Video Games

from random import choice
from lib.pgfw.pgfw.Sprite import Sprite

class Gun(Sprite):

    def __init__(self, parent, path):
        Sprite.__init__(self, parent)
        self.load_from_path(path, True)
        self.set_framerate(self.get_configuration("gun", "framerate"))
        self.reset()

    def reset(self):
        self.hide()
        self.unfollow()

    def hide(self):
        self.visible = False

    def unfollow(self):
        self.following = False

    def show(self):
        self.visible = True

    def follow(self, food):
        self.food = food
        self.following = True

    def update(self):
        if self.visible:
            if self.following:
                self.location.centerx = self.food.location.centerx
            Sprite.update(self)

from os import listdir
from os.path import join

from pygame import Surface

from lib.pgfw.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from food_spring.gun.Gun import Gun

class GunLibrary(GameChild, list):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.load_configuration()
        self.set_guns()

    def load_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("gun")
        self.root = config["path"]

    def set_guns(self):
        for ii in xrange(4):
            self.append(Guns(self, self.get_resource(join(self.root, str(ii)))))


class Guns(GameChild, list):

    def __init__(self, parent, root):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        for path in sorted(listdir(root)):
            self.append(Gun(self, join(root, path)))
        self.reset()

    def reset(self):
        for gun in self:
            gun.reset()
            gun.unfollow()

    def hide(self, exclude=None):
        for gun in self:
            gun.hide()
        if exclude is not None:
            self[exclude].show()

    def update(self):
        for gun in self:
            gun.update()

from pygame import Surface

from lib.pgfw.pgfw.Animation import Animation
from food_spring.introduction.Epithet import Epithet

class Introduction(Animation):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        Animation.__init__(self, parent)
        self.display_surface = self.get_display_surface()
        self.audio = self.get_audio()
        self.delegate = self.get_delegate()
        self.audio_path = self.get_resource("introduction", "audio")
        self.set_background()
        self.epithet = Epithet(self)
        self.spanky = parent.spanky
        self.reset()
        self.deactivate()
        self.subscribe(self.respond)

    def set_background(self):
        surface = Surface(self.display_surface.get_size())
        surface.fill((0, 0, 0))
        self.background = surface

    def respond(self, event):
        if self.active:
            if self.delegate.compare(event, "any"):
                self.deactivate()
                self.parent.title.queue_activation()

    def reset(self):
        self.display_surface.blit(self.background, (0, 0))

    def deactivate(self):
        self.active = False
        self.audio.stop_current_channel()

    def activate(self):
        self.active = True
        self.audio.play_bgm(self.audio_path)
        self.spanky.location.midbottom = \
                                       self.display_surface.get_rect().midbottom

    def update(self):
        if self.active:
            self.clear()
            Animation.update(self)
            self.parent.gaia.swapper.update()
            self.epithet.update()
            self.spanky.update()

    def clear(self):
        for rect in (self.parent.gaia.swapper.rect, self.spanky.location):
            self.display_surface.blit(self.background, rect, rect)
        self.epithet.clear()

from random import randint

from pygame import Rect, Surface, Color
from pygame.font import Font

from lib.pgfw.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from lib.pgfw.pgfw.Sprite import Sprite

class Epithet(GameChild, Rect):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.load_configuration()
        self.init_rect()
        self.set_glyphs()

    def load_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("epithet")
        self.font_path = self.get_resource("display", "font-path")
        self.width = config["width"]
        self.margin = config["margin"]
        self.text = config["text"]
        self.color = config["color"]
        self.i_color = config["i-color"]
        self.t_color = config["t-color"]
        self.font_size = config["font-size"]
        self.it_size = config["it-size"]

    def init_rect(self):
        Rect.__init__(self, 0, 0, self.width, 0)
        self.midtop = self.get_display_surface().get_rect().centerx, self.margin

    def set_glyphs(self):
        glyphs = []
        for ii, character in enumerate(self.text):
            if character != " ":
                color = None
                if character in "IT":
                    size = self.it_size
                    italic = True
                    bold = True
                    if character == "I":
                        color = self.i_color
                    elif character == "T":
                        color = self.t_color
                else:
                    size = self.font_size
                    italic = False
                    bold = False
                glyphs.append(Glyph(self, character, color, size, bold, italic,
                                    ii))
        self.glyphs = glyphs

