I think there’s something extremely vidgam about games that are sort of shit but transcend their shitness. Like Ride to Hell or Crying Is Not Enough. You can see the seams of the medium
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truly the most vidgamest gam in 1993 was Bubsy in Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
personally i think a videogame isnt videogamey unless you’re going through a tunnel really fast
and shooting
shooting in a tunnel
very videogame
reading my old posts is a testament to how much i really cared about y’all thinking i was smart, now i’m just a big dumbass who gets drunk on a podcast about ancient video games
I think that’s the personal story arc for everyone posting for the first time on IC/SB. We were all anxious at first and tried really hard to fit in with the smart people. Then at some point we just breathe and let it all hang out
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my strategy of never thinking before i post has paid off pretty well
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Yeah I used to get hell of anxious about being smart on here, then I stopped, and it was fine.
dog days
the only place to have ever produced a ‘videogame’ is glorioustrainwrecks.com
everything else is an expensive imitation
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I hadn’t considered this before but you have helped me realize that in fact Tempest is the videogamest videogame
one of the tempests at least
EDIT: oops i should scroll up more before posting, u already waid that. well anyway, i agree
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Wind-Up Bird Chronicle is a pretty novelly novel, but I think the novellest novel is probably Anna Karenina. I mean, Tolstoy even straight up said “War and Peace wasn’t a real novel” and then intentionally tried to make what he considered a “proper” novel with AK.
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I started reading AK but never finished it. It’s not the books fault though. I just had one of those episodes where I stopped reading novels altogether at that time. That happens to me every now and then. Then I never got back to it. But if it’s more novelly than Wind-Up Bird then I’ve got to read it. My girlfriend is going to take me on a vacation this month and that would be the ideal time for that…
It’s good! I read it as a teen and my takeaway was “this will probably make more sense when I’m older and understand life”, i should probably revisit it
My memory just refreshed and I think what I was thinking about was actually Master and Marguerite! I started that. I now remember that I put Anna Karenina and all Tolstoi books off “until I’m old enough.” I had this thing as a kid where I asked myself if I’m old and mature enough to read something to get the most out of it and if the answer was no I’d put it off. I always wanted to read War and Peace for example but the answer was always no. It’s kinda weird to gate yourself like that but that’s what I do.
I think I’m ready for Anna Karenina now