The OSR really came into focus for me when someone pointed out that it isn't about actual old-school gaming so much as the half-remembered vibes of what people think old-school gaming was like, the way some people think "the 80s" was all neon blue and pink shopping malls and synthwave tracks

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listen up pussies i'm announcing my new RPG: 𝘿𝙀𝘼𝙏𝙃𝘽𝘼𝘿 𝙎𝙃𝘼𝘿𝙊𝙒𝙎𝙆𝙐𝙇𝙇 ⚔️☠️ YOU'VE NEVER PLAYED A GAME LIKE THIS BEFORE AND NEITHER HAVE WE. UNLEASH BAD DEATH ON THE SKULLS OF SHADOWS IN THIS BLOOD GUSHING COMMERCIAL PRODUCT coming to make $5,000,000 on kickstarter this halloween............

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This is an ontological illusion produced by limited epistemological criticality The tulpa your brain invents held up by the symbols the algorithm produces is convincing to you, but the algorithm itself can't do any of those things. Read this: levelup.gitconnected.com/nlp-the-octo...

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I want to be explicit that Mark Zuckerberg, on the softest of softball podcasts, admitted he invested all this capex without really knowing whether any of it would work, shortly after his tech guy said that he had been repeatedly told “hey this better fucking work” by the CFO at an offsite

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I feel like people need to learn to be okay with old games just looking old and being a bit pixelated or low res. The demand for everything to be modernised and smoothed out for modern displays is part of the issue that's fuelled this sort of shit, I think.

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