1 was fresh and new

2 was fantastic

prequel was OK

3 tried too hard and was generally average to poor

which is a reskin of 1994’s Shariki which was a version of 1989’s Columns - both made by bedroom solo programmers.

email is easily instantly and trivially ignored

the one I will make in 2–54 years’ time

Why would you hire a writer that hates writing?

Why are you making a narrative video game without a writer?

If you’re making just a Candy Crush or a PacMan or a Space Invaders that doesn’t need plot or environmental storytelling why do you need these narrative, story-driven pieces of prose?

None of the justifications make any real world sense to me.

But also, a good friend of mine makes props and set dressings for TV shows (he helped build Vecna’s world in Stranger Things for example) and they are frequently building stuff just like you say.

But that’s the fun of writing is thinking up stuff like that? AI in that case is solving the problem of being creative and leaving the boring stuff up to humans?!

I’m learning Godot cuz I had an idea for a game and thought it’d be a fun project. Started off trying to use AI to learn and got in such a muddle I deleted everything and started using guides. Even old, out of date ones are easier to learn from and don’t cause massive errors.

There’s really no excuse to use AI. It’s much quicker to type “This vase is empty” than ask ai to write a description of an empty vase. As in its quicker than even writing the prompt.

if I wanted to only play half my games at twice the price for only a few years on hardware i can’t upgrade with fewer functions and content due to exclusivity, I would buy a console

I didn’t play Stardew valley because she star on my valley til I dew

Perhaps Thor is Pozzo.

it’s gambling for children is why. While I can choose to not buy the MTX inside a game, children and some young adults are more vulnerable to psychologically manipulative dark patterns that have been designed to mimic addiction as closely as possible.

then don’t make single player games (or sections of games) require a server.

those who play games, and those who are LGBTQIA+ are both people

I built an API connector for work (I’m a hobbyist, not a pro) to download what is the most common cargo transported by trucking companies from the DoT database. Everyone complained because they had to enter the company names correctly into a CSV as it wouldn’t accept typos or do fuzzy matching, nor could it automatically determine which was the head office of a company, only return a list of all of the companies.

I did. Luckily there were points where it was shit enough to be able to leave without looking back.

I beat The Black Heart, Atheon, Crota, Oryx, Siva, Xol, Ghaul, Calus, Riven, Nezerac, Savathun, and The Witness, plus AlakHul, Atraks, Sepiks, Taniks, the Forsaken Baron, a bunch of Vex Gatelords and Overminds… I rediscovered 3 Dark Subclasses plus a fourth Light one and then merged them, I became an Iron Lord, a Dregden and went to Osiris’ Lighthouse in D1 and D2, healed the Traveller (twice), I witnessed my own funeral in the Corridors of Time, bringing back Saint 14, I saved and killed Rasputin and Prince/Crow, became Taken and beat Sword Logic, Vex Simulations, and Nightmares themselves: including the real world that’s four entire realities I conquered and I communed with The Long Boi In The Soup. I saw the whole story through. Anything that happens now is of lesser concern, so I can leave.

For me the big mistake started with the Dreaming City: when the world first raid changed the game for other players- I wasn’t the main character any more and canonically all the raids and boss fights after that were done by other players, and mine (canonically even!) just fantasized about it pretending I was there. Even in the very last fight against the Witness, canonically, I was just one of hundreds of thousands in a faceless army that defeated it together.

Sony exec: I have a fever and the only antidote is more micro transactions

A lot of them have seasons - off the top of my head

• Subway Surfers
• Fortnight
• Hearthstone
• Fallout 76
• Destiny 2
• Rocket League
• Duolingo
• DOTA
• Dead by Daylight
• Fall Guys

Then you’ve got your Stardew Valleys, Animal Crossings etc that ise ecological seasons as part of game play.

in the development a lot of stuff got cut too so there was art meant to be interacted with that ended up not being

I’ve beaten most of the Gold Stakes and all of the challenges, its not a forever game. But it is fun.

To the creative trades though union busting is a big fucking deal.

Movie studios will - and historically have - given children drugs to make them work 14 hour days.

I mean based on 15,16 and 7R+ - this is what FF is now.

