[P] I just had a headmate point out I'd been writing taxidermy every time when I meant to write taxonomy...
[Tr] Have some humility, chief! Don't fix it! It's funny!
[P] Nyehhh...
[Tr] C'mon, leeeeave iiiit...
[P] Nyerrrgh... ghh... gonna fix it! Readability > Funny!
[Tr] Coward! :P
~
[P] There, I think I got 'em all.
[Tr] Thou art a craven coward, knave!

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-Footnote

[P] And I will keep stressing this but, no, you can't know, not without having lived it for yourself. The mad taxonomy of today just didn't exist, and that taxonomy shackles modern game devs, even indies. You can try to be as creative as you like, but if you're still beholden to the mad taxonomy then all your efforts are for naught. This is why games have trouble standing out, now. As what truly separates this mad taxonomy game from that one.

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-7

[P] This video explains the sickness of modern gamedev. See, back in the day, the game shown in the linked video would've done well for itself. I base this on a madball, bonkers little title called Vangers. There is nothing else like Vangers in existence. And there was a LOT of that back then! It's unimaginable today, and... I miss it even more now having partaken of the project with my partner. The mainstream and capitalism killed that era dead.

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-6

[P] In order for a game to succeed, it has to fit into one of those popular storefront tags. It hss to be so much this genre, so much that setting. It was different in the untamed era, no one knew what a video game was, so all kinds of utter madness was thrown together in the hopes of maybe getting a video game out of it in the end. It was madness. And without taking that journey my partner and I have? You just can't understand.

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-5

[P] Even indies now have fallen into this comfortable taxonomy, and when one of the genres loses market appeal it just... fades away, leaving a hole where one will nwver see games like those again, all but once in a blue moon when some dev decides to recreate something from that forgotten time. Then it's gone again, because there'd be no market appeal for that title. So even indie devs must chase this taxonomy to succeed.

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-4

[P] My partner and I have been playing games year-by-year from 1990, the goal is to experience as much as possible from computers and consoles alike. It's a graveyard of ideas and genres! It's so easy to find something from the period of 1990 to '06 (which was when the mainstream domestication of video games set in with the PS360 era) where there's nothing else like it. "Oh, it's still like that!" you might say, but no, it isn't! You don't know.

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-3

[P] The untamed era can never be again, there's this domestication where one has to fall into one of a few boxes or it's a failure before it began. And this insipid taxidermy has poisoned even indie games. It's so easy to think that this is rose-coloured glasses, nostalgia, but I have a couple of solid counters for. The first is that I'm autistic, I've never really experienced nostalgia. The second of which is... the project!

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-2

After 20 years, what might future-you wish current-you did around now? Rest is a valid answer!

If nothing else, regardless of your politics, please watch this bit:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF5LgOhfMcM&t=1809

What are your needs? How can you meet them, or what help do you need?
What needs can you help others meet? / How can you help other people?

Your sanity matters and your family's material needs day-to-day matter.
Avoid doomscrolling with (sustainable!) activity in your local community. Yes, it matters.
Any collective help, education, volunteering, repairs, socialising, or otherwise you can do is important.

How can you meet new people? How can new people meet you?
If you have 'enough people' in your life, then consider them. Is it possible any of them could feel socially isolated? What would they need in order to connect with people around them?