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TM;DR (Too Medium, Didn't Read): "Stuff doesn't look the way I want it too! I'm not sure how I want it to look, maybe like the Matrix? But not like the Matrix.

TM;DR (Too Medium, Didn't Read): "Stuff doesn't look the way I want it too! I'm not sure how I want it to look, maybe like the Matrix? But not like the Matrix. I dunno. GIVE ME MONEY ON PATREON." Oh, there is one really good quote that offsets the Medium-ness: "I want VR applications that don’t seek to simply recreate ordinary videogames, but instead drive the user into an existential crisis that challenges their mortality."

Noseshine 10y ago
> but instead drive the user into an existential crisis that challenges their mortality So something like Total Perspective Vortex? [0] Quote [1]: > The most horrifying form of torture/punishment in the known Universe. The Total Perspective > Vortex (it's so mind bogglingly terrifying it even gets Capital Letters) is a small, > featureless steel box, barely big enough for one man to stand in. > The hopeless victims stand in the Vortex, and are suddenly shown, for the merest instant, > the whole of the Universe: the whole infinity of creation, spanning over several trillion > light years, and countless millennia, with an insignificant dot saying "You Are Here". [0] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Total%20Perspective%20Vortex http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Total%20Persp...
- throwanem 10y ago
  Isn't that more of a challenge to narcissism?
  - Noseshine 10y ago
    > The victims, totally demoralised by their experience, fall dead from the vortex, wherupon > they become the burden of the Vortex' custodian, Pizpot Gargravarr. I'd say that sort-of loosely fits "that challenges their mortality" :) PS: That name of the custodian... never noticed it before, guess I was too young and not yet as comfortable with English.
omginternets 10y ago
You forgot "political writer for hire" paired with terrible writing ("Point being, is that Apple [...]" FFS) and a pretentious photo. I usually stay away from personal attacks but this guy clearly likes to hear himself talk, and clearly has a highly-inflated opinion of himelf. The result is something that feels like equal parts scummy marketing and impoliteness. I know I shouldn't be making a big deal out of this but the patreon bit really ticked me off.
- throwanem 10y ago
  I'm fine with the Patreon bit. What better précis of his efforts' market value?
  - omginternets 10y ago
    >What better précis of his efforts' market value? I don't think that's what it is. I think it's pandering thinly disguised as gratitude and pedigree. Otherwise stated, I think he wants us to believe that the market values his work, but I don't believe it actually does. That's the "scummy marketing" bit. And to be clear this is all intuitive. I can't point to a single thing and say "see? that's proof positive.", but the overall impression I'm left with is very, very negative. Taken in the context of his shoddy writing and "fronting" in the photograph, it suggests a kind of person I truly have trouble appreciating. I'd love to be wrong about this, though. The point is that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts, and my visceral reaction is quite strong and quite negative. At the very least, this guy presents poorly, which is problematic for someone in his line of work.
    - throwanem 10y ago
      Well, don't take me to suggest he meant it as what I describe it to be...
rahilb 10y ago
>"Stuff doesn't look the way I want it too! I'm not sure how I want it to look, maybe like the Matrix? But not like the Matrix. I dunno. GIVE ME MONEY ON PATREON." Articles like this have always existed, and sometimes people listen too. For example Ornament and Crime (arguably the first paper espousing minimalist design)... http://www2.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Loos.pdf http://www2.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Loos.pdf I guess my point is it's unfair to dismiss opinions as invalid just because they're opinions.
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Noseshine 10y ago

> but instead drive the user into an existential crisis that challenges their mortality So something like Total Perspective Vortex? [0] Quote [1]: > The most horrifying form of torture/punishment in the known Universe. The Total Perspective > Vortex (it's so mind bogglingly terrifying it even gets Capital Letters) is a small, > featureless steel box, barely big enough for one man to stand in. > The hopeless victims stand in the Vortex, and are suddenly shown, for the merest instant, > the whole of the Universe: the whole infinity of creation, spanning over several trillion > light years, and countless millennia, with an insignificant dot saying "You Are Here". [0] http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Total_Perspective_Vortex [1] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Total%20Perspective%20Vortex http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Total%20Persp...

throwanem 10y ago
Isn't that more of a challenge to narcissism?
- Noseshine 10y ago
  > The victims, totally demoralised by their experience, fall dead from the vortex, wherupon > they become the burden of the Vortex' custodian, Pizpot Gargravarr. I'd say that sort-of loosely fits "that challenges their mortality" :) PS: That name of the custodian... never noticed it before, guess I was too young and not yet as comfortable with English.

omginternets 10y ago

You forgot "political writer for hire" paired with terrible writing ("Point being, is that Apple [...]" FFS) and a pretentious photo. I usually stay away from personal attacks but this guy clearly likes to hear himself talk, and clearly has a highly-inflated opinion of himelf. The result is something that feels like equal parts scummy marketing and impoliteness. I know I shouldn't be making a big deal out of this but the patreon bit really ticked me off.

throwanem 10y ago
I'm fine with the Patreon bit. What better précis of his efforts' market value?
- omginternets 10y ago
  >What better précis of his efforts' market value? I don't think that's what it is. I think it's pandering thinly disguised as gratitude and pedigree. Otherwise stated, I think he wants us to believe that the market values his work, but I don't believe it actually does. That's the "scummy marketing" bit. And to be clear this is all intuitive. I can't point to a single thing and say "see? that's proof positive.", but the overall impression I'm left with is very, very negative. Taken in the context of his shoddy writing and "fronting" in the photograph, it suggests a kind of person I truly have trouble appreciating. I'd love to be wrong about this, though. The point is that the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts, and my visceral reaction is quite strong and quite negative. At the very least, this guy presents poorly, which is problematic for someone in his line of work.
  - throwanem 10y ago
    Well, don't take me to suggest he meant it as what I describe it to be...

rahilb 10y ago

>"Stuff doesn't look the way I want it too! I'm not sure how I want it to look, maybe like the Matrix? But not like the Matrix. I dunno. GIVE ME MONEY ON PATREON." Articles like this have always existed, and sometimes people listen too. For example Ornament and Crime (arguably the first paper espousing minimalist design)... http://www2.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Loos.pdf http://www2.gwu.edu/~art/Temporary_SL/177/pdfs/Loos.pdf I guess my point is it's unfair to dismiss opinions as invalid just because they're opinions.

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