ZiaNitori @ZiaNitori@masto.anarch.cc

they need things to be this simple because moral stimuli need to produce clear answers to them. as defenders of societies reproduction, they know that civilization cannot function without this regime

they need you to tell them that you see things fundamentally the same as them and that you arent one of those glasses wearers that's going to talk about "perspectives" and complicate things

the way social conservatives need you to believe in Reality should be more clearly understood as them trying to get you to accept a contract

if you care about ancestors and you're not someone who's ancestors were genuinely interesting (basically only some indigenous people) than odds are that you're just a new aged fascist

there's an old guy who's been growing stuff in the woods his whole life and i always feel like i learn a ton from him whenever he talks so i was really excited to see a youtube rec pop up that was him on a podcast. the first thing i hear when i click the vid is them asking him for his ancestry and i clicked off instantly

still need to work on fixing my habits with weed but i'm thinking thats a longer term project seeing as i still want to use it to shape my habits easier

been getting out every morning and practicing singing and walking the dogs, i'm hoping i keep this habit up cause i can feel my voice getting better every day

rn figuring out some stuff about early human civilization is the largest bottleneck in me making progress on the pokemon game lol

the setting of the second half of the game takes place in civilization on it's last legs before it's swallowed by the expanding desert and the sea, but in it's final gasps it only pushes the gas harder and the player's goal is to dismantle some of the biggest machines that are doing the most damage which will often result in things in the overworld changing as a direct result

i think i've finally figured out what the central questline the second half of the game is going to look like in broad strokes and unsurprisingly the primary goal of the main character is going to be doing massive industrial sabotage for ecological reasons

i think i like the idea of a world where civilization is this thing that keeps happening and there are artifacts from old civs around. i like when i see other media kind of imply this with old magics and stuff, like the sheika in zelda, though that's probably not the best example. i want to add in a big old wizard tower that's filled with ghosts and has a tons of weird hidden secrets in it that can incentivize the player to keep coming back to it and i want to model it off of karazhan from wow. i think i want there to be something like a "true ending" or alt ending that involves going here that gives a bit more lore about the old world as it relates to the resolution of the story of this game but i dont know how i want to end the game. i dont know if i want civilization to be overcome by the player, i dont know if things are even going to end on a hopeful note

so alie helped me put to words something about the pokemon game i want to capture. the really horrifying thing about living in a totalitarian world is precisely what is normal and every shitty dystopia book needs to include elements of things that arent normal to the societies they exist in for the average reader to even realize something is wrong. this is fucking lazy and a cop out and doesnt actually help people realize how fucked the world around them is, instead looking at the difference and thanking History that things arent like that. so i think the real way to show how horrifying things are is to make the society pretty normal, but have it contrast with something better. as said before, i really like the idea that orangutans can speak, they just dont so they dont get made to work and one of the strongest ways to signpost to that there's something wrong in this game will be pokemon being able to talk with/interact with the player more in the beginning of the game which isnt properly civilized and wont talk at all in the later sections of the game. that should signpost to the slow players that there's something wrong without running into the issues stated before. there's a lot of other things though that will just keep changing as the player gets closer and closer to the heart of the beast, stuff like people generally being more fearful and lazy, the selection of wild pokemon changing, eventually turning into only trainer battles at some point in the places that are almost completely paved over, and the introduction of the money resource in the mid-game as a replacement for a more interesting resource system that isnt universally exchangeable combined with a noticable change in behavior of vendors and adjacent things to show the violence behind the transaction.

gonna get back into the rhythm of posting on here i was starting to get into before things went down with longer form rambly stream of conscious stuff

yooo it's back!

posted a banger on bluesky that felt appropriate to repost over here

progress on singing finally, reading has pretty expectedly fallen to the side while sunshine is over but it's not been too had to keep chipping away at it in the morning, though i need to read a little faster if i want to finish in time for colin's group on society must be defended. small chance i'm in the 150's by the time phoenix comes over but regardless of my weight i'm going to look like a god lmao

i dont even get mad at mosquitoes anymore i get mad that people create and preserve environmental conditions that are hostile to their natural predators

wild that basically everyones politics just assume human supremacy when i've liked nearly every non human animal *significantly* more than most every human i've met. very easily the worst animal!