If a chartered plane heading to a furry convention crashed, the entire world's tech tree collapses in the same moment that plane crumples into the ground.
No we still have trans femmes but youd need so many more energy drinks for all the overtime and there wouldn't be a lot of security patches for a while
It's an immersive sim survival horror where you're weak, everything is horrifying, and if you lose you can get dismembered or raped. It's basically a reverse power fantasy designed to be deliberately unfair and unpleasant to play.
To add context, to the other comment, "designed to be unpleasant to play" is to be taken very literally, it was part of the phd thesis of the designer about horror games
I don't get what the big deal is, it seemed like a pretty standard Japanese descent into hell anime to me.
Maybe it's like Watchmen (the American comic) where you're supposed to have decades of Magical Girl trope logic that it brutally defies, but at least Watchmen was original. Madoka seemed to hew pretty closely to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
where you're supposed to have decades of Magical Girl trope logic that it brutally defies
From my experience, it's the opposite. If you've seen lots of magical girl anime, Madoka doesn't really stand out. If you haven't seen any magical girl anime before but you assume it's all shallow and happy, then you will be surprised by Madoka.
The eternal struggle of being a mahou shoujo fan is hearing people talk about how Madoka is such a shocking genre deconstruction and then finding out that they haven't seen any other mahou shoujo before. It's obvious that they're just repeating what they've heard other people say.
To be fair, Madoka is probably much darker than Pretty Cure or Aikatsu, but it's only marginally darker / more mature than Cardcaptor Sakura, Princess Tutu, Lyrical Nanoha, or Creamy Mami. And it's not a bad show, it's just wildly overrated. Maybe I need to rewatch it
Edit: and for the record, people also exaggerate how dark Princess Tutu is
I think a big part of it is that narrative flip from regular magical girl shows. I didn't watch magical girl stuff when I got it recommended to me, but I also didn't get any spoilers, so it still hit well. Similar to One Punch Man if you haven't seen the decade of shonen, the parodies of them don't hit.
the post makes a connection between it and trans people because of 2 reasons:
Marina in the sequel is a trans girl.
A lot of online trans people play both Fear & Hunger games due to being connected to more "experimental" art and, also... well, a lot of us have been through some shit, and F&H can provide the catharsis of having a game represent those emotions you've been feeling for years.
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youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 76 pts · 100d
Why would anyone hire a cis programmer who's not a fur all the competent gray beards are retired by now.
otacon239@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 100d
I was about to raise my hand, but I’m no longer in a full-time IT position, so you kind of have a point.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 17 pts · 100d
See its just weird
iocase@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 100d
If a chartered plane heading to a furry convention crashed, the entire world's tech tree collapses in the same moment that plane crumples into the ground.
youcantreadthis@quokk.au · 3 pts · 99d
No we still have trans femmes but youd need so many more energy drinks for all the overtime and there wouldn't be a lot of security patches for a while
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 52 pts · 100d
I'm hitting 50% despite being cis and not a programmer... Is this good or bad?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 100d
you're hired, here's your programmer socks and new pronouns
cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 100d
how do you get 50% with 3 questions?
ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.org · 18 pts · 100d
Knows hunger but no fear
CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 100d
They calculated it in JS
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 100d
The last one being Rust
saplyng@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 100d
Well if it makes you feel better I hit 100% and am currently trying to learn rust...
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 100d
Maybe you have a rusty car? Or hate memory leaks...
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 100d
I know what Rust is. Just zero skill. Als not a clue what Fear and Hunger is.
Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 100d
Tar Alcaran, the man who did not know fear!
Or hunger (but he's working out a lot).
