ALTEREGO'S PROFILE

author=Hexatona
What always impresses me about my dreams is when I pick up a book and read something.

For my brain to simulate a room, and come up with prose while I am reading it seems astounding to me.

Uh. Funny. I cannot read in my dreams. I can come up with all sort of crazy and detailed stuff, and sure I can read small things like single sentences and the like. But if I look at a large body of text I just see fuzzy lines. I often struggle trying to make out the words in it, but it's very difficult, and very frustrating too... I wonder why that is. xP

Basically I hate being guilt-tripped, so after I was done with the sacraments thing and "saved my soul", I bailed. After that I found out things like Jainism and Taoism were more like my jam, but eventually I left that behind as well. I still consider myself a Deist(?) or "spiritual" or whatever, but I'm done with religion... No hatin' Most of my family are still religious.

It hasn't really affected me much. Living in a overly Catholic country it can be quite an issue, specially in some areas. But most people in my immediate circles are fine with it. At most I get into awkward conversations when I have to explain to them why I won't assist to their wedding/christening/whatever... One thing I miss about going to church though, is that some churches are really pretty/eerie. Specially the old ones from colonial times. It's like stepping into a Castlevania game. O.o

The idea doesn't sound too bad to me. In principle I'm all for anything improving the quality of reviews. But we've seen this countless times. No matter how much people insist the system is working as intended. When some rando can be given a pass hating on your game and giving it a low score, to give them even more MS after that would seem like rewarding bad behavior.

I don't think the solution has anything to do with "profesional standards" whatever that means. (Usually, these sort of discussion seem to hang in the balance between perceived hobbyism vs elitism. Let's not do that here for the umpteenth time). I think it suffices with making sure reviews actually have content, instead on settling on some arbitrary word count, or some vague mantra...

The "reviews are just opinion anyway" or the "these are my experiences playing the game" approaches are not fit for this goal. I don't care about your feelings and/or your political/ideological leanings. Not that you can't make room for those things in a review, but I care more about information. This is specially true when talking about commercial games. I want to know if a game is worth my hard-earned, almost non-existant money. And in order to make an important decision like that, I need to be informed broadly.

There are many reviews on the site that fit this criteria, so it's not like we amateurs can't do it. I understand that this is a place for learning, and everyone needs to start somewhere, and all that jazz. But we really need to get our act together.

Oh no. Another Mafia game. Well I guess this can to keep me away long enough to focus on the procrastination initiative...

ANTI-procrastination initiative, I mean. hehe

Yeah, those don't look at all like the chilaquiles I'm used to. But hey, if you like your chilaquiles crispy, go for it... Personally, I'm kinda curious about American Mexican food. I want to try one of those "hard-shell" tacos that I hear so much about. They can't be that bad.

ps. this should be an actual thing.