I agree that Bethesda’s RPG writing is amateur at best, and I can’t dispute that there can be some good points in Dishonored. But at least for me, a mark of bad writing is that I find myself unable to care about the outcome for any of the characters in a story, and in Dishonored, I personally didn’t care much about any of the character’s struggles or personalities, as they were all pretty one-note. I can’t recall a single character’s name from Dishonored except for Corvo, since I found it novel to hear Stephen Russell as a main character again (big Thief fan, which incidentally I would point to as a game with excellent writing).

There was one instance in the main base/hub of dishonored 1, where there’s a short excerpt of a story about a whaler in a book, I think in the room where Emily was supposed to chill out in. I thought the writing of that little short story was so compelling, I sat back in my chair after I finished it and thought “Why isn’t this game about that?”, because I felt it highlighted how boilerplate the actual game’s story was in comparison. So in that way you’re right, the micro-writing, the world building, the atmosphere, is all top notch. I just wish the characters and plot were able to match it, as then it would be a masterpiece.

I should mention that I’m pretty difficult to impress with writing in video games, as I don’t think most of them can compare to the quality of writing available in books except for a handful of examples such as Thief, Gemini Rue, Mafia, and the original Deus Ex.

I wouldn’t say the writing for dishonored is terribly strong. The first game has a pretty bog standard plot, and the set up for the second was quite contrived. The gameplay and world are their strengths.

Currently the best way is with Lemmyverse

He posted this update a few months ago, it seems to be progressing well!

That description of your process reminds me of this video on consciousness, and how the creator describes how he has no inner monolog, or even conscious thought of some of his actions, and instead it’s like a black box that he can query. Is your experience similar to that?

That sounds similar to this quote:

“It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.” — Edsger Dijkstra, 1975

But there’s been a good deal of programmers who have said that BASIC, and its ease of use and seeing almost instant results is extremely useful to not turn people off learning to code to begin with. Python is functionally the new BASIC in that regard, and while the language itself may not teach you to become an expert programmer, it may have gotten more people in the door than otherwise would have.

But that’s just my 2 cents.

Unfortunately didn’t apply to the creator of Ren & Stimpy.

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Title is clickbaity, but its a solid video by More Perfect Union about how a bunch of crypto tech bros are sueing rural land owners in California to force them to sell their land so they can build what amounts to Rapture from bioshock, with the libertarian leaders of the project even using Ayn Rand quotes about it.

Pretty crazy stuff.

“If we block the people calling for death, they’ll kill us!” 😵

Which part? He does have an extremely heavy Scottish accent, it took me a bit to become fluent, lol

Regarding decentralized internet, your idea is being enacted! I posted a couple short docs about that over on !breadtube@slrpnk.net

Here’s the first one, I’ll go hunt down the second.

Edit: found it!

Matrix is the closest replacement, and XMPP can replicate some functionality too.

You’d probably enjoy his normal content then! He makes great stuff.

If you’re not sure what StopKillingGames is about, the creator of the campaign, Ross Scott (of Freeman’s Mind fame) made this short video to give the rundown.

Fahrenheit 451 is certainly worth a read. I read it late in life, and could see immediately why it’s so often read in schools. Very well written, and a compelling story.

Another book that you may find quite personally compelling is The Chrysalids by John Wyndham (Archive.org has a free audio book version), due to the themes it covers.

Anecdotally, my Pixel 4a which I have dropped multiple times still looks and works like new, even the battery is great!

I too had an otterbox case, which I think helped with those falls.

Rest in peace, Paul. Your Christmas and Thanksgiving cooking specials will be missed the most.

I slightly prefer Joe’s brand of humor, and I think he’s doing well on his own, but the two had great chemistry, and complemented each others style.

If you haven’t come across an Ahoy video, then you’d be in for a treat, as he has pretty excellent production values and has a way of turning mundane information into a compelling story. In this video in particular, he shows us his search for the real sales figures for the Amiga after showing the current information was basically heresay with an unreliable source.

After this video was put up, it became the new official source linked to on Wikipedia as the most accurate estimate of total Amiga sales.