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self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
21hr ago
I've heard about Apocalypse, but I've never seen anything beyond screenshots. I need to look up a good overview, I heard the lore went to some strange places.
Dean
Flairless
21hr ago
Quantumfreakonomics
21hr ago
Maybe what you consider "basic storytelling rules" are actually male character archetype rules?
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
21hr ago
One of the reasons I threw Civ into the mix is because I think the additional latency from LLM calls would be less of an issue if it was turn based. Hardly an insurmountable problem, you could phone home on in-game triggers or after X time in a real time game, but it would simplify things.
self_made_human
śāśvataṃ jīva athavā yudhyamāno mṛtyuṃ āpnuhi
21hr ago
I'll hook you up in Arma in no time haha. Just having one additional buddy allows for shenanigans like you won't believe. Hit me up when you're back!
No_one
21hr ago
There is real-time X-Com. X-Com Apocalypse, IMO the best official game out of all the X-Com games.
It wasn't released entirely finished (they cut a lot of content) but it was still very, very good.
Primaprimaprima
I am trying so hard not to say the MBTI type of everyone I reply to
21hr ago
You create a woman that women want to be, and men don't want her
Speak for yourself, I want a woman who can knock me unconscious.
Nah. One Punch doesn't work on Cultivator tropes, for most of the cast at least.
I'm thinking something like a genre-adapted version of Ciaphas Cain, HERO OF THE IMPERIUM, whose reputation is wildly exagerrated beyond his actual skills. Which aren't inconsiderable, but still fall in the 'runs away into glory.'
For a cultivator parody, I'd imagine it being someone who is so clueless/innocuous, the cultivators around them think they are so OP that they're just pretending to be weak and clueless. And thus, the caution of all the cultivators around them convincing more cultivators to be on guard / cautious, leading to more unchallenged innocuousness.
Corvos
21hr ago
Cool :) I don’t have anything in mind right now because I’m away for the bank holiday but I’ll have a think. I wouldn’t mind trying something like Arma but I’d be starting from nothing - I spend 99.9% of my time playing single-player and sims aren’t so much fun on your own.
I like the concept of the game more than I liked playing it for the odd half an hour
I get this a lot. Frostpunk, Factorio, Supreme Commander etc. My steam library is full of them.
Amadan
Enjoying my short-lived victory
21hr ago
And why do you care about status effects like being published considering the fallen state of these "institutions"?
No matter how much you may despise "the institutions," I don't think anyone who wants to be a writer could deny, down deep, that seeing your name on a book in an actual bookstore, published by a real publishing house, is a milestone we all aspire to.
Corvos
21hr ago
Oh, Christ, the movie. I only saw the trailer but that was more than enough. It’s a pity Cooper wasn’t as good as Rowling at keeping the maniacs off.
Over Sea, Under Stone is good, I just don’t recommend it when I’m recommending the series because it gives the wrong impression about what the series will be like IMO.
Glad to find another fan!
YE_GUILTY
21hr ago
For me, this was back in April with "crashout." These things come and these things go.
YE_GUILTY
22hr ago
I don't know if this will meet your strict criteria - it runs on the "basest cringe urges" of its author for sure - but I will not pass up an opportunity to recommend Unsounded. A rock-solid epic fantasy doorstopper, except it's a full-color graphic novel created by one person. Sure, attempts at these things are a dime a dozen; this is one that pulled it off.
(I will caution patience with Sette early on, though.)
WhiningCoil
Ghost of Quokka's Future
22hr ago
Never saw that one. I think I made it to season 5 before it was too Netflixified for me.
Man, I didn't think anyone else but me has read those. Yes, this was my absolute favorite series when I was a kid.
(And Over Sea, Under Stone is a bit dull compared to the rest of the series, but don't skip it.)
Do skip the movie, though. Hollywood made a movie (supposedly) based on the first book called The Seeker that pissed off Susan Cooper so much she was kicked off the set. With good reason- it is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
Eetan
22hr ago
I'd argue vanilla WoW is pretty unserious (and willing to throw random stuff that wasn't there historically, from goblins to kobolds).
WOW Kobolds - tiny ugly mischievous thieving and griefing underground dwellers - are fully mythically accurate.
Far more accurate that WOW elves.
Corvos
22hr ago
She was, but it wasn’t until later that she decided that you couldn’t be feminist and write a world containing a male-only organisation that was powerful and wise. Especially when a certain number of your women are witchy - powerful but often in a secretive and manipulative way.
Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising quadrilogy. (Skip the first one until you’ve finished the rest.) To my mind it’s the best of what British fantasy can be, though not modern.
Corvos
22hr ago
Brandon Sanderson is the most successful ‘Christian’ writer I can think of today, meaning a writer who both is Christian and whose religion clearly informs his work.
Notably:
- He never depicts literal Christianity in his work.
- Most of his characters who think a lot about religion really think about it. They have crises of faith, they wonder how to reconcile their faith with what needs to be done, etc.
Similar industrial policies (with some degree of squinting) seem pretty common: Japan and Korea have their quasi-government conglomerates with strong political ties. The Nordics have state-owned enterprises. Norway also holds lots of shares in its wealth fund. Airbus is partially held by several European governments.
That said, I intentionally don't (didn't?) own INTC because it really needs some leadership and strategy changes to remain competitive.
Throwaway05
22hr ago
Why have I never seen this word before this week, and yet like eighteen references in the last few days, each of which is presented in such a way as to help normalize it? Is this a psyop?
It's popping up because it is slang and then it got picked up in the tech-sphere (which is highly adjacent to here) as the term of choice for the behavior of LLMs being overly supportive in chats.
It's all over the place right now because of people complaining about LLMs and then a bunch people picking up and using a youth term because "neat new" and "how do you do fellow kids."
Throwaway05
22hr ago
The thing to remember here is that the show was conceptualized much closer to the Floyd/BLM time period.
Yeah I've always heard the writing was done quite proximal to Floyd events so it has zero moderation or sense.
He's LDS at any rate.
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