1. obviously there's the fact that her critiques of DE are so unabashedly surface-level that you cannot tell if she's actually played the game or read a plot summary/review of it.
  2. but there's also the fact that she's proposing a supposed improvement on what DE is with her own prompt, which in-and-of-itself is the lowest form of critique in my eyes–'what if you had an entirely different idea?'
  3. and then the prompt itself is a doozy:
    1. she somehow found a way to both critique DE for being unimaginative with its scenario/having a white man protag and propose, in alternative, the absolute whitest possible scenario imaginable
    2. in the implicit shift from a grimy Eastern Europe to a comfy Western Europe, she's managed to gentrify her scenario proposed in a critique about diversity
    3. she wants to keep disco elysium's, unexamined by her, 'wonderful writing', while stripping it of all the rawness and deliberate confrontation that is at the heart of it that would conflict with the idyllic nature of her scenario and her stated opposition to griminess
    4. her idea of a more diverse story, if we're taking it as she's presenting it, is swapping a white guy with a white gal, which, I mean, diversity win, I guess.
    5. the fact that this is the most generic, safest-possible indie game idea imaginable. I could go on itch.io and find 50 of pretty much that game. this is the idea that like 50% of developers have when they're thinking of a quick point-and-click game for a game jam.

i could go on, but the most scathing possible point I could make to this tweet is that this person is a BAFTA Judge strangelove-wow

  • invo_rt [he/him]
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    7 months ago

    oh boy... another game about a quirky girl and a cat pain

    Also, how the hell is that concept going to carry DE's writing? What biting ideological commentary will there be in a cozy game?

    de-volition "Whatever you do, do NOT look up the post. It's nearly four years old. Let it go."

    • marxisthayaca [he/him,they/them]
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      7 months ago

      Savoire Faire - you dance naked in the moonlight to Taylor Swift’s new album. Floating in the space left behind other witches. Logic - It’s time.

      Time for what? Time for a new tour? Am I late?

      Logic - it is time to fight Muhammed (Peace be upon him) in the Astral Plane. We must fight the moors and return to paganism. Encyclopedia [Skill Check] - the Moorish invasion of Spain and subsequent reconquista brought about the inquisition and the institution of Christianity in Western Europe