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I buy a ton of books - for other people.
Who? I can’t read that one word.
You do what you gotta do if you have no orb.
3·2 days agoLook up OneShortEye on youtube. The main focus is point and click game speedrunning, but a lot of the videos are an in-depth look into the design and history of various games, like this one about Colonel’s Bequest.
I’ve recently been thinking of how I hate RPGs where if you have a choice, it’s between obviously bad and obviously good outcome. Bonus points when it’s determined by a single dialogue option at the end.
So I came up with a concept of an RPG where every quest has multiple solutions and every single one of them turns out disastrously for everyone involved. Like I’d love to see some real gut-punches there. The only way to avoid that would be to not accept the quest in the first place. If you don’t, after some in-game time passes you get to hear how the situation resolved itself nicely without your involvement. The kicker? Most if not all XP would come from quest rewards, so in order to not cause harm to everyone you meet, you’d have to essentially do a challenge run.
I believe her contributions are farily well known nowadays. The idea was probably to highlight those that most people never heard of.
3·2 days agoWell well, aren’t you the optimist.
149·2 days agoNot that I disagree about Ukraine but a good firefighter would probably know if a house is a lost cause and that the best course of action is to prevent the fire from spreading to others.
And honey bees in North America are an invasive species driving other pollinators to extinction.
6·2 days agoYeah, that was my thought too, though it is possible they came up with it independently. Or forgot they read that xkcd which came out 18 years ago (fuck!).
It has happened to Randall himself before (see the header)
2·3 days agoOh god yes, I need another coffee. Thanks for reminding me.
I just looked on a compass (I’m in space, currently).
It’s pointing north.
4·3 days agoBut hear me out, what if a bong took a huge rip out of you instead…
Reminds me of my friend once saying that “the discussion leads nowhere. It’s like the snake biting its tongue”
Hence the “Not that I disagree about Ukraine” right at the beginning. Just pointing out the fireman metaphor doesn’t really work here.