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- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 4 days ago:
The music and the bright colors in that cel shading style were great. They also did a really good job with the seagulls and the barrels and the silhouettes in the distance as you were sailing. Maybe it was just the contrast with all of the ‘dark’ games at the time. It was a gigantic mood swing from majora’s mask. The music really helped sell it.
I think wind waker is good example of how to handle ‘open world’ without letting on that you’re controlling the experience. I don’t think any of the official ‘next steps’ ever had you sailing more than three squares away. The teleport was right when the world ‘opened up’ to you doing whatever you felt like, and the easily grasped concept of one square=one island with some interaction made sure there was no loss of focus on the developers or players. Obviously the main islands had more to do than the ones with just a platform/reef, but it worked.
- Comment on For those of you who enjoy open-world games, how big of a world is too big? 4 days ago:
traveling to another city is actually so inconvenient that you only do it if you have to
They don’t work. Vanguard did it way back when, with their three continent world. Each one had enough content to get from lvl 1 to lvl 50, the max, and your starting race determined your starting location. It could take up to an hour to get to friends. Even on the same continent, with a mount (before they added flying mounts), it could take a half hour of running to cross the map… and players complained so vociferously that they were forced to add fast travel options.
- Comment on Why are some shows so dark? 5 days ago:
I don’t see the problem? I can see the character’s expressions, their stances, their clothes and clothing decorations, the objects they’re holding… I don’t necessarily agree that this should be the way a federation starship would be lit, but I don’t see why people would say they couldn’t see anything.
- Comment on where the cuties 6 days ago:
That’s my joke with people all the time: ‘Microplastics are better than plastic surgery!’
… which then cues the question of wtf microplastics are and I look at them like they’ve been living under a rock.
- Comment on sushi delivery 6 days ago:
I think there are often fried sushi rolls on the menu of most places. It’s the only way I can convince certain family members to go.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 1 week ago:
Go look at the OP’s posting history. The posts on asklemmynsfw are particularly enlightening. Really shitty questions that the OP often replies to with ‘stories.’ My personal money is that it’s a bot account meant to get people talking about stuff, offering clues to who they are and linking accounts that people leave behind with new ones or on other instances.
- Comment on What's the best way to ease getting back in shape after years of little to no exercise? 1 week ago:
I would say that’s a good idea, but I’ve seen too many horrible situations with dogs to believe that adopting a dog means those things will happen.
- Comment on Pow-- 1 week ago:
I feel they really missed the opportunity to throw in the old school pow! bubble to cover the strike, of course making sure it’s all super white.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 week ago:
I’m so jealous of blackmist.
- Comment on Get over yourself 1 week ago:
Lol, meanwhile the bisexuals don’t want to be perceived as gay because it’s cutting their dating potential in half. Is that fear, because it’s so self serving, worse or better than the homophobic reason of the straights?
- Comment on difference 1 week ago:
I think, with the breadth of human experience and emotion, that almost every emoji could be a horny emoji. There are a lot of ways to think about coitus and pleasure.
- Comment on Easter can't come soon enough. 2 weeks ago:
Which is why you shouldn’t buy seasonal candy.
Okay, fair, but reese’s holiday versions are straight up better. Not in price per unit, those fucking suck, but the easter and christmas versions are way better than their normal ones. Maybe it’s just the ratio, or they put more sugar in or something, but I swear the trees/pumpkins/eggs are noticeably tastier.
- Comment on it 🆗 2 weeks ago:
One of my favorite memories was kissing my partner, hard, because, well, we were really turned on, and there was a fart. We paused, I arched my eyebrow and a smile, back to the mad makeout session, and then I farted. It then became a game for the next ten minutes of who could fart while not stopping the liplocks.
- Comment on How can a US state block porn? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if terrorism or drugs have “won.” The government is able to use them to fuck up the lives of people who they don’t like… see venezuela and what they’re trying to do with antifa.
- Comment on return 2 krebs 2 weeks ago:
My favorite citric acid cycle fact is that cancer cells often just stop doing it. Something in the pentose shunt pathway provides a critical metabolite, because just about every cancer mass you’ll find is busy with ‘not’ the citric acid cycle and is kicking out those products. My cancer biology professor didn’t really have a good answer as to why (it wasn’t his specialty, he just got told to teach it, lol).
- Comment on Getting Taco Bell 2 weeks ago:
Whoah, whoah, whoah! Who uses a period as the notation for ‘to the’ in scientific notation? Like, I’d be fine with e, or E, because of calculator use, but “.”???
- Comment on thats all 2 weeks ago:
Oh… that’s why I live in a place with four walls and a roof. So I can get naked when I want to be comfy.
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 2 weeks ago:
For me, that’s the case with basically every animal, buuuuuuuuut… That’s what gloves and secure containers are for in lab work. I am going to bet they never had those roaches ‘free’ at any time. Having them in one secure container that is then attached to another and a panel between them removed would work fine with me.
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 2 weeks ago:
I remember that my statistics professor was so smug about grading on a curve because it was using statistics. It was also a class that he gloated about as a class where you “needed an a” if you wanted to get into grad school. In other words, the asshole was making sure only a certain number of people even had a chance to get into the graduate programs. It was rumored that he even ran tests on students in the different labs, telling the grad students teaching the labs to teach in certain ways and seeing if there were any differences. Wouldn’t put it past him.
- Comment on Anon studies Organic Chemistry 2 weeks ago:
Now that’s an asshole move.
- Comment on Everything has a bit of overlap 2 weeks ago:
I’ve never read through the wikipedia article, and wanted to see if it mentioned my favorite fact: cockroaches perform better when observed by other cockroaches. IT DID! So cool!
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and then it said the classical psychology mood killer: no evidence found when the experiment was replicated.
- Comment on thats all 2 weeks ago:
If you need cargo pockets while playing a sport (which are what these are for, all other options be damned), you need to reevaluate your strategies.
- Comment on Soup 2 weeks ago:
I’m honestly torn now. Can we have a 3 way with you and the soupa troopa?
- Comment on ANTI PEE PAINT 2 weeks ago:
I’ve heard the blue light thing before, but is it really that much of a thing? When we look for veins, I don’t even see color anymore. It’s tourniquet, squeeze, fondle your armpit, stab you.
- Comment on Deep 2 weeks ago:
Oh god, that look.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 weeks ago:
Hah, got it. I know of at least two capitol hills I’ve been to in other major cities, so I wasn’t sure.
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 weeks ago:
Right, but, it seems like, according to this picture and a lot of the folks commenting, that if you meet a furry you will know, probably by dint of them telling you.
- Comment on Smells Great 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it sounds right. It’s been so long that I’ve forgotten.
- Comment on Is there any way the average American can insulate themselves from the AI bubble bursting? 2 weeks ago:
Not necessarily. I had a relative who worked for the federal government back in the 70s/80s, and at the time they were trying to get everyone to switch (it was a voluntary choice for people who were in the ‘old’ system) to the new, non-pensioned options. I can’t imagine that the government suddenly decided to return to pensions.
My experience in small, local government was that everyone was on a matched % of paycheck being put into a retirement account. If you worked for a set number of years with the city/county/parish/state your investment would be matched at a specified rate when you retired. Basically just a glorified retelling of a 401(k).
- Comment on Oh no my harvest is too bountiful 2 weeks ago:
Ah, nice city. I’ve been there a few times, but somehow I’ve never bumped into a furry. I always spent more times in the wilds nearby though, so maybe that does the trick.