celluloid_dream
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I think it's more that not much has been written about cymbals. I notice this in domains where there's a lot of tacit knowledge because the domain is physical and separated from screens. (e.g. climbing, outdoors stuff). Coding and writing document themselves by their nature, and also the keyboard is right there to jot down notes. Almost no one is taking notes at that level while they play music.
Side note: in your OP, the phrase "X with the serial numbers filed off" stood out as a red flag Claude-ism (along with the subsequent cadence) and caused me to frantically re-read the whole thing to see if I'd just been LLM-ed.
celluloid_dream
4d ago
prole-tier fragrance review: Old Spice Wolfthorn deodorant smells like orange candy, and I love it
celluloid_dream
4d ago
On lifted pickup trucks - not sure how lifted you mean, but around here lots of the access roads get washed out and you need something with good clearance and breakover angles to get through.
celluloid_dream
4d ago
on going out for coffee generally - coffee varies between roasters and shops. I enjoy the variety, and DIY can be some effort (e.g. timing cold brew so it's not under or over-extracted). Cafe drinks don't cost that much more than doing it at home, and it forces me to go outside and go for a 5-10m walk, when I might otherwise spend the entire day indoors.
on Starbucks specifically - known quantity, not terrible coffee. Their staff around here get paid decent wages and all speak English as a first language. (unlike Tim Hortons, our budget chain, where 95%+ of their staff are temporary foreign workers on slave wages). I don't go to Starbucks often, but definitely pick up the free birthday drink, and occasionally use it for reliable app pickup because it has locations everywhere.
celluloid_dream
17d ago
Coming into it with barely any knowledge of the setting, dogmatic seemed lawful-stupid, or even pointlessly cruel. Look, I can get behind "for the Greater Good", or even "My Country Right or Wrong", but the choices were like:
- [dogmatic] execute this poor commoner for having a reasonable complaint
- [heretic] execute this poor commoner for the lulz, cackling maniacally
- [iconoclast] don't execute the poor commoner
and like, it didn't do a great job of selling the appeal. I was interested in heretic initially because the evil artifact that will obviously obviously corrupt you seemed like a solid roleplay arc, but then the early heretic choices were chaotic-evil right off the bat. I was hoping they'd start off being written as neutral-evil power seeking and then by late game, you'd have frog boiled yourself into a servant of chaos.
Then, iconoclast was completely normal western liberal morality, and the game doesn't punish you for picking those options, so why not pick them?
Exception:
celluloid_dream
19d ago
I loved the Owlcat Pathfinders and Rogue Trader, but with RT, it felt like I could see the rails on the universe much more clearly than with the others. It felt smaller. Not sure if it actually is, but it feels that way. Maybe it's that a lot of the tedious mechanics (e.g. wealth, inventory) are handwaved because you're a Rogue Trader who doesn't need to deal with such trivial inconveniences, and those are actually load-bearing on the immersion. Maybe it's the reduced narrative complexity and choice branches. I don't think I could bring myself to start another RT playthrough today, whereas there are still things I'd like to try in WotR or KM.
celluloid_dream
19d ago
Horizon's Gate, which is something like Final Fantasy Tactics stapled to a nautical exploration and trading game.
Haven't touched it yet though - still researching classes / builds / team comp
I think they are correct to do so? I tend to trust Reddit commentary, flawed as it is, to give human-ish opinions on things. Maybe not as the only source, it certainly should be one.
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