Dukeofdummies

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Dukeofdummies,

I mean, that's a quest at it's core but a good game works it into a narrative and makes it blend. Ideally making all 6 steps anything but tedious. Ideally interesting and fun, but at all times avoiding tedious like the plague.

Best example I've seen is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4ADco41g9s&ab_channel=Nathidraws

Two identical "perform quest for NPC"s, which is your step 4. Negotiate for a thing in a briefcase from somebody who probably will double cross you.

Which one is more tedious? Now combine a 4 minute run in a barren wasteland in your steps 1 and 6...

A few other things that Cyberpunk did, There are several ways to handle that mission, those several options can cause 3 major shifts in that faction. Which affect other missions later on, indeed any time you deal with the maelstrom gang.

Cyberpunk had a lot of flaws but, they're at least innovating. I've never been in a legit standoff like that in a game. It's always been in a static looping animation at 8 paces.

Dukeofdummies,

... I mean it wouldn't imbalance C02 but you would be adding water. At scale that could be just as bad.

Carbon neutral, yes, but water positive.

Dukeofdummies,

"at scale" it could be just as bad. C02 isn't poisonous the big problem we're dealing with is we're putting C02 from the ground in oil and coal and putting it into the air. We've been adding C02 that was NOT in the environment into the environment.

Yeah some water isn't a bad thing, but if all of a sudden we're adding from sources outside of the water cycle a LOT more water into the atmosphere you've got increased clouds, increased weather patterns, All of a sudden the inland portions of continents can start dumping as much water into the air as a warm ocean, that can DEFINITELY be a problem.

Dukeofdummies,

While this looks cool, my phone can't actually scan any of these. Anybody else have any luck?

Dukeofdummies,

well I feel like an idiot. I always credited Duke Nukem for that line.

Dukeofdummies,

right? they're pretty impressive. Although the cat one I saw was definitely AI made with all the weird limbs of the cats.

What's your favorite Enigma / Riddle / Sentence Puzzle?

Tomorrow is a big event at my university. I’d like to make a fun thing where the people of the Board Game society I am in can try to find me for a riddle, kind of a Where is Waldo in a place where there is a crap tone of people to find the NPC that’ll give them a Riddle (Maybe something to win? No idea how I could do that...

Dukeofdummies,

What is the beginning of eternity, the end of time, the beginning of every end, and the end of every place?

E, it's a really mean one when delivered verbally

Dukeofdummies,

I always use edge whenever I'm making a public presentation with a computer I use. Simply because I never use it. Then autocomplete won't embarrass me if we look something up.

Dukeofdummies,

I'd buy that. I've had amazing vegan and vegetarian chilis from cans, but never anything of the same quality from something with meat.

Dukeofdummies,

Am I the only chaotic neutral here? I code on the right and do everything else on the left.

Dukeofdummies,

blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah

Elmo's world

*sobbing noises

Dukeofdummies,

daaaaaaamn

Dukeofdummies,

huh, interesting. Gotta say I had less hope for this than I did for Cowboy Beebop. (which also wasn't much, but I digress)

Maybe I give it a shot... and take a shot before it starts...

Dukeofdummies,

Well, I just recently got married in July. We'd been together for 5 years before that point, we survived COVID in a rather stress inducing state.

  • My wife works in banking, with secrecy requirements. I work in AV, testing equipment that records everything it sees and hears. We couldn't even be within earshot of each other. She was forced to work in her bed and I was forced to take up half the living room with 2 baker's racks of AV equipment. Still went through those two years being able to look back fondly at being able to take a five minute break to scream into a pillow and get a hug after a particularly stressful problem, meeting, or office politics.

I completely understand where you're coming from, but just like how you can't imagine a partner you want to spend the rest of your life with. I cannot imagine someone ever replacing my wife, and I don't even want to entertain the notion of losing her.

  • well what if it's insert_celebrity_crush_here?
    -- that's not my wife, not interested
  • well what if it's your wife but she never says no to you?
    -- that doesn't sound like my wife at all, I'm not interested

We just mesh incredibly well. We both grew up in problematic households with a disdain for our parents. We both grew up poor. We both care more about financial security and safety than trying to get it all. I feel like we're a team, at all times. Not having her beside me would be like playing football with only half the players.

I will say, this is gonna sound weird but stick with me. Don't... don't chase a monogamous relationship.

