[P] I just had a headmate point out I'd been writing taxidermy every time when I meant to write taxonomy...
[Tr] Have some humility, chief! Don't fix it! It's funny!
[P] Nyehhh...
[Tr] C'mon, leeeeave iiiit...
[P] Nyerrrgh... ghh... gonna fix it! Readability > Funny!
[Tr] Coward! :P
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[P] There, I think I got 'em all.
[Tr] Thou art a craven coward, knave!
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[P] And I will keep stressing this but, no, you can't know, not without having lived it for yourself. The mad taxonomy of today just didn't exist, and that taxonomy shackles modern game devs, even indies. You can try to be as creative as you like, but if you're still beholden to the mad taxonomy then all your efforts are for naught. This is why games have trouble standing out, now. As what truly separates this mad taxonomy game from that one.
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[P] This video explains the sickness of modern gamedev. See, back in the day, the game shown in the linked video would've done well for itself. I base this on a madball, bonkers little title called Vangers. There is nothing else like Vangers in existence. And there was a LOT of that back then! It's unimaginable today, and... I miss it even more now having partaken of the project with my partner. The mainstream and capitalism killed that era dead.
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[P] In order for a game to succeed, it has to fit into one of those popular storefront tags. It hss to be so much this genre, so much that setting. It was different in the untamed era, no one knew what a video game was, so all kinds of utter madness was thrown together in the hopes of maybe getting a video game out of it in the end. It was madness. And without taking that journey my partner and I have? You just can't understand.
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[P] Even indies now have fallen into this comfortable taxonomy, and when one of the genres loses market appeal it just... fades away, leaving a hole where one will nwver see games like those again, all but once in a blue moon when some dev decides to recreate something from that forgotten time. Then it's gone again, because there'd be no market appeal for that title. So even indie devs must chase this taxonomy to succeed.
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[P] My partner and I have been playing games year-by-year from 1990, the goal is to experience as much as possible from computers and consoles alike. It's a graveyard of ideas and genres! It's so easy to find something from the period of 1990 to '06 (which was when the mainstream domestication of video games set in with the PS360 era) where there's nothing else like it. "Oh, it's still like that!" you might say, but no, it isn't! You don't know.
#psychology #videogames #gamedev #gamedesign
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[P] The untamed era can never be again, there's this domestication where one has to fall into one of a few boxes or it's a failure before it began. And this insipid taxidermy has poisoned even indie games. It's so easy to think that this is rose-coloured glasses, nostalgia, but I have a couple of solid counters for. The first is that I'm autistic, I've never really experienced nostalgia. The second of which is... the project!
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[P] This is... really illuminating, but incredibly depressing at the same time.
This perfectly articulates everything wrong with the modern game market—from my perspective. I'd say "the dev took wrong lessons away from this" but... they didn't. It's only wrong for me, and what I want out of games. The majority can be homogeneous, that's why we have words like 'mainstream' and 'status quo.' And, well...
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TITLE: Red Cross Chief Says Gaza Is "Hell on Earth" As Israeli Assault Continues
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The head of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Mirjana Spoljaric, has told the BBC that Gaza has become "hell on earth" and has warned of an "extreme hollowing out" of international law as Israel's military assault there continues. The ICRC is the guardian of the Geneva Conventions—internationally agreed rules of conduct in war—and normally only speaks confidentially to warring parties when it thinks violations are taking place.
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TITLE: Trump Administration Ordered to Unfreeze Funds in Dispute with Maine
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A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to unfreeze funds intended for a Maine child nutrition program that were suspended amid a disagreement over President Trump's ban on transgender athletes participating in female sports. After the President warned the governor of Maine, Janet Mills, that she better comply with his order or he would cut off all federal funding to Maine, Mills had replied, "See you in court."
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Consuming eight or more alcoholic drinks per week is tied to brain lesions that can impair memory and thinking. The lesions are signs of damaged blood vessels that gradually harm brain tissue. Researchers also found that heavy and former heavy drinkers had higher odds of a biomarker linked to Alzheimer's disease. Former drinkers showed reduced brain mass and worse cognitive performance, and heavy drinkers died, on average, 13 years earlier than...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is replacing animal testing with human-relevant methods, including artificial intelligence, when developing monoclonal antibody therapies and other drugs. The regulatory change is intended to improve drug safety and accelerate the evaluation process while reducing animal experimentation, lowering research and development costs, and cutting drug prices, the FDA announced Thursday.
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Over the last two decades, ischemic stroke mortality rates in the U.S. have grown, with almost 3 in 10 deaths occurring at home, and increases have been particularly high among racial minorities and rural residents. These growing disparities were among the findings of a new study published April 9, 2025, in the open-access journal PLOS. The study analyzed 237,617 ischemic stroke deaths recorded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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