Neon Abyss is a game about procedural generation.
Martin Luther King spit a crazy bar during his spoken word concert at the Lincoln Memorial. Dude said, "I have a dream that my children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but the content of their character."
I messed up when I first digested the quote because I interpreted it as an entreaty to look past race and all good-hearted people should hold hands into the sunset yadda yadda yadda. Given the current climate, I went back to this quote and am having a "Slow it down, he just dissed you." moment. Shouts to Conceited.
Reverend King was a top-tier orator min-maxed in speech and diplo that didn't use filler words and never left his morally balanced semantic logic open to bad faith thread pulling. But in this moment, instead of anything else in his bag of tricks, he used the word "Judged."
I can't believe I didn't see it before, he was sneak dissing Hoteps.
Oh, sorry, I know a lot of my readers are spread out so ill explain. A Hotep is the African American version of a fuckin' idiot. But don't worry, it's just a palette swap of the same idiot. For instance, a white supremacist is hotep, that stone age Asian uncle that refers to blacks as Kalu, hak gwei, etc.., uses religion as a weapon, openly hates the idea of women, and refuses the acknowledge the existence of "gay," is hotep. Folks like that.
The funny part is the only way to suss these morons most times is to follow Dr. Kings outline. As in the Hotep will judge you by the color of your skin, then initiate a conversation that allows you to judge the content of their character. For instance.
Black person: "Sup."
Hotep: "Good afternoon, King."
Black person: "Crazy times we are in, yeah?"
Hotep: "Preach, what we need to be doing is coming together and building black wealth."
Black person: "I 100 percent agree."
Hotep: "Power to the people, and we can start doing that after all the Jew's are gone."
Black person: "Ah fuck..."
Hotep: "Oh you scared, little house nigga? Well run on into the house and hug massa then!"
Black person: "Alright. Imma head out. Good luck with all of that sir."
Hotep: "And go put on a skirt, cause 5G made you a docile female!"
Black person: "Say less."
Anyway, that's the net-net of any conversation with these types. Swap the irrational racial fear for whatever appropriate bogeyman of that color. Dr. King was basically saying he hopes to live in a world where all idiots of this type are judged by what they say and how they behave, regardless of color.
And in the world of today where idiot's of this certain type are emboldened beyond measure that is getting so much easier to do. Dr. King was super good at this stuff, wonder how better things would be around here if he wasn't murdered.
Oh, and Neon Abyss is a side-scrolling "Enter the Gungeon" and if that description dosen't excite you we just live a different kind of life. Shouts to information, rip tb rip tc rip Tall-T. Love is wise, hatred is foolish. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also jobs.
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