Who the fuck is nostalgic for 90's game reviews? Besides, they're not coming back anymore, kids have moved on from the format and embrace other kinds of barely disguised advertising nowadays.

Also the attitude presented in the comic is such a thin skinned one. Honestly, it doesn't even look any kind of a devolution to me if it were an accurate depiction. I absolutely do find "Why X is Feminist/Not Feminist" pieces absolutely dreary to read most of the time, it feels such a reductive approach. But that hardly describes any major video game journalism outlet. Pieces like these tend come from barely read blogs and perhaps a few liberal feminist authors, but the latter seem more present in TV, film and music criticism.

But what is mindboggling is presenting cheerleading consumer's choice, what ever it is, as a good one. There's nothing bad in critiquing a work harshly and a review that does just that won't necessary be harsh in tone. Today, I read Pauline Kael's review of Superman (1978). It is a very negative review, but there's no bitter snark to be found or insinuation that the reader's values are wrong if they disagreed with Kael's perspective. But I found it perfectly charitable, a bit disappointed in fact that the kids didn't get an exciting film. She sees some merit in the source comics despite seeing the art form as a "slang form of simplified storytelling" which while questionable was probably the received opinion among film critics in the 70's. One of her problems with Lois Lane in the film is that Christopher Reeves as Superman "outclasses her" and that the audience isn't "given clue to what our hero sees in Lois Lane." Again, this critique works because it's charitable enough. Faults seem larger when contrasted with some more successful aspect.

agreed take

this take is still piping hot unfortunately

This is a great take

that is a good take, sadly "doesn't really use twitter" is a major component of my brand

wow okay jeez

DONT

im gonna be mean >:-]

I hope that people are nice to gamemaster anthony.

Not a blockbuster to change the face of cinema like the Marvel Cinematic Universe has, but a fun little flick to watch.

Gamemaster anthony I hope people are nice to you

I sort of view this kind of thing as a bit pointless since the purpose of gaming is fun and just making AI better has been so far a bad way of making it happen. It's more of an interesting thing, something I'd watch from afar rather than see as good for gaming.

I mean, it's not there yet but this type of algorithm could eventually be applied to video game monsters. Pretty wild stuff.

Ooh open source :o

I was hoping it'd be a thing where you could play Doom but with the monsters having neural net smarts, and learning from you. But this too is cool.

pic pl-

he

nvm

Sorry, The Journal of Sonic Studies is real though.

Actually jfc there are so many scientific conferences it's mindboggling

Ooh this is useful. I was thinking of working around a physics engine but I might just end up writing me own for 2D, using the sonic physics guide.

The big thing is I'm worried about fuckiness with infinitesimally flat 2D meshes that don't use the extra 3rd dimension tbh.

These are really for understanding calculations from 8- and 16-bit consoles so may not be what you're looking for but still might help you understand how to get certain feels down hopefully.

Sonic Physics Guide. High-ish level overview of how physics calculations work for Sonic.

Mario Physics Guide. Lower level detail guide to SMB physics in all its hexadecimal glory.

I'm interested in the ones you find the most informative! Especially those that can deal with not-sprites. (I'm not gonna be in 3D but I am gonna have vectors so it's like 3D but with 2 dimensions? is there a word for that? i should know that right?)

huh this is a real thing

but no hedhehogs;;;((((

open source 3D Sonic

edit: Whoah, it looks more interesting than Sonic.

I dunno but I could link you to detailed articles about how the physics in sonic work

I recommend The Proceedings of the 12th International Congress of Sonic Studies

he's okay

http://i.imgur.com/o1JHs8U.gif

WELL THEN WELL THEN WELL THEN

i don't have one either it's on pc too