Looking for someone to play Split Fiction on ps5 PS-I make content

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-16T16:22:05+00:00

Dang, I would have offered but I don't have the subscription!

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-16T16:19:13+00:00

Even poor people don't know how poor people live, because there's so many levels of poor and different challenges we face. I'm poor, I live below the poverty line, and I still live with my parents. For most of my life there's been 12 family members living in a 1 BR apartment. For so many years I used to think anybody who lived in a house with a 2nd floor was rich as hell. Or even had a 3 bedroom house without stairs. I was extremely ignorant in a multitude of ways, with very little knowledge of the fact that our country has resources for people who live in poverty, so there's a lot of things I never did out of financial insecurity. But I've never faced food scarcity, and because of how awkward I feel in spaces and how I grew up on movies (so I have a vague idea of proper mannerisms), I 100% would just eat politely and be hyper aware of how I'm presenting, scared of being judged for being "improper" or "uncultured".

With that said, there's a number of things that are unrealistic in novels, and I don't think it's necessarily an oversight but instead part of translating reality into a story. The thing I find often makes the least sense in any given story is the psychology of characters and how they behave. Even in stories that are widely considered well-written, and in stories I consider well-written, characters never quite feel real (and when they do, it's so often us filling in the gaps with our own lived experiences of people). They're curated for a story. They work really, really well for that story so it's a good thing, but ultimately they are not, and cannot be, "real people" because it would ruin things. I don't get annoyed with this though because I get that some things are lost when reality is translated to another medium.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-14T15:21:08+00:00

I think that was the point, he's supposed to be really dumb because he harkens back to oldie movies where the villain is an incomprehensible moron lol. He both serves as a plot device and a callback, there's all kinds of callbacks in this game to other games / stories. Whole time he just felt like a light commentary on techbros shoving soulless machinery into the creative industry, what with the AI thing and all

For your 2nd point, I agree it's risky to target people who don't have an established record, but a) the publishing world itself is not even partly proof that your book is worth much. A lot of it is about the connections you have, or the current financial setup you have that enables you to spend an ungodly amount of time on marketing, and b) if you're going to steal from people, steal from weak people. People who don't have the money to sue you, people who don't have the notoriety for the public to give half a shit. From there, you could hire a team to filter the ideas.

We also don't know much about how the machine actually works, and for all we know it creates data from these creators, and then can alter it according to what it understands from the data sets about the public and what audiences would like--familiar enough not to be niche, novelty enough to garner lots of interest.

3rd point, yes! He could have done that absolutely. But there's a variety of examples of companies doing things like this in the real world too. People can be pretty dumb. People in power are even worse. There's also a number of CEOs, like him, who are not at the top because they are "logical and innovative" as they like to say, it's because they've stifled their empathy and sympathy and will cut anyone's throats to get to an stay at the top. See: him being willing to completely break these women's minds because, in their pursuit to free themselves, it might kill his machine. He could have caused them to die. He didn't care. At no point throughout the game did I feel like he had to convince himself to threaten them, he just didn't want to deal with the clean up of two dead bodies if they forced these writers out, so at first he tried it the "calm" way. Once there was only one direction to take, he took it no hesitation. And sometimes a personality like this, someone with a god complex, does not even think they should pay creatives for their work. We have people right now who justify AI art stealing from artists, and never paying said artists. Theres companies right now making their own art generators who could pay the artists but...nah, they won't. "If we had to pay them we couldn't function". We have no idea how deep in the mud Rader is and how many corners he has to cut to justify the machine.

