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  For Context: This is a topic that turned into another miner firestorm on Twitter. It's about how more and more games are making paths and interactive elements bright yellow to help players know where to go and what to do. A lot of gamers think this is 'dumbing down' games. --- Now that this trending Twitter topic has died down, I'm ready to weigh in. A little background: I've been doing level design/art for ~25 years in many genres including FPS, 3rd Person ARPG, Sidescrollers, and MMOs. I don't like most of the takes I've seen, both from Gamers ™  and fellow devs.  But I chalk a lot of disagreement up to the fact that Twitter is about the worst format for nuanced discussion of anything. So what I'm reacting to may or may not be actual views held by any actual people. Arguments I've seen that I think are wrong: * Yellow Paint is condescending. No. It's a response to watching actual people struggle and grow frustrated with navigation in your gam

2023 Entertainment Report

  I started recording my thoughts on games, shows and movies I watched this year on my Patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/joshforeman   I thought I might as well put a repository of these here.  I started it in August, but I also record what I watch and play on my daily log, so at the end I’ll add rapid fire thoughts on all of them. Entertainment report 8/13/23 I watched the whole season of Twisted Metal, a show based on a car combat game from the turn of the century.  It's super dumb, very silly, incredibly gory, and... I guess pretty fun.  I enjoyed it.  Couldn't recommend it generally, but if the stuff I mentioned doesn't sound bad to you, maybe check it out!  Entertainment report 8/20/23 I watched through Season 3 of I Think You Should Leave.  Here's my advice.  I think you should leave half way through the season.  Ok, if you like aggressively off-putting humor about aggressively off-putting people -which I do- I think you'll like this show.  Like all sketch