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    Because Steve did the opposite. He was quick and brutal to criticize, and though that works well in middle of engineering a Mac, it does not in creativity. Those parts of the brain literally turn off when you are in “fight or flight mode.” Brainstorming happens best in a very loose environment where people are at rest. They literally threw out a thousands-of-dollars table, and then another, just to get the non-hierarchical dynamic right. They even invited the janitor to the meetings. Why? Because they needed people to feel like their job wasn’t on the line, that they could be free to speak freely.
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    I am just expecting people to start hedging their bets to please everyone and no one at the same time and using that time travel spiel in Rebels, undo some stuff and maybe multiverse away any problems here and there. So basically making all the mistakes the comic industry made post silver age.
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    Me neither really, especially since inter-sectionalists largely use conversations about their social station to gain social capital at the expense of the persons even discussing its realities. Offense and slight-seeking becomes a virtue to confess their sense of social oppression, and that signaling drowns out healthy dialogue. Semantic rescuing devices like “X privilege” or “race traitor” are used to resimplify and merely reassert their narrative against various people, at the expense of using a logical fallacy, an argumentum ad homenum, and actually pushing people away from understanding any social dimension to various ethical and historical issues. There is a bending of words, gossip, and accusational use of moral innuendo against people who question their own self-enriching narratives. And because of this, those corporations who seek to utilize these people in the work place, as investors, and as consumers all alike, will be doomed to deal with their spiel and entertaining a parasitism of vital resources in the production of their product, to an audience merely only sharing one commonality, the need to feel and manifest their inadequacies and grievances. Much like Mao, and his “cultural revolution,” where thousands of years of human history were erased, this has lead to outright cultural destruction in cinema, literature, and even music. The “values” that fill the crap-painted blobs in the MoMMA have now leaked into to cinema. Why make a Star Wars movie to this mob, when Star Wars itself is a social mechanism from which they manufacture their “hot takes” to further social capital? They at least need to eat it, digest it slow, but since their so much piranhas in the Twitter waters looking for a bite, it becomes an escalatory frenzy. Star Wars will never be black enough, or gay enough, or black gay furry trans-disabled pro-pedastry enough, and when it is it certainly won’t appeal to global theaters like China that don’t share certain pieces of those values (hence why Disney edited out two gay people kissing from the last movie). It can’t be enough, and story and characters, and plain entertainment value will be pushed aside for “the message,” a message that will always offend another head on the contradictory hydra of intersectionality and global markets. The worst part of it indeed is the appeal and acceptance to cultural relativism in general, you cannot really say anything meaningful with it. I mean by the standards (or lack thereof) of cultural relativism, the rebels are just as bad guys. From a Canadian, Russian or Chinese perspective, who are they to oppose their cultural values on the imperial government and neutral planets? To the imperials, perhaps their monolithic strict order brings stability in a complex galaxy, much in their respective countries? The destruction of the Death Star was a mass slaughter of galactic patriots, and their fascistic ideas have brought “peace and order to the galaxy.” The meta-fictional culturally relative hot-takes that bury the story, ironically will make any new revisions of story cold and bland. At the end, a story always takes a side, and makes a statement. I think that is one reason sue-mongering was approached in characters like Rey. It’s just safest to make avatars of obsequiousness power-projection for these types of “fans,” story and years of cinematic and literary theory be damned. Without meaning you just have a arms race of CGI spectacle, the denunciation of meaning as meaninglessness (“reversal of expectations”), and the will-to-power of certain characters and their broader identities. So basically it turns your work in a form of forced and flashy nihilism. That basically describes the Last Jedi perfectly.