    def update(self):
        for glyph in self.glyphs:
            glyph.update()

    def clear(self):
        parent = self.parent
        for glyph in self.glyphs:
            for location in glyph.locations:
                parent.display_surface.blit(parent.background, location,
                                            location)


class Glyph(Sprite):

    def __init__(self, parent, character, color, size, bold, italic, ii):
        Sprite.__init__(self, parent, randint(40, 120))
        self.set_frames(character, size, color, bold, italic)
        self.place(ii)
        self.add_location(offset=(-5, 8))

    def set_frames(self, character, size, color, bold, italic):
        color = Color(0, 0, 0)
        background_color = Color(0, 0, 0)
        count = 30
        font = Font(self.parent.font_path, size)
        font.set_italic(italic)
        font.set_bold(bold)
        for ii in xrange(count):
            hue = randint(0, 255)
            color.hsla = hue, 100, 50, randint(30, 100)
            background_hue = hue + 128
            if background_hue > 255:
                background_hue -= 255
            background_color.hsla = background_hue, 100, 50, randint(30, 100)
            frame = font.render(character, True, color, background_color)
            if not ii % (count / 6):
                surface = Surface(frame.get_size())
                surface.set_colorkey((0, 0, 0))
                midpoint = frame.get_width() / 2
                surface.blit(frame, (midpoint, 0))
                surface.blit(frame, (-midpoint, 0))
                frame = surface
            self.add_frame(frame)

    def place(self, ii):
        parent = self.parent
        offset = int(parent.w * float(ii) / (len(parent.text) - 1))
        self.location.center = parent.left + offset, parent.top

216.73.216.124

March 3, 2021♦

Video 📺

Computers are a gun. They can see the target; they can pull the trigger. Computers were made by the military to blow people's brains out if they stepped out of line. Google Coral is the same technology that pollutes the oceans, and so is the computer I'm using, and so are the platforms I'm using to post this.

Game 🎲

Games are a context in which all play is purposeful. Games expose the fundamentally nihilistic nature of the universe and futility of pursuing any path other than the inevitability of death and the torture of an evil that knows and exploits absolute freedom. Games are not educational; they are education.

Propaganda 🆒

Education is propaganda — ego driven by-product conveying nothing that would enable us to expose that vanities made for gain subject us further to an illusion created by those in control: the illusion that quantity can represent substance and that data or observation can replace meaning. And why say it, or how, without contradicting yourself, that everything, once registered, no longer exists, and in fact never did, exists only in relation to other non-existent things, and when you look, it's not there, not only because it's long vanished, but because where would it be?

fig. 2: Gamer goo is a lubricant — not for your skin, but for facilitating your ability to own the competition (image from Gamer goo review)

As a result of video games, the great Trojan horse 🎠 of imperialist consumerist representationalism, people are divided in halves to encourage them to act according to market ordained impulses, to feign assurance, penetrating themselves deeper into a tyranny from which every action signals allegiance, confusing the world with definitions and borders, constantly struggling to balance or brace themselves against forces that threaten the crumbling stability of their ego.

or example, a cup 🥃 is designed and built to hold something, maintain order and prevent chaos. It keeps water from spilling back to where it belongs, back where it wants to go and gravity wants it to go. The cup is a trap, and it is used to assert dominance over nature, to fill with thoughts about existence, time and self, thoughts regarding dissimilarity between equal parts and patterns that manifest in variation. These ruminations disguised as revelations boil away to reveal isolated and self-aggrandizing thoughts about an analogy fabricated to herald the profundity of one's campaign's propaganda. You have no authentic impulse except to feed a delusion of ultimate and final supremacy. That is why you play games. That is your nature. That is why you eventually smash the cup to bits 💥 or otherwise watch it disintegrate forever because it, by being useful, threatens your facade of ownership and control.

fig. 3: worth1000

The cup is you; it reflects you; it is a lens through which you see yourself; it reassures you, confirming your presence; it says something, being something you can observe. When you move, it moves, and it opens after being closed. You can use it as a vessel for penetration fantasies, keeping you warm and fertile, a fine host for the plague of consciousness, you reptile, you sun scorched transgressor that not only bites the hand that feeds, but buries it deep within a sterile chamber where nothing remains for it as a means of escape except the corpses of others that infringed upon your feeding frenzy.

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