Video Games

from esp_hadouken import levels

from Road import *

class Void(levels.Void.Void):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        levels.Void.Void.__init__(self, parent)
        self.read_configuration()
        self.road = Road(self)

    def read_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration()
        prefix = "diortem-level-"
        self.padding = config[prefix + "void-padding"]
        self.segment_width_range = config[prefix + "segment-width-range"]
        self.segment_height_range = config[prefix + "segment-height-range"]
        self.shift_range = config[prefix + "shift-range"]
        self.leg_range = config[prefix + "leg-range"]
        self.scroll_speed = config[prefix + "scroll-speed"]

    def update_area(self):
        self.road.update()

from random import randint

from pygame import Surface, Color, Rect

from esp_hadouken.GameChild import *
from Segment import *

class Road(GameChild, Surface):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.init_surface()
        self.set_background()
        self.set_x_range()
        self.generate_segments()

    def init_surface(self):
        parent = self.parent
        width = parent.get_width()
        padding = parent.padding
        bandit_height = parent.parent.bandit.rect.h
        height = parent.get_height() - sum(padding) - bandit_height
        rect = Rect(0, padding[0] + bandit_height, width, height)
        Surface.__init__(self, rect.size)
        self.convert()
        self.rect = rect

    def set_background(self):
        background = Surface(self.get_size())
        background.fill(self.parent.opaque_color)
        background.convert()
        self.background = background

    def set_x_range(self):
        max_seg = self.parent.segment_width_range[1]
        self.x_range = max_seg / 2, self.get_width() - max_seg / 2

    def generate_segments(self):
        self.segments = []
        self.leg = Leg(self)
        y = self.get_height()
        while y > 0:
            self.add_segment(y)
            y -= self.segments[0].rect.h

    def add_segment(self, bottom=None):
        leg = self.leg
        segments = self.segments
        if leg.is_complete():
            leg = Leg(self)
        if bottom is None:
            bottom = segments[0].rect.top
        x = segments[0].rect.centerx if segments else 0
        segments.insert(0, Segment(self, leg, bottom, x))
        leg.advance()
        self.leg = leg

    def update(self):
        self.set_clip()
        self.clear()
        self.update_segments()
        self.draw()

    def set_clip(self):
        parent = self.parent
        y = parent.get_clip().top - parent.padding[0] - parent.parent.bandit.rect.h
        Surface.set_clip(self, Rect((0, y), parent.get_clip().size))

    def clear(self):
        self.blit(self.background, (0, 0))

    def update_segments(self):
        if self.segments[0].rect.top >= -self.parent.segment_height_range[1]:
            self.add_segment()
        for segment in self.segments:
            if segment.rect.top > self.get_height():
                self.segments.remove(segment)
            else:
                segment.update()

    def draw(self):
        self.parent.blit(self, self.rect)


class Leg:

    dirs = [-1, 1]

    def __init__(self, road):
        self.road = road
        self.length = randint(*road.parent.leg_range)
        self.direction = self.dirs[randint(0, len(self.dirs) - 1)]
        self.index = 0

    def advance(self):
        self.index += 1
        self.shift = randint(*self.road.parent.shift_range) * self.direction

    def change_direction(self):
        dirs = self.dirs
        direction = self.direction
        if direction == dirs[0]:
            direction = dirs[1]
        else:
            direction = dirs[0]
        self.direction = direction

    def is_complete(self):
        return self.index >= self.length

from operator import sub
from random import randint

from pygame import Surface, Rect, Color, transform, draw

from esp_hadouken.GameChild import *

class Segment(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent, leg, bottom, x):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.init_rect(leg, bottom, x)
        self.color = parent.parent.transparent_color

    def init_rect(self, leg, bottom, x):
        parent = self.parent
        rect = Rect(0, 0, 0, randint(*parent.parent.segment_height_range))
        x_range = parent.x_range
        if x is None:
            x = randint(*x_range)
        else:
            x += leg.direction * randint(*parent.parent.shift_range)
        if x < x_range[0] or x > x_range[1]:
            leg.change_direction()
            if x < x_range[0]:
                x = x_range[0]
            else:
                x = x_range[1]
        rect.centerx = x
        rect.bottom = bottom
        self.rect = rect

    def update(self):
        self.update_width()
        self.recenter()
        self.scroll()
        self.draw()

    def update_width(self):
        parent = self.parent
        rect = self.rect
        pos = float(rect.bottom) / parent.get_height()
        centerx = rect.centerx
        width_r = parent.parent.segment_width_range
        rect.w = pos * -sub(*width_r) + width_r[0]
        rect.centerx = centerx

    def recenter(self):
        rect = self.rect
        right_bound = self.parent.get_width()
        if rect.left < 0:
            rect.left = 0
        elif rect.right > right_bound:
            rect.right = right_bound

    def scroll(self):
        self.rect.top += self.parent.parent.scroll_speed

    def draw(self):
        draw.rect(self.parent, self.color, self.rect)

from random import randint

from pygame import Surface, Color

from esp_hadouken.levels.Void import *
from Barrier import *

class Gauntlet(Void):

    step_count = 0

    def __init__(self, parent):
        Void.__init__(self, parent)
        self.read_configuration()
        self.set_area()
        self.generate_barriers()

    def read_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration()
        prefix = "horse-level-"
        self.padding = config[prefix + "void-padding"]
        self.size_range = config[prefix + "size-range"]
        self.step_limit = config[prefix + "step-limit"]

    def set_area(self):
        self.set_y_range()
        y_range = self.y_range
        height = y_range[1] - y_range[0]
        area = Surface((self.parent.get_width(), height)).convert()
        self.area_bg = Surface(area.get_size()).convert()
        self.area = area

    def set_y_range(self):
        padding = self.padding
        start = self.parent.bandit.rect.h + padding[0]
        end = self.get_height() - padding[1]
        self.y_range = start, end

    def generate_barriers(self):
        self.barriers = barriers = []
        y = 0
        while y < self.area.get_height():
            sibling = None if not barriers else barriers[-1]
            barriers.append(Barrier(self, y, sibling))
            y += barriers[-1].get_height()

    def update_area(self):
        self.update_step_count()
        self.clear_area()
        self.update_barriers()
        self.draw_area()

    def update_step_count(self):
        count = self.step_count + 1
        if count > self.step_limit:
            count = 0
            self.toggle_barrier_headings()
        self.step_count = count

    def toggle_barrier_headings(self):
        for barrier in self.barriers:
            barrier.toggle_heading()

    def clear_area(self):
        self.area.blit(self.area_bg, (0, 0))

    def update_barriers(self):
        for barrier in self.barriers:
            barrier.update()

    def draw_area(self):
        self.blit(self.area, (0, self.y_range[0]))

216.73.216.101

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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