Platypus' sketchbook and other stuff.

actually, i’d really appreciate a tourist mode in a lot of games, i have a hard time using a controller and i generally give up when i can’t get past a certain point, which usually winds up being early on in the game just because my hands don’t wanna fuckin cooperate for very long for a combination of reasons

Wow, look at all these whiny pissbabies who can’t handle the idea that someone enjoys a video game for different reasons than they do.

Gamers are like “Videogames aren’t just all about shooting people! They’re immersive works of art with complex storylines and masterful worldbuilding.”

Fake Geeks acting as though godmode cheats haven’t been a thing for approximately forever.  It’s essentially a variation on that theme.  Besides, Tourist Mode+Photomode would be the greatest thing for second or third playthroughs if you’re like me and like poking through the visual design of a level.  It’s really cool that designers can pack different types of engagement into one program.  I mean even the name for the mode, “tourist mode”, is telling in a really interesting way.  The game is a place as much as it is anything else, which is pretty unique for a form of media.

I want to reiterate, just to drive the point home, the people getting upset here are not getting upset at the prospect of a game requiring this mode of play from them. They are getting upset about the idea of this being a potentially available, utterly optional mode of play that they are in no way obligated, required or even necessarily encouraged to engage in whatsoever. (Something that wouldn’t necessarily significantly impact the content they actually want anyway, even in terms of division of resources or anything kind of abstract like that, if it even were applicable broad scale, which it may never be)

They used to have this in games as cheats. That and I remember in rayman there was level skips that I used to see the pretty later levels. Could never finish them but it was nice to see them. 

Going with my real name… Earl Cyril Witherwood.

I like the tragedy of Garak and how he hides it behind sarcastic wit and a smile. He never does catch that break in the end.

no but genderfluid odo learning the term genderfluid and getting so excited because that is their gender! there is a name for it!!