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- Comment on 📡📡📡 1 week ago:
A huge part of it is they are literally idiots, dumb stupid assholes who cannot think good.
- Comment on Disgusted 1 week ago:
So you’re saying you hate waffles?!?!?!
- Comment on Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit 1 week ago:
Yep! In my own history, sometimes they just believe you without proof, but yeah, they do often ask for some kind of proof and usually that is just basically screenshots like this. Might take em a while to process it in the ‘escalated support’ tier, or what not, but yeah it generally does work.
- Comment on When you're pretty full of yourself 1 week ago:
Ooops! All HotPockets!
- Comment on Anon is strong 1 week ago:
… I’ve known autistic women who would massively unironically agree with that, and others for whom it would be nearly the worst thing that could possibly ever happen.
Either way… unintentional power move by way of autism.
- Comment on I guess we doin UAVs now 2 weeks ago:
Wooo boy does this need to be top comment.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
I mean like, compare a … hub and spokes style immersive sim game, to any given open world game.
With an ImSim, you often get planted into an area, with a single or multiple main quests, and a whole bunch of essentially discoverable sidequests… and, when done well, those optional sidequests significantly affect how the main quests play out, and may give you different options for how to approach or conclude those main quests.
Then, onto the next hub/spoke section.
ImSims are not typically associated with literal huge spaces… but the spaces they do have tend to be well interwoven.
But also, they’re not strictly linear in the way of like … an FPS campaign/single player mode usually is. Sure you can have the literal levels be maze like, but theres usually only one entrance and exit.
ImSims open up the conceptual field of a given linear sequence of levels, by allowing totally different play styles to yield signifcantly different experiences, and often the additional mechanics they do this with are more than just combat… social and exploratory play can be rewarded or punished by altering the narrative itself.
There are often entirely optional, missable ‘sidequests and submazes’, basically, even in a typically smaller amount of literal space.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
Honestly a very good example here of ‘open world’ done in a genre that usually doesn’t see it so much.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
Try Kenshi.
There’s no main quest at all, beyond try not to die.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
You might like the Dark Future mod, its roughly the equivalent of New Vegas’ hardcore/jsawyer mode.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
Imagine scaling enemies by actual player skill needed to defeat them, instead of just ‘my number more big than your number’.
- Comment on Is this true? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, but the open world has to exist in the game as a meaningful set of gameplay systems/potentialities.
There have to actually be things that could challenge you, cost you, reward you, capture your attention, present you with a secret if investigated, set off an actually meaningful chain of events, etc.
If ‘open world’ is implemented as simply ‘big space with occasional trash mobs wholly disconnected from the rest of the game’… you have a very shitty implementation of an open world.
Open world doesn’t, or I guess shouldn’t simply mean ‘big empty space’.
If your game has a fast travel option that you regularly or often use to skip the open world, your open world sucks.
- Comment on Ugh, here we go again, gotta get ready for a bunch of bullshit 2 weeks ago:
Call you bank/credit card provider, get a human being on the other end, and calmly tell them any further payments to Xfinity are unauthorized/fraud.
- Comment on Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major 2 weeks ago:
Yes, one would hope, lol.
I’ve been in charge of my own db and auth systems.
I had to turn the previous uh, ‘hope’, into code.
For a pretty large organization, hahahaha!
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
It is nontheless a precedent for a massive reworking of the US economy by way of outlawing particular kinds of business activity.
Also ‘constituional disaster’ describes at the very least the last 6 years, so… its apt.
And… an actual serious problem that would happen if we did Universal Healthcare right now is that this would reduce paperwork and bureacracy so much that you’d lose about a million or two million jobs.
That’s how much of a wasteful behemoth our current private system is, that many bullshit jobs, that many consumer incomes in a consumption based economy.
To realistically do a Universal Healthcare switch in the US, to be responsible, you would need something like the CCC or JobCorp or AmeriCorp on steroids, otherwise you’d cause a recession.
We could also maybe ban private prisons, as a business model, but to my knowledge there’s never been a federal / nation wide great push to do that.
Or, maybe we could try to actually fix the car centric nature of the US by doing something like… mandatory full drivers liscense retest every 5 years, every 3 years past 65, every single year past 75, and any time you get any traffic violation of any kind, you must fully retest within 1 year, or your liscense is revoked. If your income is below AMI, testing is free.
