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Of all the research I did, the history of Chinese RPGs is my favorite. It blew my mind how over 200 PC RPGs were created in the 90s and early 2000s, an output rivalled only by Japan and the US!
And yet, we never talk about these games... So let me give a very brief overview🧵
i missed it again this year :(
What do you call them: flap jacks, pancakes, or batterbread? #NationalPancakeDay neh.gov/news/flap-jacks-panc…
this looked sick so i googled and of course @macaw45 played it (at a glance the character sprite & background scrolling are great, the rest of it tries to space harrier so hard but can't quite manage it)
switching computers so i'm going through my screenshots folder, probably won't need this guy anymore
tbh we don't worry about this as much as we ought, our feeling is more 'if it doesn't break text boxes like german it's good enough'
ALT Sakurai in his "Text Size" video remarking 'When Japanese players play games from overseas, we often wonder, "Why is this text so small?"'
related! (the story i was told is that the rabbis forbade the creation of golems because without a soul they are unable to take responsibility for their actions)
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tbh when my landlord was like "the program says i have to raise your rent, nothin' i can do" i didn't think there was an actual program
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mike retweeted
"On January 13, 1946 Chester Gould introduced Dick Tracy’s 2-Way Wrist Radio, having drawn inspiration from a visit to inventor Al Gross ... it was eventually upgraded to a 2-Way Wrist TV in 1964, and a 2-Way Wrist Computer in 1986."
lots of well-meaning replies about "comments are so important when you come back to your code later" which... it's nice to be aware of but you're probably not going to experience it until you graduate (comments as planning/outline still useful, good habit)
sci-fi is when you build a big wall, fantasy is when you turn into a bug
I teach Kafka in my "Philosophy and Science Fiction" class and the students generally don't like it much. I teach "The Great Wall of China", the joke being that the wall is a classic SF tech mega-or-macro-structure, aka Big Dumb Object, so this is SF. 1/ kafka-online.info/the-great-…
and then sean stewart from the other direction, he's got a good grasp on the fantastic (the interview's about galveston but he's taken a bunch of bites at this apple, all worth reading) [locusmag.com/1999/Issues/03/…]
i enjoy attempts to split genres more than settling on any particular split, so to help confound tendentious misreadings of ted chiang, here's kip manley's summary of clute's division (longstoryshortpier.com/2013/…)
