You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Here's one I always thought was clever: the sides of the "YIELD" panel are angled such that they would reflect the headlights of an approaching train.
Sadly most of these have since been replaced with regular triangular yield signs
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
It never occurred to me that the word "railroad" was an Americanism, somehow.
we say 'railway'
I'm curious...do you guys have the law that requires certain vehicles to stop before crossing the tracks, even if the signals aren't active? In the US that applies to a few categories, including school buses and trucks carrying hazardous or flammable materials (think a fuel tanker)...
I will never understand why people like Amnesia: The Dark Descent better than Amnesia: A Machine For Pigs.
I guess irritating resource management systems and superficial Lovecraft really does it for them.
They're very different styles of game. i can very much understand preferring The Dark Descent. In terms of sustained unease, it's probably the scarier game.
Machine for Pigs is more horrific and has a better story and awesome dialogue
People got angry at the recent Alone In The Dark reboot(the 2008 one, not the squad shooter) because it had lots of combat, had nothing to do with Lovecraft, and was kind of a mess.
However, all of this is equally true of Alone In The Dark 2 and 3, and Alone 2008 at least had many attempts at innovation that almost, but not quite worked, as opposed to Alone In The Dark 2's "hitting a ghost pirate with a frying pan" focus.
also i think maybe to some extent the scariness of A Machine for Pigs kind of relies on you expecting a Dark Descent style game
both start slowly and build before springing the monsters on you
in A Machine for Pigs, when they arrive, the effect is shocking and upsetting, rather than actually terrifying, but part of why the atmosphere of the early part of the game works is you're expecting a Dark Descent style monster any moment, it just never comes
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Here's one I always thought was clever: the sides of the "YIELD" panel are angled such that they would reflect the headlights of an approaching train.
Sadly most of these have since been replaced with regular triangular yield signs
That is clever.
i wonder why they replaced them? Were the benefits of the more familiar sign that significant?
They were an experimental thing that was only really used by a couple of railroads in Ohio, and the Federal Highway Administration's studies determined there wasn't enough of a benefit to adopting them as the standard.
Until recently the national standard was to just have the "RAILROAD CROSSING" crossbuck with no yield sign at all, but the 2009 standards mandate that a stanard YIELD or STOP sign must be used at any crossing that doesn't have warning lights. So in the move to comply with the new standards, a lot of those older ones with the rectangular YIELD panel just got caught in the mass replacements. :V
The sanity effects from Dark Descent were really cool. I love when games tell me how I'm supposed to feel about something, and make me avoid looking at enemies so I don't notice they're kinda lame. The complete lack of Eternal Darkness hallucinations was great too.
The sanity effects from Dark Descent were really cool. I love when games tell me how I'm supposed to feel about something, and make me avoid looking at enemies so I don't notice they're kinda lame. The complete lack of Eternal Darkness hallucinations was great too.
i don't think they're lame tho
and tbh i think it's quite a clever trick, not letting you get a good look at the enemies
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I just kind of wonder what game most people were playing sometimes.
i feel this way about a lot of things, honestly
but i think there are plenty of valid reasons to prefer The Dark Descent, and i think it's a bit unfortunate that so many people who played A Machine for Pigs couldn't appreciate what it was doing, because it's not the same thing at all but in some ways it's cleverer
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
19th century pessimists were generally conservatives who counselled against giving the lower classes too much power, as the lower classes were dumb mad brutes would surely trample all over the finer arts and pleasures that make life less miserable.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Sometimes I wonder if we should do a donation drive or something for HH so Lee doesn't have to pay for the hosting all by himself.
I mean, assuming it's still only $20 a month, a couple hundred bucks could go a long way!
Schulz made Franklin basically just another Peanuts kid who happened to be black
And, given the attitudes of the era, that's probably the best he could have gotten away with, diversity-wise
that sounds like the right way to do it, honestly
also, i have a three-year-old laptop whose bottom plastic frame is starting to fall apart a little bit but it still holds together well enough to be transported safely
19th century pessimists were generally conservatives who counselled against giving the lower classes too much power, as the lower classes were dumb mad brutes would surely trample all over the finer arts and pleasures that make life less miserable.
this is literally the politics of a certain segment of the right, and not just antinatalists
The two principle fears were that socialists were lying, and would mislead the poor into shedding blood and then install themselves as similar monarchs to the ones that had been deposed, only worse.
