Erudite

Erudite

@entrepiderudition.bsky.social

Hobbyist writer finally pursuing work at a long-dead passion for creating art. I yap into the void sometimes. Probably overly obsessed with LancerRPG.

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One particular line in Sweeney's diatribe about closing Looking Glass sticks out to me and it's the about the unfortunate axing of studios that don't produce 'hits'. I feel like if the gaming industry is in a stage where if a game isn't a home-run it's a failure, we're doomed.

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Staples. Three weeks. I could suffer the doomed vibes of 'this company is clearly spiraling the drain and the captain's drunk', but just after my training period they saddled us with the most corporate tech bro I've ever met. I was out the moment he proudly declared me on his team.

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There's probably a really deep and meaningful introspection on the divide between the Petra Parker trend and the current flavor of the week being spurred on by the slimiest morsels of internet refuse. An incredibly wholesome character next to an incredibly vile one.

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In the same way there's a lot of 'weird' genderswapping magic in old D&D modules, it wasn't put there by the likes of Gary Gygax because he had weird feelings about gender. He thought it was a mean prank second only to killing someone's character off instantaneously.

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The current trend isn't about exploring a perspective or an alternative story, it's about imposing weird, heteronormative, traditional values onto a pretty already-awful character. It's stripping this character of agency to make them into a plaything and prize for another character, and the audience

Erudite
@entrepiderudition.bsky.social

There's probably a really deep and meaningful introspection on the divide between the Petra Parker trend and the current flavor of the week being spurred on by the slimiest morsels of internet refuse. An incredibly wholesome character next to an incredibly vile one.

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@entrepiderudition.bsky.social

Something about how one was used as a genuine exploration of a particular human experience and the other is just shallow masturbation (in the philosophical sense) by emotionally stunted people but I am too sleep deprived to actually make that comparison.

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@entrepiderudition.bsky.social

I remember now. There is a distinct difference between a trans interpretation of a character and a 'genderswapped' interpretation of a character. Both CAN be done tastefully, but especially in particular smutty avenues, gender-swapping is about stripping power from the subject.

Erudite
@entrepiderudition.bsky.social

There's probably a really deep and meaningful introspection on the divide between the Petra Parker trend and the current flavor of the week being spurred on by the slimiest morsels of internet refuse. An incredibly wholesome character next to an incredibly vile one.

Erudite
@entrepiderudition.bsky.social

Something about how one was used as a genuine exploration of a particular human experience and the other is just shallow masturbation (in the philosophical sense) by emotionally stunted people but I am too sleep deprived to actually make that comparison.

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