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    Because creativity is naturally always offending to someone’s political equilibrium. Dungeons and Dragons scared the white rural Pentecostal folks, but it meant them no harm. It just agitated their insular and subjective view of magic and mythology. This moral panic is also going to be out of subjective ignorance, but it will be exponentially worse due to the multiplicative power of the infinite combinations of potential offended persons. It was easier to convince 80’s mom Iron Maiden and D&D was not satanic. Gygax and Niko for example were Christians. But with the woke-scolds, their unity is a lack of central-indentity. That leads them to be much harder to impress an idea on, but also makes them basically an infertile movement, they just don’t share the memetic base-pairs, so to speak, to perpetuate their movement. The LGBTQIAPT+ movement for example is less a melting pot and more a salad bowl of competing sexual philosophies. Some believe you are born gay, some believe you cannot be born a man or woman, and that it’s “forced” on you. Nature is utterly fixed to some, and utterly fluid to the other side. The T and the LG are at fundamental odds. And don’t me started on the ethnic dimensions of this. Historically Irish and Italians were basically in the same socioeconomic situation and kinda hated each other. That was just a generation ago. To expect people to make a intersectionality creative and productive and a culture, let alone survivable, is silly. Due to the committee style and self-censoring nature and all the pitfalls of potential disunity and rejection, there is no appealing to this hydra of competing and overlapping interests. You will always anger someone, and always conflict what they subjectively feel and believe. Since that is immediately associated with oppression in the woke worldview, it’s doomed to kill its own sacrifice it’s own creative darlings, Bale style. A good example of this it’s they story Ed Catmul shares in his book on Pixar Creativity Inc. he had to ban Steve Jobs from the brainstorming sessions. Can you guess why? @WarTraveller@Wulfsbane
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    Anyone here read anything good lately? @Mike Arcade?
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    I know! But it’s so true. XD That actually made the subtext click for me. The destruction of the future.
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    A deeper subtextual dive on the “Backrooms/Mundane Horror” phenomena.
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    What is it to realize the world is more crazy than it seems? That you have a special place in it, and the line between fiction and reality is a much more fuzzy than you think? That is the feeling (good or bad) that bears down on you with an ARG, a form of game that insists on its reality and attempts to suspend your disbelief in a much more forceful way. There is no fourth wall to peer through here… Anyone have a few favorites?
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    Though I love the RP element to this, and ardently believe this form of entertainment is a part of the future, this is just corporate cringe trash.
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    Well, the book of Bobba Fett did not just bomb, they had to seemingly throw in new episodes of the Mandolorian to salvage it. And, it looks likes, with the final spoiler of the season, the crappy sequels will perhaps remain canon. What is disgusting is that Disney seems to have deliberately mislead fans into thinking otherwise to keep a hold of their cash during the cruise and park lean Covid times. Pathetic to manipulate people like that.
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    Broadened Topic
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    Hey guys, is anyone actually getting civil or legal action yet for the Blizzard debacle? I mean, that’s the ultimate standard of Justice. If people have been hurt, especially in that, way, I care little about mergers and corporate chess games. I care about the individuals hurt. Bars or reciprocity for wrong doing matter more than anything in bettering the already crappy workplace culture of AAA gaming.
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    Broadened topic.
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    I would broaden this topic to include similar endeavors, Mike. Fan-made Ports.
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    I love the Zephyr. I am probably going to go on it this Summer with @Senior Bobbert to see an old friend from FUS.
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    Common sense dictates it would be a consolidation and remade retelling of the first three Sonic games, in one grand composite story. But you know, Sega is not know to be commonly sensible, so for all we know it will be a corny reboot no one will like. I have more faith in the former though, despite Sega’s past goofs with the series. More likely they will play it too safe and just eek something barely above the originality of a new port. Keeping my expectations low, but I am often surprised because of that. So hey, best of luck to us all.
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    If there are any suggestions for the server, or any feedback in improving it, let us know here.
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    If it does not involve a participation-trophy victim-saint, like some neck ears gamer-guy in a tacky Goodwill dress, they are not interested. There are real world systemic issues in gaming culture, like exploration of workers and children online, but it gets masked with the banal psudeo-morality of intersectionalism. It’s easy to wear, type, or blab a cliche like “Be Kind” making kindness in a culture is much more thankless and difficult. Trust me, I have been in non-profit work since 14. No one like that cares when you actually do something, because they are part of the problem, not the solution. When you don’t get praise for pointing something out by the establishment, perhaps given scorn, you are probably doing something right.