The other fear was that socialists were being completely honest.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
ok maybe it loses most of the impact being taken out of context
but it's just so fucking nasty, i love it
's a good monologue, Tach
Yes.
In context, the speaker is a machine, pleading with you not to destroy it, not out of a sense of self-preservation but out of sheer horror at what it knows humanity is going to do
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The two principle fears were that socialists were lying, and would mislead the poor into shedding blood and then install themselves as similar monarchs to the ones that had been deposed, only worse.
The other fear was that socialists were being completely honest.
These fears were generally held at the same time.
again, this persisted in some circles
the Cold War fuelled it
it was the mainstream conservative opinion before the rise of neoliberalism
The two principle fears were that socialists were lying, and would mislead the poor into shedding blood and then install themselves as similar monarchs to the ones that had been deposed, only worse.
The other fear was that socialists were being completely honest.
These fears were generally held at the same time.
again, this persisted in some circles
the Cold War fuelled it
it was the mainstream conservative opinion before the rise of neoliberalism
There's a quote by a Chinese author, I like, Lu Xun, who said “I thought: hope cannot be said to exist, nor can it be said not to exist. It is just like roads across the earth. For actually the earth had no roads to begin with, but when many men pass one way, a road is made.”
The Neo-Reactionary is someone who goes "Well, do you notice how roads all link up on a given continent, and that people keep building them, and sometimes they clear forests or hills? Clearly roads are a sentient memetic virus trying to spread themselves via humans. Furthermore, many forests are nice, and you can learn a lot more by just wandering around, roads make it too easy really. You don't want every square inch of the world to be covered by roads, do you? Well that's the logical roady end game. I say we censor the roady press, and abolish roads."
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The one weird thing I noticed with Windows 10 so far: when I installed the upgrade, it replaced my touchpad driver with a Lenovo-branded one that didn't quite work properly. This is an Asus.
Downloading the updated driver from Asus's website seems to have solved it, though.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
The resolution doesn't bother me all that much except that it's hard to use things like browser windows without maximizing them because there's just not enough room
The computer I use at work has an ancient 2006 Dell monitor that's 1280 by 1024, and somehow that feels a lot bigger...probably just because it's 4:3. (Remember 4:3 LCDs?)
The sanity effects from Dark Descent were really cool. I love when games tell me how I'm supposed to feel about something, and make me avoid looking at enemies so I don't notice they're kinda lame. The complete lack of Eternal Darkness hallucinations was great too.
not posting in the monologues thread because it's not a straight monologue (and definitely won't be to everyone's liking), but i really love the effect of the Queen's voice
the way the apparent age of the speaker fluctuates, it's creepy as hell
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i wonder why they replaced them? Were the benefits of the more familiar sign that significant?
Machine for Pigs is more horrific and has a better story and awesome dialogue
depends what you want in a game
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
both start slowly and build before springing the monsters on you
in A Machine for Pigs, when they arrive, the effect is shocking and upsetting, rather than actually terrifying, but part of why the atmosphere of the early part of the game works is you're expecting a Dark Descent style monster any moment, it just never comes
but it's just so fucking nasty, i love it
and tbh i think it's quite a clever trick, not letting you get a good look at the enemies
This stuff is interesting.
but i think there are plenty of valid reasons to prefer The Dark Descent, and i think it's a bit unfortunate that so many people who played A Machine for Pigs couldn't appreciate what it was doing, because it's not the same thing at all but in some ways it's cleverer
also, i have a three-year-old laptop whose bottom plastic frame is starting to fall apart a little bit but it still holds together well enough to be transported safely
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
this is literally the politics of a certain segment of the right, and not just antinatalists
Moldbug is a case in point
The other fear was that socialists were being completely honest.
These fears were generally held at the same time.
In context, the speaker is a machine, pleading with you not to destroy it, not out of a sense of self-preservation but out of sheer horror at what it knows humanity is going to do
the Cold War fuelled it
it was the mainstream conservative opinion before the rise of neoliberalism
it's a 15.6" screen i think
any larger and it won't fit in a backpack; any smaller and it's more strain to look at it at that resolution
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
not posting in the monologues thread because it's not a straight monologue (and definitely won't be to everyone's liking), but i really love the effect of the Queen's voice
the way the apparent age of the speaker fluctuates, it's creepy as hell
e: thumbnail itself is a little spoilery
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead