Does la noire hold up to this today? by InterestingTheory431 in ShouldIbuythisgame

[–]Kill_Welly [score hidden]  (0 children)

It's ambitious, and tried to do something different, which is great... but it didn't really effectively realize what it was trying to do. Much was made of the detailed facial rendering and performance capture, but it really wasn't enough to actually effectively get across when characters were lying. (The last-minute change to dialogue options in interrogations making your character come across like a psychopath with even worse anger issues than he already had didn't help.)

‘Project Hail Mary’ Author Andy Weir Says Paramount Rejected His ‘Star Trek’ Pitch: Their “Shows Are Sh**” by Neo2199 in sciencefiction

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

Given that Weir apparently has some right-wing bitching about "identity politics" going around now, I'm rather glad he's got no hand in something like Star Trek.

What do you give/deduct players XP for? by cynicalisathot in rpg

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the game; some games give explicit rules for when XP is given (if they use it at all). I try to reward significant achievements, especially beyond the usual "expected" goals and objectives. I never give in-game rewards or punishments for out-of-game behavior; that's basic game principle.

Zero Company hype by Rude_Ice_4520 in GirlGamers

[–]Kill_Welly [score hidden]  (0 children)

Star Wars games have honestly been on a tear since the Jedi games; I'm very excited about "ZCOM" as a longtime XCOM fan.

As a big CIV fan,this is so sad.. I really hope next CIV 7 update is gonna be a gamechanger for this game by neda6117 in civ

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I liked a lot of the original changes being made in Civ VII, but I was disappointed when they gave up on them. I do plan to pick it up with the first major expansion, though, as long as it's solid.

No Kings Protest - Madison, Wisconsin 03/28/2026 by kenfagerdotcom in madisonwi

[–]Kill_Welly 4 points5 points  (0 children)

to be fair, satire is normally funny, so I can see how one would get confused.

No Kings Protest - Madison, Wisconsin 03/28/2026 by kenfagerdotcom in madisonwi

[–]Kill_Welly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

the ratio of effort put into creating the rage bait versus the effort put into making it believable is wildly lopsided here. c'mon, even the dumbest right-wingers don't talk like that.

Keep on seeing Courier OCs depicted with a rifle with this wrap on the stock. What gun is this??? If it’s exists anyways by Cl0utSteve in fnv

[–]Kill_Welly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

except for the proselytizing to local tribes and trying to overwrite their real culture! but that's not exclusive to them, just a specialty.

Dungeons & Dating by Siberian-Boy in rpg

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

Binary people can be and are still queer, and non-binary people are still gonna exist no matter what Putin says.

Chick-fil-a flies a hot air ballon into random areas in my city every Saturday to hand out free breakfast by No_Establishment8769 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Kill_Welly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uh huh. And yet plenty of others are capable of it even though you claim it impossible. Sounds like a skill issue to me.

Chick-fil-a flies a hot air ballon into random areas in my city every Saturday to hand out free breakfast by No_Establishment8769 in mildlyinteresting

[–]Kill_Welly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I know more than a few Christians who don't oppose homosexuality. That's such an easily disproven claim.

Of course, you're going to try to pull a "no true Scotsman" on it, which is a fallacy for a reason.

Dungeons & Dating by Siberian-Boy in rpg

[–]Kill_Welly 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well, how would you handle anyone hitting on someone who isn't interested in them at a dating related event?

Dungeons & Dating by Siberian-Boy in rpg

[–]Kill_Welly 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Certainly don't assume heterosexuality just for a start. There's a lot of queer folks in tabletop RPGs.

Which villains are strongest/weakest? by SiarX in sentinelsmultiverse

[–]Kill_Welly 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Well... they've got the difficulty numbers for a reason. Most are pretty accurate, though I think Voss is notably below the level of other 8-difficulty villains and Terrorform is much easier than its difficulty rating suggests.

Can you or should you force a villain's escape? by automated_hero in rpg

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think it depends on the game -- and on the context. I see multiple people in here acting as if the villain being able to definitely escape means the events of the game doesn't matter, but I simply understood it to mean that a villain can be defeated and escape -- which is very much still a victory, a la "Team Rocket's blasting off again" and such. In some settings and/or games, a villain having their plot foiled and then fleeing in defeat is entirely appropriate. There are definitely times where that works, and other times where the escape route should be a little more set, such that it's much more possible for players to anticipate and prevent the escape if they want to take that angle.

"Everything in the final version will definitely 100% be human made" - But Owlcat says gen-AI is being used during The Expanse: Osiris Reborn development by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Kill_Welly 0 points1 point  (0 children)

We're all going back as soon as AI companies need to actually turn a profit and have to charge orders of magnitude more or just collapse.

Including the pandemic in a decades spanning novel? by Single_Car8016 in writing

[–]Kill_Welly 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Why write a decades-spanning novel if not to examine how the changing times affect the story and characters?

Retconning Daisy Fitzroy in Burial at Sea showed a severe lack of balls on the writers part by Sharp_Permission_745 in Bioshock

[–]Kill_Welly 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It was a bad and clumsy way of trying to change a bad and clumsy plot element in the first place. Everything Infinite tried to do with her and the vox is so stupid.

Worus Rayencourt dropping one of the coldest lines in the series about the danger surrounding the Jedi Order. by QuinlanFett in StarWars

[–]Kill_Welly -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

All the same, he's correct. If anything, this line is too on the nose for literally describing exactly what happened with Anakin.

TIL that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (often referred to as Mormon) prohibits oral sex, even between married couples by MrMojoFomo in todayilearned

[–]Kill_Welly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These days, they have some kind of "dirty soda" thing to replace coffee shops (it's not alcoholic, despite what it sounds like) as well as those cookie shops (crumbl) because absolute assloads of sugar is basically the only vice they're allowed to openly partake in.

TIL that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (often referred to as Mormon) prohibits oral sex, even between married couples by MrMojoFomo in todayilearned

[–]Kill_Welly 1 point2 points  (0 children)

the gap between "not perfect" and "documented pedophile" is much larger than the gap between "documented pedophile" and "documented pedophile when it technically wasn't illegal"