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@ColeSloth @IzzyData As I recall, the issue with the potato famine was more that, if you're only growing potatoes, while they grow just about anywhere, they'll also get diseases really easily.

Which is why on the Lemmy instance linked to, people mentioned a variety of crops is the trick.

So, potatoes, but also onions, and also wheat, and also corn is the true answer, as I understand.

foone, to random
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ahhhhhrhgghghr. I finally got around to digging into a Switch game for the first time, because someone wanted me to hack one, and the first thing I see is a filename:
img/unity_logo.png

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@foone "You thought this was Wheel of Fortune, but now you have UNO!"

AT1ST,
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@foone (Course, this now begs the question as to why they would need topless male models in UNO.)*

AT1ST,
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@Kolanaki @The_Picard_Maneuver I guess, depending on how you went about setting up the tripwire, the question then becomes "Why didn't the sprinting giant stop sprinting when it saw a rope being dragged across a gap between two trees and become taut?".

Yeah, that setup could work, but in that timeframe, it feels like it was less plausible, as it would've worked better as a prepped beforehand trap.

eniko, to random
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Do Bethesda style open world games really even need a main plot and an ending of sorts? I gotta admit, even though I've played Oblivion, Skyrim, and more times than I can even count Morrowind, I've only finished a main quest in any of them once, and it was in Morrowind with a character so fully tricked out that it was trivial to stomp through the main quest to finally see what all the fuss with Dagoth Ur was about

Like. Would it actually detract from the experience at all if they just said "hey, here's a cool sandbox full of quests and places to explore, go nuts" and there wasn't a main quest?

AT1ST,
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@eniko @opponent019 I think the main problem with that is that, after a certain amount of quests done, "Do this quest, and we'll give you gold and/or new equipment." becomes less of an incentive to do any particular quest.

A main quest helps solidify "There will be another quest after this related to this one, and here's why you'd want to do this quest." - to some extent, the Guild Quests in Skyrim sort of fill that role as well, just...to a lesser extent.

eniko, to random
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something on my timeline is making me want to make a better spreadsheet software than excel. i bet i could do it, too. probably make more money than any of the games i have and will ever make combined

AT1ST,
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@eniko @lapingvino I think the one cautionary tale that comes to mind is that I think most people forget just how many domains Excel covers; for stuff that does "some stuff better", there's almost certainly one "Wait; why is that an important feature? What do you mean you use Excel specifically for that?", And probably one "Wait - why does it even do that? No seriously; that means we need to remap this whole thing in genetics because you keep converting them to dates!" thing.

AT1ST,
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@Ensign_Crab @Dnn "Who would do these jobs if people possibly wrongfully convicted weren't forced to do these jobs?"

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