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It takes a disbelief in some portion of the old tri-omni conceptualization of the divine, mostly. Same as a lot of things about biology that's either remarkably dumb, maladaptive, or would be outright malicious if intentionally designed.

"God made man, but god is an incapable idiot asshole so man's pretty shit," basically.

... if it hasn't been done yet, someone should make a masocore platformer with, like... no feedback. Screen black, no sound, the only indications you're managing anything a "game over" or "stage complete" message. No visible menu, no options, probably awkward (can't be remapped, no controller support, etc.) control scheme, what font there probably wingdings filtered through zalgo or something, possibly with a chance of just lying to you to boot. Dozens, hundreds of levels of increasing complexity, all having to be memorized entirely through brute forcing it. Bossfights, probably RNG elements that make for inconsistent layouts, basically everything standard to masocore as an ethos, just... without visuals. Or audio. One of the more pure expressions of hostility to the player capable of being brought into existence.

I too prioritized the orbital zone, but mostly just to fill it to the absolute brim with solar panels so I could stop caring about economy on the other layers, heh.

Don't remember caring much about the air units, though... all about that ranged mecha, iirc. The melee stuff was fun enough, but dakka is dakka, yo'.

I guess it also helps that I've never used Twitter, so I've literally lost nothing.

Eh... if you have much appreciation for artwork, you're probably in the process of losing things. If there's one actually bad thing about twitter repeatedly shanking itself in the dick, it's that unfortunately a lot of modern professional creative work has been reliant on it for networking and business (commissions, etc.), and its problems are causing them problems.

I've yet to see an artist or other sort of creator happy about that reliance, and basically all of them have been trying to diversify for years, but the flat fact is that the numbers they need (access, visibility for stuff like job applications or whatev', and so on) has been on Twitter and nothing else has it. This shit's hurting them and going to hurt them worse, through no particular fault of their own, and that sucks pretty hard.

There's apparently other fields with a similar issue, for that matter. It may be something of an object lesson about the potential problems with that kind of reliance, but, well... the actual creators involved don't really have enough weight to make a difference on that front. They kinda' have to go where the relevant people are, and twitter's been where that is. The object lesson to be learned is sometimes life's just gon' fuck you and everything you love regardless of what you do, which isn't exactly a helpful lesson.

... the NSFW commentary's particularly relevant, though. Twitter was one of the very few major platforms that still allowed even a modicum of NSFW content, and it going in the shitter is apparently hitting NSFW artists and various sex workers/performers and whatnot particularly hard, which is unfortunate on a pile of levels.

That'd be why it looked like it was a from a myst game, ha!

... good luck. I played myst and riven back in the 90s, but I haven't touched that style of game basically since the 90s after doing that, so, uh. I understand your pain, heh.

This case it was just great value grape (i.e. walmart brand), and that'll be what I use for the first attempt at the little debbie things.

... in my experience there's not really much difference in taste between most brands of (standard, not reduced sugar or whatever) grape jelly (especially on the lower end of the price range, heh), though, so it probably doesn't matter super much. Jam's a different story, but this ain't jam.

... the point trying to be made is you're not going to get basic standards of moderation out of bluesky. The political inclinations of the admin/owners is expressly opposed to basic standards of moderation, and they've gone out of their way to make it clear that's informing and going to inform how they handle the platform.