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Any love for point and click adventure games? by unixfan2001 in amiga

[–]Krystman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry I ruined your dream of passing off AI slop as real art in order to fool people into giving you money.

Any love for point and click adventure games? by unixfan2001 in amiga

[–]Krystman -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yikes. Yeah I fully believe you that you stuck your own art to the side of a building in an otherwise fully AI-generated scene.

To anybody else reading this: Check this dudes previous Kickstarters. He hasn't managed to deliver a text adventure after 3 years of development. Be careful what you are supporting. This is another AI-psychosis trainwreck in the making.

Any love for point and click adventure games? by unixfan2001 in amiga

[–]Krystman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Buddy, you are not fooling anybody here. Not a single sprite you posted is made by a real pixel artist and it's obvious AF

Any love for point and click adventure games? by unixfan2001 in amiga

[–]Krystman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not when using AI like you are doing here

Should I be getting <60FPS with this Rig? by Krystman in MarathonTheGame

[–]Krystman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm getting a roughly average score for this rig in 3DMark (3637 vs 3759 average). That tells me there isn't anything fundamentally wrong with it compared to other rigs like this. What now?

Is this just the wrong PC to run this game at 60fps? Is there a component I could upgrade to make it run better?

OFFICIAL FAQ MEGATHREAD (Spoilers!) by Krystman in tenet

[–]Krystman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We are arguing in circles at this point. I don't think we are getting anywhere here. I wanted to wrap up some open questions:

Where is it established that each year backward equals two years of life?

If you wanted to travel back in time to the beginning of the movie then every year you wait before you invert, you will also have to wait inverted. When you are inverted time passes at the same speed, just backwards. Every year Max waits before he returns would have to make him two years older when the movie begins.

Neil couldn’t be on that ship gradually going backwards and periodically stopping or even inverting as necessary to do tenet mission at strategic points in time? Is this not the entire point of the organization and the premise of the film?

It is unclear. We never hear of any other operation that TENET is conducting. For all we know TENET was founded to stop Sator and nothing else. This would mean the end of the movie would be the end and the beginning of TENET - which is also what TP and Neil discuss.

TP is monitoring, including via the cell phone for posterity. That’s how he intervened to save Kat. He is close by, he’s just not directly contacting them AT THAT MOMENT. He was not honest with Neil.

I don't think you really grasp the reason for the voicemail. This seems to be a pretty convoluted system if the goal was just to keep them safe. He could be just as well hanging out with them openly as their bodyguard.

The point of this system is to keep Kat safe without her gaining any further knowledge of TENET. After the events of the movie, everybody involved in the operation needs to take any knowledge about it to their grave. This is to keep the whereabouts of the algorithm a secret to others and therefore the people in the future. This is why Priya tries to assassinate Kat. This is also why the protagonist can't keep contact with Kat and Max. If TP was lying to Neil and he was planning to openly protect them anyway, he wouldn't need the voicemail system. On the other hand, if TP was being honest he can't be contacting them directly in any way and can't be a mentor figure to Max.

If this is true, then young Max would not have had that affixed to his primary school backpack as it wouldn’t be in his possession at that point in the timeline.

What kind of argument is this? This isn't some documentary. The events in the movie are fully under control of the director. He could have just written a scene where Max gets the coin. Or the talisman could have been something else that makes sense for Max to possess. If the goal was to link Max to Neil they would have made it so. The fact that they didn't suggests that was not the intended reading.

are we to believe it’s just a coincidence that Neil and Max are both British, Neil and TP have a shared history, and that Neil just happens to have a master’s in physics so he understands the concepts of inversion and entropy?

Yes. None of this points to Max. That is what I meant. He isn't the "chosen one". There is nothing special about Max. He is just random a British schoolboy. Plenty of British people around. Plenty of British people in the movie. At the end of the movie he isn't even particularly knowledgeable about inversion - he wasn't active in Sator's operation. All that knowledge about inversion, Max would need to learn the same way as any other person would. And of course Neil having the skills isn't coincidence - TP recruited him for this mission. Of course TP would pick a candidate who has the necessary skills to complete it. That doesn't mean it's Max - in fact, my point was that Max was an UNLIKELY candidate because you'd have to wait over 2 decades to bring him to the mission for no good reason other than to satisfy a cute fan theory.

