“Unauthorized Bread” by Cory Doctorow is a short story about this. Great read.

Almost all these smart devices are useless. Just give me a fucking toaster or microwave that doesn’t die in six months, there is no world on which being able to connect my microwave or dishwasher to the internet is relevant or helpful to anyone but the data miners.

To heck with you for your stupid opinion, everyone is obviously always positive here

Subs=subscriptions.

Was wild logging in this morning to see it and thinking “yep this is going to be a hit” and coming back to see the highest voted Lemmy post ever

Glad another Marxist said it. The problem isn’t that capitalism was always the wrong choice, it’s that we’re clinging to it long beyond its best before date.

New Comments is also good.

Jokes on them, we can’t sort by upvotes and downvotes in most cases anyway

Thanks, amusingly someone just posted an unrelated thread about it on the BT community so I got the one-two hit. I’ll see what I can find tonight

I don’t recall which one, I think atow? It’s been a while. In general though, I have a feeling anything officially battletech is going to lean way too far into crunch, but I’d be happy to be wrong.

I haven’t looked at S&V, but BT has a much more hard sci-fi feel than SW… I’m assumed it wouldn’t be a great fit. How much does scum and villainy lean on the “space fantasy” angle?

There’s no way to prevent it entirely. A larger community will slide that way.

I do think that it can be less encouraged though.

Using art to break sections up is probably its only practical purpose, and I agree it does help with that, but IDK if it’s as core as the author of the article seems to take for granted.

Thanks, regardless of whether this works for BT it looks like a fun game to check out.

Are RPGs expected to contain lots of art? I’d like to examine that starting point. I admit I only skimmed the article but I didn’t see any analysis of if less art means less sales. I wonder if people are trying to adhere to the standard set in games like D&D and PF, but those have art because they can, not necessarily because they must.

Blades in the Dark is extremely highly regarded and has some art, but certainly not tons of it. Microscope and Kingdom haven’t got any, as far as I can recall.

I don’t really want to miss my family for that long. Maybe I’d go back to when my kids were babies and become a live-in nannydad? I could see that getting weird though.

If I didn’t have that level of control but I absolutely had to go somewhen, I guess I’d either go a few decades in the future to see how it shapes up, or to the neolithic era so I could finally find out a bunch of things we’d never otherwise have known. That era seems like it was pretty cool, and I happen to know enough baseline science to actually recreate some of my favourite amenities.

That’s never been my experience in the slightest.

No idea, maybe people don’t know the sub and assume it’s Mra? Menslib was an excellent subreddit and I really want to see it back.

Personally I never understood the hate for hl2 vehicle sequences. I love them, particularly the boat one. They aren’t so fun if you’re a completionist, but if you’ve played them before… Just ram the throttle and enjoy the velocity, and.they don’t take very long at all

Eh. I don’t really agree. I agree that they’re both excellent games and that they differ in the ways you’ve listed, but I just replayed both and I have to say, hl1 drags. There are long chunks that consist of seemingly endless corridor crouching jumping puzzles with headcrabs lurking predictably for jumpscares.

The things you call “gimmicks” in hl2 to me broke up that loop. They are still parts of the game and use the same mechanics, but they shake the loop up just enough that you don’t get sick of doing the same jumping puzzle–>crouch through narrow tunnel and hit headcrab with crowbars–>fight pattern, and it still includes enough of those to feel like an extension of the same game.

I do think it was a mistake to keep Gordon mute for hl2. He had a reason to not talk in hl1, there wasn’t really anyone to talk to. It makes way less sense in 2, and hamstrings them on further story aspects as they try to get serious with the plot.

Please do.