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one of the greatest tragedies in life is that you will always be loved more than you will ever know. someone in class finds your presence inviting and warm, even if you’ve only ever exchanged a few words with them—maybe none at all. someone on the street loves your smile and it gets them down the next few streets. someone you used to be friends with still wishes to fondly call your name. someone you used to be friends with five years ago would give anything to be in the same room as you today. someone who regularly comes into work is disappointed when you aren’t there to brighten their day. someone missed you today. someone noticed you were gone. someone loves you when you’re there; someone loves you when you’re nowhere to be found at all. you think you have always disappeared when you’re no longer in the picture, but you’ve never left the frame.
Hey! You're post about YNFGs was spot on! Interesting I read a philosophy article on a similar topic (earthbound-likes and pokemon-likes) and some indie person who was seething about Omori. TL:DR: games have a ontology leading back to a part of experience. Eventually you get a point where your ontology is 5 frames of other people's subjective experience layered on top with no "real" at the point. Pokemon, for example, was based on a guy's childhood memory of catching bugs vs rapid urbanisation. Then 20 years later you get a pokemon clone that's someone's experience of smogon battles, on top of someone's experience for playing pokemon, ontop of whatever the current layer is. You end up getting a hollow "shell" of layered improvements but "self-expression" is lost in a hall of mirrors of repeated frames of an experience. I hope this sort of makes sense, I'm not a philosopher but this has been a growing concern in a wider gaming philosophy not just YNFG. P.S. I've found a lot of good music through your blog. Probably wasn't the intention but .flow still lives rent free and now so does a playlist of songs Keep drawing and look after yourself!!!
THANK YOU! I was worried I was throwing out incomprehensible word salad and the point wouldn't be clear so I'm glad to hear it came across. The way you worded it makes perfect sense, and was more or less what I was trying to say in post.
Not pointing fingers or trying to make them look bad, but I think YNO and large collaborative games like 2kki really expedited this issue. Some people get into ynfg through online 2kki and so their experience is more of a weird/pretty dream exploration game with friends instead of something with loneliness at heart. It's a completely different experience that lacks a lot of what made people so fond of the original [dealing with loneliness and being withdrawn, indirect story telling and theory crafting, stuff like that.]
Like it's great that new players have such an easy way to play the games now and I'm happy more people are finding out about them via YNO and such, it's just you gotta be aware of how different it is from the original if you're gonna make a fangame.
AYE good to hear! Music is a big passion and I tend to listen to non-mainstream stuff so it's cool getting other people into it. Hell yeah!
I will do my best, life can be a struggle sometimes heh. Hope you take care as well~
