🫙<= Swear jar

Tbh it would be absolutely fantastic if a game pulled this off today.

“Did…did this game just burn itself to a DVD-R before wiping itself from my drive? Where did it even get a DVD-R from??? Wait a sec, my PC didn’t even have a DVD drive before today! Why is there a charge to PCRepairGuy on my credit card?! WHAT IS HAPPENING?!?”

Oof. Well called out. I feel terrible. Removing

If you’re talking about something like MHA those are largely made up with some influence from real naming patterns.

For what it’s worth a quick Google search will usually tell you the answer for any particular name. Just like with English, there’s a combination of:

• Names that are also real words still in use (“Sakura” or “Rose”)
• Names that are based on former vocations (“Goldstein” or “Smith”)
• Stuff that’s meant to remind you of something related to the character (“Otto Octavius”)
• Whatever the author felt sounded cool (“Ronan Dex”)

Sure, this is just an example of how complex “feel” can get in game development. The video includes several examples where player perception changes drastically from very minor gameplay design changes

There are so many things that go into whether a game feels responsive or not. Your experience could be explained by anything from access to stable Internet, to trends in game design philosophy, and vary from game to game based on implementation.

Here’s one of my favorite GDC talks that looks at just one small part of what goes into making a game feel responsive: https://youtu.be/h47zZrqjgLc

I feel bad for all the opportunities you’re going to miss while you’re more interested in modeling your life based on the behavior and opinions of others than what is good and satisfying for you, independent of others. I hope one day you are able to move past whatever anger is driving you to prioritize rebellion over utility.

This is a petulant way to approach life, and perfectly fits the idiom “throwing the baby out with the bath water”.

It is possible to set boundaries without being deliberately contrarian and resistant to any form of outside pressure.

IMO the best possible solution here is to refuse to speak further about it with their dad, but go on the date and have a great time hanging out with a random stranger for a little bit.

To put it more simply: if you’re hungry and I bring you sandwich and demand that you eat it, telling me “leave the sandwich, I’ll eat it if I want, but I’m not giving you the satisfaction of knowing or seeing me eat it because of how you approached me” is the smart move.

• Wing Commander 4 - At the time, I was very young, and this game changed how I looked at videogames. For my little brain, the FMV cutscenes and genuinely decent acting (ffs, it has Mark Hammil) somehow made it click that games could have compelling narrative
• Kingdom Hearts - this game changed my life in many ways. I can genuinely say I wouldn’t be doing what I do today if it weren’t for this game and my involvement in the fan community around it. This game is very special to me because of its themes and major plot beats, and how those interacted with my life at the time. This game taught me that you could go beyond “compelling narrative” and break my heart with a video game lol
• Natural Selection 2 - I wish this game were more popular in its prime. This is the epitome of what I think good competition looks like, and a great manifestation of what I personally love in esports

Kingdom Hearts

Yoko Shimomura is outrageously talented. Obviously there’s a lot of Disney-esque stuff mixed in, but there are a bunch of original tracks that are epic af

I’m 90% sure that it was originally in the form of “to go <there/place> and <verb>” and has just been shortened over time. A refined colloquialism, if you go for that sort of thing

Wouldn’t the legpit be the pocket created at your hip when your leg is folded against your body?

This is misleading and dangerous rhetoric.

Autonomous vehicles - actual autonomous ones, not Tesla bullshit marketing “self-driving” - are already significantly safer than human drivers. Yes, they are limited to certain conditions (they don’t handle inclement weather very well yet) but the point is that they are already improving safety over human drivers.

Don’t let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

Additionally, once autonomous vehicles become the standard, you will see a dramatic shift in how the insurance industry operates.

Think about it: if I’m not the one driving, why would I be the one taking on liability? I wouldn’t. The manufacturer would. Suddenly, the insurance industry would be targeting vehicle/software producers instead of individuals. And anyone who chooses to drive themselves anyway? They would almost always be liable by default. Premiums for drivers would skyrocket and this would be a huge disincentive to getting behind the wheel in the first place.

Don’t. Let. The. Perfect. Be. The. Enemy. Of. The. Good.

We all lose out. And it costs lives.

Fun fact: the infamous “cripple fight” from South Park is a shot-for-shot remake of the fight scene from They Live

😍🤩 Contextually relevant Depeche Mode 🤩😍

I was wondering wtf you were talking about until I remembered I have the entire tankiesphere blocked. Oh the blissful, golden silence 😁

Absolutely not. Nope. Nuh uh. Not worth the trauma. I’ve got enough horror from just Nina.

Called this a while ago https://urusai.social/@neatchee/112255667073894754

I never said anything about the quality of the games. I’m speaking specifically to the monetization bullshit.

As I said elsewhere: budget bloat happens in a lot of places. Greedy executive and publishers is one place. Overambitious design goals that get scrapped is another. There’s also bad tools workflows, mismanagement, and any number of other contributing factors.

But even indie devs are getting screwed on pricing and making far less than they deserve to be in many cases.

If people keep buying CoD and Assassins Creed, devs will keep making them. And if they can’t increase retail price to cover the budget they will find other ways to do it.

I almost replied from my inbox; glad someone said it before I even got to it haha