If that worked as intended, well, we’d have a lot less cars and car related businesses, which are also a considerable chunk of megacorp and small business activity.
Or you could go further than the … 92? Assault Weapons Ban and actually rework the 2nd Ammendment. If you could somehow do that, well again, megacorps and a considerable number of small businesses would have greatly reduced demand for civillian firearms, thus people lose jobs.
Anytime you massively rework part of an economy, by substantial new policy… you are reworking the economy, society broadly.
My point was that precedent for doing that kind of thing does infact exist.
- Comment on Cybersecurity as a Creative Writing major 2 weeks ago:
… can you do zalgo text / diacritic fuckery with a password?
- Comment on "No precedent in American history!" NYT would have defended child labor. 2 weeks ago:
Right, there’s no precedent in American history for declaring an entire class of business to be illegal.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat…
I think guys have maybe heard about this.
www.nytimes.com/1930/01/02/…/prohibition.html
Oh hey look, yeah, you did!
You can not like it but can… can we not, with he blatant historical revisionism?
You could also just point out the Sherman AntiTrust Act, point at that, maybe.
Oh right we also banned gambling, tons of forms of gambling, back in the day.
en.wikipedia.org/…/Gambling_in_the_United_States
PASPA
I wonder what the kalshi odds are on that happening again…?
Anyway uh, the Old Gray Lady needs to go to fuckin’ bed now, thanks.
- Comment on business is business 3 weeks ago:
Price transparency != Marketing strategy.
- Comment on business is business 3 weeks ago:
… did you market yourself as a stuck up prick who can’t budget well?
Or did you maybe save that for some stage of contract negotiations?
There are ways to dance the dance; hers seems to be the equivalent of loudly complain that no one is picking her to dance because no one can afford her.
Just not a good strategy.
- Comment on business is business 3 weeks ago:
Advertising yourself as:
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Bad at internal budgeting
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Full of yourself
… is a bold marketing strategy during an economic depression, for a freelance/contract worker.
Best of luck Nat.
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- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 3 weeks ago:
Well its based off of a ditty that’s meant to be a broad guide for how to not be killed by snakes… just, any snakes, that fit the descriptions in the ditty.
So… its not broadly useful, maybe qualify it?
- Comment on Oh how the turn tables 3 weeks ago:
… I think Hezbollah is gonna put up a fight.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
Alright, I’ll have a cigarette for both of us then.
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
do you like to hurt people intensifies
- Comment on Easy Delivery Co. I'll just be a little car driving a kei truck around a mountain town. 3 weeks ago:
The name’s V.
So uh, totally awesome and also completely fucked.
- Comment on I want to ride my bicycle 3 weeks ago:
I bet they are actually both trying to figure out which one is the killer queen, dynamite, with a laser beam.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 4 weeks ago:
I learned how to drive in the snow because I grew up in the foothills, the boonies. Snow and inclines, flash floods, windstorms take down so many trees that all the routes to … fucking anywhere are blocked for days to a week.
I, foolishly, expected that that was normal, that everybody learned how treacherous weather can be on driving.
All these damn city slickers just be fucking playing bumper cars, watchin their tiktoks, gorramit!
Ptooie!
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 4 weeks ago:
Its not small pp shit, its intentionally being a troll and watching what bites, ahahahah!
Yeah, obviously I didn’t build the mountains, I don’t care about this that much, ahahah!
Its just funny watching people get mad over stupid shit.
Should we do sportsball next?
Ahahhah!
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 4 weeks ago:
Lol at all the East Coasters in this thread.
Our mountains are old, show some respect!
Our mountains are haunted, oooo scaaaarrrry!!!
Hahahahah!
Nah, nah.
Scary is a semi truck with failed brakes barreling down a 14 degree grade with a 1000ft drop awaiting it if it can’t maintain control untill it hits a designated crash zone a 5 miles away.
Scary is a literal fucking volcano exploding with the force of many nuclear weapons.
Scary is whenever the Cascadia superquake hits and maybe also triggers the San Andreas fault at the same time, and turns the West Coast into an actual 90s/00s disaster movie.
- Comment on Those moutains are so quaint 4 weeks ago:
Seattle, just the city limits of Seattle, has hills taller than things I’ve heard people in the midwest call mountains.
That being said, yeah, you are absolutely correct that almost fucking nobody in the PNW knows jack shit about driving in the snow.
They also know jack shit about driving in the rain, which is… baffling for hopefully obvious reasons.
