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there's no way this won't come off as a dickish question buuuuut how much of this is deliberate? like the fact that the enemies live in a place called 'Contra' and they "control all means of production", is this a deliberate marxist thing or are you just using these phrases? i mean dont get me wrong a POLITICAL RPG which actually addressed these ideas would be cool as heck, i'm just wondering if that's actually what you're doing!

hey I didn't post here before since I was waiting for a release and suspected you guys must be sick of people going LOOKES GOOD @_@ but this is really cool. not just the custom graphics but also the uh general aesthetic of hat powers and robot dogs and a black main character named Maurice and just the fact you guys are doing something different and actually creative rather than making meaningless changes to some stupid genre formula. good luck with this.

it should be supportive but it should recognise what deserves support in the first place: this is why it's important to support imagination and creativity, which do not particularly require design experience or talent to implement. i think the values of the peer group (horrible term but whatever) count for a lot in this respect: if people come to a forum where the focus is on mapping, they will respond to that! also it will always be somewhat competitive from human nature and even basic feasibility (the writers on fanfiction.net could probably improve with criticism but really life is too short to write detailed critiques for sephiroth/goku pornography) but some things lead to a healthier competition than others. i have no problem with a community that competes for attention from players, as long as it does so in a healthier way basd on actual creative merit rather than the current lighting-effects-and-postcount method.

I kind of dislike bullying and circlejerkish bullshit too, like those stupid reviews that exist only so the reviewers can make pretend-witty remarks and stupid internet jokes about screenshots taken out of context, or the way the whole community seems to suddenly jump on random games just so they can feel good about their own work (like what happened to that project doad game or that one rhythm-action game which got four half-star reviews over the course of like a day).
This is possibly hypocritical because I have no real problems with mocking stuff or being a dick myself but I try to restrict this to attacking this kind of circlejerkish behavior and meanness. I don't particular see the point of whaling on some 14-year-old's anime game but I do dislike it when the entire community seems bent on reinforcing each others lazy and unhealthy ideas about cliches and unoriginality and fucking polish. I also try to be as open as possible with what I DO admire and appreciate and like so that people get a fair shot at me as well. I don't think it's unfair to expect some degree of actual creative effort if people want critique etc on their games and I don't really see the point of going N-NOOOO at any criticism harsher than chipset critique. Steel from GW made a great point about this once when he talked about the whole "nice guy" thing in critiquing culture here, where you point out some meaningless technical fault so you can give criticism and still come off as a nice guy. This is why Mister Big T can post screenshots of 10-year-old anime girls being sodomised by dragons and the next person to post will go UMMM THAT MAP LOOKS A BIT EMPTY :/ .

So yeah, I do think it's too easy to fall into some default FEH....FEH attitude but I don't think the antidote to this is to suggest some vague Get Happy! thing. I think the antidote is to actually raise and develop and encourage meaningful standards about what you create and how you act and then work from there. To actually discuss and constantly question things instead of falling into intellectual laziness and circlejerking. I don't care if someone gets their feelings hurt but it should be for a good reason, as part of an actual discussion and exchange of ideas. And both the excessively negative and the excessively positive ways of doing things are both kind of unhealthy deviations from this goal.

Fantastic Mr. Fox - my first wes craven film. I enjoyed it enough.

ahaha this is the best burn