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My dearest followers and mutuals and friends and lovers. I am going to extend one deadly serious question to you on this beautiful afternoon.
What is your #1 video game recommendation
Me, playing Chants of Sennaar thinking it’s a pretty puzzle game about deciphering logographic languages: Wow beautiful!!!
The game: Social disconnect, language barriers, inequality, xenophobia/tribalism, caste system, terrifying monster, involuntary indentured servitude, hostile AI, virtual reality, oppression, techno-dependency, religion, hedonism, rebellion, exploitation
On Harmony, Communication, and Good Will
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(Script under cut)
Do not be seen, do not be heard. Use hidden passages when you move. Be at hand before you are called. The serf lived as someone else’s background their entire life.
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So when they ran from their home to the monastery it was only natural that the first thing they saw was the man at the lowest.
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Greetings. Would you like to share this? ? I am sorry, I am not yet fluent in your language…
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Ah, you must be one of the people from the upper floor. Well, I'll gladly take the food! No idea what you’re saying though. … Come to think of it, do you know this person?
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Oh…! I heard they helped us come to the monastery. Though I only saw them in passing. (A stranger…? In here…? They’re not a serf…) I thought they were a pilgrim in search of the tower or the church. Turns out they were a traveler with no ties in the land.
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When they saw me begging, they started. Searched their pockets and then ran off. And then, they came running back all out of breath. And handed me a coin.
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A penniless traveler in a foreign land, running about to help a beggar they met on the streets. Isn’t it funny?
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… They’re a good man. …Yes, they truly are.
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Greetings! Greetings! Greetings!
I love chants of sennaar but that cover art is awkward as fuck looking.
CHANTS OF SENNAAR ↳ dev. Rundisc
On Harmony, Communication, and Good Will
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(Script under cut)
Do not be seen, do not be heard. Use hidden passages when you move. Be at hand before you are called. The serf lived as someone else’s background their entire life.
-
So when they ran from their home to the monastery it was only natural that the first thing they saw was the man at the lowest.
-
Greetings. Would you like to share this? ? I am sorry, I am not yet fluent in your language…
-
Ah, you must be one of the people from the upper floor. Well, I'll gladly take the food! No idea what you’re saying though. … Come to think of it, do you know this person?
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Oh…! I heard they helped us come to the monastery. Though I only saw them in passing. (A stranger…? In here…? They’re not a serf…) I thought they were a pilgrim in search of the tower or the church. Turns out they were a traveler with no ties in the land.
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When they saw me begging, they started. Searched their pockets and then ran off. And then, they came running back all out of breath. And handed me a coin.
-
A penniless traveler in a foreign land, running about to help a beggar they met on the streets. Isn’t it funny?
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… They’re a good man. …Yes, they truly are.
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Greetings! Greetings! Greetings!
Frustration (never learned the word for that either)
the feel when you don't know enough words to express yourself
hi hello can we get some books on language
(that multilingual with limited knowledge of each language using everything they can to convey that word)
(script under cut)
Hello!
I saw you ...
... you ... ...
I ...
(New words...)
... you
... ...
... ...
I ...
... ...
... ...
I ...
I can't ...
I'm ...
... ...
Do you need help?
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Book
Book
bit messed up we can't do anything about the preacher
(on the relationship between the traveler, the player, and the devs)
(script under cut)
I found the Preacher. The Preacher is dead. I have the words to say it. I have the means to convey it.
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So why can't I do (We want to talk to the Preacher) (We can't find the Preacher) anything? (I want to talk to God) (I want to talk to the Preacher)
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You, say something, would you?
And it feels just a bit unfair.
(script under cut)
There is a little click in your head when you 'finish' a language. You do not know what criteria you met. Only that it is 'enough'.
You assume, in hindsight, that it was to discourage you from staying in one floor for too long.
Because you do not know enough. You do not know enough at all.
And you do not know the words to protest this to your maker.
i'm not crying over the hopeful simplicity of the ending of chants of sennaar. shut up.
So, you may have had a brother. And you may have killed it.
brother (undefined gender)
a continuation olong this line of thought
the definition for 'brother' is from the American Heritage Dictionary
(script under cut)
Brother (noun)
A male having the same parents as another or one parent in common with another.
One who shares a common ancestry, allegiance, character, or purpose with another or others, especially.
So, you may have had a brother.
And you may have killed it. / You know how to say 'death' and 'die' but you have yet to learn the word for 'kill'. / Besides, you are not sure if the sentiment of 'shutting down a program (possibly made by the same person who made you) to save the people and bring the tower to harmony while it trys to kill you too' can be expressed in a single word.
No, it is far too complicated for that. / Then again, maybe Exile wasn't trying to kill you. It could have, that time. But instead, it brought you into Exile. Just as it begged you to, the first time. / You. What did you want from me?
"You're crying from a language puzzle game?" the, we're all one and the same, and it's from that understanding and striving to communicate with each other through our differences that we can truly come together and help one another or simply take time to appreciate the art and craftsmanship of the other that is not like you, got to me.
Sibling Trouble
(script under cut)
What do you call 'books'? It depends on the book… In our language 'brother' is… Sigh What is it? I just… can't see the point in all this. ?
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I mean, we already have a universal language in Beauty. Rather than dithering on the meaning of every word, we should focus more on feeling…
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Where were the art theory books? 700s. You're not a writer, are you? A writer wouldn't say that. Most people would agree that there is a standard of beauty. But that standard differs on the age and place. As an artist, what do you think? Oh, there is no one who have studied beauty as we have… There are studies on this…
I hate all of you…
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Um, are all brothers like that? Well… Mostly, yes… Oh…