AwesomeLowlander
@AwesomeLowlander@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series 3 days ago:
She was a professional editor and worked on his books before they started dating. She’s also been the editor for several other classic and famous series’. So unless you’re implying that her feminity is cause for lesser quality, I fail to see the relevance.
- Comment on Amazon has canceled its Wheel of Time series 4 days ago:
You could potentially cut a lot, yeah. But this wasn’t cutting, this was just plain rewriting.
- Comment on Why console makers can legally brick your game console 4 days ago:
Threat? Have you not seen Nintendo suing their customers the last 4 decades or so?
- Comment on Anthropic's new AI model turns to blackmail when engineers try to take it offline | TechCrunch 5 days ago:
To elicit the blackmailing behavior from Claude Opus 4, Anthropic designed the scenario to make blackmail the last resort.
Today’s breaking news: LLM prompted to blackmail, attempts blackmail. Who woulda thought?
- Comment on Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped 1 week ago:
You’re dodging the question. HOW would this reduce deaths?
- Comment on Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped 1 week ago:
Would you like to explain HOW it would reduce deaths? Because no would-be mass murderer would ever sharpen a knife or, just, pick up another weapon?
- Comment on Southport attack survivor calls for kitchen knives to be blunt tipped 1 week ago:
Yes, would-be mass murderers everywhere will be deterred by the fact that knives will no longer come pre-pointed. Society will be saved!
- Comment on First Impressions: Cubic Odyssey smothers its potential under too much progression | Massively Overpowered 1 week ago:
Sounds like the kind of player who complains about missing game features, then it turns out they skipped the tutorial.
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 1 week ago:
No, because aphantasia. I love the turns of phrase, though.
- Comment on Can you read and understand this passage? 1 week ago:
They’re all hanging around the lake waiting for handouts
- Comment on No, Steam wasn’t hacked, and your account details are safe 1 week ago:
No.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
It’s perfectly possible for a TCG to be a deckbuilder, I’m sure. Especially video games that get to do all sorts of stuff to break the rules. My comment was directed at classical TCGs like MtG.
Stacklands looks pretty increasing, might give it a whirl
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
That’s reasonably close to what I was thinking, yes.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
TCGs are not deckbuilders, at least not as they’re commonly understood today. See the other comment thread for the discussion.
More traditional boardgames like dominion aren’t rougelites
I was referring to video game deckbuilders. I couldn’t think of any, but I’ve had a few pointed out to me.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 1 week ago:
For a peek into the history of the term - boardgamegeek.com/…/magic-the-gathering-and-domin…
Apparently the shift was more than well under way by 2011.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 2 weeks ago:
Inscryption just defies categorisation, it’s a unique everything. But yeah, I wasn’t aware of the other non-roguelite deckbuilders. Wonder how they get balanced? What’s stopping the player from building a monstrously strong deck?
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 2 weeks ago:
I’m not sure when or about the original meaning, but in the modern context deckbuilder usually refers to games that let you build or modify your deck during gameplay itself. Dominion invented, or at least massively popularised, the genre in 2008. By the current definition of the genre, there is significant inherent overlap with roguelites. In the boardgame world, games like Frosthaven would be an example of a deckbuilder that’s not a roguelite, though the deckbuilder element there is pretty thin. Slay the Spire was probably the first, or at least first successful, computer game deckbuilder that I’m aware of.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 2 weeks ago:
CCGs like MtG are very different from the current meaning of deckbuilders. I’m not sure which castle / turret defense games you’re referring to.
- Comment on Devolver Digital Announces Shroom And Gloom, A First-Person 'Double-Deckbuilder' Roguelike With A Demo Out Now 2 weeks ago:
Are there any other types of deckbuilder? I can’t think of any
- Comment on GeoGuessr's Steam Release Hit With Overwhelmingly Negative Reviews For "Completely Pointless" Monetization 2 weeks ago:
Makes sense I guess? It’s not like they can do anything about that cost.
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 2 weeks ago:
Your premise is that nuclear warfare is no longer possible, so by default, yes.
- Comment on What would it mean for the world if America was confident they developed a technology that would act as a fool prove deterrent from nuclear attacks what would that mean for the rest of the world? 2 weeks ago:
The US and / or Russia would obtain it ASAP, by hook or crook. Followed rapidly by World War 3
- Comment on Ori studio in crisis: No Rest For The Wicked could be their final game 2 weeks ago:
Review bombing requires
- A scandal, and there’s no indication Half Moon was involved in any such.
- Coordination, which is easy enough to find on Google or elsewhere. Again, no indication of such.
- Most of the time, at least some reviews in the bomb will state why they are downvoting the game. No indication of such.
Sometimes bad reviews are just bad reviews.
- Comment on How do children address a non-binary parent? 2 weeks ago:
It was a joke to begin with, and I’m just trying to run with it. Don’t overthink it :)
- Comment on How do children address a non-binary parent? 2 weeks ago:
In which context? They’re probably MFers too. If you mean artificial or biological… Could be either, but let’s go with 3rd party replacements.
- Comment on How do children address a non-binary parent? 2 weeks ago:
Adopted dads are technically artificial dads.
- Comment on How do children address a non-binary parent? 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t that technically all biological dads?
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 3 weeks ago:
I mean, whether it works as clickbait depends on your perspective. I don’t disagree it may be intended that way, it just didn’t hit that way for me in particular.
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 3 weeks ago:
Huh. I guess that’s a matter of perspective? I wasn’t interested in the name, and even after reading the article I don’t recall what the name was. I just found the story interesting.
- Comment on This game has 100 endings, and it's pushing the creators to the brink of bankruptcy | PC Gamer 3 weeks ago:
Is it clickbait if it’s a pretty accurate summary, though?