{"id":14353,"date":"2024-08-15T11:02:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T11:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/?p=14353"},"modified":"2025-06-17T14:37:52","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T14:37:52","slug":"diablo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2024\/08\/15\/diablo\/","title":{"rendered":"diablo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/f_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75ab50c1-2a16-4e84-9383-ae8705889068_1840x1372.png?ssl=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/substackcdn.com\/image\/fetch\/w_1456%2Cc_limit%2Cf_auto%2Cq_auto%3Agood%2Cfl_progressive%3Asteep\/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F75ab50c1-2a16-4e84-9383-ae8705889068_1840x1372.png?w=770&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>i\u2019ve known for a long time that i want to write something about diablo<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i could do the memoir thing but really i think i want to write something oddly specific about the player\u2019s interface<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>just posted another twitter thread that scratched this itch but i think i\u2019ll come back to it<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also want to talk about the vibes? tristram theme, youtube comment\u2026 how simple it can be to get really dark and ominous. you have fewer abilities and powers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>also i\u2019m curious to know the impact\/influence of diablo on wider culture? megan fox in the advertising for D4, and a halsey song<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i was introduced to diablo 2 by sandesh, he was playing a sorceress<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>i completed all of D2 at another friend\u2019s house, wen quan, and I wonder about that sometimes. why did he\u2026 invite me to his house\u2026 to play a video game on his computer? and he just watched me play?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>tbc<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>;;;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>2024dec23 (notes from some youtube video)<br>Diablo influenced by rogue and nethack<br>Supposed to be party and turn based<br>Influenced by magic the gathering\u00a0<br>Primal rage fighting game stop motion- shelved bc too time consuming<br>Blizzard was previously called silicon and synapse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i\u2019ve known for a long time that i want to write something about diablo i could do the memoir thing but really i think i want to write something oddly specific about the player\u2019s interface just posted another twitter thread that scratched this itch but i think i\u2019ll come back&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[591],"tags":[730,805],"class_list":["post-14353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews","tag-substack","tag-videogames"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5gxNz-diablo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14803,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14353\/revisions\/14803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}