The psychic damage this gave me, I can't think straight. The military could just weaponize this headline as a cognitohazard, no need to make the thing

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The psychic damage this gave me, I can't think straight. The military could just weaponize this headline as a cognitohazard, no need to make the thing
So tonight I found out about the proposed right wing Disneyland in Oklahoma. Sorta.
Oh my GOD I'm putting this thing in my fucking video game. Are you fucking KIDDING me I already have a fucking Route 66 motif going on in-between all of my games Oh My Fucking God oh my fucking god. Holy shit thank you so much for bringing this stupid piece of shit nightmare theme park to my attention. This is like. SO FUCKING PERFECT. It's like, SO FUCKING CLOSE to Afton, Oklahoma, too, which is where the finale of my last game was set. 17 minute drive. I mean what the fuck.
Because sorry, but the first part undersells it
"The minimal connection to where one lives, to ones' community, that used to exist and now basically doesn't. The last remnants of even theoretically being able to feel connected to the place you live that were, eventually, wiped the fuck out by corporatization and now your community looks like everyone else's community and even the businesses are owned by the same nine corporations. And Route 66 is a powerful symbol of that corporatization and they're building corporate nostalgia-bait for the times before corporate nostalgia-bait nothing-places, a stupid self-consuming paradox of a location."
And
"The problem isn't that "people aren't patriotic", it's that there's nothing to be patriotic about! What the fuck is there in this country that I'm supposed to love? The fucking Denny's? The ten thousand Wal-Mart stores? Seventy quadrillion square miles of fucking asphalt & corn? What have we built that I should fucking love? We let capitalism eat the entire goddamn country & now there's nothing, and it hasn't even brought anyone any fucking benefit! Now people don't have access to the shit they need, and they could! And what, I'm supposed to be fucking patriotic? That's the fucking problem? Seventy thousand miles of asphalt & people don't have food & we're at war always & insulin is too goddamn expensive & I can't even get fucking estrogen & for goddamn what? Infinite fucking Little Caesars' locations copy-pasted across a desolate fucking landscape?
And they don't get that. They don't. You don't build a theme park called "American Heartland" if you know what people are actually nostalgic for."
"What the fuck is there in this country that I'm supposed to love?" really captures it for me
So tonight I found out about the proposed right wing Disneyland in Oklahoma. Sorta.
Oh my GOD I'm putting this thing in my fucking video game. Are you fucking KIDDING me I already have a fucking Route 66 motif going on in-between all of my games Oh My Fucking God oh my fucking god. Holy shit thank you so much for bringing this stupid piece of shit nightmare theme park to my attention. This is like. SO FUCKING PERFECT. It's like, SO FUCKING CLOSE to Afton, Oklahoma, too, which is where the finale of my last game was set. 17 minute drive. I mean what the fuck.
Because sorry, but the first part undersells it
"The minimal connection to where one lives, to ones' community, that used to exist and now basically doesn't. The last remnants of even theoretically being able to feel connected to the place you live that were, eventually, wiped the fuck out by corporatization and now your community looks like everyone else's community and even the businesses are owned by the same nine corporations. And Route 66 is a powerful symbol of that corporatization and they're building corporate nostalgia-bait for the times before corporate nostalgia-bait nothing-places, a stupid self-consuming paradox of a location."
And
"The problem isn't that "people aren't patriotic", it's that there's nothing to be patriotic about! What the fuck is there in this country that I'm supposed to love? The fucking Denny's? The ten thousand Wal-Mart stores? Seventy quadrillion square miles of fucking asphalt & corn? What have we built that I should fucking love? We let capitalism eat the entire goddamn country & now there's nothing, and it hasn't even brought anyone any fucking benefit! Now people don't have access to the shit they need, and they could! And what, I'm supposed to be fucking patriotic? That's the fucking problem? Seventy thousand miles of asphalt & people don't have food & we're at war always & insulin is too goddamn expensive & I can't even get fucking estrogen & for goddamn what? Infinite fucking Little Caesars' locations copy-pasted across a desolate fucking landscape?
And they don't get that. They don't. You don't build a theme park called "American Heartland" if you know what people are actually nostalgic for."
"What the fuck is there in this country that I'm supposed to love?" really captures it for me
I am lazy. I guess it's why I like using engines like Fusion or gzdoom. somebody else has done the hardest work for me and I can focus on building a place or the things inside it or a mechanic. sure, fusions default movements are buggy as hell, gzdoom is extremely limited if you want to make something that isn't first person, but they've got so many easily accessible tools that I keep using them.
and for some reason I guess that's why I'm apprehensive about switching engines. for some reason I don't like using asset stores. I don't like the idea of making a game that requires a beefy computer to play. I don't like the idea of coding basic functions like collision detection or physics. it feels a lot better when I'm given a variety of tools straight out of the gate and let loose, as opposed to having to make things the traditional way.
I remember watching a video a while back where someone was talking about making a game in a holistic way, and I guess that's kind of the same way I view games. I enjoy making each part of a game, even if it's not the best. but I also like not working on the same thing over and over again.