beard ひげ @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club

@Mitsu

@lain nice poang
comfiest chairs ever

@Humpleupagus @LordMordred if that number is anything above 0 then i hope this dog is cuddled every night because he must have trauma beyond measure

@opinamur @sjw there is some sort of pun here involving the words Cirno and Chronic but i can't come up with it

@Hoss this is good news, i'm actually really surprised that it's even happening but that's awesome. without the tech workers their job becomes harder, but without them the tech workers have nobody to do work for. they definitely deserve to get paid more.

@famardy it's... complicated. even as someone who thinks he knows something about computers i barely got one to run and i actually had to modify the code because it was SLIGHTLY wrong for some godforsaken reason.

what kind of bot do you want to run?

@famardy

@LukeAlmighty it's so sad, man. it's sad when you tell a person not to hate themselves and an adult jumps down your throat telling you not to tell them that (legitimately happened to me in high school). it's all for the adults to look good for their fellow adults, not to actually help these kids who get fucked over in the process. that's always kind of been the case, it's just worse now because it's not like kids are learning useful skills or anything that their parents are forcing them to learn, they're just lost, confused, and sad.

@icedquinn spoiler to the video, but he ends up saying that this is basically the way that the western games where you kill gods are structured, but with japanese ones it's a little different. western games are all about escalation, but japanese ones are more metaphorical and have to do with divinity being intertwined with the state. in a very condensed nutshell.

Interestingly, without knowing any of this and not even thinking about the god-killing meme, I still decided upon this story for my game(s). It is a cycle, wherein a mortal kills a god and becomes one in order to replace said god, eventually falling victim to the same cycle in one way or another.
It was really interesting to listen to this video and think about why it was that I chose that as the motif, even down to the game's title (God's Disdain), without knowing any of this history or even really thinking about it as a way to pay homage to JRPGs or anything like that.

I think a big part of it certainly was subconscious realization of how a lot of games similar to the one I'm making feature the trope of killing a god, but I wonder how much of it has to do with my religious upbringing as well.

I was raised in a heavily Christian (Mormon, at that) household and ultimately left the church when I was 19 for reasons I'll not get into. It felt like, in a way, I had "defeated the god" of the religion that was responsible for so much strife in my life by refusing to participate any longer, despite the challenge of breaking the social contract I had unwittingly signed before. I was an outcast in the same way I'd imagine Moon Channel's description of people who break the capitalist god's social contract in Japan are. Perhaps, in the same way that such a thing influences those types of people to incorporate god killing into their stories, the same motif found its way into mine. Not killing actual capital G God, but killing something that rules over your life that you feel is actively making it worse, and rising above to beat it is all anyone wishes for.

It's really interesting to just think about how, despite large cultural differences, racial differences, and a vast ocean in between us, humans can still have so many similarities in what they go through, how they think, and how that thinking manifests itself as action.

This video is insane. It's an hour and a half long so it's a big one, but it's got some great history about Japan itself that I had never heard before. Really puts things into perspective.

Why Do You Always Kill Gods in JRPGs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEUqLL8J4gI

@MK2boogaloo thankfully I have a retail job I can increase my hours for in the meantime, but I don't like it as much and it doesn't pay as well. I'll basically be looking for another place to do event work when I know my moving situation better.

Thank you :)

@WashedOutGundamPilot I love that sonic face