The #MastoPrompt for Tuesday 10 December 2024 is:
The poem or story can include the prompt word or be about the prompt word.
@ me, if you like, or just include the #MastoPrompt tag (to allow people to follow or filter their feeds), or keep your work to yourself - all the options are good as long as you're writing.
If you're including an image please do include alt-text so I can boost your post.
#Writing
#SmallPoem
#Poetry
#Fiction
#MicroFiction
#SmallStories
#Sports provides valuable #lifelessons: Let #trans #Americans #play
Those #opposed to #trans #particiaption in #sports want you to imagine #hypermasculine #boys competing against #helpless #girls. A #caricature of a #trans girls that is nothing like the reality of who trans girls and women are.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #TransKids #Entertainment #Sports #Inclusion #Representation #Culture #Hate #Bigotry #Discrimination #Transphobia
There is a big way that I relate to #edwardsnowden #hacking #technology #infosec
We have all had that feeling where we find out something extremely broken in our #workplace
Or #company or #society or #relationships
And you tell the right people, because you want to fix it.
And nobody does anything.
Nobody cares.
For me, this reverts to being a #helpless child inside.
Have you guys felt like this before? Please say yes because I feel crazy
May 3, 2023 - Day 123 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 138
Game: Helpless
Platform: Steam
Release Date: Mar 11, 2023
Library Date: Mar 27, 2023
Unplayed: 37d (1m6d)
Playtime: 32m
Helpless is a third-person walking sim/adventure. You play a child in a post-apocalyptic world. While traveling with your ill mother to an unknown destination, your RV breaks down, and it's up to you to find help.
Helpless is free on Steam, and according to the Steam page, was built by a team of 22 students as their bachelor's degree team project, so I'm not going to judge it too harshly.
Stylistically, I can't really think of anything to compare it to, but it feels very coherent, and well thought out. The sound design is well done (particularly as they don't appear to have had a dedicated sound designer), but the game does feel a little bit linear.
The apocalypse in "post-apocalypse" appears to have been environmental collapse; with desert encroaching on what little of civilisation is left; there are no enemies as such, only the sun.
As you explore for parts to get back on the road, you find yourself darting from shadow to shadow so as to not overheat and die of exposure.
It could have used some tweaks in the UI & gameplay, and it doesn't seem like a long game, but for what it is, and *free*, there's definitely an interesting experience to be had.
Helpless is:
3: OK
#Helpless #WalkingSimulator #Adventure #MastodonGaming #Gaming #Project365ONG #Project365 #NewPlay
