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You can design a game without open world and the players don’t even notice it.

I think part of what that’s about, and what’s important for me, is a sense of agency. Giving the player choices, and importantly including implicit choices the game doesn’t explicitly tell you about, and reacting to those choices.

I find it really lame when a game puts you through basically a linear game, and at the very end, after a convenient save point, tells you to make The Big Choice (probably That Decides The Fate Of The World), because that feels completely meaningless - as opposed to the game for example telling me to do something, some fundamental gameplay element, and at a crucial story point if you refuse to do it it doesn’t fail you, it offers a different path forward.

Doing an open world feels like a conceptually simple way to give players a sense of agency and set more things up. If you see something cool, you can go there, if you can make it. You’re not required to stick to the path, you’re allowed to explore, look for things to do, or run straight to the big objective. And if you do run into something optional, help a character, maybe they show up in the grand finale and play a role, and it makes those encounters feel rewarding.

One thing is that pet groomers will recommend grooming kittens so they get used to the experience, so that if they have trouble grooming themselves and need help it’s less stressful for them to get washed, dried, all that stuff. (Though this is coming from the groomers who get paid when you do that, for your consideration)

Regarding the last paragraph, developers have adapted, and now include more complex/obscure secrets meant to be shared by people and solved together. Though of course if players just look things up before even trying then you can’t stop them, but that’s their own fault.

The modern scourge are dataminers, who will immediately jump to digging through game files and spoil puzzles in the communities trying to solve them. Not all of them will do that, but it only takes one to ruin the fun.

Also Tunic is an absolute banger of a game, would recommend, just don’t spoil yourself!

Worth noting is that you can also get factorio DRM-free on the website, and then downloading mods is locked behind logging in with your account - same as playing multiplayer on online-mode servers. But mods are also just zip files that you can also download from the website (still need to log in and own the game), so same as games with steam workshop, people will share mods same as they share game files.

If that’s too inconvenient for you to pirate, well, “piracy is a service issue” ;)

Divinity Original Sin (1 and 2) lets you play as big of an asshole as you’d like.

I haven’t gone through it myself, but I think Baldur’s Gate 3 has ways to side with “bad guys”, I believe I’ve seen patch notes about expanding the content there, so that’s also an option from the same devs.

But the origin characters generally aren’t perfect and have their motivations, especially The Dark Urge.

*sweaty

Opinionated sweater is when somebody offers to refund the sweater they gave you as a gift

Arguing that fission power won’t do anything is objectively incorrect.

That’s an opinion, regardless of whether it’s true or not. The analogy is analogous because I’m taking the same actions and statements, applying them to analogous topics in a different field. Dismissing that because you believe your beliefs to be objective fact is just dishonest.

But that’s more like having people talk about how we should do nuclear and renewable power, and you coming along complaining people should be working on developing fusion power instead because fission power just won’t do anything

To my understanding, you can’t really do more than bring the parts together in a compact arrangement and keep them like that, so if the demon core would stay together (and not, say, get blown apart by the release of energy), then the issue would be a lack of fissile material (or reflectors), no?

See also an image of a nuclear bomb design (I think Little Boy) from Wikipedia, which illustrates the idea of sliding a rod of fissile material into a hollow cylinder, though the bomb did it in reverse. I think the design might be obsolete due to inefficiency, and it might need the tough shell to hold it together (and act as a neutron reflector).

This has been explored to death, e.g. via the Demon Core experiments

If I’m not mistaken, in case of the demon core accidents, the reaction was always interrupted by the experimenter frantically separating the two halves, right? Doesn’t mean it would detonate, but using it as an example of why it wouldn’t doesn’t seem to check out if I’m remembering correctly.

I’ve had dreams where I played a 2D top down game, and my perception would get mixed up/confused between the top down game view and a first person perspective.

I could certainly see myself dreaming of watching a video of something happening and transitioning from watching it to being there.

Despite having Table in the name, FAT isn’t a table, but rather uses a table, and FAT itself is a filesystem. Thus, it’s different from a machine with “machine” being in the name or a number with “number” in the name, and it seems entirely reasonable to refer to the crucial index table in the FAT filesystem as the “FAT table”

Do you actually need conventional explosives? I had the impression all they do is reliably stick the big hunks of radioactive material together in a big bomb that needs to be delivered at high speeds and detonate automatically. Wouldn’t it be enough to quickly shove a cylinder into a bigger core, perhaps with a motor or even a tensioned spring?

That of course doesn’t waive the issue of the amount of fissile material, or the fact it needs to be all put together (you can’t spread it around a vest)

Not the wrong place if you want to comply with the law, as he explains in the PR comments, the law requires the installer to prompt for age when creating users.

If you mean molten salt reactors, guess what they do with the molten salt to make electricity…

I think with how Matrix is structured clients can support features that are not part of the core, including video calls. That said, it does mean you need to use one of the clients that support it (I think the most popular ones do), I think it’s built on jitsi, and doesn’t support screensharing (at least not with audio).

It’s more like “Arch Linux breaks if you don’t update for too long, then try to naively update without knowing what you’re doing and without checking the arch news for breaking changes”. Which is more breakage during updates than stable distros, but absolutely manageable.

I think the “independent” label might be more about the decision making being dependent on an organization?

This is also a meme community and those charts are never that serious, and considering people will disagree about the placements anyways, trying to have more precision might be pointless.

Okay, but MacOS doesn’t work on everything because Apple doesn’t want it to. They want you to only use their devices, and only run their systems on them.

Ironically, I think Arch might be a better first time distro than CachyOS, because if you’re willing to go through the manual installation process and learn from all the fuckups you’ll make, you can come out of it with the knowledge necessary to manage your install. Though of course I would only recommend it with the warning that your system will be mostly broken for a while and you’d be constantly figuring out and fixing things, so not a good idea if you need your computer working.

But it does seem like a nice distro for if you already know what you’re doing and want to save time getting things set up (and maybe those performance improvements are significant enough, I’ve seen people give big figures)