what if we were at blue diner and I reached across the table to hold your hand what if I haven’t told anyone just like we promised have you what if every time I drive through the city where you’re from I squeeze a little what if I take coffee and anything you wanna give me what if I love you or loved you or something in between
I don’t know yet if Death Stranding does this, but I’ve come around to respecting Kojima and his teams for the sheer volume of background history they just dumped into their games, sometimes as optional text, often as unskippable exposition by people with no time to stand around and chat.
Like as a player and reader yes I will sit here and do this, but as a project manager type I’d be supremely annoyed to see that Hideo spent this sprint writing the complete history of the rise of the nanoclass instead of the dialogue required for the scene between Unquenchable Marmoset and President Mads Mikkelsen.
“We’re riddled with pointless talk, insane quantities of words and images. Stupidity’s never blind or mute. So it’s not a problem of getting people to express themselves but of providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people expressing themselves but rather force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, and ever rarer, thing that might be worth saying.”
A bird explaining to a hedgehog crossing so it doesn’t die.
!!! ok but that’s legitimately what it’s doing!! That’s a corvid right there (looks like a hooded crow, to be precise), which means it’s intelligent enough to recognize, a) cars are dangerous and streets should be treated with a certain degree of caution, b) this car’s slowing down for them–cars do that sometimes–which means they’re not in imminent danger, so it doesn’t have to fly away just yet, c) that hedgehog’s still gonna get killed if it doesn’t MOVE, FAST (cars can change speed very quickly and the hedgehog’s still in the way), and almost certainly also d) if the bird does nothing it gets a free lunch.
Y’all, Y’ALL. This bird is consciously deciding to put itself in danger in order to save the life of a very stupid creature. A creature which, if the bird did nothing, could be free food.
i can’t – look if you follow me you know I have a thing for corvids, but this is – like!!! People are always saying “ah yes they have sub-human intelligence and don’t consider anything that isn’t immediately necessary for their own survival/pleasure,” but! Whether or not it can do philosophy, this crow is clearly demonstratingcompassion. Even if it’s just the kind of compassion a toddler shows to a snail, a social creature that instinctively recognizes the potential for emotion in other beings, that’s still huge and cool and important and corvids!!! are! neat!!!
My one new resolution for the year is to eat vegetarian because I already consume protein as small cubes that look nothing like the living muscles they once were so a plant-based protein can accomplish the exact same thing.
