Jun 7
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Happy Gay and Lonely Month.
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going on a light hike later further out than i meant to schedule on a weeknight but it's an open air studio thing and also there's a distillery right across from the park and i could go there just to get pics to send my family even though it's mid liquor. bourboning my trail if you will
speaking of bdubs being nuanced when i finally make that comprehensive (?) ethubs arguing about/not knowing what words mean compilation i'm not going to let him asking etho "nonced? [ed. note - nuanced] do you know that word?" and etho saying "no" go. nonced. nauwnced. he was like 28 at the time btw
it is a little crazy to be in my 30s and just realizing that i've really loved plants this whole time. or more specifically, that not liking gardening or horticulture doesn't mean that the collection of life-long loves like our parks systems, the infra-ordinary, floral patterns, and paying a lot more in rent for the privilege of looking at trees from every room in my house are all natural inroads to loving botany. i love systems, i love daily life being green, i miss broken sidewalk every week of my life and i've been trying to write something about tree cover being the real boundary-marker for old louisville vs. its neighbors for like two or three years now.
but of course, my grandma used to take me & my sister hiking up to the north outlook at iroquios park like every year as kids and make a little treasure hunt out of it: the outlook itself, of course, that view of the city that's basically burned in my heart; the big fields by the tennis courts and the mulched playground and the winding road back down to the parking spot. like of course i fell down this rabbit hole so quickly. but still i didn't know until now, that i had all this love in me. crazy! i hope it keeps happening to me!
i mean the thing is that the game's rules & the social rules of play & the social rules of making content are inherently in conflict in all iterations of the life series. this tension can be good, as the "game ends when all but one are dead" is mechanical inevitability creates stakes. the social rules of making videos out of your gameplay are heavily weighted toward the general principles of sportsmanship - that is, social rules of play. of course what qualifies as "good sportsmanship" is contextual to specific games, player groups, social contexts, etc. & is never going to be resolved across all players inside the game because the combination of mechanics & content production preclude it.
there will never be a consensus on if backstabbing your friends/allies is bad or good sportsmanship because this specific group of players are not primarily driven by optimal strategies: when you're being hunted, to hide for too long is bad content & bad sportsmanship in the sense that it's bad for video, compounding the likelihood it will not be a fun strat to play against. but also when you add "you're penalized if you don't backstab someone" as a mechanic and in later iterations outlaw voluntary sacrifice, the game system itself excludes betraying your friends as "bad sportsmanship" bc it is literally the rule. of the game. and choosing to create conflicts or doubt is good for making videos out of a game whose mechanics center conflict arising from doubt.
& specifically for fanwork, i think the tension between "life in worlds where death is never an ending but leaving is" and "life in a game that you'll always return home from but has stakes to dying, unlike normal" means that the pain & suffering of dying is less than irl but the meaning it carries can vary. especially when they keep! going! back! for recreational murder & dying & subterfuge fun! what if we took that they chose to go back and be betrayed/betray others/be different/do the same fucking thing were part of their character & explored why one might...
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actually setting aside how many lines in lrb made me laugh out loud. i know i'm an outlier & i know it's mostly a matter of taste in what you want out of fandom but people who don't find the difference between "game where the explicit premise is You Will Have To Kill Each Other (unless you die early enough to avoid it) And Also Your Multiple (MULTIPLE!) Lives Are Resources" and "things that are bad in real life" interesting are aliens to me. like murder is not a serious crime! it's not. it is compulsory. rules-enforced amnesia was only attempted once & it never worked & in fact the main redeeming quality of later seasons is the development of multiple-season grudges. lying is straight up mandatory in SL too like can we get some contextual morality in here. i know i'm never gonna win the battle against amnesia "oh they all HATE going there but they HAVE To because [stupid magic nothing garbage nearly origfic backstory that actively makes characters more OOC than how they play]" stuff but. please
people in this volunteer slack using "meat on bone" emoji all the time to mean i know not what. it seems positive and it's a little charming but is this normal or do i have to ask them in person when i go next time
etho posting when i scheduled an additional elective meeting is so insanely cruel