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>stop encouraging patricianry
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THE VIDEO GAME DARKLANDS IS THE GREATEST VIDEO GAME OF ALL TIME AND CANNOT BE REMADE UNDER CURRENT VIDEO GAME PARADIGMS OR ITS ESSENCE WILL BE DESTROYED BY INFERIOR GAME MECHANICS AND INSUFFICIENTLY AMBITIOUS DEVELOPMENT GOALS. SET IN THE HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE IN THE 15TH CENTURY AND RELEASED IN 1992 IT FEATURES A ROBUST CHARACTER CREATION SYSTEM WITH DOZENS OF FACTORS INCLUDING AGE VOCATION SKILLS AND SOCIAL STATUS AND IT WAS THE FIRST VIDEO GAME IN WHICH I EVER MADE AN OLD MAN CHARACTER INAUGURATING A NEW PHASE IN MY THINKING AS AN ADULT MAN IN WHICH I STOPPED THINKING OF MYSELF AS A SLOWLY WITHERING 21 YEAR OLD AND BEGAN THINKING OF MYSELF AS A POWERFUL SHIRTLESS RELIGIOUS FANATIC WHO TRAVELS WITH A BAND OF CLERICS AND SMASHES THE FUCK OUT OF RUFFIANS IN A COUNTRYSIDE POPULATED BY TOWNS AND OTHER INTERESTING LOCALES AND MYTHOLOGICAL BEASTS AND CREATURES WHOSE EXISTENCE OR NONEXISTENCE IS DECIDED RANDOMLY AT THE BEGINNING OF EACH GAME SO TAHT YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT LEGENDARIA AND GRIMOIRES TO BELIEVE AND YOU ALWAYS MUST BE ON YOUR TOES WHICH IS THE ONLY TIME AN ITEM OF MEDIA HAS DEPICTED THE GEERTZIAN "THICKNESS" OF A PRE-MODERN EPISTEME WITH NO DISTINCTION BETWEEN SCIENTIFIC AND UNSCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE WHERE FOR ALL YOU KNOW DRAGONS MAY OR MAY NOT EXIST SO EVERY ADVENTURE TAKES PLACE NOT JUST WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF CERTAIN FANCIFUL DANGERS BUT ON VERY THRESHOLD OF KNOWLEDGE AND OF DREAD AT THE UNKNOWN LIKE AN ANCIENT CHRONICLE OF A LITHUANIAN CRUSADE GIVING EQUAL CREDENCE TO THE ARRIVAL OF A REINFORCING BAND OF RUSSIAN SOLDIERS AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT LITHUANIANS HAD MAGICAL POWERS TO SUMMON DARK GODS BECAUSE WHO REALLY KNOWS WHAT GOES ON IN LITHUANIAN FORESTS FURTHERMORE EVERYONE SHOULD PLAY KING OF DRAGON PASS

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