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 100d
Its a game.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 100d
I figured that from context
TotallynotJessica@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 100d
It's an immersive sim survival horror where you're weak, everything is horrifying, and if you lose you can get dismembered or raped. It's basically a reverse power fantasy designed to be deliberately unfair and unpleasant to play.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 100d
Sounds like a 1980s text adventure.
jackr@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 100d
To add context, to the other comment, "designed to be unpleasant to play" is to be taken very literally, it was part of the phd thesis of the designer about horror games
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
Good, you sound cool
alapakala@quokk.au · 45 pts · 100d
Why are the still people using a Nazi service‽
athatet@lemmy.zip · 15 pts · 100d
Fr. Blue paid check and everything. Gross.
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 36 pts · 100d
"Madoka Magica" might as well be my trigger phase by now.
Tiresia@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 100d
I don't get what the big deal is, it seemed like a pretty standard Japanese descent into hell anime to me.
Maybe it's like Watchmen (the American comic) where you're supposed to have decades of Magical Girl trope logic that it brutally defies, but at least Watchmen was original. Madoka seemed to hew pretty closely to Neon Genesis Evangelion.
isyasad@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 100d
From my experience, it's the opposite. If you've seen lots of magical girl anime, Madoka doesn't really stand out. If you haven't seen any magical girl anime before but you assume it's all shallow and happy, then you will be surprised by Madoka.
The eternal struggle of being a mahou shoujo fan is hearing people talk about how Madoka is such a shocking genre deconstruction and then finding out that they haven't seen any other mahou shoujo before. It's obvious that they're just repeating what they've heard other people say.
To be fair, Madoka is probably much darker than Pretty Cure or Aikatsu, but it's only marginally darker / more mature than Cardcaptor Sakura, Princess Tutu, Lyrical Nanoha, or Creamy Mami. And it's not a bad show, it's just wildly overrated. Maybe I need to rewatch it
Edit: and for the record, people also exaggerate how dark Princess Tutu is
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 4 pts · 100d
I don't know. I had never seen another magical girl anime before, and it still stood out to me.
domdanial@reddthat.com · 0 pts · 100d
I think a big part of it is that narrative flip from regular magical girl shows. I didn't watch magical girl stuff when I got it recommended to me, but I also didn't get any spoilers, so it still hit well. Similar to One Punch Man if you haven't seen the decade of shonen, the parodies of them don't hit.
djsoren19@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 100d
It's like a mind virus, once you watch it you start to see it everywhere
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 5 pts · 100d
Yeah, truly.
It's a beautiful encapsulation of "what the fuck".
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 2 pts · 100d
I'm doing my best to keep those memoires locked away. right in front of From the New World
smiletolerantly@awful.systems · 1 pts · 100d
The Dvorak symphony or the Yusuke Kishi novel?
If the former, how dare you.
If the latter, ... sorry I haven't read it. おすすめですか。
ragingHungryPanda@piefed.keyboardvagabond.com · 1 pts · 100d
ah, I was referring to the trauma of madoka magica, and for some reason I had Stein's Gate in mind, but that wasn't mentioned here haha.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 100d
I really need to finish it, I’m like two episodes from the end!
happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 27 pts · 100d
Everyone's commenting on the whole programmer train.
Meanwhile I'm gonna comment on how the words "candidate" and "me" are in fucking parenthesis when there's LITERALLY no reason for that nonsense.
kotauskas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 100d
I like the additional separation it creates, not sure why it's supposed to be such a huge deal
pigup@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
(ME): (ME AGAIN)
captainlezbian@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 100d
What's fear and hunger?
GottaHaveFaith@fedia.io · 6 pts · 100d
realy dark videogame. I bought but never played it, didn't know it had something connected
tgirlschierke@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 98d
the post makes a connection between it and trans people because of 2 reasons:
Marina in the sequel is a trans girl.
A lot of online trans people play both Fear & Hunger games due to being connected to more "experimental" art and, also... well, a lot of us have been through some shit, and F&H can provide the catharsis of having a game represent those emotions you've been feeling for years.
Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 100d
GimmeUrBelt@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 93d
I don't know why but this post makes me feel angry.