funkless_eck
@funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Destiny 2: Every End is a New Beginning 4 days ago:
Destiny 1 up to the Vault of Glass was incredibly special, and then had a lot of bumps but some great moments. House of Wolves, the Taken King, SIVA/Iron Lords and the first Moments of Triumph.
Although I played a lot of D2 it never quite got to the same level of magic.
The first couple of years with Curse of Osiris etc and their attempt to make everything zany really undid a lot of the cool atmosphere and story they did in D1.
Then when they made it so Your Guardian wasn’t The Guardian any more by having each world-first raid completion be canon (i.e. other guardians killed the raid boss not you, changing the Dreaming City, or opening up the Leviathan…) it was hard to keep the immersion alive.
There were so many things you needed other people to help you with it meant a significant portion of the game was interacting with other gamers - which means Bungie’s gaming experience is in the hands of one of the most mercurial groups of people on the planet.
They got back there with the Pyramid ships, Witch Queen, Vow of the Disciple, but by then we were in the content treadmill and everything felt disposable because they’d delete content regularly.
So you ended up with a temporary, non-ownable experience that relied on real world interaction with other gamers, in a world with incredibly scattershot storytelling of varying quality.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 days ago:
dih is dick as unalived is killed and seggs is sex on censored social media platforms like Instagram
- Comment on Do young people still say words like "taped"? 5 days ago:
no it’s all digital now. you have to use an app
- Comment on 20% of the time it works 100% of the time. 5 days ago:
this is every porn blog on imaglr, bdsmlr etc
- Comment on This is the dark souls of games journalism 6 days ago:
it’s sort of like a British carbonara
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
How does that work with software? If you create abandonware then it gets cracked, emulated or copied and shared for free.
- Comment on crap 1 week ago:
prince Andrew of nonceshire
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 1 week ago:
depends on how you throw em I guess
- Comment on Anon goes go-karting 1 week ago:
I hung out there a bit 20 years ago, because it was meant to be the best place that all the memes came from. it’s actually just porn, racism and fascists. No I’d say no.
- Comment on Anon watches redditors talk about bodycount 1 week ago:
I mean to me it’s no different than someone attempting a record number of kisses, handshakes, high-5s, haircuts, judo throws… or some other physical interaction. It just doesn’t really matter and has no big significance.
- Comment on ???? 1 week ago:
—Saturn
- Comment on Boomer comics 1 week ago:
puts hand on shoulder son, we’ve got to talk about your avocado toast
- Comment on I think my search is finally over! 1 week ago:
3.for friends. you never read Narnia?
- Comment on Anon has an epic weekend 1 week ago:
my ma has a story about her eating coal from the coal bunker in her Sunday best when she was a kid.
- Comment on Don't fuck them 1 week ago:
he wrote and directed the musical Hairspray and the movie Pink Flamingos. Both of which are worth it if you don’t have a predisposition to hating campy, lgbtq+ or musicals.
- Comment on What’s all the hubbub about this Marks guy he seems pretty chill 2 weeks ago:
didn’t the French president use the wrong le/la/les for an animal recently?
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
What about the Uniroyal tire, the Lansing Lugnut , and the JK welding screw?
- Comment on baby blues 2 weeks ago:
bigger than a school bus describes a Bodega, the eiffel tower, Mexico, Jupiter and the entirety of the universe.
- Comment on dont do it 4 weeks ago:
this was such an incredible skit. one for the ages
- Comment on Spitballin' 4 weeks ago:
something about Japanese burger photography I think
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I’ve had a bunch of group sex (cis bi male).
Nowadays I’d not be into it, but at the time it was fun.
i slightly skew towards preferring women but the best group sex I had, and the kind that i felt most comfortable was all men.
- Comment on Forensic Poetry 4 weeks ago:
also shakespeare is incredibly specific. the example I like to use is the famous
“Friends, Romans, Countrymen, Lend me your ears!”
Which takes place in a crowded marketplace.
Count the syllables: 1 (friends), 2, (romans), 3 (countrymen), 4 (lend me your ears)
it’s a line in which the meter matches the intent
Bill will also often add an eleventh unstressed syllable to his dialogue lines if he wants a character to seem vulnerable or weak, indicating they have fallen off meter because of their inner
very occasionally he does an eleventh STRESSED syllable when a character is being especially dominating and murderous.
The other famous examples is when a peasant or very low status character speaks, it won’t be in verse at all, but plain prose.
- Comment on nice weather we're having 5 weeks ago:
good luck I’m not making that image
- Comment on I made this 10 years ago 5 weeks ago:
it’s truly a masterpiece of perspicuousness
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 5 weeks ago:
perhaps your subjective experience is not the same as mine, and similarly, what I’ve experienced is not as universal as I hoped and my joking little comment about what it’s like to get unusual feedback doesn’t land with you - or anyone perhaps on this forum
and thats OK. My apologies if it didn’t resonate, but also I don’t think either of us will get any more out of bickering.
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 5 weeks ago:
you’ve never been in a situation like that? I have as a clown, a musician, a performance artist, a graphic designer and a marketer.
- Comment on I am about to learn everything. 5 weeks ago:
“can you make this green a little bit more like the feeling of biting a butterfly? and also rewrite the copy to make it more crunchy. You have 1 hour, yes I know it’s 3am”
- Comment on English has too many words for animals 1 month ago:
As we run the run of the route in rehearsal, I run the company’s schedule so the show runs on time, the engine runs and the lights run off backup power while the road runs north along a river that runs high and the dye might run in the rain, and as the contract runs a year and a rumor runs through town, I run for office to keep the operation running smoothly, avoid a run on supplies, keep late cues from running over, prevent us from running out of time or letting costs run up, run through notes and run them by the team, run tests and run the numbers, run lines until they run together, run a tight ship so nothing runs afoul of the rules, run risks we can afford, run hot when we must, and keep the whole run unbroken.
- Comment on Not even close 1 month ago:
not that i really care but in his defense he asked what sexual relations meant, they gave a definition and what he did with Lewinsky didn’t match that definition…
- Comment on Talk like an 👽 1 month ago:
it’s not that it’s not “math” it’s that the process by which we derive and conceptualize math may be alien to other consciousnesses.
we already have similar things like 0.999… = 1, or algebra, or base 10 v base 16 v base 2… is it so hard to conceive a race with different perception organs, a different “brain” that doesn’t look or function like ours, maybe non-carbon-based would operate in a way that is entirely alien?
Consider how from 400 BC to 1800 AD disease was spread by “miasma” and 20,000 years ago it wasn’t spread by “anything” because we didn’t have a framework or concept of the idea of disease transmission. Consider how before we went to space we thought there was “aether” outside the atmosphere, and before that it was “quinessetence” and before that it was a God or a celestial beetle or whatever…
Are we so bold as to claim that our grasp on what numbers are and their relation to the universe won’t change as much in another 2,000 years, or 20,000?