Caltrops - What Are You Playing Right Now?

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by damn, son 06/25/2026, 4:05pm PDT

Rafiki wrote:

but wrote:

It was shooting for trying to convey how the simplest of every day actions becomes a struggle for someone with dementia or whatever, and how you start hating everything around you for failing at them.

First off, you love defending it. You’re engorged right now. Throbbing even.

If you're seeing a dick, it's probably the reflection in your monitor.

Second, the main character never starts hating everything around her, so I don’t know where that came from.

It's prominently established that her perception of time all blurs together, so where is the start? People are also capable of carrying over resentment to moments beyond the immediate cause.

Third, I don’t accept that the actions in the game reflect struggling with dementia. The game has you play red light, green light, move sliders to set a table, drag a dot around to get two people to hold hands, click two halves of an image to cycle them into a whole, and so on. One sequence just has you drag and hold a button to one side of the screen to scroll through a montage. Just watching the YouTube video shows you a bunch of simple interactions that are just something to do. It’s just a bunch of flimsy excuses to try and involve you in the narrative. In the few instances where the game is potentially trying to convey an early slide into memory loss, like the segment where you have to repeat wedding vows, you can undermine it by successfully completing it without making a mistake, so you may as well not even be involved.

Okay, so it's clumsy and could have been done better and shorter? Sure. But it doesn't mean nothing. You're having a Confused Matthew moment here. It's fine to say 2001 could have been done better or was boring, but claiming the opening ape sequence had no meaning at all is flat out wrong. "Dementia turns every day simple tasks into retarded Warioware games you keep forgetting the rules to" was an attempt to create an interactive dementia experience how the burden of self care grows beyond its victim. Say it's boring all you want, but the intent is as obvious as a bone toss->nuclear satellite.