twovests

twovests wrote

Reply to Time for a creative exercise: What is the cup and ball of video games? by hollyhoppet

Ball-in-a-cup presents an obvious objective with a clear way to obtain it. Crucially, most people can look at it and see what the point is. It has centuries of history and is a craft that someone can replicate it without having to do any research on it. It relies mostly on skill, with most "randomness" being attributed to the inherently chaotic system. It has myriad variations.

I imagine now those myriad, ultra-shitty Game-and-Watch esque games. You know the ones, which can be replicated on the cheapest LCD display the world has to offer.

But which game meets all these factors, while also being so ubiquitous and important? Which videogame has been used as a courtship device, a gambling device, a competitive device, while also being an absolutely leisurely and mindnumbing activity?

Which game deserves the title of Contendor to Ball in a Cup?

It has to be Tetris.

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twovests OP wrote

Reply to leftist required reading (2022) by twovests

all jokes aside i like how "leftist" ideas are becoming more mainstream and marketable but i dislike how they're being sold to us

"the boys" and "mr robot" are legitimately some of the best shows and i recommend them, and they have some good messages, anti-capitalist ones at that. but they don't dig very deep and they completely avoid concepts like "unions".

in "the boys", there are in-universe superheroes but also they make superhero movies, and the criticism ends at "haha sometimes superheroes are cringey" and not "hey, these super-expensive films couldn't exist in an ethical economic system", because that would implicate "the boys" irl as well.

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twovests wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by oolong in washing machine broke :c by oolong

This absolutely sucks, I hope you have a laundromat nearby. A laundry machine breaking is way more of an inconvenience than it has any right being :(

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twovests wrote (edited )

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in [Admin note: this article is reactionary garbage and the user has been banned] Why We Don't have Enough Free Speech on the Internet by LG836

Not to sound like a samey freeze-peacher, but I value transparency like this. The best forums have high moderation standards with clear reasoning.

This poster seemed to ride the line of blogspam, genuinityness unclear, but also this is just a silly lil internet forum. Bans are easy and free, and very cool

jst pst remains the best place to pst

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