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compare that with Rivals of Aether, which hews relatively close to Smash, but Dan Fornace and his team were clearly way more intentional as to what aspects should and shouldn't have technical complexity
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Smash has a lot of technical complexity despite a lot of the traditional execution barriers in fighting games being removed, but also it's *super* apparent that many of the more technical aspects of the game aren't like that on purpose, in a way that imo is to its detriment
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and on top of that: if you as a designer aren't intentional about where the game's technical complexity lies, it will emerge in some aspect of your game whether you like it or not
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reminded of that old Kayin tweet about how, like
every game has its technical aspects. it's not a matter of trying to make a game have more or less technical complexity, it's about deciding what aspects of your game you want to have technical complexity.
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now I'm thinking about my friend who interpreted the story as being about how centering white men's feelings and privilege ruins even ostensibly liberatory movements
I'm guessing she's giving Ken Levine too much credit with that one, huh
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Meanwhile Smash doesn't even do the "wait four years to buy it all for $60" thing. It's still $120 for Smash Ultimate plus all DLC six and a half years after it came out and nearly four years after the final DLC character came out
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Huh. shows how much I have my finger on the pulse of the fandom then
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So I've never actually touched Pokemon Masters because I don't play gacha games. Is that why so much fanart shows her with the Tepig line?
idk why but I could've sworn it was a thing even beforehand
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also on Mac, it's Option + hypen for an en dash, Shift + Option + hyphen for an em dash
and on Linux (including SteamOS), you can just map an unused key as a compose key. while you're in compose mode, it's two hyphens and a period (--.) for an en dash, and three hyphens (---) for an em dash.
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Never got a chance to play the Explorers games, but to this day, Blue Rescue Team is the first and only game to make me cry. Specifically the part about halfway through I think when the player character gets run out of town
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honestly yeah, I have to agree with you on this. I think the specifics of how it plays out can be slightly different between platforms (compare how this kind of person behaves on twitter vs facebook vs tumblr) but otherwise it's the same phenomenon.
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It's all good. A lot of folks mostly know about the unhinged rant about about Leffen back in 2021, but it goes back way further. as far back as 2017 or 2018, he had been encouraging his fans to harass basically anyone associated with competing controller businesses like Hitbox.
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He had a history of organizing targeted harassment campaigns towards people in the community that were either competing with or were critical of his box controller business, with a few long-time community members basically getting chased out of the community by his fanboys
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The funniest thing is Persona 5 was originally designed for PS3 and PS4. Consoles that have UNIX-like operating systems (specifically a FreeBSD derivative)
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Yeah. It would crash on starting a new game, saving the game in an existing playthrough, or changing the settings
Someone figured it out within a couple of days and implemented a workaround that made its way into Proton-GE and later upstream WINE And Proton, but yeah. Atlus spaghetti code moment.
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Throwback to the PC port of Persona 5 Royal using a Win32 API function that had already been deprecated for over a decade and had never been implemented in WINE, and having a flag to check if it's running on a Steam Deck specifically to use a different function
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I've always been more of a kara flor dominicana fan myself
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Either way, it has the effect that rather than orphaning any replies to an edited post, it's possible to view the original context for those replies.
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I wouldn't say it's the only way. It's just one possible solution. Edits on Tumblr just don't propagate to reblogs (though that's in part because of how reblogs work), and back when I still used Facebook, posts that were edited would have a little button you could click to see the edit history.
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though the Morrowind example is even more baffling when you consider that
1) the game was written in English first
2) there's another type of anther flower that is labeled correctly when you look at it in the overworld
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Now I'm reminded of how Morrowind has a potion ingredient called willow anther, but the tooltip when you look at it in the overworld says willow flower.
there is an early Mages Guild quest where you need to gather willow anther for someone
I'd be lying if I said this didn't trip me up at first
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ngl I think on some level, the reason LLMs are being used for so many management decisions is *because* a computer can never be held accountable
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webp's weirdly lopsided adoption is actually fascinating to me. Looking at it purely on its own merits, I get why people doing web hosting love it, but the lack of support in image editing software makes it a pain to work with
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Meanwhile my mom's response to me getting acne as a teenager was to insist that the best method to deal witb it is to lance each pimple with a hot sewing needle, which...
yeah might lend some credence to your theory
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What we need is Persona 1 and 2 remakes
Especially 2 considering the only localization for Eternal Punishment is the super Americanized PS1 release
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Especially considering a lot of "legit" releases are basically just a custom wrapper for an open source emulator.
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My phone is hella inconsistent about it but I got it to work
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I don't think it's exclusively a formative experience thing because I remember when the game was still new, a lot of the people obsessed with her were too old for it to have been a formative experience
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the Under The Red Hood direct-to-video animated film from 2010, and later the Death in the Family choose-your-own-adventure animation from 2020
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Yeah Microsoft is basically the only company to take the "no country flag emoji at all" route. Everyone else either doesn't show certain flags for users in certain locations, or just supports every flag everywhere and says "fuck you, we're following the Unicode spec"