I once got trapped in an FPS-style loop after smoking a bong full of salvia at a festival. It felt like I was suddenly looking at the world through a screen and I could see my hand and couldn't stop strafing to the left, like someone was holding down the joystick, but I was sat stationary in a chair.I wasted my GCSE year playing the original DOOM. Non. Stop. Eventually I began to hallucinate the swaying shotgun in front of me when I got up to walk around.
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wektor
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know the feeling, I think it's actually gravity
IdleRich
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My friend has just got a job moderating youtube content and as part of it he has been shown loads of examples of hate speech and the ways people try and smuggle things in - relevant here are a number of games that he has to watch out for... a holocaust game where you build concentration camps and choose where to put showers etc another one where you gotta gun down loads of black people and then move on to a sewer level where the bad guys are hasidic Jews....
That's some terribly disguised smuggling.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah imagine what they really wanted to communicate, if a holocaust simulator is a sugarcoating.
IdleRich
IdleRich
I'm not saying that the game itself was sugar coating things, but he has to know about the game (in fact there were something like 25 such games) so as to be able to spot references to it. Along with other more standard code words and phrases like, for example, when people say "the you know whos" he has to spot that that's a racist code meaning Jews.
For example he might need to differentiate between say a news organisation doing a report on a far right group and saying that they made game x and what it's about, and, on the other hand, something which looks like that at first, but which in fact might turn into someone celebrating the game and advocating it.
I probably didn't make that very clear cos I was at a bbq tucking into fucking loads of beef that he was serving me. The games aspect of it suddenly struck me as relevant to this thread and so I made a half-arsed and garbled attempt to explain it and kinda landed in the middle in a way that made it confusing - apologies for that.
For example he might need to differentiate between say a news organisation doing a report on a far right group and saying that they made game x and what it's about, and, on the other hand, something which looks like that at first, but which in fact might turn into someone celebrating the game and advocating it.
I probably didn't make that very clear cos I was at a bbq tucking into fucking loads of beef that he was serving me. The games aspect of it suddenly struck me as relevant to this thread and so I made a half-arsed and garbled attempt to explain it and kinda landed in the middle in a way that made it confusing - apologies for that.
william_kent
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I'm confused about the "Hol Sim" - is the point to demonstrate that it would be impossible, which I thought was the standard line amongst the far right ( David Irving et al.,)?
This discussion has reminded me of a Playstation 3 game that was a bestseller, available in all high street shops that sold games: Dead Island, which must be the biggest piece of racist shit that I have had the misfortune to play. My doubts were raised at the character selection screen - "tank build?" - then select the black guy who looks like Mr T, all muscle and brawn, "fleet and quick" - select the Chinese girl, can do fast martial arts, etc., - once that's done it's pretty standard "rescue a survivor from a beach resort because the island is swarming with zombies" missions, but then in one of the road tunnels that connect the different parts of the island I found a "secret door" ( actually really easy to spot, no skill required ) and was launched into a mini-game where you had to slaughter as many of the indigenous inhabitants of the island as possible within a set time - and wtf? They were pygmies wearing grass skirts and they had bones through their noses...and as the story progresses it gets worse as the cause of the zombie breakout is revealed - the natives are cannibals who eat the brains of their dead... I couldn't believe that this got made, let alone sold...
but, this got me wondering whether anyone else ( youtube, fb, etc., ) had noted the racist aspects of this mainstream game ( and others, where you may be battling 'terrorists', etc., ) - I'm guessing not as there was a sequel...
This discussion has reminded me of a Playstation 3 game that was a bestseller, available in all high street shops that sold games: Dead Island, which must be the biggest piece of racist shit that I have had the misfortune to play. My doubts were raised at the character selection screen - "tank build?" - then select the black guy who looks like Mr T, all muscle and brawn, "fleet and quick" - select the Chinese girl, can do fast martial arts, etc., - once that's done it's pretty standard "rescue a survivor from a beach resort because the island is swarming with zombies" missions, but then in one of the road tunnels that connect the different parts of the island I found a "secret door" ( actually really easy to spot, no skill required ) and was launched into a mini-game where you had to slaughter as many of the indigenous inhabitants of the island as possible within a set time - and wtf? They were pygmies wearing grass skirts and they had bones through their noses...and as the story progresses it gets worse as the cause of the zombie breakout is revealed - the natives are cannibals who eat the brains of their dead... I couldn't believe that this got made, let alone sold...
but, this got me wondering whether anyone else ( youtube, fb, etc., ) had noted the racist aspects of this mainstream game ( and others, where you may be battling 'terrorists', etc., ) - I'm guessing not as there was a sequel...
wektor
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surprisingly...
Controversial Dead Island Zombie Bait Edition Ships Anyway - IGN
The 'bloody female torso' edition has shipped despite Deep Silver's formal apology for its existence.
Report: Techland Is Bleeding Talent Due To Autocratic Management, Bad Feedback, And Lack Of Direction
Behind the scenes of the studio making Dying Light 2.
www.thegamer.com
william_kent
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I'm guessing that the Dead Island studio has a toxic atamosphere
wektor
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Not only them, similar cases with CDP RED. Hence why CBP2077 was a flop and will probably keep on being unplayable for the next couple years.
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Yeah Cyberpunk was disappointing in hindsight. Even if many of the bugs were cleaned up. I admire how ambitious it was though, creating such a massive and intricate world, if even a cosmetic and inaccessible one.
william_kent
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A couple of examples I've experienced - playing Go against a computer I've had dreams of black and white stones, desperately trying to create a second "eye" to avoid "atari"
various computer games - dreams of being stuck on platform, needing to jump to the next
after playing too much Quake - having to fight the urge to start strafe running or bunny hopping down the pavement - real world physics aren't that broken... thankfully I have never felt the desire or had the opportunity to "rocket jump" or do the trick with the grenade where you use the blast to jump high
one that disturbed me - I was watching a walking tour of Kabukicho, Tokyo and when they got to the big square with the amusement arcades I thought "oh, that's where we played the UFO catcher game", then realised that when we were there that we didn't actually go in any of the arcades and what I was remembering was the mini-game from Yakuza which is set in the same area...
various computer games - dreams of being stuck on platform, needing to jump to the next
after playing too much Quake - having to fight the urge to start strafe running or bunny hopping down the pavement - real world physics aren't that broken... thankfully I have never felt the desire or had the opportunity to "rocket jump" or do the trick with the grenade where you use the blast to jump high
one that disturbed me - I was watching a walking tour of Kabukicho, Tokyo and when they got to the big square with the amusement arcades I thought "oh, that's where we played the UFO catcher game", then realised that when we were there that we didn't actually go in any of the arcades and what I was remembering was the mini-game from Yakuza which is set in the same area...
Clinamenic
Binary & Tweed
Grenade jumps are a staple in game breaking, especially in halo.
Brings me back to that point about the developers anticipating this kind of behavior and even encouraging it, by creating ledges that can only be reached via grenade jump.
Brings me back to that point about the developers anticipating this kind of behavior and even encouraging it, by creating ledges that can only be reached via grenade jump.
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
2 Fort engineer giving you ptsd in your dreams
WashYourHands
Cat Malogen
Age of Empires pseudo languages from lan sessions tipping over into everyday lexicon
“Acquilan?”
- “Timberhoffvandy!”
“Acquilan?”
- “Timberhoffvandy!”
william_kent
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Quote from Andy Sharp's The Spaces Between: Outside The Circles of Time and Love's Secret Domain - from the Coil fanzine, man is the animal
reverse transfer phenomena - knowledge imparted in dreams
I've known a Master of their art who told me that many of their techniques came to them while dreaming
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