Theory

[icycalm]

My essay in four parts on the relationship between popularity vs. quality in videogames, and art in general, is concluded.



The Popularity vs. Quality Equation

Part I: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36404021

Part II: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36408455

Part III: https://www.patreon.com/posts/39922246

Part IV: https://www.patreon.com/posts/40845394

[icycalm]

They got hold of my bell curve of videogame genres on /v/, and a thread exploded: https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/



It's a fun read. A few guys are getting it. Most aren't. I'm maybe a fourth of the way down, and this is what I got from the ones who are getting it. Maybe I'll post more later.


https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536481928

this is some seriously top tier bait friend
i look forward to seeing this image constantly for the next month or so

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536484879

>>536483642
The reason the mainstream doesn't play fighting games is not that they're too complex. They see it for what it is: 2 characters poking at each other on a screen until one of them wins. It's simplistic. You compare that to say, Assassin's Creed, a huge cinematic open world adventure, and it's an easy choice. That's why Mortal Kombat is the most popular fighting game, it's the only one with a decent story mode.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536485217

>>536481742
>survival building
>complex
the problem with games like those is that you need a lot of friends to play together all the time or you will get destroyed by a bigger group

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536485346

>anons see they play low IQ shit
>i-it's bait!!!
every time

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536486306

>>536485909
Popularity is literally the y axis. The problem is that those retards didn't realize the genre pictures are labels for the graph, not the actual placements in the graph.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536488821

>>536482837
PvE survival building games are boring and casual
PvP survival building games are absolutely not casual, these are one of the hardest and most punishing/rewarding games, and anyone who says otherwise hasn't really played games like rust
if you think that for example rust doesn't have any deep mechanics you've never actually played this game
>>536482762
>Trash like Rust and Arch are just streamer bait and both are barely playable
Never played ARK, maybe it's buggy, but I can tell you that Rust isn't buggy since like 2016
If you think that Rust is barely playable, you're probably a n00b, git gud

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536489270

>>536488672
>>536488746
Most people aren't avoiding those genres because they're complex or challenging, but because they're boring, because they're actually very simple in concept and not particularly immersive compared to most other genres as a result. Like others have said in the thread, these genres are just "one guy punching another guy" or "one ship moving around and shooting things higher up on the screen" and so on.

This next guy made the graph a bit more understandable for retards:

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536489506

>>536489018
So many retards ITT incapable of reading a simple graph.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536489708

>>536489625
>>planescape less complex than halo
It is, now cope.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536490752

>>536483347
I have a few bullet hells in my collection, I'm hot hardcore or anything. I enjoy trying to 1cc them. Got into them on 360. Friends always tell me they can't see whats fun about being a dot avoiding other dots. So maybe "too simple" is right.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536490920

>>536488560
Minecraft with mods taps into some vast alternative universe of autism, that shit can get to complex for 200IQ geniuses

This next guy wins the prize. He's replying to someone who tried to smear me.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536491202

>all skill based genres on the left
>skilless games on the right
Icycalm is what happens when you refuse to get good at games and instead write essays nobody will ever read about how its the games fault.

>skill based
i.e. reflex based. As the chart goes further right, the genres become more cerebral.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536491313

>>536490981
>skilless games on the right
>RTS
>Turn Based Strat
>First Person 4X
>skilless
Just because your monkey brain gets off on mashing buttons doesn't mean that thinking isn't a skill lol.

[icycalm]

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536491567

>>536491314
The power of intellect required to play a fighting game or a shmup pales in comparison to what is needed to play a proper RTS or something like Rust at a higher level. The former genres are almost entirely about reflexes in comparison.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536491939

>>536491759
t. never in his life attempted to play in clan wars in a serious RTS or Rust

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536492893

Yes anons, the competitive strategy game with a majority white-asian player base is as difficult as the fighting games and the FPS.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536493040

>>536481742
based icycalm continuing to make shmupfags eternally buttblasted for daring to think that playing for score SUCKS and is a waste of TIME

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536493201

>>536493013
Try playing it at a serious level i.e. running a large group at server wipe. It's nothing like "run of the mill open world fps multiplayer."

