kontextmaschine

bloodandhedonism:

bloodandhedonism:

judging from recent crimes involving the game, i can only hope pokemon go makes players and normies realize it’s time to finally goddamned clean up the streets

if nintendo is willing to do a true, proper pokemon mobile game then the chances of this increase a hell of a lot

i’m fine with pikachu being our generational savior if that’s what it takes

“The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown. The accumulated filth of all their sex and murder will foam up about their waists and all the whores and politicians will look up and shout ‘Save us!’… and I’ll look down and whisper 'Pika! Pika!’”

welp, about to go walk into a public park at midnight because there are 7 pokestops and the one in the dead center has a lure

kontextmaschine:

welp, about to go walk into a public park at midnight because there are 7 pokestops and the one in the dead center has a lure

I mean the whole idea of AR is “re-enchant the world!” but people forget they’ve grown up with bowdlerized Disney fairytales

polyaletheia:

kontextmaschine:

kontextmaschine:

welp, about to go walk into a public park at midnight because there are 7 pokestops and the one in the dead center has a lure

I mean the whole idea of AR is “re-enchant the world!” but people forget they’ve grown up with bowdlerized Disney fairytales

Now that’s a worthy gauntlet you’ve thrown down. I’d love to see someone pick it up.

Anyway, WTF is it with everyone I come across playing this game? Calling out @sevzem and @nihilsupernum here, who are usually pretty solid about neotenous weeaboo shit. Actually I asked my 13yo son about it and he said it was boring because you couldn’t battle them or something.

Honest to God, the reward mechanism is the friends you make along the way.

update: it was fine, I superficially hung out with 8 strangers

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lockrum:

jenlog:

officialghostfucker:

czechs-and-holdings:

beastofefreet:

Guys if you’re giving your Pokemon sexual names like CumSlut and Dickface and shit I really fucking hope you’re not gonna put them in gyms because today I talked to three little boys about ten, the same age as my baby brother, and they were so cute and excited about challenging a gym.

And it makes me so happy to see my generation out and about and having fun with Pokemon

But if you ruin it for little kids who are getting outside and having a blast and are so pumped to try and beat a gym

Then you’re trash and my witch ass is gonna curse the shit out of you

Is “DongJohnson” too far?

Leave me and Analfingering the sandslash alone

fuck kinda ten-year-old has their game ruined because people start swearing?

bruh nicknames dont even show up in gyms

Gratuitous vulgarity framed as an external imposition on the play of ten-year-olds.

I saw a post going around the other day that framed “Parents being angry at children for getting their nice clothes dirty playing in the mud” as a specifically female issue.

Complete sentences and nested clauses and drawing on well-respected idioms and zeitgeisty themes, and yet.

this, about re-enchanting the world and the darkness of original fairytales, got me thinking, I’ve been playing through the Witcher DLC the other day and it really is one of the best games-as-narratives I’ve ever seen

like the gameplay itself isn’t that deep tbh. dialogue choices and a third-person melee system that’s pretty sparse by prevailing Dynasties May Creed standards

but there’s so much atmosphere, and so much of it feels like these Polish devs just getting the ground-level fedualism right

and part of it is that there’s this interesting high/low distinction where the common village people live lives full of curses and magic and wondrous beasts

on top of which are layered these grand sweeping epics of military conquest that are just incredibly mundane, when you get down to it it’s a bunch of unremarkable people doing tedious logistics as a way to manipulate resource flows in a way that doesn’t at all affect lived meaning

like great kings and nobility might tangentially encounter magic as a macguffin on the way to resolving an incredibly petty dispute with significant bloodshed; to the extent it touches on their lives it’s often to the extent that they aren’t any different from the rabble

like there are flying humanoid monsters and the possibility of using them in war is lampshaded specifically to be mocked, battles are fought with armies full of village bullies slapped into cheap armor

(and there is an absurd amount of attention paid to material logistics as an aesthetic element, if an army is in the field there will be beachheads and depots not as a particular mission setting but just because it makes sense; every settlement, in environment designs that have no attached mechanics, serves a discernable economic purpose; there are pollarded trees)

but a nobleman’s unhappy marriage or thwarted youthful romance will manifest as like, actual monsters, presented with a backstory so psychologically real it’s not til halfway through the questline you realize you’re playing a riff on a famous fairytaile

drives home the point that a lot of folk tales were #relatable by virtue of being about human suffering

The people who settled on “One Google Account for everything Google” were aware of “One ring to rule them all” and made their decision in that knowledge.

sneffing:

beautyofabandonedplaces:

Communist factory in Albania [3233x2425]

I can’t believe this is where they make all the communists

kontextmaschine:

welp, about to go walk into a public park at midnight because there are 7 pokestops and the one in the dead center has a lure

I’m back again. There are like 20 people here, slowly walking around the trails in the dark. We are literally cruising for Pokemon. This is unreal.

Next someone has to make an AR app with finger-flick or Angry Birds mechanics to play golf off of your surroundings

After that, Tony Hawk. The finger skateboard guys could use their brands well for that

Nice to see some bar graphs on miles traveled and calories burnt as vs. Wii Fit and the Power Pad

needsmoreevanjellyon:

This is it, the whole Eva fanbase in one picture.

Man, Pokemon becoming real really took the edge off this race war. I almost forgot liberal democracy was collapsing anyway!

2016

Discovered One Weird Trick to make my Tinder experience more pleasant and rewarding

Set my maximum search age to 7 years younger than me

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

For you.

“The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results” and “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” are directly opposed parables