PascalPistachios @ PascalPistachios @beehaw.org

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To add onto your point. One thing that we'll have to watch out for is that toxic clout culture built up on other websites coming here.

It's been something I've been thinking about in the context of all this. People aren't coming from the void. They'll have their own internet lingo and culture that they'll bring with them to any site they go to. And while the design of a website can mitigate some of the worst parts of a culture, it can't outright remove it.

Without near constant vigilance (like the ask a historian subreddit) most communities will end up dying off. And even then you're at the whims of the platform.

I realise my point now is hardly even connected to yours, haha. Apologies.

Reminding myself that the person posting the worst opinions I've seen in my life is likely a 14 year-old with unrestricted access to the internet from birth is the only thing keeping me sane.

Saaame. But I like it when it's genuinely bad. Not just some tiktok of some content farm adding cheese to cheese to cheese.

Before you are two paths. One is cracking that hog. The other is becoming a cranky mod. Choose wisely.

For whatever reason I could never get my brain to work with google docs or computer writing. When I was younger, I used a type writer, and it was lovely. These days I find that I'm best with pen and paper. Though that's only for the draft part. Once I'm secure in what I got, I'm typing it up.

Yeah, you do end up having to do this. I have the exact same problem as OP, in that my crotch desires to rip and tear any pants I wear. Stitching the tear up will only work for so long, get some extra material under there to hold it for a bit longer.

Honestly, this might be a bit of a hot take coming in. But I don't think the lengthy tutorial is the actual issue when it comes to modern Pokemon games. Plenty of games have very slow openings, monster hunter is the first that comes to mind.

I think the issue is that the game doesn't actually have any depth behind the initial tutorial. Once you know how to battle, catch, and level up, what more is there? Barring competitive play, the basic mechanics are the entire game.

Legends was a breath of fresh air, because you did have to explore and learn about the world and Pokemon in order to succeed. Even if it was incredibly minimal.

If anyone is still reading this, my recommendation for a game that scratches the deep mechanical and monster collecting itch would be Monster Sanctuary. The story is thin on the ground, and the designs themselves can lean on the simpler side. But my god, I haven't seen an equal when it comes to team building or strategy. Genuinely fantastic.

Right? I feel like a lot of stuff needs to have the golden question asked. That is, "Is this fun?".

Ooh, I'll have to give that video a look at some point. I feel like the term game "goop" is actually perfect to describe the main type of mechanic, where the player is meant to learn and experiment with things.

God, that moment, where you realize where the game is going? Honestly fantastic. Everhood has such a sleek design, and I love that there is no "filler" encounter.

Hey, it's to the point. No beating around the bush. I can respect that.

Good point. I know there's an early episode of dark web diaries that talks about mmo exploits and all that. I reckon we're going to have some dangerous and some fun stories coming from that end soon.

Fantastic essay. Slightly tangential, but honestly so many new constructions with housing are just so wasteful. Luxury apartments designed to stay empty while some investor on the other side of the country owns it and waits to sell to the next sucker in line. Office buildings with extravagant and wasteful lobbies, serving no purpose other than the vanity of the developers.

Of course, we need higher density. The world can't be split into the extravagance and waste of skyscrapers and the drudgery and repetition of the suburb sprawl.

As I type this, I'm sitting in the empty lobby of an office building. A giant corporate sculpture is hanging above the concierge desk. The empty space and high ceiling could easily fit dozens of apartments. Not even thinking about the resources spent

It's just... A lot, when you start looking at offices and skyscrapers through this lens.

Au contraire my friend. We have had a lack of good Zelda YouTube poop material for FAR too long. The faces of evil, that weird 90s cartoon. If anything I hope this comes out and is aggressively bad. I want Chris Pratt to play Link.

What's it like having the best username on the site? Also. Fantastic image. I'm saving it.

Please, please I can only get so excited for such a glorious future.

Just like Twitter banning any mention of mastodon. They can't rely on keeping the product, users, on the site with a good website. So they just prolong the inevitable and do whatever they can to stop people from leaving. Enshittification, my beloathed.

Calling it now, free coin drops for moderators to show how "valued" they are to reddit.

Can't really speak on the development side on things. But I reckon on the user side of things, botting will get quite a bit worse. Obvious bots are already a big issue in games like FFXIV.

Issue with my own take is that, well, no money in it (yet). Training a bot takes time and money, and sure, the results can be duplicated, but until there's a bigger push back against the cheaper, super accessible bots, that future will be kept at bay.

Wow! This sounds incredible, and just what I'm looking for!! Thanks so much, I'm going to have to give this a look.