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1. Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:56:28 UTC Valenoern

   = asekai modsphere thread 20.10 =

   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:56:24 UTC Valenoern

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     > the 'cyber beings' were now specific GNU/linux programs

     that is:
     "cat" was now a weird avant garde cat,
     "tar" was a tahr with cardboard box features,
     "man" was an odd abstract humanoid with a manual

   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:56:24 UTC Valenoern

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     I can't believe my system has a program called "catman"

     that just sounds like some kind of weird parody superhero

     like maybe you amalgamated catwoman and batman to comment on gender roles in comics or something

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   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:56:25 UTC Valenoern

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     "Utils" was an idea i had in about 2017 to sort of reprise #NetworkAdventureBugsite into an entirely new thing keeping basically only the sprite style
     (because, whether they intended it as the 'real' appearance of the mons or not, it was absolutely fantastic)

     so it was to have this monochrome, angular art style, but the 'cyber beings' were now specific GNU/linux programs.

     when i first thought of the idea i imagined sort of this tumblr full of mock trading cards, but then asekai happened

   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:56:27 UTC Valenoern

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     - Utils modsphere -

   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:56:55 UTC Valenoern

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     I can just imagine the let's plays now, where half the players are like "dammit, how do I remember all these?? I want bzgrep or bzdiff or...?"

     while the other half have totally memorised all the basic linux commands from only this game and are a walking encyclopedia of all the bzips and their 'man pages' although they've hardly ever used a linux terminal

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   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:56:56 UTC Valenoern

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     one thing I neglected to say is that there'd still be this idea of similarly-named programs 'Upgrading' into each other

     though I personally would rather the 'evolution lines' were more based on programs that are genuinely connected.

     so maybe "bzip" becomes "bzcat", "bzdiff", or "bzgrep"

   • Valenoern (valenoern@floss.social)'s status on Thursday, 10-Feb-2022 23:57:19 UTC Valenoern

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     I felt like there was a whole lot of opportunity to tell a story with this mechanic

     like, imagine in the world of Utils that there are regular everyday ones like bzip, but then there's the mysterious super rare "firebird" that upgrades into "phoenix", and eventually into firefox

     but perhaps just like in reality the future of firefox is not so bright and it will again become an ominous "Disused" Util in the future, which looks physically damaged and strangely unstable

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