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536493265

>>536493013
>Just seems like
lol, you've never played it? You wouldn't even be able to make a house in the most populated servers.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536493596

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536493603

>>536493495
Yeah you only play the hardcore ones where the only stakes are a few minutes lmao

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536494352

>>536493987
>a dude punching another dude on a 2D plane to win a <5 min match is complex
is pic rel you?

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536495119

Fighting games are simple to understand, it's the execution that filters people

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536495225

why can't /v/ read graphs

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536496114

How sheltered are you people if you think fighting games are at all popular?

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536496321

Every time icycalm gets brought up /v/ pretty much turns into a manifestation of Sir's /fit/ new years comic as they try to pick apart his theories.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536496553

Where my fellow RTSchads at?

Waiting for mikey to die

lols

It's gotta be one of you guys.

[icycalm]

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536498112

>>536497609
All genres are equal

t. idle clicker player

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536498931

>>536498603
Let's put it this way. What if there is a genre that is two other genres added together? Like for example a genre that is tactics + city building.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536500281

>>536481742
This is the hardest bait I've ever seen and it's got so many layers. Whoever made this is either a complete retard or a bait god. I am going to assume complete retard.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536500306

>>536481742
Good graph, if only because it makes fighingfags seethe.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536500327

>>536500072
>because they can't play it properly
Any retard can play a fighting game properly anon.

This guy is replying to someone who says most people can't play fighting games by linking a video of a dog throwing a fireball. That is literally how complex fighting games are. Good job.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536500615

>>536500491
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dPuyagq27hs

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536500941

>>536500725
>you can add as many extra arbitrary rules to even the most simple genre of game
Without turning it into a greater genre? I doubt it.

This guy should be able to grasp the tree of gaming:

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536501016

>>536500517
I didn't see clicker games as a specific genre but a subcategory of game like how most genres can incorporate an element like battle royale or permadeath and still be considered the primary one rather than that defining factor translating say, Tetris 99 from being a puzzle game or Mario 35 from being a platformer.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536501115

>>536500615
does pulling the trigger on my gun qualify as "playing a shooting game properly"

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536501756

>>536500851
reflexes and memorization go hand in hand. the amount of moment-to-moment improvisation and the degree of improvisational complexity required in a fighting game is comparatively less compared to what is required in an rts game.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536502464

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536502510

>>536501202
And they're right. Fighting games are just characters hitting each other on a screen, repeat ad infinitum. You can learn all the deep complex mechanics and what do get out of it? You're now better at hitting the same characters on the same screen as before.

Compare that to say Nier Automata where you hit other characters, then explore a world, learn some story, hit more characters, explore new areas, buy and equip upgrades, talk to characters, do more fighting, etc. That's a much deeper and more complex experience.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536502631

>>536502143
How is rust casual when you can lose several days worth of effort in seconds?

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536502660

>>536481742
>fighting game too simple
>FPS too complex
:)

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536502742

>>536502510
Casuals aren't human.

[icycalm]

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536502878

>>536502464
DANGEROUSLY BASED!!!

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536503298

>>536499650
they're pretty simple, not sure what you're trying to imply. Maybe try playing games of the genres to the right to see actually complex video games. Also
>>most popular
nobody ever said that. In fact, that image implies the opposite.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536503747

How is "Quality" measured?

mechanical complexity + degree of immersion possible

Close but not quite. Quality is measured by me. That's the ultimate measure of quality: the opinion of the highest lifeform around to engage with the work and evaluate it. Whatever pleases me the most is the highest quality (and that tends to be the most mechanically and aesthetically complex works). No other definition makes sense, because if the opinion of anyone counted, then that would also be true of dogs.


