i would rather just do domestic terrorism
Nmagane would just shoot us both like Shepherd anyway
Thanks for bringing this up. FTL is an incredible feat of rougelike game design.
Have you heard of/Played it? @CulturedUrbanite
I wouldn't dine at the same table with this guy let alone go to battle with him
Shepherd from LOST?
it's true.
ftl is like climbing a ladder and once you get halfway up someone shoots in you the fucking dick and you fall off. then the ladder catches on fire
I wasn't trying to say that old games are better per se but rather that it was common to pioneer genres and that is much more exciting than talking about how meticulously crafted something is imo.
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along the lines of the "promenance of ■■■■■■■ and women is indicative of low quality garbage/post-scarcity empire" argument, given that china is #1, what is the state of the chinese undeground video game development scene.
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The literary component of Chinese always blows my mind. Ion silver has a great comment in the comments about it
when you start talking about "bible clones" and "storage as the downfall of video games" to your coworkers be sure to cite me
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I think "The Angry Video Game Nerd" made this argument first.
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I might quote you if your ideas made any sense. "Bible clone" because stories hijack the mind and that is bad? Is it because the bible is a story that has inexplicably captivated millions of people and looking back at it it looks insane? What about the story of your own life? Is that a "bible clone"?
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"bible clone" because it sounds cool: "maga", "globohomo", "let's go brandon": these exist solely because they are catchy.
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If this world took place in the spongebob universe i believe the saying would be "lets go spongebob:
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A) the narrative is inherently linear
B) the narrative is what the human brain is most attuned to understanding (specifically stories) and the existence of a bad/discontinuous narrative is evident to all people with a brain.
from there: the effects of introducing a narrative warp what is ultimately a video game: "decision-making under some large state space".
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storage space -> allows for "complex" narratives that are just a line.
bible clone: the perfection of the narrative is already accomplished the bible.
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