A clever or cunning trick, devices or expedients (especially intended to deceive)*
James Van Fleet
@horrorfilms101.bsky.social
One thing I don’t like about the “Hollow Knight” games, and the thing that made me DNF “Dark Souls,” is the tendency to NOT have save points right before a boss. That’s a frustrating artifice that quickly turns gameplay grueling instead of rewarding. What’s gained by repeating rooms full of lowbies?
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Baudrillard Warned Us
@baudrillardwarned.us
"Seduction continues to appear to all orthodoxies as malefice and artifice, a black magic for the deviation of all truths, an exaltation of the malicious use of signs, a conspiracy of signs."
- Seduction
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Jeff Holland
@jkholland.bsky.social
The Phoenician Scheme is probably the most fun I've had w/a Wes Anderson movie in a while, but at this point the artifice just overwhelms whatever emotional arc he's shooting for
Me: well I enjoyed it - not sure what it was ABOUT but
M: Something about fathers and kids?
Me: That's ALL of them tho
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