Chez VanWolffen

i support women's wrongs

Being into lifestyle dynamics is interesting. It's like hi this is my best friend, my personal property, and my partner for life all rolled into one little stress ball of anxiety of a person that needs snacks and spanks all the time.

Lifestyle dynamics is also crazy because "I date to own" is not a socially acceptable thing to put on a dating profile or say on a first date. You can't just Oops! All Sadism-berries your way into a D/s dynamic with a random people. You have to seek out specific communities and find someone looking for the same level of dynamic you are, but on the opposite side of the slash. And then you can start the dating ritual.

‘Nuclear Family Month’ is so funny as a concept. I have never seen a nuclear family worth celebrating.

The Addams

It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.

Honestly, having grown up with this bullshit is probably a big part of the reason I'm fascinated with player-hostile game design. Giving a puzzle three different solutions with fully voiced and animated reactions to each, except two of those solutions render the game unwinnable in ways that won't become apparent until hours later is a level of "fuck you" that most modern games with pretensions of player-hostility can only dream of!

A critical piece of context that a lot of modern gamers completely miss is that Douglas Adams' adventure games are works of parody not only in terms of their narratives, but also in the sense that they're rather vicious parodies of adventure games as a genre. Each of their absurdly obtuse puzzles is lampooning some puzzle design trope or set of tropes that was legitimately commonplace at the time they were made, and many of the really nasty bits are crafted specifically to piss off experienced adventure game fans who otherwise wouldn't get caught out by that sort of thing. They're outliers in the genre only in the sense that they're putting forth extra effort to be annoying about it – most games of the type pull the exact same shit entirely without remark!

the among us show being a total gorefest on par with john carpenter's the thing is a really fun choice

the among us show having a gay orgy in the middle of it is another really fun choice