/lit/ - Literature

>>10973372
>gargoyles

sometime last year i was reflecting on how brilliant the idea of the gargoyles were handled in U6 w/r/t our hyper-outraged world of Diversity Politics. like in so many other things, garriott was just so smart:

so the gargoyles have a culture which is predicated on virtues that are the *obverse* but not the *opposite* of those of the Avatar. this was the brilliance of that game: that you could *absolutely* have gargish virtues based on concepts like hierarchy, order, discipline, and so on...and *not* make them A People In Need of Salvation. quite the contrary, in fact: that which was coming to save them was the False Prophet...just such a brilliant alternative to the brain-dead idpol horseshit going on today. the gargoyles were Others, but they weren't reducible to the paradigm of the virtues - they were just seeing the same things, through different lenses...

still tho. and then garriott went straight on from that to U7, where a mysterious group of guys somehow took *all that was mysterious about the virtues and translated it into ready-to-hand evangelism* and nearly brought in a gigantic extradimensional totalitarian nightmare into the frame. before peterson was peterson, richard garriott was seeing everything. and that glorious mother turned it all into a charming rpg. genius.

moping about intellectual politics: extra-boring.

knowing that cool creative types always have a better perspective: much less so.

>f4
it's a good rec. games seem to finding their own these days, in the world of multiple endings and so on. can't really do it in blockbuster cinema, it skews with the tension or makes it too meta. but in games? no problemo.

and new vegas too, hey? sounds about right. i figure i should get through torment first but that's a solid contender for the next one. westerns are eternal.

>>10973407
>And by there I mean talking about the apocalypse and falling short of finding transcendence.
one of the best definitions of Being There i've read here.

>heavy metal
i was in france for a short time and marveled at the sheer awesomeness of their hardcover, 120-page, wickedly illustrated comics, on sale in every carrefour. they are indeed the jam. my french sucks and i lost the ones i picked up since then but yeah. they are dope as fuck.

>If you're not familiar; basically Jodorowsky took Dune, added more acid and schizophrenia and landed in some sort of death fetish zen buddhism

be still my beating heart.