Video Games

from pygame import Surface
from pygame.locals import *
from pygame.image import load

from esp_hadouken.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild

class Glass(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.display_surface = self.get_screen()
        self.load_image()

    def load_image(self):
        self.image = load(self.get_resource("title", "glass-path")).convert()

    def update(self):
        self.display_surface.blit(self.image, (0, 0), None, BLEND_MAX)

from pygame.locals import *
from pygame.image import load
from pygame.font import Font

from esp_hadouken.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from esp_hadouken.pgfw.Input import Input
from esp_hadouken.Toy import Toy
from esp_hadouken.title.background.Background import Background
from esp_hadouken.title.menu.Menu import Menu
from esp_hadouken.title.Glass import Glass

class Title(GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.leave_limit = self.get_screen().get_rect().right
        self.audio_path = self.get_resource("title", "audio-path")
        self.toy_position = self.get_configuration("title", "toy-position")
        self.delegate = self.get_delegate()
        self.deactivate()
        self.set_children()
        self.place_toy()
        self.subscribe(self.respond)

    def deactivate(self):
        self.active = False

    def set_children(self):
        self.toy = Toy(self)
        self.background = Background(self)
        self.glass = Glass(self)
        self.menu = Menu(self)

    def place_toy(self):
        self.toy.rect.topleft = self.toy_position

    def respond(self, event):
        compare = self.delegate.compare
        if compare(event, "reset-game"):
            self.activate()
        elif compare(event, "main-menu-selection", option="play"):
            self.deactivate()
        elif compare(event, "main-menu-selection", option="records"):
            self.deactivate()

    def activate(self):
        self.active = True
        self.start_music()

    def start_music(self):
        self.get_audio().play_bgm(self.audio_path)

    def update(self):
        if self.active:
            self.background.update()
            self.toy.update()
            self.glass.update()
            self.menu.update()

from pygame import Rect

from esp_hadouken.pgfw.GameChild import GameChild
from esp_hadouken.title.menu.Option import Option

class Menu(Rect, GameChild):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        GameChild.__init__(self, parent)
        self.display_surface = self.get_screen()
        self.fx = self.get_configuration("main-menu", "select-fx")
        self.delegate = self.get_delegate()
        self.init_rect()
        self.add_options()
        self.subscribe(self.respond)

    def init_rect(self):
        Rect.__init__(self, (0, 0), self.get_configuration("main-menu", "size"))
        self.center = self.display_surface.get_rect().center

    def add_options(self):
        self.options = [Option(self, ii) for ii in range(2)]

    def respond(self, event):
        if self.parent.active:
            compare = self.delegate.compare
            if compare(event, ["left", "right"]):
                play = self.get_audio().play_fx
                post = self.delegate.post
                name = "main-menu-selection"
                if compare(event, "left"):
                    play(self.fx[0])
                    post(name, option="play")
                elif compare(event, "right"):
                    play(self.fx[1])
                    post(name, option="records")

    def apply_to_options(self, name):
        for option in self.options:
            getattr(option, name)()

    def update(self):
        self.apply_to_options("update")

from random import randint

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

from esp_hadouken.pgfw.Sprite import Sprite

class Option(Sprite):

    def __init__(self, parent, index):
        Sprite.__init__(self, parent)
        self.index = index
        self.load_configuration()
        self.set_framerate(self.framerate)
        self.add_frames()
        self.place()

    def load_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("main-menu")
        self.framerate = config["framerate"]
        self.width = config["option-width"]
        self.frame_count = config["frame-count"]
        self.text_color = config["text-color"]
        self.text_size = config["text-size"]
        self.text = config["option-text"]
        self.background_color_range = config["background-color-range"]
        self.font_path = self.get_resource("main-menu", "font-path")

    def add_frames(self):
        size = self.width, self.parent.h
        for ii in range(self.frame_count):
            surface = Surface(size)
            self.randomize(surface)
            self.add_text(surface)
            self.add_frame(surface)

    def randomize(self, surface):
        pixels = PixelArray(surface)
        for ii, column in enumerate(pixels):
            for jj, pixel in enumerate(column):
                pixels[ii][jj] = self.build_random_color()

    def build_random_color(self):
        color = self.background_color_range
        return randint(*color), randint(*color), randint(*color)

    def add_text(self, parent):
        index, color, antialias = self.index, self.text_color, True
        font = Font(self.font_path, self.text_size)
        if index == 0:
            surface = font.render(self.text[0], antialias, color)
        elif index == 1:
            surface = font.render(self.text[1], antialias, color)
        rect = surface.get_rect()
        rect.center = parent.get_rect().center
        parent.blit(surface, rect)

    def place(self):
        index = self.index
        if index == 0:
            self.rect.topleft = self.parent.topleft
        elif index == 1:
            self.rect.topright = self.parent.topright

from math import pi

from pygame import Surface, Rect
from pygame.draw import arc

from esp_hadouken.pgfw.Sprite import Sprite

class Sky(Sprite):

    def __init__(self, parent):
        Sprite.__init__(self, parent)
        self.load_configuration()
        self.add_frames()
        self.set_framerate(self.framerate)

    def load_configuration(self):
        config = self.get_configuration("title")
        self.framerate = config["sky-framerate"]
        self.step = config["sky-arc-step"]
        self.arc_thickness = config["sky-arc-thickness"]
        self.arc_color = config["sky-arc-color"]
        self.color = config["sky-color"]

    def add_frames(self):
        for ii in 0, 1:
            offset = -ii * self.step / 2
            surface = Surface(self.display_surface.get_size())
            surface.fill(self.color)
            self.draw_arcs(surface, offset)
            self.add_frame(surface)

    def draw_arcs(self, surface, offset):
        step = self.step
        reference = self.display_surface.get_rect()
        limit = reference.w
        rect = Rect(0, 0, step + offset, step + offset)
        center = reference.centerx, reference.bottom
        rect.center = center
        start_angle = pi / 2
        thickness = self.arc_thickness
        color = self.arc_color
        while rect.w / 2 <= limit:
            arc(surface, color, rect, start_angle, 0, thickness)
            rect.w += step
            rect.h += step
            rect.center = center

216.73.216.141

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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