Half A Goon and Half A God

This is how most "liberal" elites think, they just know not to say it in public. Not only blinkered hypocrite, but their "progressivism", such as it is, often rests on a bed of retrograde chauvinism: All those backwards, barbarian cultures simply have to be kept in line by any means necessary.

Kennedy made a late stage conversion to being a republican because he's, even by the standards of his peers, a weird stupid narcissistic creep - but this kinda thing is what I'd bet most nice rich liberals say in semi-private conversation. It's barely subtext in NYT OpEds after all.

This is how most "liberal" elites think, they just know not to say it in public. Not only blinkered hypocrite, but their "progressivism", such as it is, often rests on a bed of retrograde chauvinism: All those backwards, barbarian cultures simply have to be kept in line by any means necessary.

What's weird is that so far I've never seen an indie game try and replicate the facial animation technique from Siren on PS2. They not only used digital photos of actors faces, but took dozens (hundreds?) of them to make whole facial animations. The effect is both striking and uncanny.

But PS2 emulation has taken great strides over the last few years, and spoiler-light secondary objective guides are out there (and it's not *impossible* to figure out). If you put in a little work, or even just dabble, you'll be rewarded with an incredibly unique, creepy, atmospheric experience!

What's weird is that so far I've never seen an indie game try and replicate the facial animation technique from Siren on PS2. They not only used digital photos of actors faces, but took dozens (hundreds?) of them to make whole facial animations. The effect is both striking and uncanny.

This makes it a game that's not well suited for streaming, at least without unusual preparation and focus, unlike most of it's peers. Even regular private play asks more of the player than the average horror game, even of they era. And if has no PC port and is (was?) a bit fussy to emulate.

What's weird is that so far I've never seen an indie game try and replicate the facial animation technique from Siren on PS2. They not only used digital photos of actors faces, but took dozens (hundreds?) of them to make whole facial animations. The effect is both striking and uncanny.

It an incredibly unique game. Not just it's atmosphere and style, but gameplay mechanics and timeline-hopping, episodic, replay based mission-objective structure. This also makes bit obtuse. It was designed so that players would work together online to solve hidden mission objectives.

What's weird is that so far I've never seen an indie game try and replicate the facial animation technique from Siren on PS2. They not only used digital photos of actors faces, but took dozens (hundreds?) of them to make whole facial animations. The effect is both striking and uncanny.

It's certainly no worse than the stiff lip flap facial animations most games of this console generation had, excepting the remarkable Silent Hill 3 -- and Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines & Half Life 2 if we count PC games.

What's weird is that so far I've never seen an indie game try and replicate the facial animation technique from Siren on PS2. They not only used digital photos of actors faces, but took dozens (hundreds?) of them to make whole facial animations. The effect is both striking and uncanny.

The AI slop deluge just intensifies a problem that we've had for the entirety of "Web 2.0" - huge volumes of lazy crap. Frankly, we need curation and gatekeeping. Barriers to entry. Not based on wealth, status, social connection -- but some obstacles that specifically disincentivize slop dumping.

If you impose even very modest time and effort costs then the value proposition disappears. We shouldn't evaluate for quality per se -- there's value in "bad" art -- but we gotta evaluate for effort and intent. Or at least, evaluate for it's obvious absence.

The AI slop deluge just intensifies a problem that we've had for the entirety of "Web 2.0" - huge volumes of lazy crap. Frankly, we need curation and gatekeeping. Barriers to entry. Not based on wealth, status, social connection -- but some obstacles that specifically disincentivize slop dumping.

Awesome how a stupid algorithm can spontaneously decide I'm a minor and lock me out of watching videos about obscure Japanese games. Really cool system. Definitely worth the arbitrary, pervasive Terry Gilliam's Brazil ass bullshit to maybe stop 14 year olds from seeing weird porn.

There's an autistic tendancy, I think, to privilege conveying information over evoking feeling. Or, maybe more accurately, try to evoke feeling with information. A lot of tropes of "bad" fantastica writing essentially boil down to this, I think. For that person, the information itself is evocative.

It's not inherently a bad thing. It's beautiful to imagine vividly and specifically, to internally require only the mere facts of something to conjure in one's mind something sublime. Sometimes the encyclopedia approach works. But it can often fail to serve the story it's telling.