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🎖Previously: Coloratura, Riot Forge, Temtem, Relicta, Altered Alma, Wildermyth...
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If you can't swing parents, marriage might do the trick.
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Wishing you all success but see, that would be *dependently*.
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If you keep blowing air out of the room without letting any in you'll just suffocate!!!!
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* gamedev, bah
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The only opinion I'm worried about is my daughter's; she's Gen Alpha and she thinks I'm bloody great, joke's on y'all.
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This one dedicated to my cohort peers freaking out because we're not cool any more? We were never cool, big deal.
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No, what we have right now is exactly Turing's Chinese room experiment: a bullshit machine that can sound like human. It's just a bad criterion for assigning intelligence.
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I'm listening.
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Cart Life memories...
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(I could learn how to read instructions too, huh.)
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Oooh gotcha, alt text it is then!
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I'm seeing a lot of screenshots. Are those fine or a pain in the arse? Happy to send you something more copypasteable if that's less of a hassle.
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I'm sure it'll be fine 😄
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...
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I'm sorry, Maxi.
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Wow!! Why??????
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So you speak Chinese?
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Lol no, I want to play games for fun.
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A wonderful day, to her and all your family!
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"We already have choices at home"
(The choices at home):
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Yes making things exist in the first place is sorta thankless. For some reason this simple truth is easier to accept when it's not a personal project.
(Aside: I'm using Ink and it's a 40s noir story; both things made me think of you, so it's the fact we're talking is an interesting synchronicity!)
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... you know, all that bullshit: player agency, expression, characterisation.
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2) I remember the talk (I also remember cringely failing to make a clear point, 🙏🏼). But yes, players/audiences are continuity machines, if they can be trusted to make comic panels into a moving narrative, they can be trusted to spin a dotted line into an arrow.
What I worry about is...
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1) Don't we run the risk here of letting the seams show a little too much? (Between "this is the path I the author like/prefer/think makes the most sense" and "and here are 2 other bolted-on choices because we like to pretend you have agency")?
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The thing I'm doing atm is very PC-centric, so the branching rationale is very "what if at node X, instead of Rational, she reacted Sarcastically or Aggressively or...?". Not sure I'd recommend RPing/character development as the branching focus, but that's what I'm doing (foolishly).
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Yup yup yup! Golden path, critical path, then "what would be a cool alternative here, here and here?". I'm using Ink atm and I feel it encourages bottlenecking fairly often, because nested choices get messy fast, so the natural tendency (imo?) is to use gathers before you reach level 3 or 4...
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Only extremely handsome and clever NDs, I'm told 😁
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See, that's the sensible branch-and-bottleneck approach I preach to my ND students. Naturally, I don't follow my own advice and I feel like I'm cheapening the experience if I don't Track Everything...
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On one level, it makes a lit of sense. On another... I fret by doing things that way I'm skewing the narrative one way, and then the "other" branches won't make as much sense/won't be as appealing as the Narrative Mainroad... 🤨
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Sure mate, let's compare notes! 😀
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But moods!, Ed, moods! The gossamer wings of mood,
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He oído esta foto.
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Otro mito que se me cae. Ni siquiera un poco de salero, el tipo.
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...¿no jodas?
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Me esperaba una botella, la verdá.