https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536503926

>"If you are not interested in videogames in the 21st century you are a peasant, plain and simple -- just as those who were not interested in, say, the theatre in the 18th or 19th centuries were peasants, and hence utterly incapable of having any meaningful relationship with people of class -- and no amount of philosophy can change this." -- Icycalm

Based

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536504226

>>536502464
based as hell

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536504940

>>536504026
>platformers, sports and adventure games are unpopular
>CRPGs are popular
this is even more retarded holy shit

among gamers that is all correct. no one cares about the normalest of normalfags who play football manager for 20,000 hours and have never even heard of genres like CRPG or 4X before. adventure i.e. point-and-click games are pretty damn niche and platformers are mostly played by kids.

This is the answer to those saying sports games are super-popular. They aren't among gamers. They are only popular among people who don't play games. And people who don't play games do not belong in the graph about games.


https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536505034

>>536504660
>Why is /v/ so utterly retarded
Because it's allowed to be. Imagine if the punishment to making a stupid post was a sledgehammer to the face, suddenly everybody will be thinking quite a lot before posting.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536505209

>>536504968
>a 2D game where you fight one opponent at a time is the height of either mechanical complexity or degree of immersion possible
>implying anyone here hasn't played a fighting game before when there's hundreds of them

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536505248

>>536505050
You don't think that the fact that something is so complex that there even CAN be bad teachers is not a sign that it's more complex than something that is so simple anybody can teach it?

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536505772

>>536501594
Eh, the thread is nearing bump limit and we'll probably see at least a dozen more of these in the upcoming weeks. It's perfectly good bait.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536506432

>>536505738
>Correct.
so try to argue the point. what about them is mechanically complex or immersive compared to the first person 4X game, where there is way more involved and way more to consider, it's played against hundreds if not thousands of other players simultaneously, and it's played in full 3D in first person and with more realistic physics models?

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536506548

>>536505738
holy fuck play some first person 4x games and then come back

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536506861

>>536505989
>played ark and rust, they are minecraft tier.
sounds like you played solo and got nowhere

And the best came right at the end.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536511997

>>536508164
>Didn't icycalm used to suck shmup dick?
no

he definitely did

he was defending mechanical complexity, that's all

Why is it in the simple category then?

it's not just about mechanical complexity, it's also about immersion, hence why the axis is labeled quality

[icycalm]

There's a second thread: https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/537225715/

Some more highlights.


https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/537225715/#537231516

>>537225715
this is just saying that the more complex something is, the better it is, but the less popular it is

Yet real life is the most complex game, sucks, yet everyone plays it

Refute that, niga

I already did.

Why the Highest Artform Attracts the Lowest Lifeforms
https://www.patreon.com/posts/27928081


https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/537225715/#537232718

>>537225715
Updated the graph. Try to refute it now.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/537225715/#537233167

>>537225715
>rpgs more popular than fps, third person movies and action-adventure games
I do not know which timeline are you from, but I want to go there.

Yeah, this is the toughest data point to understand. I'll explain it at length towards the end of Role-playing Culture.


https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/537225715/#537234762

>>537234325
Simple and complex are relative.

The graph is made relative to mid-core gamer.

If the graph were made relative to casuals open worlds would probably be 'too complex' and angry birds would be in the middle

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/537225715/#537235381

>nu/v/ doesn't know icycalm

[icycalm]

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/536481742/#536481928

this is some seriously top tier bait friend
i look forward to seeing this image constantly for the next month or so

You can see that the subhumans don't understand how insight works. Because all the previous "top tier bait" memes he's seen last for a month tops, he thinks this will be the same. He can't see that people will still be interested in the subject matter ten years from now, and he can't see that ten years from now this image will still be at the cutting edge of theory and discussion, hence it will still be getting linked ten years from now, and even 50 years and 100, if mankind lasts that long.

Subhumans, eh.

