I know 90% of titles that end in a question usually can be answered with a No, but in this case, it’s yes! :D
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I know 90% of titles that end in a question usually can be answered with a No, but in this case, it’s yes! :D
The housing cost situation there is simply unbelievable to my American eyes. Living in an idyllic, dense, walkable village with a large house only costs $210 a month in rent (or sometimes even cheaper, as the owners seem to just want people to live in the house). Renting an abandoned schoolhouse room in town for a small business only costs $40 a month due to the town subsidizing any small businesses.
I agree that Bethesda’s RPG writing is amateur at best, and I can’t dispute that there can be some good points in Dishonored. But at least for me, a mark of bad writing is that I find myself unable to care about the outcome for any of the characters in a story, and in Dishonored, I personally didn’t care much about any of the character’s struggles or personalities, as they were all pretty one-note. I can’t recall a single character’s name from Dishonored except for Corvo, since I found it novel to hear Stephen Russell as a main character again (big Thief fan, which incidentally I would point to as a game with excellent writing).
There was one instance in the main base/hub of dishonored 1, where there’s a short excerpt of a story about a whaler in a book, I think in the room where Emily was supposed to chill out in. I thought the writing of that little short story was so compelling, I sat back in my chair after I finished it and thought “Why isn’t this game about that?”, because I felt it highlighted how boilerplate the actual game’s story was in comparison. So in that way you’re right, the micro-writing, the world building, the atmosphere, is all top notch. I just wish the characters and plot were able to match it, as then it would be a masterpiece.
I should mention that I’m pretty difficult to impress with writing in video games, as I don’t think most of them can compare to the quality of writing available in books except for a handful of examples such as Thief, Gemini Rue, Mafia, and the original Deus Ex.
I wouldn’t say the writing for dishonored is terribly strong. The first game has a pretty bog standard plot, and the set up for the second was quite contrived. The gameplay and world are their strengths.
That made me audibly snort 😄
The second paragraph kinda depends on how much horsepower they need for dev or gaming. If they play mostly indie games and don’t need cuda cores as an example, a steamdeck-like would serve pretty effectively in both roles, especially with the docking station.
Currently the best way is with Lemmyverse
He posted this update a few months ago, it seems to be progressing well!
Woah, that unlocked a memory of how my parents said giving sweets to our dog would give him worms. Wonder how that pervaded so widely.
block women, not black. I misread it as well, especially since it’d be easy to believe he’d target black women specifically.
EDIT: I was wrong! Listened to the audio and he does explicitly say black women!
Approval voting would help, but neither party will ever vote in favor of it.
That description of your process reminds me of this video on consciousness, and how the creator describes how he has no inner monolog, or even conscious thought of some of his actions, and instead it’s like a black box that he can query. Is your experience similar to that?
There’s a number of excellent documentaries over at !documentaries@slrpnk.net and !documentaries@lemmy.world.
I’d recommend Connections by James Burke, which there should be a link to on the .world community.
That sounds similar to this quote:
“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” — Edsger Dijkstra, 1975
But there’s been a good deal of programmers who have said that BASIC, and its ease of use and seeing almost instant results is extremely useful to not turn people off learning to code to begin with. Python is functionally the new BASIC in that regard, and while the language itself may not teach you to become an expert programmer, it may have gotten more people in the door than otherwise would have.
But that’s just my 2 cents.
As someone who has attempted to draw a lot of spaceships: that’s a dam good spaceship.
Unfortunately didn’t apply to the creator of Ren & Stimpy.
Ahh, the ol put the rum in the banana shipment from Karamja method. A classic.
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Title is clickbaity, but its a solid video by More Perfect Union about how a bunch of crypto tech bros are sueing rural land owners in California to force them to sell their land so they can build what amounts to Rapture from bioshock, with the libertarian leaders of the project even using Ayn Rand quotes about it.
Pretty crazy stuff.
Cheers for sharing this, have to agree its superb.