Destiny 1 up to the Vault of Glass was incredibly special, and then had a lot of bumps but some great moments. House of Wolves, the Taken King, SIVA/Iron Lords and the first Moments of Triumph.

Although I played a lot of D2 it never quite got to the same level of magic.

The first couple of years with Curse of Osiris etc and their attempt to make everything zany really undid a lot of the cool atmosphere and story they did in D1.

Then when they made it so Your Guardian wasn’t The Guardian any more by having each world-first raid completion be canon (i.e. other guardians killed the raid boss not you, changing the Dreaming City, or opening up the Leviathan…) it was hard to keep the immersion alive.

There were so many things you needed other people to help you with it meant a significant portion of the game was interacting with other gamers - which means Bungie’s gaming experience is in the hands of one of the most mercurial groups of people on the planet.

They got back there with the Pyramid ships, Witch Queen, Vow of the Disciple, but by then we were in the content treadmill and everything felt disposable because they’d delete content regularly.

So you ended up with a temporary, non-ownable experience that relied on real world interaction with other gamers, in a world with incredibly scattershot storytelling of varying quality.

from the greek “athlon” - prize -> athlein - wanting a prize -> athlētēs- one who competes for a prize -> athleta - Latin version -> modern English (note similarity between athlētēs and athletes)

Although the physical side is culturally connotated, there’s nothing in the strict definition that requires “someone who competes for a prize” to be a physical, e.g. chess, math, science, economics…competitor

EOY state of the Union report, 10Q reporting or whatever the eoy one is called.

Retention is the classic churn metric (lost/total)*100

my company of 50 went down to 22 because of “AI productivity gainz” - then we had the biggest dip in client retention in its 10 year history and those clients that do remain all have massive issues with getting what they want and there are constant “fire drills” to keep them happy.

AI Summary, of the last 240 pages

Leopold Bloom looks at a dog on a beach and thinks about sex and death

No

there are comments in the link that seem to address this

check out New Threat which remixes the game, or the Archeology Mod which restores cut content and the original intent of the translators - including lines that were wrong in the original and then fixed in remake (it has a setting specifically keep “This guy are sick” if you were worried).

I dont need the scientific method not to stick my hand in fire.

And I’ve used AI. Its shit. It don’t work. It makes pure nonsense.

The solution is simple: make a product worth using that’s helpful and does what’s advertised, and doesn’t destroy the planet to do so.

I’ll accept the down votes, but I needed a header image for a work doc that showed a map, and in the background the landscape it was mapping - too specific for a stock photo, but it’s just window dressing in a mostly internal doc - perfect use case for AI!

After 45 minutes of prompting I gave up and made it myself in 20 minutes, and used royalty free no credit needed images.

best I can do is Dęmbowe mochne

I mean down that road you end up at “what is anything? does anything exist? does free will exist?”

yeah it’s a little bare bones, it’s not worth more than a single playthrough really. Because the events of 1 are expanded on in 2 and some of the story beats land a little better if you knew the characters from 1 it’s worth playing once for novelty - but it being a 16 year old game it shows its age.

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