[icycalm]

New thread: https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/554967628/

Did not find a single post worth quoting. You might as well save your time and skip it, unless you want to be exposed to how subhuman subhumans have been getting.

[icycalm]

The End of Videogame (and Art) Theory
https://www.patreon.com/posts/51317891

I am making this post publicly viewable so that poor and/or resentful and/or ungrateful people can also have a chance at enlightenment, if they possess the IQ and T required. They probably don't, but you never know. There are always some outliers among the millions of the unwashed. Let's give those outliers a chance too.

[icycalm]

New thread: https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/555817319/

This is my competition:



This is what we're dealing with. (Btw, some of these "genres" aren't even genres: they are just themes.)

Understand: this graph is precisely how ALL gamers have the genres mapped out in their heads, EVEN MY READERS, before I explained to them the real graph.

This utterly random, nonsensical brain soup is how ALL homo sapiens have reality mapped out in their brains.

That's why we need the Overman.

[icycalm]

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/561336514/#561336514

Application of Superman-level genius towards the problem of ranking the artforms

Real-life on that chart is so far to the right that only one person properly appreciates it, and that person is the one and only Overman (Jared Fogle)

>Just dumb. Why?
Because the truth is simpler:
>genre quality = intelligence required

This guy nailed it. And remember, intelligence is not IQ. Asians have the highest IQ but they prefer pretty bad genres.

[icycalm]

Someone casually dropped my graph in a 4chan FTG general thread: https://arch.b4k.co/vg/thread/342424165/#342459343

Eight responses so far. Nothing new or interesting among them.

That graph will be getting dropped more and more everywhere games are discussed from now on. A decade from now even journalists will all be fully aware of it. It remains to be seen who will have the guts to first reference it on a blog or news site.

[icycalm]

Actually there was an interesting exchange:

https://arch.b4k.co/vg/thread/342424165/#342461790

>>342459343
> Fighting games have somehow managed to retain the magic of real videogames. They have not devolved into autism. Just look at how cool their aesthetics and music generally tend to be, how much imagination goes into creating their settings, character designs and even their stories. They are not made for autists who can't tell the difference between a wireframe model from the '80s and Crysis; they are made for actual human beings. And that's why they are by far the most enjoyable versus multiplayer games around. Strictly speaking, they are not even versus multiplayer at all: they are single-player games that allow the OPTION of brief versus multiplayer matches WITHIN a larger single-player campaign design. And that's why they are so superior.

The above is me. He's just quoting me. And then they try to take that apart, and the guy tells them it's correct and consistent.

https://arch.b4k.co/vg/thread/342424165/#342462003

>>342461790
That statement doesn't contradict his graph at all. Fighting games can be the least autistic versus multiplayer genre out there while also being too simple for most people.

https://arch.b4k.co/vg/thread/342424165/#342462368

>>342462003
It wasn't supposed to contradict his statement. He just writes the funniest shit that makes me laugh.
If you want something that contradicts his statement then he's completely wrong about the popularity of sports games:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_b ... franchises
FIFA and Madden are generally in the best sellers when in season and MLB the Show has grown in a juggernaut despite baseball being not as popular as basketball or soccer. There is an entire community of sports fans that play these games, but aren't beta enough to roam around forums.

https://arch.b4k.co/vg/thread/342424165/#342462587

>>342462368
Sports games are for video games what Mortal Kombat is for fighting games

Never mind that I actually explain this issue at length in the Patreon article now... That's probably where that dude got the idea for the MK analogy from. Good talk.

[icycalm]

Version 2 of Normal Distribution Graphs of Videogames and Art
https://www.patreon.com/posts/60444994

Thanks to help from One Kick, who maintains these graphs for me, I can now bring you version 2 of the normal distribution graphs of videogame and art genres.

