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7 months agoThe new Starter Kit is out and about now. I grabbed one a few weeks ago for my step-son. Are you able to find that in stock? It seemed pretty good from my quick scan.
Kichae
Astronomer & video game data scientist with repressed anger
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371·7 months agoYeah. The Bidens are safe. The assailant is under arrest. Nobody’s dog got shot.
It’s obvious why this is a confusing outcome.
Me, noticing Riker: “I don’t get it. Why is Abraham Lincoln here?”
Me, finally noticing Picard: “KILL IT WITH FIRE!”
They 100% think of it as a lever that makes expenses disappear. They’re often just a little bit surprised when it results in labour disappearing along side the expenses, though.
Importantly, though, this kind of dehumanizing language is purposeful, and it’s extremely harmful. It makes it easier for management to treat people’s livelihoods and lives as disposable.
Keep in mind that “human resources” (sometimes called “human capital” at some especially icky places) is also one of these dehumanizing terms. Treating people as resources that are available to use or process is really gross, and that’s literally the name of the department.
2·7 months agoAnd yet it still has a bunch of ads for PC+ littered throughout it. Despite being grandfathered in, I abandoned it earlier this year for Podcast Republic, which hasn’t spammed me or locked me out of any features I’ve tried to play with despite not having paid them anything.
10·7 months agoHonestly, I’d take a woody window to replace the clear glass overlooking the scenic parking lot outside literally any of the apartments I’ve ever lived in.
234·7 months agoHoly shit, someone that actually likes that aural abomination?
Are you the reason it won’t fucking die?
Hahahahahaahahahaahahahahahahaha
Land of the Free, folks
In business, all data are vanity metrics. If they make you look good, you slap that shit on everything; if they make you look bad, you “don’t have it”.
It’s just that sometimes you can use negative data to make decisions that look good to those above you, and sometimes you know that you can’t.
Yeah, I’m wounded by the
commissionomission of Cape Breton. But I think it’s just that there’s nothing dubious about our islands.Edit: Sausage fingers and rogue autocorrect.
1·9 months agoThis is Elon Musk erasure.
Not explicitly, maybe, but implicitly, absolutely, and in multiple ways:
- Supporting the system that creates one over the other
- Having ‘bootstrap’ attitudes about the poor
- Worrying about property value over utilization
- Complaining about the homeless rather than the lack of action on housing
- Voting against people who run on public housing
In so, so many ways, people say they prefer the latter over the former. Usually just with the caveat that the homeless people also be invisible.
0·10 months agoviolated the district’s dress code
hair fell below his eyebrows and ear lobes
I’m sorry, but WTF? Are they mandating everyone dress like skinheads or what?
2·10 months agoSave scumming is natural, and normal, and nothing to be ashamed of.
It does make hair grow on your palms, though.
So, they’d still be wildly profitable, then?
Huh.
Being popular and being a good game are completely different things. Being fun and being a good game are different things. Being useful and being a good game are different things.
I’m not making a value judgement on whether 5e is likeable. I like 5e. It’s just that it’s not a complete and coherent experience.
Argument ad populum doesn’t change that.
5e is a bad table top game, but that’s part of what’s made it so successful - it’s not treated as a game unto itself anymore, but just some loose guidelines to help generate setpieces, and people like that.
But also BG3 seems to recognize this and actually fills in the broken or missing game elements, just like everyone’s DM does whenever they come across these gaps. It takes an opinionated approach to implementing the rules, and does so with the confidence of years of building CRPGs.
It’s an impressive feat.
We did!
https://www.mint.ca/en/shop/coins/2016/star-trek-enterprise—$20-for-$20-fine-silver-coin-2016
The Royal Canadian Mint even has a Memory Alpha entry: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Royal_Canadian_Mint
They were never about hardware limitations. Limitations of imagination of the designers, maybe, but we’ve had action games for 35 years now.
Actions such as ‘press the trigger and your character will shoot a gun’ and ‘press the button and your character will swing their sword’ can now be easily expressed without going through a command system.
And yet we can’t purge ourselves of the awfulness that is quick-time events. I don’t buy the argument. It’s an attempt to handwave away trends without discussing real causes and effect. If the suggestion here were true, other similar mechanics, such as QTEs, would have been dead a long time ago, not be a core element of a huge number of triple-A titles.
Huh. I asked it to make me a level 5 Wizard for PF2e, and it spit out… python code to generate one myself???