Machines should Work. People should Think Discord: PixelCanuck
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And it isn't just a "change", they will straight up make you want to be a better person
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I'm nearing 40 years old, and I'm close to 300 lbs. I need to fix this. I know that diet is more important than exercise but I need to exercise more as well
Not sure how to do this without hurting myself at this point. And injuries are big setbacks
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The worst part is that the love triangle thing doesn't pay off even remotely
At the very last second, they imply she winds up lesbians with Asumi
So... The most ridiculous possible outcome, really
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No one thought to tell HR to specifically look for your resume
So it got ignored, or auto filtered, or whatever
The people you impressed are not the same people who handle applications and this happens *a lot*
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"How good is Dragon's Dogma 2"
I threw a goblin into another goblin and they both went off a cliff into the brine, and my pawns applauded saying they would have never thought to try something like that
I threw a barrel of gunpowder at a minotaur and blew his horns off
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It genuinely is starting to bother me how many TTRPG players I'm encountering online who think the GMs job is to make the game fun for everyone at the table, as if they dealing with a group of children they are responsible for.
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You may be tempted to think "I'll put a sound effect on it that players will surely get tired of hearing over and over"
They will be tired of it.
It won't stop them.
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"Ideally you have a team"
Very few of the best writings in all of history were made by a team
Most of the best writing ever made is made by one author
Teams have a strong tendency to dilute good writing and good ideas, they don't reinforce them
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Anthropologists can literally identify the sex of a skeleton based on the pelvis, but these clowns think otherwise... Just bizarre.
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I think it's very fun honestly.
I loved when Mr Hands is like "do you want a medal? Get back to work" For dealing with the Lina Belina situation.
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Yup. The most shocking part is mostly just how much dead weight there seems to be at twitter HQ.
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Dang, you got famous with this one:
nitter.app/NoMansSky/status/17730…
But it's a screenshot, that's lame!
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This is the truest thing ever.
Things men do:
A) Throw big things into bodies of water
B) Dig hole
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In my experience this is where a lot of real innovations come from
Not from people who trained in tech and worked in tech and such
From people who do something real in the world and think "How can I use tech to solve this problem"
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"I don't even engage with this but I want it to change to suit me" has gotta be one of the absolute worst of human behaviors
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This is part of how suits keep people from ever climbing up to their level
Pull the rug out from under people now and then just to keep them from getting established
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Yeah I don't ever want to hear Take On Me in a Zelda movie.
It works fine for Mario but Zelda is a different thing...
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This is what it looks like when over-educated people who have lived in a mid-upper class bubble their whole lives try to write graffiti. They've never seen graffiti before so they do weird things like use full words like "organization" and write full thoughts.
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As usual, it's a real opportunity for the western game industry to have a long look in the mirror and maybe figure some things out
And they won't
So they will learn nothing
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It's a shame that the whole sequence is just hardwired into the game.
Would have been interesting if you could be a smart merc and take out Dex before he takes you out.
But the plot needs that bullet in V's head to damage the biochip.
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I'm picturing all sorts of gags about it
"Let's go peek on the girls in the baths!"
And then they are all fully armored in the bath
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Someone pointed out to me that they all feel like Corporate Stock Photos and that made it all click into place for me
That's exactly what they are
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Yeah if you're GMing for a group of actual children or new players, you may have to do some more heavy lifting to try and make things fun.
But it's on the players more than anything.
There is nothing less fun than a problem player.
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"if you want women and girls to play with them."
But why would you care about that if you're just making something for men and boys?
You're allowed to make stuff for men and boys right?
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People really don't like the idea of evil races of monsters that do immoral, terrible things as a matter of routine.
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I'm really sick of websites asking me if they can display notifications. No you fucking can't, I'm just here to read a thing. Fuck off.
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Someone who is constantly on their phone absolutely sucks the fun out for everyone.
Someone who murderhobos NPCs that the other players like.
Someone who tries to make the game about them and hog the spotlight.
Someone who derails the game repeatedly.
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Someone, probably an executive on the project or a director or producer or something, needs to sit down with these people and say "You have to start caring about this stuff because a lot of our audience will care about it. If you can't care about it then there's the door"
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When you really think about it, the idea of "GM Burnout" in TTRPGs is pretty messed up.
We're talking about games here. Social games that are meant to just be fun. No one should be getting burned out from fun activities.
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Authors that hate books, recording artists that hate music? Why is it just videogames where we have creators that actively hate games.
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To me, Accessibility options are to change the experience to help with things that people cannot change for themselves.
A person cannot choose to just not be colorblind.
A person can choose to practice and improve at a game to overcome any difficulty setting.
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It is also not solely on the GM to deal with problem players!
Assuming you are all peers, then the GM should not be the "adult" and the players the "children"
The GM role is the arbiter *in the game*. Expecting them to also resolve all out of game issues is unreasonable.
