#dabuerre

tommorow im planning to call every representative from my country who opposes this horrible, pointless shit and atleast thank them. i unfortunately feel absolutely defeated and i think this 1.0 version of the law is gonna get passed. i hope through this horrible law people wake up, and we start genuinely protesting or something. cuz i saw nothing so far. i dont know if information about it is supressed or if most older people are ok with it because the internet is a "vile place" or something. i dont know. im sad. i love the idea of the internet. what it used to represent. but at this point im thinking of nuking every internet presence i ever had. and i just.

well anyways. ive been rewatching star trek again. i need some hope in my life and this is the one thing that can give me that.

usually in star trek episodes you will have like a big question, usually of some moral standing, and by the end of the episode you will have a "federation answer" that is based on morality. with the maquis? no such thing.

the maquis are right in that the treaty fucking sucks. sisko kind of, not that i agree with him but in a way, he is right. they were asked to leave, they chose not to.

i also dont really know what the maquis hopes to accomplish sometimes. Hudson feels so bitter, every time he speaks of the Federation its as if he believes the Maquis should form a state on their own and renounce their Federation ties lol. which would be nuts.

so, ive been playing the infamous games. to really understand why i dont really like these games, you need to understand that i dont care for superheroes.

now dont take me wrong. i love the xmen, and the freedom and the fight for equality they represent. but i watch them, mostly, because... i wanna see cool powers on display. i wanna see them used, creatively. cuz i will never get to do that shit. its why jubilee is my favorite character, just strictly from the potential of what she could be. sure, the original animated show doesnt fullfill that potential, but the modern x-men 97 show does have a great episode of what jubilee is capable of (even though it kinda pisses me off that its basically futon rasen shuriken)

anyways, the infamous games, are in my mind the only superhero games that allow you to play as a super hero. free roam, choices. the karma system. stuff like that.

but my dissapointment stems from the fact that these games have not evolved since 2009. its all so formulaic, repetitive. boring. but i dont even really care about that. what really makes me sad is the creativity with power usage.

the traversal in infamous 1 is so boring. and so uncreative. the guy can use his hands as thrusters and grind on rails and shit. thats all the traversal you get. and they do explain it kind of well with his backstory, as a urban explorer, but god, why doesnt have a high jump? the ability to infuse his body with electricty and move faster? literally transform himself into a lightning bolt and shoot himself across the landscape. anything. you guys remember mario odyssey? where you could throw cappy in new donk city on those powerlines and mario literally become electricity? something, anything.

i couldnt try infamous 2 properly. i played it for like an hour but RPCS3 is not there yet, and even though i have a ps3, im not willing to play it a native fps. which was 15-22. maybe that one is better. ill have to wait

and now, second son, and by extension, first light.

dont get me started with delsin. you can boil down all powers into - shoot shoot harder float dash/run fast/glide throw a grenade/throw a grenade/turn invisible shoot a rocket/shoot a laser/shoot a couple of swords special attack for each power melee thats it. all the powers are the same. and again. people will come in and be like "oh but it makes sense. delsin has been using these abilities for like two weeks. of course he wouldnt have his own style in it" but like. thats not my point. smoke is vastly different from neon, as neon is very different from video. im talking physically, as materials, these things are vastly different. yet they function in the same way??

this is just rambling, but, it makes me sad that, when humans imagine magic, or superpowers, we instantly go into throwing fireballs and killing each other and shit. and i get it. that is cool too! i would love to spar with somebody magically. but goddamn there is more to superpowers than just combat.

in these games, utility of powers comes through the traversal. but. there is a problem. neon is simply too good. once you get it, and reach rank 4 hero, you get endless run. and that, unfortunately, is the best traversal ability. glide cant compare. the radar dishes are too slow, even though they launch you pretty good. and smoke. smoke is so sad, cuz you can tell the devs wanted you to use it. you have smoke vents, and those little chimneys that give you height. but again. its too little.

maybe if the game was longer. but you literally get neon in the first two hours. and even the base neon run is better than using smoke. it makes me sad.

i really, really hope that infamous one day gets one more game. or somebody else tries to do a proper, superhero game. in my mind, the only game that sort of succeeds at this, is spiderman 2018. that game is great. but its spiderman. and his super powers are not the coolest to me.

ideally, we would have a fucking green lantern game. or atom eve game. somebody who can just manipulate matter into anything you want. i dont know how that would work in gameplay. i realize its too difficult, maybe. but goddamn, i wanna see it.

i did fuck up on the practical lesson though. there was a weird intersection and i failed to give way "fully". the guy who was monitoring me sounded so dissapointed.

its not the end of the world, i just hope i can try again soon. i was told last week that if i failed i would have to retry in july, because at this time a lot of students in like industry schools are doing the drivers licenses, and they have priority. plus there is a lot of them. so. today i was told that it might be doable on the 11th, so im gonna hope for that.