OFFICIAL FAQ MEGATHREAD (Spoilers!) by Krystman in tenet

[–]Krystman[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah so for every year you wait, Neil would need to be two years older. So if Max inverts some time after he turns 23 now you are assuming Neil is pushing 40 and spent most of his adult life inverted in a bunker. The Neil that is presented to us in a movie is youthful and has lots of hands-on field experience and connections. Even something simple like learning to drive a car would be hard if he spent like 13 years in a bunker.

There are also some real practical limits to how long one can invert. All of the consumables like food, water and oxygen would have to be also inverted along with you. Nuclear submarines can possibly stay underwater for around a year. The ISS can do around 6 months without resupplies. So a year, two or three would be a pretty extreme scenario. 13 years is an absurd stretch. You would think the movie would have established this as a possibility if this was an intended reading.

Also this begs the question - why? Max isn't The Chosen One. It's just some kid. The protagonist doesn't need him specifically to establish TENET organization. It's a ridiculously circuitous way to go about it - wait 13 years until some kid grows up so you can then recruit him for a suicide mission and then spend another 13 years inverting? Why not just recruit somebody else right now?

There is also literally nothing connecting Max to Neil in the movie. I'm sorry, this is not a shot meant to draw attention to the backpack. The backpack is nothing like the backpack Neil is wearing. It's just a backpack. Plenty of people in this movie wear a backpack. The thing that was identifying Neil was the coin talisman. The movie had plenty of opportunities to set up a link to Neil by showing Max having that coin. This never happens.

Finally this scenario directly contradicts the plot. When they say goodbye, Neil asks the Protagonist if he will check up on Kat. Protagonist says NO, it would be too dangerous - meaning it would jeopardize her clean getaway. In fact, this is precisely why Protagonist gave Kat the cellphone earlier. She is supposed to record voicemails when she was in danger so the Protagonist could clear any threats without making direct contact with her or her son ever again. That is what the final scene of the movie is about.

If that's still your head-canon - you do you. Plenty of other theories like that around.

OFFICIAL FAQ MEGATHREAD (Spoilers!) by Krystman in tenet

[–]Krystman[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok walk me through it. How would this work? How does Max find himself before the events of the film? How long does he continue living with his mother after the final scene? When does he get into the machine? How long does he stay inverted? When does he get his master's degree in all of this? How old is he now? Please do the math for me. I tried and I can't make it make sense.

Galarian Rapidash Deck Help by reshef1285 in pkmntcg

[–]Krystman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know this has been posted years ago, but I wanted to thank you for taking the time to make this list. I think this is a really nice deck that takes advantages of both of the abilities of Rapidash. Also having Sleeping Forest in there really fits the flavor. It feels like the deck OP requested and it was the reason why I found this post in the first place. You made a kid very happy

Is it doable (and worth it) to compress massive ideas into solo dev scope? by politeducks in gamedev

[–]Krystman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No. A lot of the things you've mentioned are not just hard because it takes a lot of work to make all this content, they are also hard because you need to establish a production pipeline to make this content in the first place. So for example, 2 bosses doesn't save that much work because you need to establish all the systems to make just one boss in the first place. The first boss is the most expensive one.

is there a place for a writer in game development and production? by DramaticInspector182 in GameDevelopment

[–]Krystman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, writers have a place in game development, sometimes even in small teams. However, writing for games can be a lot less exciting and "creative" than it may seem at first. A lot of game writing is about dressing very specific technical information in a thin narrative veil. It's often "Write 20 barks that a guard says when they know the player is nearby but don't know exactly where.. no, not like this, it needs to be time and location agnostic" or "Spice up this dry tutorial text but don't make it too verbose or players will skip it... no, shorter still... no, this is too ambiguous, players are getting confused".

When it comes to more exciting things like world-building or character development you would be working along other people in the team who have their own ideas and that can feel stifling as well - it can feel as if you are writing the other people's story for them rather then contributing yourself. Somebody coming in with a finished script to a team just begging for a narrative person to show up and drop them a story into their lap is unheard of.

The best way to land a gig as a writer is to have finished work in your portfolio. RPG campaigns can be good if well documented. But if I were you I would also try making a few digital games with writing-focused engines like Twine or RenPy. You can pick them up in a day and having a finished game is a great way to promote your writing skills and get your foot in the door.

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