2nd manifesto to present games as dead bodies lol. Loved this.
A lot of filmmakers that make it big say in interviews that they’re simply “making the films they want to see,” and I think that’s a good idea to present, but what I don’t see people point out about that quote is how the filmmaker can never see their own film without thinking about how they made it. They make their films in the hopes that other people see what they saw when they envisioned it, but they can never look at it themselves in the same way. In this way art is both selfish (you’re often trying to present your thoughts as uncompromised as possible) and selfless (the end result is something only other people can experience with “fresh” eyes).
“Gambling: the ultimate way of rent-seeking” goes hard, I might steal that