World of Warcraft. After it, a lot of player retention mechanics became super obvious in other games for me, especially because a lot of said games were copying “the king of MMOs”

Dwarf Fortress is my main go-to example of procgen done right. Whenever there’s discussions of “game X sucks and is lifeless because it’s mostly procgenned”, I look back at DF. Lazy procgen is the problem.

I know at some point I saw a game with absurdly high damage and health numbers, I can’t remember which one it was, whether a mobile thing around 2014 or a korean mmo, but that was the point where I very easily understood “big number better” is total bullshit

Elder Scrolls Morrowind was the first game I’ve played that gave almost complete freedom to the player, with lots of things carrying consequence, especially in relation to NPCs. That shopkeeper you killed? Still dead. This essential NPC that is a literal demigod? Yeah, you can kill him, have fun in this broken timeline you just created where you can no longer advance the main quest.

it looks both boring and exhausting from what I’ve seen of it

It’s basically offline Black Desert online from what I’ve seen, so that checks out

For most kids, getting rid of something they like for a day or weekend tends to be enough of a punishment. From that story, tho? Parents were going waaaaaaaay overboard

It is also taste tested by humans

This tweet would’ve been even better if it was from ~2014, because it was true even back then

Yes, and he can bend reality to his whim, so essentially a god.

Not as bad a bitchute, though that alone isn’t enough to make it “good” or even “ok” regarding content and userbase.

VanilloTV and Glomble might be worth checking out, the latter mainly for the very “weird internet” feel

Win over the hearts of academics in arts and literature and you’ll be off

I half joke, but academia loves to act like elitist snobs that know better than the dirty, uncouth peasants and their silly, simple means of entertainment. Only games (board, rpg, video) can offer experiences where player (“consumer”) choice matters and leads to different outcomes. Books, movies, series are all “set in stone”.

It’s not AI gen slop, it’s just that your eyes are Shmr hbegore and Brw lwWhg

“Never heard of him… Wait, isn’t that the meme over there!?”

No manipulation tactics from me, just a valid equivalence of unusual sex toys

Besides, it’s clear you’re the rotating angry bean here, buddy. I mean, look at how much time you’re spending going feral on every comment in this thread, calling everyone who’s not throwing angry “YOURE PEDO” comments a pedophile bot.

Liberia all over again? “Let’s get rid of these undesirables and send them off overseas”

Are bad dragon sex toys normalizing bestiality?

Worst situation to yell “I’m shooting my load”

I can maintain any code I write myself, so long as I look at it at least once every month

Considering Moon Channel’s video on South Korea (tldw; he explains around 24:40 in the video how strongly neoconfucianism became the state ideology and that still endures to this day - and how highly important hierarchy is), I would say that yes, an underling would NEVER dare go against someone above them.

Sounds like it goes great with normal meat

Even the Playstation Home lasted longer

zuckerbot needed friends just like him, so he bought them

I wonder if John Carmack is among them? I remember him complaining that internal politicking made any kind of progress like wading in mud