Watching Pomu play MGS2 honestly makes me remember that this is one of my favourite games of all time... I don't care if there are a lot of cutscenes, every minute of them is fucking awesome lol. The music is so amazing. The insane story is told with such a straight face. It's a beautiful game.

I guess I have spent a lot of time thinking about this lately but it really boggles my mind how many people essentially believe that they are nothing at all, just some accidental series of signals. It’s unfathomably bizarre to me because it’s like, what to these people think about when they remember their dreams?

The magical principles of the psyche aren’t that hard to grasp, but we’ve turned feigning ignorance about it into a game: we’ll criticise others for “not having an inner voice” but then say that hearing voices is a sign of madness. We’ll pretend sympathetic magic is lunacy but then run the tap while sitting on the toilet so that the sound of running water helps us pee. We’ll pretend ritualization achieves nothing but then look forward to our initiation and graduation ceremonies as important milestones.

It’s tiresome. Jung was conflating psychology to alchemy a hundred years ago, and yet here we are in a euphoric world.

This is still the best image I’ve ever seen illustrating how the human psyche works. I am absolutely adamant about this. You are not a machine, you are a boiling pot of organic nonsense, and however well you front I will never not believe that behind your eyes, you are going through the same voyages through half-remembered images, spaces, faces and songs that I am.

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There it is, they fucking deleted it from the 'ru but i saved this gem so that it will live forever. Found it.

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@lanodan @harbeau (Forgot to say that campy detective pulp stuff was definitely a thing when Fleming started writing though, that goes all the way back to penny dreadfuls)

@lanodan @harbeau I think the jury is kinda out on whether Bond counts as parody, simply because Fleming was writing the novels back before "spy fiction" in that vein was really a thing. And don't forget, he might have hammed it up, but he WAS a spy too - hard to believe as it might be when you're reading something like the ridiculous alpine escape scenes in On Her Majesty's Secret Service lol.

If Fleming had begun writing after Le Carre I'd consider it cut and dry though, Bond novels almost read like a parody of Smiley novels at times.

But really I think it's worth going and watching an old Bond film or two just for the cultural experience if nothing else. Starting at the beginning is awkward because the first couple are kind of slow, and jumping in with Daniel Craig's bond gives you a very atypical experience. As much as most people would probably pick out something like View to a Kill as a cross-section of the franchise, I'd honestly just watch Goldeneye because fuck it, it's one of the best films ever made. (Plus it gives more context to the N64 game, which is one of the best GAMES ever made.

@lanodan @harbeau Sorry, forgot my picture lol. I guess James Bond would be at the top, and Despicable Me would be at or near the bottom.

@lanodan @harbeau It's kinda true but like anything else our species produces that's only as good as people's desire/ability to archive it.... Pomu's old videos are still up because she managed to leave Niji without the usual mushroom cloud of drama, but all it would take would be for her to mouth off about her time at Niji a bit more on her (reincarnated) Mint persona and Niji would likely delete her old channel.

There are fans who prepare for these kinds of things - that's why there's still a giant archive of everything Selen ever streamed floating around on 4chan - but nothing lasts forever, does it?

"So long as they are remembered" is right. I've been thinking about this a lot lately. If the AI-driven nightmare that threatens our world actually does consume our culture (which it almost definitely will since even people who despise it are hypnotised into helping develop it, and there is a giant doomsay cult of people who relish in the oncoming dystopia) then who's to say this 40-50 year blip of fun and flashing lights and bing bing wahoo noises won't end up just as buried as - say - alchemy is today?

@harbeau It doesn't matter what happens, Pomu will always be the goat chuuba and the goat design.

Last night I watched “Buy Now: The Shopping Conspiracy” and while I knew the majority of the stuff in it already, it filled me with absolute disgust for our fucking species, and brought to mind Shin Megami Tensei: Strange Journey.

I realize a lot of people have never played a real shin megoomy tensay game so I want to briefly explain: The game takes place during a demonic incursion into Antarctica, and the human characters have to tread very carefully into the possessed/transformed territory, hence the spacesuit-like gear.

Each “sector” of the corrupted area reflects a human evil or excess: The first two are themed around war and sexual exploitation respectively. But the third and fourth sectors are an endless shopping mall and its sister, the endless garbage dump.

As the player progresses through the game, the demons they talk to start to realise that they can’t outdo humanity when it comes to doing evil, express disgust at their humanity-themed surroundings and (rightly) state that they would do a better job of running things than us anyway. Some of them outright say they are forces of GOOD compared to humanity.

@berkberkman @coolboymew A human being made this. This was a human endeavour.

Pseudoregalia has a great atmosphere so far. The spacious levels full of unforgiving jumps, along with the confusing nonlinearity of everything, actually kinda remind me more of playing B3313 than vanilla Mario 64. The movement is satisfying as fuck and the music feels reminiscent of a variety of games. (One area in particular sounds a lot like a Street Fighter 2 track, another sounds like Symphony of the Night.)

My only complaint is that the Casino Night Zone-ass font is impossible to read when it's tiny. On and seeing that ass a little more clearly would be nice too.