Ol’ Georgie boy wasn’t wrong. (Well, about cars. If I remember correctly he was wrong about his mom’s love).
Ol’ Georgie boy wasn’t wrong. (Well, about cars. If I remember correctly he was wrong about his mom’s love).
I’d argue TV is a side effect of the same thing that killed strong communities in the US, not the cause. Look at Europe, they all have TV’s and screens, plenty laying video games, but they still have active third spaces.
I think your comment on cars is more right. Americans “embraced” (thanks car companies for buying and killing our public transit) suburban sprawl through our embrace of cars. This meant we moved away from denser downtown areas where people could intermingle by chance and moved instead to splintered specialized places (thanks for having the way to our modern hell Edward Bassett). This got mixed with the American dream picket fence and lawn pushed by Monsanto post WWII and sprinkled with some casual racism and other issues to become a death spiral away from mixed use zoning and into large separate houses and plots of land. So life became “simple”. Home, grocery store, work.
You can’t just walk five minutes down the street anymore to a coffee shop or jazz club and find yourself rubbing elbows with people, and everyone driving cars to a dense social area just doesn’t work, if everyone tried to go to their city’s downtown the parking would just not support it. So we replaced this socializing with TV. A symptom sprouted from the root cause, not the cause itself.
There’s been a push to change zoning laws back to allowing mixed zoning which would directly improve this, but NIMBYs are out in force against it because it will lower the value of their home, which is a whole other related issue.
Honestly not even brownouts. I was so hyped for the potential of IOT to let distributed power management be a bigger thing. Throw your laundry in the wash when you have enough and just let the electric company trigger it when they’ve got excess or low consumption periods to help balance things.
Instead we get unsecure cameras or DDOS botfarms piggybacking “smart” thermostats or fridges that let you tweet.
But apparently it can’t cover the cost of monopoly go!? That, that amuses me. I need to look into that one more.
My gaming groups (both tabletop and video) are leaning into experimental phase of trying new stuff. Count me in if I ever come across your release in the wild.
On the music and visual side. If at all possible I highly recommend finding or hiring someone to at least review what you have and advise, if not doing all the work. There’s so much to both that it takes ages to get right but they can have such a huge impact as you seem to know.
I’m really open to anything. I tend to lean towards RPGs or story games (Life is Strange, Dear Esther, and Stanley Parable for instance) but I play most anything.
Do you have any examples of smaller studio made games with flashy imagery and effects to match the good story? Really I’m just looking for game recs and want to get away from the usual “big” names for a bit.
Our neighbor’s cat used to come hang out on our deck just like that before we moved. Man I miss him. He’d just chill and meow at the window if we weren’t out.
starts seeding.
Immediately remembers data cap he keeps running into
Sadly stops seeding
It could just be nostalgia, but I put the Halo 1 box art up there. Not too complex, obviously action game, obviously sci-fi. But for sure Traveler is top 10.