This is the most reddit post I’ve seen all week.

Yeah the bleakness of From’s settings is definitely an inherent part of their worldbuilding.

Elden Ring has the deepest, most complex worldbuilding of any game ever made, and it’s not even close. For anyone interested in worldbuilding I strongly urge you to watch some Elden Ring lore videos from The Tarnished Archaeologist to learn about the techniques that the Elden Ring devs use to put incredibly deep and subtle worldbuilding into their games. It’s changed the way I think about worldbuilding in any context.

https://www.youtube.com/@tarnishedarchaeologist

As a young nerd obsessed with RPGs and William Gibson’s work I was outraged at the idea of putting fantasy into cyberpunk. But then I picked up a damaged copy of the Shadowrun rules from a bargain bin and was blown away by the worldbuilding, they really found a way to make it all fit thematically and logically and I ended up running the game for years.

I pretty regularly say or think “Have my years of wild hedonism finally caught up with me?”

We call the top roost of our cat castle The Angry Dome. She only gets up there when she is bonkers with the zoomies.

The gaahbij paahts.

I regularly say “Hooray, I’m helping!” to my wife.

Listen to the sound of pure, animal pain this guy makes when the cat gets its claws into him (and that’s through his denim jeans):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ubQxtEukvw

Warning: this cat is in some distress.

What a work of art that game is.

If 90% of the world’s food production was going towards making cake, would you be mad at the food industry and the people who only eat cake?

I think they’re just kind of a symbol for the shallowness of the movie industry, self indulgent pieces that are all budget and no art. I get it.

A lot of people really hate these movies.

Thanks for this thoughtful, nuanced contribution to the community.

What a wild time to be alive, man.

The standard payment to an artist on Spotify is “$0.003 to $0.005 per stream”: https://simplebeen.com/artists-make-on-spotify/

That is basically nothing for any artist that isn’t in the top tier of mainstream success.

prior to Spotify coming along the industry was in decline as downloading MP3’s on torrents and file sharing programs was the norm

You’re essentially pirating music by using Spotify, you are not paying the artists that you listen to in any meaningful way.

I’m still getting a ridiculous amount of value from Spotify

If only the same could be said for the artists you’re listening to…

That seems extremely high, can you explain your listening habits? Are you listening to all of those albums start to finish? Are you selecting each of those albums or just letting the algorithm run wild?

Don’t give up, skeleton.

It’ll teach them teamwork XD