fr bc why let people spend money on a game that they can’t even play? easy mode allows less skilled players to adapt to playing the game and improve, so that they can play on normal mode for their next playthrough if they so wish
It's soooo funny that we live in a post-Celeste world and people still talk about video game difficulty like there's some sort of objective 'sacred artistic vision of the developer' bullshit at play, as opposed to the immensely more nuanced 'every player has different needs and we as devs should be actively taking steps to get more players to play the thing we spent years making because that solution is literally just better for everyone involved' thing.
Like hey dude sorry that your rigid idea of video games as media is trapped in ideals that are like 20 years out of date. Hope you get over that!
one of the biggest things I can advocate for (in academia, but also just in life) is to build credibility with yourself. It’s easy to fall into the habit of thinking of yourself as someone who does things last minute or who struggles to start tasks. people will tell you that you just need to build different habits, but I know for me at least the idea of ‘habit’ is sort of abstract and dehumanizing. Credibility is more like ‘I’ve done this before, so I know I can do it, and more importantly I trust myself to do it’. you set an assignment goal for the day and you meet it, and then you feel stronger setting one the next day. You establish a relationship with yourself that’s built on confidence and trust. That in turn starts to erode the barrier of insecurity and perfectionism and makes it easier to start and finish tasks. reframing the narrative as a process of building credibility makes it easier to celebrate each step and recognize how strong your relationship with yourself can become
the fact that Israel can precisely target ONE apartment in an entire residential block in BEIRUT to kill two hamas leaders, proves once again that they CHOSE to carpet-bomb Gaza and murder 31.000 Palestinians to "defend themselves" against Hamas. Israel CHOSE to kill civilians, they CHOSE to bomb every hospital, every school, every refugee camp, every residential block. israel does NOTHING to spare the lives of palestinians, they want to thin out the population of gaza so they'd be able to settle their citizens there.
this is a genocide it's an ethnical cleansing PLEASE WAKE UP don't stop talking about Palestine it is not a trend, people are still dying, Israel has no plan to stop if WE don't force it to, through public pressure and protesting and boycotting. it's the least we can do.
early stages of friendship are Soooo embarrassing like yea sorry....... it's me again............ i enjoy talking to you and spending time with you....... you can shoot me point blank if you want i dont mind
fellow Americans what the hell do we do now???
i really looked up to the person i was 3 years ago, and spent the better half of a year moping and mourning the loss of that person because i’d “changed for the worse”.
recently found a diary from the same period i was romanticising and lo and behold! i was depressed asf back then too, and hated life, but i just thugged things out instead of feeling sorry for myself (and had an actual support system in place. so the only difference since then isn’t even my fault).
moral of the story is stop being so damn hard on yourself
searching for the most "perfect" and "unproblematic" kind of representation will fuck with your ability to enjoy the media you consume. Characters are going to fuck up and act like humans. They might engage with problematic tropes and behaviours. sometimes it will be toxic and sometimes it will be soft and thats not a bad thing. you will disagree with actions and choices because thats how media works.
you dont have to love every queer character and story BUT acting like only one specific niche of representation is "acceptable" and good? fuck that. And as i said in that other post. STOP ACTING LIKE ONE MOVIE OR SHOW WILL DISMANTLE THE FIGHT FOR QUEER RIGHTS.