xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

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>Libertarianism really is incompatible with democracy.

You damn right, it is!

So they recent-ish Steven Crowder situation prompted me to write a new article for my website "Balancing Fame And Privacy". Being famous is obviously a huge privacy risk, but there are things that you can do to mitigate any risks of having details about your personal life leaked.

https://xianc78.codeberg.page/articles/fame-privacy.html

@ItsSkyDragonz That's called "science fantasy". And what do you mean by "modern gay kind"?

@ArdainianRight @TheMadPirate @caekislove @deprecated_ii I wonder if it is all a psy-op to get governments to fund artists. Artists have wanted to be government funded for years because most of them fail. I even had a classmate in college do a speech on why artists should be government funded.

@TheMadPirate That rainbow can be interpreted that way, but it is drawn in a ZX Spectrum style and if you know anything about that old computer, a lot of games on that had rainbow colored sprites.

@beardalaxy @rasterman @ChristiJunior If you play any of the Ys games, especially the later ones, you quickly learn that it's just basically Zelda with experience points (basically the only thing that keeps Zelda from being considered a true RPG). Ys puts an emphasis on exploration just like Zelda, but has the experience points and leveling up that you expect in an action-RPG.

Also, believe it or not, Zelda and Ys were basically rival franchises for a brief time. Though, it wasn't as big as OOT vs FFVII. It was only briefly during the 1980s in Japan. Ys was scene as the PC gamer's equivalent to Zelda and vice versa. Ys III even tried to copy Zelda II by being a side-scroller.

>I think the games zelda is most comparable to outside of the action adventure genre are like, 3d platformers that feature combat.

Yeah, I can see that. I like to think Zelda influenced the non-linearity in 3D games like Super Mario 64. But then again, I think Zelda had an influence on non-linear action games period: action-adventures, action-RPGs, Metroidvanias, platform adventures, sandbox games, etc. Pretty much all of them have openly admitted to having some influence to Zelda, whether directly or indirectly.