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Thread from Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez on her experience in a hospital in Cuba

Deconstructed Damsel has power that The Apotheosis can scarcely dream of. She only wants what makes you happy, and as such, she is the proverbial genie of the lamp. You could wish for the most terrible thing you can think of and she would do it, unflinching. There are no limits to her kindness, and no limits to her sadistic cruelty.

Fear The Damsel

Blacktabby games....why does Deconstructed have the intro you gave the Spooky bitches! (Nightmare, Wraith, Burned Grey, Spectre)

What are you implying about this absolute Cardboard Cutout of a vessel?

I see a lot of posts saying "teach boys about consent".

While that is true, a lot of parents will do that and fail to see how their own actions are the problem.

If you've spanked him, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've forced him to sit on Santa's lap, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've forced him to give hugs and kisses to family members, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've grabbed him in order to force him to sit still, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've labeled him as "too sensitive" for not wanting to be touched, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you've assumed he's okay with something because he technically allowed it even though he felt pressured, he's less likely to understand consent.

If you're only going to criticize his actions but not your own, it won't work.

I need to know the server

Felt you guys should know but Witch playing the French horn left an impact on my discord server so great that she's become our most used emote in like a week

(we called her 'bwaah')

hell yeah

Okay, you need to make sure you play this game at some point. Maybe not today or anything, because you’ll need about thirty minutes and a serious willingness to understand how it works, but - it’s so worth it. It’s basically an answer to our occasional frustration - why do assholes always come out on top? - and the beautiful thing about it is that not only does it explain how that happens, but also how we can change it.

“In the short run, the game defines the players. But in the long run, it’s us players who define the game.”

I WROTE AN EIGHT PAGE FINAL PAPER ON VIDEO GAME SOUNDTRACK FOR MY COLLEGE PHILOSOPHY CLASS AND GOT FULL POINTS.

I've peaked. I'm done. I'm literally so happy. Professor just really saw me yap about Ace Attorney music and Toby Fox music and sound effects and said, "Yep. Super philosophical. A+."

I got to mention snd_weirdeffect, which is my FAVORITE sound effect in Deltarune Ch 1 and oh my gosh I can't stop yapping but I'm so happy. 8 pages of my biggest passion and it's 20/20 points! I WIN LIFE.

I've been playing beat saber for exercise some recently and am rapidly realizing that oh. beat saber tracks can be an artform. dance choreography with more restrictions I guess? (except it's one that's like, an experience you, the "dancer," are having while it's happening, unexpected or emergent moves can surprise the "dancer" and I don't know that that happens quite the same way with choreography?)

First thing that got me thinking in this direction was, there's one song called "spinning eternally" that, for one section, uses a combination of notes and obstacles positioned such that the easiest most fluid way to clear it is to spin your hands in circles. It doesn't have to tell you to do it, you just are naturally led to do it by positioning and momentum.

And then, just now, I just did two different fan-made tracks for What's Up Danger (the song from Into the Spiderverse) that both try to make the player move like Spiderman using different but overlapping techniques. They both heavily used those big transparent blocks that you have to move your whole body to avoid, to make you stay light on your feet, juking, ducking, often thwipping out your hands mimicking web swinging.

The first one was I think better as a rhythm game track, fun movements, reasonably balanced difficulty throughout-- but the other more uneven one was using those blocks WAY more, often in the absence of any notes to hit, forcing you to thread the needle or RAPIDLY shift side to side to side to side with the music to avoid them, faster and faster as the song's intensity amped up.

And then the last thing at the very end of the song, no more notes, there's just one huge block in the middle of the stage taking up every inch of horizontal space you might try to dodge into, and stretching out into the last few measures. You can see it coming, it's the same object as the blocks you've been narrowly dodging for the entire length of the song, but this time you cannot avoid it. There's no way around it. You have to go through.

That's. That's art baby!

I love that there’s three puns in Batten Rouge’s name. One, it sounds like Baton Rouge, a city built on the Mississippi River. Two, batten the hatches is a pirate expression. Three, batten has bat in it

people think they have to come swinging out of the gate with blockbuster AAA work to "matter" when all you really need to be able to do is successfully convey an idea to the audience. some ideas benefit from a lack of polish or professional touches. those tiny projects with small audience are the source of big waves

So some people in PA got an email TODAY saying that their vote might not have been counted. If that's true, then they actually fucking cheated.

Edit: Please read this post.

Link here, though Musk will probably try to delete it, so here's the images directly: