
i make games and music, sometimes.
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Imagine how deflating it would be if fast food restaurants listed the number of fries you were getting. Large fry: about 60 fries. You would feel so fucking short-changed no matter how many you got. 60 individual fries. You'd be counting them in your head.
i want modern games that feel like 3D DOS games. i want DOStalgia. i want 320x200 VGA vibes, even if it's not literally that resolution. i want big chunky textures on giant triangles that wobble. i want a window into a 3D world surrounded by thick borders with gameplay-relevant UI that's drawn like a painting. i want noisy FM synthesis. i want it all
the other day Daria was showing me Pathways Into Darkness on the aleph one source port and I learned that it does not surround the player view with 5 actual OS windows containing info on your inventory and status displayed via normal GUI widgets and I angrily demanded to know why one would bother playing at that point. I was not doing a bit