative effort - because it is a genre founded on and full of fruitful contradictions 030
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 09/10/2026because you're a racist who can only process the violence inherent to your society by wrongly projecting it onto a dehumanized, foreign other 110
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's like they're bragging that the US isn't a real democracy 020
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026The metroidvania genre in particular has always had it tough because the games that codified it were both perfect already. There was no room for improvement on the genre the moment it came into existence. That's why all notable metroidvanias since have been some form of hybrid 110
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026If this is the game I think it is, it absolutely slapped even though the sales were low. Absolutely worth checking out however one can get it 010
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Base and superstructure. While the base persists, the superstructure cannot be changed. After the base is changed, the superstructure can and will be changed to match 000
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Bigotry will not be automatically eliminated by ending capitalism, no, but until capitalism is ended we cannot even begin to end it 100
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's easy to solve, stop using AI and eliminate sexism from medical practice. The only hard part is overthrowing capitalism so the latter part can be done 3440
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026It's like when they talk about how Engels was a capitalist and sponsored Marx's research, like no shit Sherlock how else was Marx going to have the time and energy to read every newspaper and academic journal ever written up to that point so he could arrange it all into a unifying theory 010
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026People love pointing that shit out lol, it always comes off so weak 210
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026In fairness, it's a lot less commonly known than the anglo internal colonies 000
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026I finished what there is of it and will also revisit it maybe in a year, after enough has been written to be worth the time 110
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026This is of course coming from a place of affection and respect; they're one of my favorite characters in the story, a very good archetype written endearingly 110
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026There's a character in it who feels very akin to you, at least to me; it's a strong enough impression that I feel like I don't even have to name them and you would know who, even if you ultimately don't agree with me 110
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Their land is occupied by the Yamato supremacist Japanese nation, and their cultures are suppressed and erased 100
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Japan isn't one nation. It has internal subaltern nations just like the United States' indigenous First Nations - the Ainu, the Okinawans, and the people of Ryuukyu 110
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026The fall of the DDR meant the end of any future possibility of a Germany free of Nazism 000
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Unfortunately, when the curtain fell, it wasn't the west that fell with it. Otherwise, we wouldn't be in the terrible state we're in today 100
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026not east of the Iron Curtain it wasn't. it was massively successful there 210
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026@gaudipern.bsky.social by the way, did you ever check out that Re: Cursed story I think I recall mentioning to you once (on a different account)? 120
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Now, it may be that something they do is unhelpful or unsuccessful, like the actions of the IRA during the troubles. But that's a matter of strategy, not ethics. It's an entirely different heuristic 060
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026It is actually impossible for a colonized people to do anything wrong against the people colonizing them. Whatever they choose to do is automatically right and just and proper, by definition, because they are the ones doing it. Only after they have been liberated is it meaningful make judgments 160
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026If they ever read a book about imperial China their heads would explode lol 030
FakeKraid @terrainfirma.bsky.social · 07/10/2026"capitalism" and "economic system" are synonymous in their ideology; they can't even process the meaning of "a non-capitalist economic system" 120