[icycalm]

New thread: https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583254461

>>583254007
>fighting so extremely simple
>dungeon crawlers that simple
>SURVIVAL CRAFTY BUILDY TOO COMPLEX
Alright, that's some good fuckin bait

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583254654

>>583254461
200 people on a open world map is more complex than a 1v1 on a small stage
fighting games are for brainlets

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583254992

>>583254007
Why is this acting like quality and complexity are the same thing

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583255761

>>583254007
>massively-multiplayer
>zero popularity
whoever made this, he seems to love ded gaems

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583255790

>>583254007
Based MMO enjoyer versus virgin fighting game nerd

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583255972

>>583254007
high quality bait

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583257382

>>583255249
>>583255024
>>583255313
explain to me how blacks are so good at fighting games when they have the lowest IQs

This is in response to people saying that fighting games are complex.

Based blacks are good in both real and virtual fighting.

This just super-validates my theory.

If you want to get deeper in the racism/FTG discussion, it is apparently a rabbit hole. Not very interesting to me, because of how simple the genre is, but the rabbit hole exists if you care to look into it: https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583257919

>>583257382
Blacks are only good at coinflip fighting games like MvC and Mortal Kombat. Look at the top level of high IQ games like KOF, BlazBlue, or Guilty Gear (formerly) and it's 99% Asian/White

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583258725

>>583258440
It's coinflip because games are decided by literal coinflips. There's no back and forth mindgames or intelligent decision making. Marvel especially is an infamous touch of death game enjoyed by hoodrats where making even a single wrong guess can cost you the entire match.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583258124

>>583254007
Any examples of FP4X? I unironically want to try them.

Quite a few people asking this.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583258695

>>583254007
>massively-multiplayer multigroup survival-building 4x overworld GMRPG
...what game even fits this description?

None of them know lol.

It will take a decade or more, but they will know some day. And still won't play it.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583271716

>>583254007
what the fuck is "game master roleplay", "4x gmrpg", "first person 4x"

I lolled.

Half of the reason I make up those terms is to get these responses.

The other half is that they are necessary.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583277920

>>583254347
>Comics above above board games and epic poetry

Comics utterly crush those two genres. Epic poetry is some boring shite, that's why no one's making it any more, and board games are for children.

Yeah the Homeric epics are some awesome shit, but they HAD to be done in verse because there was no writing (at least not on paper) when they were being developed (which started way before they were finally written down). Don't confuse necessity with choice!

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583273578

>>583272858
but that's just TTRPGs with more limitations than what basic pen and paper offer because anything you draw or create is limited by videogame assets rather than actually making it yourself - it's not even complex, it's literally pointless

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583278296

>>583273578
While you're technically correct in that the program offers less creativity than making it yourself, bear in mind that people are limited by time and skill when it comes to making things and the end result of the program will look much better than what 99% of players would be able to create and take a fraction of the time. It also provides convenience in that you don't need to get everyone physically in the same place, and it automates a lot of the tedium and platespinning that the GM has to do - in the program moving to a new area is a click of a button and everything's there while in person you have to clear everything off the map, get a new map, and then place everything where you planned it to be. The program also offers gameplay mechanics that are basically impossible to have on paper such as dynamic true line of sight and lighting (or the not shit ones do, anyway).

The program is not objectively better than doing it in person, but neither is doing it in person objectively better than using the program. Each approach has its own set of advantages and drawbacks that make them more suitable for different groups of people, and calling the program "literally pointless" is just plain stupid.

If you add all the advantages of videogames to TTRPGs via VTTs, immersion goes through the roof. Add to that TTRPGs' unparalleled interactivity, and you have the ultimate artform, aka the ultmate videogame genre. And of course for even better results you need the true player freedom that only Ultimate Edition's overworld can provide. Ergo my game is the greatest artwork of all time.

https://arch.b4k.co/v/thread/583254007/#583278520

>>583254007
Lmao is this supposed to be a joke? Mario less popular than CRPGs?

Among humans and humanoids, yes. Among dogs, fetch is even more popular, but dogs aren't included on the graph. You have to draw the line somewhere. Are babies included on the graph? No. Are small children, who love Mario? No. It's a graph for reasonably functional adults.

