3/4/26
Saw a good quote in a Discord I resonated with:
Here’s where I’ll get on my usual hobby horse of “all models are incorrect, some are useful”, and the idea of “genre” is only meaningful when you know what meaning you’re trying to get out of a classification
1/17/26
It is funny reading old entries where I was clearly fresh off being really annoyed at someone on the Internet. I still agree with the old version of me. Most conversations debating genre are a waste of time.
There are some places where trying to align on definitions can be useful. Mostly so that you can go on continuing to have a different much more interesting conversation that uses one of these definitions as a building block.
11/13/25
This is a combo thought that comes from the perennial idiotic conversations about “metroidbrainia” being a stupid term. No that’s not a rogulike that’s a roguelite. Who gives a shit!!!!
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