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oh i like that word. good because you could plausibly use it *either* to describe the real-world thing being turned into a game (the thing being systemized) or the game itself (the system). the system is articulated
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So, assuming still we're talking about "the thing we do to the mechanic", I think there's a question to ask— *exactly* what change are you making to the mechanic?
1. Making it simulate or evoke a real-world behavior?
2. Adding friction, to give the experience texture?
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pressed send b4 seeing ur follow up
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I think I usually call this "systemizing", however, "systemizing" is the verb you do to grinding, attaching, etc… whereas I don't know what the verb you'd use if the object were *the gameplay mechanic*. My first whim is to say "concretizing" but maybe we can do better and also is that even a word.
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Post 3 of 3:
(Twitter was briefly a place where a speaker's words could sometimes count for more than the speaker's social power; the right accurately identified this as a threat, and sought to destroy that space, first through targeted harassment, then by simply buying the place and trashing it.)
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exactly
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Posting should be a collaborative activity
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Huh
Did u get a chance to play it. Is it fun
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the characters seem to have a real inner life to them. like they look like real people (have the imperfections / quirks real people have) but they also seem to be *inhabited* by real people, you're really good about drawing figures so they seem to be acting with intent or responding to surroundings
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What I want to know is why, with the other cover, nobody is talking about how cute her dress is.
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Apparently the big video game forum is losing its mind or something
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Anyway my take on the Carpenter cover is, I think it's significant the color grading suggests a Polaroid. If you take it as a semi candid photograph it changes the interpretation of the scene totally. Like teasing is happening, not "sexy" yet, someone's like "LOL oh hold that pose", "what?" "*snap*"
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The composition of the image is so expressive
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The very first time I got on AOL, like in 1992 or something, it popped up an alert box and asked you to read this list of "netiquette" suggestions. And the last item on the list was "Before sending a post, count to ten." I have never been able to stop thinking about this.
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ARE THEY REPLYING TO THE SIREN, THAT'S SO CUTE
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Okay my art skills are not good, but to concur, I just thought about this for a total of six seconds, and I would like to draw my own graphic of what I imagine would happen if there were a chaotic situation with a group of startled people and I decided to sit down
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%^&*$ing for Godot
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Yup
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Yes and there's a special thing that happens when you do
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It's ok. I volunteer to be the sacrifice
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Me: This is so cool I'm surrounded by cute furries! :D
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This is run 144 on this save file, since my "100% complete" run upthread was run 109, that means I spent 35 runs *just* trying to get the Fool run.
I'm now simultaneously thinking "okay! That's done! I can play Expedition 33 now!" and "Hmm… you know… I've actually never completed a *7-4* Fool run…"
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Thank u
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I WAS A FOOL!!!