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    I like the angle that Sonic is a west-coast hero, that was raised in a small town in Montana. SoA was a part of California after all, and Westopolis and Station Square always had a west coast feel, especially the steep hill in City Escape, very San Francisco. I really like the evolution in design for Robotnik. He has a very visually demonstrated arc. My only complaint so far with the series is that Sonic is a little too ditzy some times, I would like him to lean more into the fact he is suppose to have some adolescent punch to him. SoE’s Sonic comic lets him be flawed more that way, and it promotes more relationship conflict for the story, which really lets your characters shine and show, and creates good potential for character arcs. Also, that way you don’t have to rely on Sonic’s overconfidence looking like prat-falling vacuity (the missiles to face stuff). Make the “light taunting” actually mean something between Tails and Sonic. He clearly would have difficulty relating to another “Mobian” like himself. Clearly this Sonic would not be very socialized given the last movie, I hope they lean into that when he has to relate with who eventually becomes his best friend.
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    Don’t be sorry for taking your time and making things right! I will read through this with Mike. I am thinking of playing the rules out here to toe into a Sonic RP. We play this game, and the army tactics and such macrocosmically affect our more microcosmic person-by-person tabletop game in subsequent sessions. Basically using the game as pallet refresher for our regular RP’s. Should be really fun to do.
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    I'll believe it when I see it. It would be a tragedy to see so many people loose jobs. But if there working conditions are horrible, it’s quite the zugzwang. Have you noticed no one reaches out to the actual potential victims of these situations? They politicize it, affirm their confirmation bias like vultures feeding on corpses, then leave the bones of innocent people in the firing line licked clean. The best outcome is for the company to reform. I certainly won’t put stock in them until this gets cleared out. And I am no fan of their products really…But companies like Twitter, YouTube, Meta, are kind of stuck on the crossfires of our culture wars. And we need to address that if we want to be genuinely debasing of cancel culture.
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    This is so fascinating to see people making N64 games again and starting where that micro-culture left off. People are even getting carts and playing them on CRTV’s.
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    I would hate for hundreds to loose their jobs at the altar of my politics or cultural opinions about this company. I will be honest, I don’t like that company for various reasons. Part of me would love to see it explode. But honestly, I am not a fan of witch hunts either. For one, someone’s child needs to eat and someone needs a retirement. If these allegations cannot be proved in civil court or criminal court, then it’s going to be more a problem to react to this without that information. This guy may truly well indeed be a scum bag with an army of misogynistic creeps, but I have the common sense to realize how wretched accusations like this can be to innocent people and how they cause more pain for people. Cancel culture needs to die, and must start with us. If not any individual is able to get non-personed by the overweeningly apathetic coward-collective that is the internet. It certainly won’t help or empower any victims. No one even remembers the Metoo# people. The hysteria over that died as soon as It backfired on perverts like Biden, Franken, Cuomo, Clinton…etcetera. It’s never about people like me, who have been sexually harassed before. If there is indeed any sexual violence in that corporation, then people need to not hide behind blue-haired Twitter weirdos and actually confront it in the court of law. Justice and forensics matter, not mean tweets. And everyone is innocent until proven guilty, or you are one step away from gulags and witch trials. Activision needs a full forensic cavity search and make it a brutal one.m, just to keep them tender to the issue. But, typically if that does not happen, and one or two guys get non-personed without much legal activity, then you must realize this was never about Justice…it was about a power play, intrigue. Either way, I hope anyone hurt, finds peace and release from this pain. That is all that matters, what I want from it be damned.
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    I am so in if you ever want to do a game here. And I really appreciate you taking the time to make it. I bet my Special Needs Outreach group would like to play this. I got a lot of Sonic fans who also like war games. It’s the perfect combination for them. 🤣
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