I think too many people get hooked on this idea that you must have a partner. You must marry before you hit 35. You must fuck before you hit 19. Just don't think so hard about it. Geography, life events, mistakes, opportunities, are all at place with literally everyone at all times. COVID especially through a wrench in every life plan in America. I feel so bad for anyone who hadn't gone through college yet. Just... find enjoyment where you can and balance that with building your future and if both those points can be met with the same activity. DO IT. Whether it's a partner that you can't live without and you wanna keep, or a group you can't live without. You need both those points in life. Do whatever makes sense.

Dukeofdummies,
  • A house
    -- Just purchased, closing is closing in soon.
  • two cars
    -- completely mandatory. We couldn't possibly bus, we have two used cars approaching two decades old and we're dreading the day they croak.
  • a healthy relationship
    -- married in July
  • a career
    -- For me, finally started the career I wanted two years ago, after a decade of trying to become a programmer I finally am. Wife might be in a career now, she's not quite sure. She's happier where she is than Target, but that's a low bar.
  • livable wage
    -- livable with the ability to go on vacations (mostly anime and comic conventions)
  • 2.5 kids
    -- don't want them at the moment.
  • a dog
    -- ... two cats

I do NOT in any way feel like I've earned this. I have been saving to buy a house EVER SINCE I paid off my student loans. I dumped all my money for YEARS to get that debt off of my books and after I did, I immediately started saving. Didn't even change my living habits because they were habits at that point. I didn't even have a GF at the time. I just knew that I wanted to be ahead, because I knew that it was going to be a slog when I was finally ready to buy a home. Just like it was a slog to get into my career, just like it was a slog. I wanted to be AHEAD I wanted a good home. And after all that effort I got...

half a duplex for $305,000... Cheapest we could find if you don't count badrealestate suggestions on lemmy.

All that effort and I barely have a home. barely. We could've taken a larger loan but, shit happens. We could've been laid off, One of our cars could've needed to be replaced, We could've been disabled, We could've had our identity stolen, We could've been scammed, We could've been robbed, We could've come across a cop who didn't like our faces, We could've missed payments because Wells Fargo SUCKS and have our credit killed.

All of these things DIDN'T happen to us, so we got to purchase a house. Because if any of those things happened to us, we would've dipped into savings and we wouldn't be purchasing a house in our 30s. All of those things that could've happened were completely out of our control. (except for Wells Fargo, you can choose to not be fucked by Wells Fargo by LEAVING Wells Fargo)

So... there is no plan, only a lottery.

Dukeofdummies,

He’s being called a neanderthal because he seems to agree with a lot of fringe opinions.

I mean that's just a symptom of the biggest complaint about him. He's really gullible. He's not malicious, but god damn he does not notice a liar when a liar is in front of him. Genuinely I do love his long form content, I love how people can go off topic with him, but some of the people he brings on really should be going in front of Jon Stewart instead.

Like... here's an example of someone clearly lying, dodging questions, and genuinely being sketchy. He's gotten a bit better but would Joe Rogan push this hard against somebody? If someone dodges his question, how well does he bring the topic back to it? Joe Rogan is great when everyone is there in good faith, but would you want him in your corner if you're stuck in a timeshare conference?

Dukeofdummies,

I mean, it's another example of the lack of attention to detail and rushing, but yeah.

Dukeofdummies,

... man I never made that connection. I thought it was because there was never an explosion smaller than somebodies head. If it doesn't cause a boom it's a gun that shouldn't be in a boomer shooter.

Dukeofdummies,

Well what jobs are you thinking about?

  • farmhand fits your description, but they pay less because they don't need skilled workers, anybody with a working body can do it. Can't just drag in a random guy to do your writing, acting, or VFX.
Dukeofdummies,

How so?

Dukeofdummies,

Caravan Palace is so much fun live as well. Whenever they Tour through the US I always try to grab a ticket.

Looking for games with strong female leads for my daughter (even just to watch as I play). Came across this link, but they're a bit age-inappropriate. Any suggestions from the community? (gameranx.com)

Edit: Daughter is only 5 so she’s unlikely to play much but she watches me and as long as it’s not too violent, it should be fine

Dukeofdummies,

wandersong is a super simple game that she might be able to play. You play a pacifist bard who just is naive, friendly to a fault. The bard is a male, but the villain, supporting cast, it's quite diverse with some strong females cast in. It's got a pretty good story and a lot of sesame street level lessons on life in there too. Even starts a conversation on what strength truly is. Totally something you should look at.