[icycalm]

Also, the "less creativity" angle is bunk. Look at how many people are creating assets for VTTs, from maps to models to music to sounds to rulesets to mods etc. Creativity goes through the roof in the ultimate artform too. There's no comparison. The production of a GMRPG campaign is a bottomless rabbit hole. You can keep upping the production values of an adventure forever; unlike with conventional videogames, where you just play what's on the files you bought.

[icycalm]

In Retrospect, It Was Inevitable
https://www.patreon.com/posts/60920219

As I continue to pour dozens of hours per week on Fantasy Grounds on Steam, the game is rocketing up my library, passing in mere weeks or even days titles that it took me years to accumulate my hours.

[icycalm]

https://twitter.com/culturevg/status/14 ... 9045800961

[icycalm]

If One Kick is up for it, I would like a new version of the graph, a v3. Here's the v2:



And here are the changes I'd like:

1. A new entry between GMRPG and FP4X titled "First-person Universe (FPU)", and with the image being Star Citizen. Might have to slide apart some of the entries to make the space for it.

2. A new entry titled "Rhythm" that should be the absolute lowest, on the far-left of the graph, even simpler than "Sports". Again will have to move some stuff to make space for it.

3. The image for "Action-adventure" should be changed to something that screams out Resident Evil.

4. A new entry titled "Open-world CRPG" and showing Cyberpunk 2077. This should be placed smack in the middle of the curve, which means the "Open-world" entry should be moved slightly to the left to make the space for it.

5. And last, but not least, the biggest change of all. I want a clear racial distinction so that whoever looks at the graph will be hit in the face with it as if with a sledgehammer. I want it to be 100% obvious that there are CLEAR and MASSIVE RACIAL DIFFERENCES with regards to artistic preferences, with the BLACK race's ceiling being the "Fighting" genre, the BROWN race's being "Side-view Action", the YELLOW race's "Action-adventure", and finally the WHITE race's the final genre in the graph, my game, "Ultimate Edition". I have no idea how you can convey this information on the graph clearly, hopefully it's possible somehow.

6. The colors of the vertical bars don't seem to change consistently. For example, there are some pinkish ones on the left, and then they shift to reddish, and then back to pinkish again. It would be nice if the color transitions were consistent from left to right across the spectrum.

Let me know if you can do any of this One Kick. If not, no worries. Maybe someone else will give it a go.

[icycalm]

I plan to make a section on the frontpage sidebar that will permanently display this graph, with a link below to the full analysis/essay. If I don't get the v3 graph, I'll just use the v2, it still gets the point across, just not as comprehensively.

[icycalm]

He likes Deus Ex, Cyberpunk 2077 and Elden Ring.

But he also pushes this "indie"-tier garbage because the internet told him to. He doesn't play it (since there's nothing to play), he just says he does, because it's popular. Or at any rate he's been convinced it is (no one really plays the game for more than ten mins aside from mental retards; they just buy it and try it for ten minutes because they're sheep).

His taste is basically 100% midwit tier, smack dab in the middle of the curve. Just in case you were wondering what his intellect is like. He's like this with everything: philosophy, literature, everything. A midwit.

In the specific arena of entrepreneurship, he is a genius tho.

[icycalm]

It COULD be that if he had MORE free time, he would have evolved more sophisticated tastes by now. Sophisticated tastes require time. But sophisticated people FIND the time. It's part of their sophistication to be able to do this. So...

[icycalm]

Could be he was joking. If so, good one. He does joke a lot on his feed, so it's plausible.

[icycalm]

https://gab.com/icycalm/posts/110271823204955482

[icycalm]

https://arch.b4k.co/vg/thread/432265864/#432322116



It has begun.

Slowly but surely the subhumans will be brought face to face with their subhumanity, and they will all reject humanity. And that's when the humans will have to make some hard decisions.