my two hottest survival horror takes are:

• the "ink ribbon" style save economy is actually genius and totally changes the way the player approaches the game. it's a huge factor in what makes resource management so compelling in early Residents Evil

• fixed camera angles are worth every bit of the awkwardness of tank controls and more. I've only just started playing Silent Hill 2 and it's already going completely off the wall with the camera in a way that just wouldn't work if you had to adjust your heading every time it cut

neither of these should be in every game, or even every survival horror game—Silent Hill never used ink ribbons because it's not really about the resource mechanics in the first place and that's fine. but it's a tragedy that they've completely exited the modern design lexicon

Liz, while we're watching a movie: Woop woop! Matte painting! Matte paintining! WOOP WOOP! Matte painting alert!!!

I should write a novel about a depressed middle aged guy who's an English professor in a loveless marriage having a torrid affair with his stunningly attractive undergraduate student. like I just think it would be really funny for a polyamorous lesbian with a terrific wife to write one of those books

people say kids are easily amused but I think it's way more true for adults. I could go toe to toe with any child on appreciating the simple delight of a shiny rock or a colorful picture book, but I defy any six year old to fully savor the sublime joy of getting a new dryer that doesn't even need an external vent

Shel Raphen posted 12 October 2024 on shelraphen.com

How will we be remembered? — The Jewish People After the War

How will we be remembered? As the Jewish people, what will history remember of our actions today? What will be the narrative they tell about us? We were victims of the holocaust, and then enacted a genocide ourselves. We have truly gone astray.

Ultimately, the war in Gaza cannot last forever. The situation in Israel and Palestine cannot last forever as it is. Someday, it will end. The question is, how? When it's all over, what will become of the Jewish people? How will be remembered?

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This past Saturday was Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar, dedicated to self-reflection and atonement for the harms—both individual and collective—done over the past year. It may has also have been the single year in which Jews, as a collective, have done the most gruesome harm across all our thousands of years of history. This is bitterly painful to reckon with, but now is the time we must reckon with the things that are the hardest.

Shel's post dives into this pain by imagining how Jews will be seen after the war is concluded, once the die has been cast and the world must sit with the outcome. None of the hypotheticals are rosey, because the Jews inescapably have blood on our hands. But it's also worth taking this as a reminder that the future is not yet set in stone, and that we may still work to see the best future that's possible from the imperfect now. We may still perform actions we will be proud of, and our children will be proud of, in the years and centuries down the line.

Next year, in a free Jerusalem.

@topghost posted 11 October 2024 on topposts.net

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