Poker is just the underlying mechanism. It could be any RNG that makes patterns that match against other patterns.

it’s a game in which time ghosts bully a guy who has a gun for a hand trying to stop a company vacuuming souls out the ground and burning them for fuel, or injecting them into super soliders and clones who can be mind controlled by an angry twink who can think a meteor into the planet using crystals also made from souls.

Love it though I do, it’s a ridiculous premise.

the chains of satnav: when it sends you on a detour that you know is slower than your way

The first d2 dlc - curse of Osiris - was bad so I played a lot less, then with the dreaming city they started it so other players advanced the story in my world. So now I’m no longer the cool #1 Guardian who saved the world: that is canonically the first fireteam to finish the 24h world first raid race. Not a terrible crime but it breaks one’s immersion when it feels like Zavala and Ikora are coming to me because Gladd and Sweatsicle aren’t available.

Then they vaulted all the content, kept digging deeper into the bad jokes unfunny humor, and added FOMO seasonal content that although nothing gets sunset/vaulted any more - if you can’t play for a few weeks you miss out on major characters dying or whole arcs being finished without you.

I know this is much memed on - I have 97 kids and can only play 4 seconds a month… - but honestly, it sucks. I can still play side quests in skyrim… ff12… fallout 1… balders gate 2… from decades ago - but not AAA game Destiny 2? Bullshit man.

off the top of my head:

Pressing buttons simultaneously in the reactor

Squat competition in the gym in Wall Street Market

Escaping Midgar on motorcycles

Hunting chocobos

The Fort Condor battles

Submarine battle

Mr Dolphin and CPR

Temple of the Ancients

Snowboarding

Meg and Mog in the Gold Saucer

edit: also marching in junon parade and the slap battle with Scarlett

Welcome to Eversmile. Set in the realm of joy. The people of Eversmile are plagued only by aching facial muscles. And not anthrax as we had hoped. Eversmile is a disgusting land of good humor and polite frivolity.

not that i play wow but shredders too

to me this is the wrong way of looking at it, it’s like saying “imagine a world where plutocrats just didn’t do pollution, imagine a world where plantation owners didn’t use slave labor, imagine a world where industrialists didn’t employ children”

it was always going to happen, just society has to force capitalists not to be cunts. Only way, always was, always will be, still is.

because all the best musicians are dead you see

Thing that cured me of my destiny 2 fomo was to get the transmog system to make my character look like a year 1 day 1 player (the broken armor you get when Ghaul takes your light) and then that’s my “look” I’m the guy who looks like they’ve never change their armor. Then I picked one ship and one emblem I liked (Xûr’s rock ship, and Strange Coin emblem) and that’s it. no more MTX.

I wonder if there’s any side benefits that if Nintendo destroy a mentally ill man’s life, they experience a PR backlash.

I always wondered if I’d like to write for video games (I write sketch, character, musical comedy) but honestly there’s probably very little fun in it, as you’re writing 95% one-sided conversations that are variations on “go to place, bring hack item”

So basically the bit in Succession when Mattsson tells Tom he wants to fuck his wife and is looking for “a pain sponge”

my wife got a few hundred bucks from a feminine hygiene product, unless you count that as “cents on the dollar” meaning a percentage of the final amount - in which case, that’s the case in every settlement.

not to mention like fucking Nestlé, Montsano, Blackrock, Northrop Grunman

yeah. 5 mins. Thats all you play. Definitely not 3 or 4 hours just disappear the moment you load it up.

a year to work a full time job I meant.

edit: I looked it up, average - 50th percentile - is actually $79k per annum. Still not crazy money for a full time job.

pay me a marketing fee

Average pay is like 50-60k [per year] for a[n average of a] 40 hour week [job], less if you’re like social media coordinator or something. It’s not like it’s crazy money.

And why hate on people that are usually artists, writers, creatives etc spending half their life using their talents in a bland corporate way to make money to pay the bills so they can spend 10% of their life actually creating art?

Plus, everyone’s job is easy when you reduce it to simplistic terms

I can be a back end developer: just organize the data and show it on my screen. Don’t show me a login page, don’t ask for my preferences, don’t give me help articles, just organize the data

I can be a firefighter: just put out the fire, don’t ride around in a big truck, don’t slide down a pole just put out the fire.

Destiny 2 still struggles with this. Some enemy attacks 1 shot because at high frame rates they hit the player multiple times as the projectile passes through the player character’s model