Difficulty IS Content! A conversation with @TheElectricUnderground

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  @TheNoFraudsClub · 2 years ago · pinned

  Thanks again to Mark for his thoughtful conversation! Check out his channel here: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Fwhzr1yeoQ84yC3Isd4Lg">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0Fwhzr1yeoQ84yC3Isd4Lg</a><br>And definitely watch his documentary on shmups! <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7RY0FHTI68">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t7RY0FHTI68</a><br><br>Other than the difficulty- and story-related sections, some of the best moments in this episode come from the discussion on teaching the competitive mindset. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SenfVdvxY&amp;t=3531">0:58:51</a><br><br>Lastly, a pair of editing oopsies where Pr0nogo talks, but is not visible, crop up towards the end of the video. Sorry about that!

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• HE

  @heavysystemsinc. · 2 years ago

  Also in competitive play, the best come back mechanics are the skill the player brings.

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• TH

  @TheElectricUnderground · 2 years ago

  Thanks so much for inviting me onto the show :-) I&apos;m honored to officially be a Non-Fraud :-D The conversation was really great and I&apos;d be happy to return again in the future.

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  @Steve-Fiction · 2 years ago

  I absolutely love when Mark gets going, so the fact that you left him uninterrupted for so long so many times is just perfect.<br>And you definitely had interesting points and I felt like you bounced off each other very well. I&apos;ll be back for more of this podcast for sure

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  @100hundert · 2 years ago (edited)

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U0SenfVdvxY&amp;t=1952">32:32</a> Video games as a way to discover that you can overcome challenges is such a brilliant observation, and exactly what I enjoy most about my favorite games!

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• DR

  @drogba6487 · 2 years ago

  Many of the issues with contemporary game reviews isn&apos;t even necessarily inherent to journalism. It&apos;s also part of a wider issue in the field in that the model at these outlets isn&apos;t actually journalism anymore; it&apos;s content farming.

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• FL

  @flynnjaman · 1 year ago

  Interesting to hear Electric say games aren&apos;t like film, but more like music, while knowing Kubrick said films remind him more like music, for similar reasons that Electric gave. Being a filmmaker and someone who is actively working on juxtaposing the gameplay mechanics of a video game with various elements of filmmaking, these talks are most inspiring

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• TH

  @thegobbojones · 2 years ago

  Never expected a Chesterton reference even in passing lol. Great talk guys lots to chew on.

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• SX

  @sxpv · 2 months ago

  The best video on art, games and culture I&apos;ve seen lately, great stuff

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• CH

  @ChromeKong · 2 years ago

  Also about the lore of games: Older games had the movie principle of „show, don‘t tell“. The bosses were super hard, you didn’t have to tell the players constantly how epic and big the fight was. You felt it.

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• AK

  @ak47-hz4fq4np3z · 1 year ago (edited)

  The &quot;players wanting all games to play just like games they&apos;re used to&quot; thing is quite true, remember hearing and seeing for myself that Nintendo fans consider any old games substantially different than theirs to not have aged well; meanwhile for today&apos;s children who started out playing Fortnite and Minecraft, they can&apos;t get into these old Nintendo games at all and find them strange to play; like what he said about it not being an actual objective problem with the game, but instead a personal bias.

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• ME

  @MechanicalRabbits · 3 months ago

  Mark saying that Video games as an art are closer to music than they are to film/books is something I never thought about but it instantly made so much sense to me. It also fits that one of the things I value the most in games is wether the soundtrack is good or not.

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