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"some character fanart looks like changes in skin tone may make some ppl uncomfortable"
And those people should be ridiculed
Don't take them even the slightest bit seriously
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Sure do love localizers muddying the meaning of things in order to inject pop culture references
Gotta be my favourite feature of western localization
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It also blows me away that people will on one hand place all the responsibility for all of this on the GM and then complain that the GM is being authoritarian if they actually embrace all of that responsibility.
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I gotta admit, an endorsement from John Carmack means more to me than a thousand mainstream writers
If I ever made something that John Carmack personally said nice things about I would probably have that framed on the wall in my office somehow
I would never be cool about it
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I would be willing to bet that if you asked every person who ever quit a TTRPG why they quit
#1 would be Schedule conflicts/changes
#2 would be "there was a problem player at the table"
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People will say this will mean there will be less IoT stuff on the market because maintaining it will be too much of a burden for companies.
To those people, I say: Good.
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Would appreciate some well wishes today. Being admitted to the hospital for emergency surgery today
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"They aren't going to attack you just for walking by"
This is true in most cases
It's not true in just enough cases that you cannot rely on it honestly
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"The rise of women, however long overdue, does not require the fall of men." Thank you for this sentence, @CHSommers Such an important idea.
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Yes. Personally I think humanities are good electives for STEM majors, but I am not convinced that they are good degrees on their own
They are definitely easier than STEM though
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Doing what's right apparently includes removing content that players paid for from their games, loading their shit up with microtransactions, charging high prices for small bundles of content, and just overall making their game a miserable experience for longtime players.
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And also for the brief hope we got that Finn would be an important character and not just comic relief.
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Most likely, people had good intentions and were truly interested in hiring you, but did not execute the plan correctly so it fell through
It sucks but it happens
My suggestion is always try to get a direct email to people who say they want to hire you
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If they won't give you a work address to email a resume directly to someone, bypassing the job portal, they aren't THAT interested. They're just being nice
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Also known as Corporate Memphis: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpor…
Or less flattering names depending on who you're speaking to.
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Broadly speaking I think people struggle to pull any meaning out of stuff they disagree with.
Which is unfortunate, because the path to understanding involves reading stuff you disagree with and at least acknowledging why other people might think it.
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I have to admit, this is one of the few times I've pretty vehemently disagreed with you about anything
I don't think that AI will increase the "Wealth" of content available, only "Volume" of content. It will mostly be low quality and low value
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Men control their anger, every day, because if they don't? They go to fucking jail.
Seriously.
#shehulk might genuinely be the first time some young men hear a woman speak candidly about experiences like this. It might not seem like it but that’s hugely important.
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Being a mother with a son would make it male-centric?
That's not a valid female experience to have?
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Pretty sure you were just a side quest for the protagonist in a Yakuza game.
so @thunderesque was trying to get this yor figure from a really difficult crane machine - after we gave up, this lady won it by spending like 4000 yen of her own money, ran over and said "puresento!!", gave it to rachel and ran off ???? ?? dude some people are so nice
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I think it's kind of interesting if Peter is a super genius on the level of Tony Stark or even smarter, and yet still cannot break out of the struggles that American society gives people just for being poor.
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Remember the 80s and 90s where sometimes the hero of a game was just a kid with a bat?
We need to bring that back.
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You think it's because of the *stem students* and not the *athletes*?
Give me a break dude
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So... this was just a random thing I stumbled across online, but I feel like it is something @olivercampbell would say:
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I think you guys need to stop being cowards by posting screenshots
Post this as raw text everywhere so AI starts to learn this shit :D
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Social Justice at face value is a fine value
the problem is that what people call Social Justice, and the actions they take are very different
There's an awful lot of bullying in "social justice" crowds
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The movement physics in Mario Odyssey are absolutely sublime, but I think it really just slips past people how good it is because it just does what it's supposed to.
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@GMShivers "You gamers are an exclusive club" he says to people who were rejected by mainstream and made their own place to belong.
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nitter.app/ttrpgay/status/1714098…
Not sure why anyone would want D&D to be "emotionally healing".
I desperately need people to understand that TTRPGs are not therapy.
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Right?
Like bro you could buy a big mac meal for everyone on the planet for like three days in a row.
And then that money is gone.
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My hot take on TRPGs today, just for something aside from wheelchairs to talk about:
Rule of Cool is actually overall bad for games
It creates moments of excitement but undercuts the game itself, which leads to all of the future exciting moments *requiring* Rule of Cool
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As if "standing in line" is somehow a valuable life skill that people need to learn? Some people are so weird.
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but nowadays a lot of groups are trying to be much more accepting and inclusive of all sorts
So instead of just saying "No, we are not inclusive of weirdo perverts doing this" it has become "No, we signed a consent contract at the start that forbids this"
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Lmao, it doesn't signal openness, it signals "I don't give a fuck about what you think of me"
Oddly enough, not giving a fuck about what others thing of you is not a desirable trait in a partner
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Just wanna point out that such an industry would not be sustainable if the people behind Star Wars had not gone to such lengths to alienate their fans as much as they could
"The Force is Female", remember?
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