Why are publishers speaking for devs about how much choice devs would have? Why not get devs to speak?

The only asari I’ll ever truly accept is Dr. Liara T’soni, my OTL.

Once again, we have lawmakers just making spurious if not outright false statements with no repercussions. When your words decide people’s reality, you should be afraid of what you say. And I don’t see that fear in legislators.

They just say whatever the fuck incorrect bullshit they wish, and walk it back at their leisure when the effect is already resolved in throughout news media. The world’s gotten their soundclip, the base started foaming when they heard their whistles, and then the politican quietly amends “oh, I obviously didn’t mean that.” If more politicans shut the fuck up because they were scared of the repercussions of walking their statements back, then maybe there’d be more reporting on what they’ve done then the inflammatorily idiotic shit they spew every other day.

This is a great advertisment for what real developers do. You shouldn’t just crank out the first idea that works. You should be doing something that is smarter and sensible.

Beep?

This one is REAL rough, not much interesting I’ve seen

Yeah, it’s not trendy but I don’t think we can do trendy unless we do like I said and derive from standout games with identifiable suites of mechanics. You just have to be descriptive or accept heavy overlap.

“Auto shooter” is not very descriptive. In 10 years, someone would be having this same conversation about that term. Asteroids is basically an auto shooter because there’s no reason to not always be shooting, it’s effectively a QOL change. Some bullet hells too.

Video game genres are one of the few fields in which I’m not a prescriptivist. But survivorlikes only aren’t called RPGs because Vampire Survivor is embossed on the whole subgenre. The suite of mechanics rose to high prominence on the back of one game (or franchise, in the case of Soulslikes) rather than refined through years of experimentation.

We aren’t going to get more, simple names unless they’re similarly derived from a single, famous ancestor like your “Soulslike”. But you can always just be descriptive. Diablo/PoE are “top-down gear-grind RPGs”; it’s jargony but all subgenres are.

I’ve never seen Horizon Zero Dawn called an ARPG but that does seem to be the consensus. I’ve always considered games like that or new God of War to be “adventure games”.

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I’ve got a few written down. Standby.

Edit, this is the first dream I have written down:

Had a dream that a mustached, mulleted Nic Cage ran a failing tech startup in the near future. It opens up to him trying to borrow money from a human-level intelligence cyborg chimp that was wanted for a huge number of crimes, mostly driving related. The chimp stiffs him so Cage chases after a fleet of cop cars (all driven by chimp cops) and rats out crime chimp using a megaphone while crime chimp races after trying to stop him.

After Cage gets cyborg crime chimp in trouble, he drives to the office, which is super overcrowded and really modern looking like a Google office or something. When he gets inside the secretary(?) checks his hands to see if he had collected rent money(?). Cage gets pissy, picks up a very fake-looking baby doll and pretends it’s a real baby while kicking me out of the old-school media room that has a CRTV hooked up to a VHS player and one of those fat-back, large screen TVs that was like an inch from the wall with the screen facing the wall; Cage headed to that TV. All this time Chris Hemsworth(?) and either Chris Rock or Kevin Hart are riffing on each other in the background. But now it focuses on them and Hemsworth is joking(?) about how often he’s banged RockHart’s, and everyone in the office’s, gfs. RockHart looks pissed and Hemsworth is grinning/laughing at him. Then jump cut to Hemsworth in a moshpit or something punching everyone. I assume that was a crowd of all the boyfriends whose gfs Hemsworth banged.

I think the movie was called Overdraft. Me, [redacted], and [redacted] just walked into the theater after watching a movie about water or sharks because [redacted] said he heard it was a good movie.

The rocks ain’t magic, dingus. The rocks are just a cipherstone to let us teach lightning how to count to 2 and do addition.

Rubes diminishing the achievements of hardworking artificiers.

They were probably on slightly profitable. Or, Money forbid, only breaking even.

I graduated at 24 after taking two years off due to…issues. No one worth accepting opinions from will care that you spent any amount of extra time at college.

Just do what you need to do and graduate with your head held up high. Because at the end of it, you do graduate.

What are your issues with the game? Have you played it?

Hell yeah, I made these errors myself. Homegrown.

I feel like it’s missing the setup of the dev complaining about why their architecture is a mess. Seems like a “management is ruining software” joke.

They mention it’s from a franchise in the first paragraph.

Have you considered that everything you like is just some level of sci-fantasy (an existing genre[-fusion])?

They are both under the umbrella of “speculative fiction” but they go in different directions.

But this one is what it should’ve been.