As a VN dev, and a semiserious one, it hits different when you're having your intellectual pursuit diminished as childish and superficial by the selfsame people who are playing a game about decorating a bedroom
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I do think I had a moment that struck me on a pretty deep level when I was playing an MMO and getting sick of it and being like "Why should I grind to earn furniture to decorate my imaginary virtual home when I didn't even bother buying any furniture for my real home"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It kind of hit me that here I am, playing video games to get away from a whole genre of life tasks that other people play video games to replicate The sense of alienation from the human race was profound
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
So like riddle me this Minecraft I can clear a 1m^3 block in less than a second. Last time I did that IRL it took me 45m (needless to say IRL material has to move from A to B) I assume there is an appeal for video games in simulated life-like actions because they’re simplified
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Replying to @authomony @Nymphomachy and
I mean... I guess I just... don't want to clear the block? I'm fine with the block staying where it is I can leave the block alone and it can leave me alone
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
Again, this isn't really about video games Home reno shows (which I absolutely despise and yet was forced to watch for a certain period of my life) admitted that the reason they keep coming back to open-plan settings is that guys only watch the shows for knocking down the walls
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
I do not identify with this impulse at all I feel greatly alienated from my gender when you see guys walking around identifying the load-bearing walls and the walls they could "totally knock out" Why do you want to knock out the wall Keep it there, it's doing fine where it is
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
This is the whole raccoon motif
@Nymphomachy keeps coming back to that I find such an attractive theme The triumphalist take that "Animals adapt to their surroundings; Man adapts his surroundings to himself" And I guess spiritually I'm more of an animal2 replies 4 retweets 23 likes -
Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
It's probably an ADHD thing My dad used to freak out about this when I was a teenager "How do you leave shit on the floor *directly in the path* of where you need to go How is it easier to *step over* that same shirt on the floor twenty times a day than pick it up once?"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
I mean if you want an honest answer it's because "stepping over it" isn't even a conscious action anymore, that's just how walking over that region of floor goes, and changing that pattern would at this point be more effort
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Which is how it's possible, I guess, for me as an adult to still have cardboard packaging in the corner from a package I ordered from Amazon in spring of 2017
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
The weird thing is that, sure, in most of polite society this is a horrible moral failing, but it's also a *cognitive capacity* most people seem to lack? Like how for like a month at one job I had a computer without a working mouse
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Replying to @arthur_affect @authomony and
And I was just like "You know what, it doesn't take that long to get used to navigating Windows with keyboard shortcuts A mouse is actually completely optional, and in some ways slower"
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