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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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    1. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and

      And it's this long, agonizing struggle and you just barely have enough HP to make it before you die It's a pulse-pounding, edge of your seat moment the first time

      1 reply 1 retweet 5 likes
    2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and

      Then as soon as you play it again you're like oh yeah You can't fail this part It's programmed to take away your HP based on your progress through the field so that you always end up with a sliver left before you die The tension is totally fake

      3 replies 1 retweet 6 likes
    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and

      (On TVTropes this is called Always Close It's a necessary trope, arguably, because either way you do it deflates the tension - if it is possible to fail, and a certain % of people fail over and over again, then it goes from being cool and exciting to obnoxious)

      3 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    4. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @Plutoburns and

      i mean this is a reflection of games really struggling to provide fail-forward states as opposed to fail-and-reload states.

      2 replies 1 retweet 2 likes
    5. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

      for me the strongest dissonance i ever had while gaming was Tomb Raider. in our world, lara dies over and over and over and over. but in the game world she never dies; she's just this unstoppable killing machine.

      1 reply 1 retweet 3 likes
    6. Dr. Samantha Hancox-Li‏ @perdricof 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

      wound up writing a short story with that conceit--what it would be like to face this nightmare of the person who just can't be stopped, who gets to respawn and reload every single time you stop her. it remains an unsettling idea.

      3 replies 1 retweet 3 likes
    7. Andrew McGrae‏ @TGNProfessor 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @perdricof @arthur_affect and

      Terry Pratchett wrote a book Only You Can Save Mankind about this concept. The aliens from a shoot-em-up try to broker peace with the unstoppable warrior who has killed thousands of their people and resurrects every time he dies.

      2 replies 0 retweets 2 likes
    8. Random832‏ @Random832 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @TGNProfessor @perdricof and

      Sure, but "resurrects every time he dies" is at least comprehensible. A video game protagonist *unmakes* the circumstances of their death [or other mission failure], and no-one [possibly not even themselves] knows what happened.

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    9. Andrew McGrae‏ @TGNProfessor 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @Random832 @perdricof and

      This was more the extra lives era of gaming rather than modern games where you can save anywhere. When Johnny dies he has to replay the level, which to the aliens looks like launching a new attack on an area they just defended and sent reinforcements to replace everyone he killed

      1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @TGNProfessor @Random832 and

      Right, although true to this era of PC gaming there weren't actually "extra lives", once you unlock a mission you can replay it as many times as you want until you beat it Hence Johnny getting the nickname "The Hero With A Thousand Extra Lives", as a riff on Campbell

      1 reply 1 retweet 2 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jul 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @TGNProfessor and

      He does find the wreckage of an annihilated ancient civilization of Space Invaders, from back in the day when you did have to keep track of lives, after his dad makes a comment about how much games have progressed since the good old days

      5:40 PM - 23 Jul 2020
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        2. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 23 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @TGNProfessor and

          One thing I loved about this book was that Pratchett, unlike many other authors of his generation, genuinely loved video games and had clearly spent a lot of time playing games just like this The game in the book is very clearly a parody/knockoff of Wing Commander

          2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
        3. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 23 Jul 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @TGNProfessor and

          It definitely helps a lot!

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