Slime rancher is another super chill, might actually be able to play herself, game where you do play as a female protaganist, but much lighter on plot than wandersong. You basically farm cute adorable slimes and it's genuinely pretty addictive and super relaxing after a shitty day.

Mirror's Edge you play as a female protagonist. Plot might be a bit steep for her.

If you haven't played through portal 1 or 2 yet, I bet it could be fun. Glados is silly, Chell (who you play but doesn't talk) is female and she can help you with the puzzles a bit.

Dukeofdummies,
  • The whole point of a Minnesota flag is to have an easy way to display you're Minnesotan. Literally half of the state flags look the exact same as ours if there isn't a wind blowing, and genuinely that number doesn't go down much even WITH a breeze.
  • If we have something more iconic, noticeable at a glance, it's marketable. Think about Britain's flag on all their tourist merch. Think about the MOA star on everything to do with the mall, think "I <3 NYU" mugs, shirts, hats.
Dukeofdummies,

Make it even better, instead of keeping it a flat surface, cut a slope down towards the stairs. Then you get to wander around the model. See it from not just several, but dozens of points of view both vertically and horizontally. Really turn it into a unique part of the house.

Dukeofdummies,

Wait that was real?!? I thought that was satire!!!

Jesus Christ that's the kind of name an angsty teenager gives their life changing app.

It's the most milk toast edge you could possibly give a website.

The only time that name is acceptable is for a website of nautical pirates.

How did he even get the domain from the edgelord who had it before who refused to get into myspace and decided to build his own website from scratch?

How many times did he have to misspell twitter before he put his foot down like this?

But if X is twitter, how will he mark his emerald mines on his map at home?

Dukeofdummies,

PSA:
Edge is also what you should use whenever you're making a public presentation and need to open a browser.

Why? Because you never use edge, therefore autocomplete is almost empty which means you can type:

  1. x
  2. p
  3. h
  4. r

With full confidence that NOTHING will appear that you will not want public.

Dukeofdummies,

That's gotta be a weird feeling, filling in for striking workers.

Dukeofdummies,

best I can find is to comment and hope someone replies.

Dukeofdummies,

They focus on entirely different things.

Godot is small. I would've loved to have it in high school because I would've dumped it on a flashdrive and built games on whatever computer I had access to. Even on flashdrives from the early 2000s. You will feel weird installing it... because when you download it it's just a .exe and it just... runs. No "let's check for updates" no "let's create an account" no "hey can you answer this survey?" It just, goes from the moment you double click.

Godot is entirely open source. Which sounds like a meh reason if you're not an EFF warrior but is SERIOUSLY useful if you want to do weird stuff with a game engine. You gotta PAY if you wanna edit source code to Unity. On the other hand, you can just freely edit Godot. If you want to create a brand new tool within Godot's interface, the hoops you jump through are trivial. Hell, Godot's editor is actually a game built within Godot they're literally teaching you how to edit the editor as you're making games. Meaning if you wanna veer into the avant guard weird ass shit as a hobby. Godot is the better option.

The GDscript might sound like a detriment, but it really does trivialize a lot of game engine specific concepts and tasks. Meaning that once you start getting used to GDscript... you no longer have to worry about a lot of things because the language takes care of it for you.

Unity though, has a larger base. So importing assets are trivial, porting to consoles like the switch are vastly easier (so I've heard). If you're planning on going big... Unity will probably make your final steps easier.

Dukeofdummies,

Not only that, sharing that fix is just so trivial. No trying to coordinate "you need to download 13.1.7.6 RC2 from Unity's main site"

Dukeofdummies,

Brotato is in Godot? nice.

Dukeofdummies,

I feel like it would have to be one of the many lies that Juan Pujol Garcia made in WWII.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blN49yGet8g&ab_channel=TomScott

He was a double agent for British intelligence. Won the highest Military honor in Britain AND in Germany. This man lied his way into the spy business, and proceeded to completely hoodwink German intelligence.

Dukeofdummies,

It's because it's a feature 0 people will complain about adding if it all works well. It's a small, minor, completely unnecessary detail.

If it's there, then someone had the time, the energy, and the freedom to add it, just because they wanted to. It's not an item that will make it on the checklist of a minimum viable game.

If it's there, it's a very good sign.

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