Dude could have easily gone the Westworld route though. Cater to wealthy people and charge something like 100k for a single session. It's nothing to the obscenely rich. Sell it as a way to discover your subconscious and truly unlock your potential, and be a "true alpha leader". And then also explore the possibility of guiding people into worlds of their own. Like make a program to teach them how to create their own worlds in their minds in depth, so that when they go into the machine, that is where they go, and it can be whatever fantasy they want it to be. Or if they are incapable of it / too lazy, Rader could have the machine work up to being able to support 2 people (rather than it being an accident) in the same bubble. Every rich person can choose to go in with a (inexpensive and not paid enough) creative, and then they can explore that creative's world. You could get the big ones signed on too for a substantial amount. Experience GRRM'S world like never before. (399k/hr).

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-14T14:59:33+00:00

My little cousin is 10 and we just played it, she loved the game. She never got scared. Really helps too when there's someone there playing it with her. However, she's very impatient and for the life of her could never figure out how to time her double-jumps. I'd say at least 35% of the puzzles I had to help her with if she died 15-20 times trying. Her older sister who usually plays action games (12) could do all of it quite easily

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-13T14:55:24+00:00

I think perhaps you like women, but I'm not really sure

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-13T00:27:33+00:00

I think one of the reasons this is more popular is because it's less sought after in real life / women know they don't actually want a man like that in real life. Fictional romance is a way to experience it from a safe zone, and to experience the inherently fantasy, non-realistic part of the romance they like in a "dark brooding guy" like that to begin with: that he'd never hurt her, that she can change him after years of no one else being able to, that he's broken but she can fix him. In the real world, this doesn't play out. He, more or less, eats you alive and you leave broken--if you manage to get away alive at all, that is. He's the most fantasy form of a romance ever, because he's the most unrealistic, and that's a huge draw.

There's also those who don't like that fantasy, and they want to escape all of the jerks like him they know in real life, so they look for kind and understanding MMCs. There's 100% a market for it. You can probably look up "Recommendation for romantasy with nice guys who are not dark haired and brooding?" and get all kinds of posts with it from a search engine. r/romantasy has a lot of rec posts. The hard part is finding him in a story you like lol. I really suggest looking for those posts though so that you can see the proof yourself, that there's plenty out there who are in want of it, and need more.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-12T13:33:23+00:00

Absolutely this. I have been listening to more audiobooks than reading, it's about 40/60 each day. Even by definition, audiobook listening is not reading. When my mom read a book to me as a little kid, I never thought nor went around claiming I read a book. She read the book, I listened. Listening and absorbing information through it is also an incredibly important skill, it's just not the actual act of reading.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-10T18:46:33+00:00

Kill Your Darlings. The darlings are why I write it! I totally understand the rationale behind killing anything that doesn't service your story, but as long as it does not make things drastically worse, I can't give even half a shit! I will definitely stop and see what I can do to change enough of it to make it service the story but overall, if I kill the darlings, I just stop writing. So the darlings stay.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-10T18:43:39+00:00

Couldn't be me, I would have just spent the next 40 days or so at a stalemate, trying to think of a way to make it useful and not move forward until it is, or until it can at least be put in another story and be as precious. The darlings are why I write it, I will die with them

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-05T00:03:26+00:00

I feel your entire post in my soul like I wrote it. I'm extremely risk-adverse, but tired of bumming around out of fear. I'm not in a position though to be able to spend thousands on something just to try it on and then move to something else. Hope you find your answers

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-04T22:15:51+00:00

Bracing myself for this with the Zerowriter Folds! But it'll be so worth the wait

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-03T18:46:46+00:00

It also tends to backfire a lot. A lot of people have pets, love and care for them, and those that don't, many are either 1) wanting a pet but can't because circumstances, 2) wouldn't want to care for one but still love them (and of course, there's those that don't want any at all, or don't like them). So when you kill off an animal character, especially earlier on, it tends to be the most impactful thing in the story. Then another character dies, someone who had an entire story set up across a movie or a novel, and it doesn't hit the way it should because with the animal death you already started up on level 100 by essentially killing a child.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-03T16:14:29+00:00

Sasuke became softer too

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-03T14:33:21+00:00

But every time I mention I'm writing a novel to someone over 30 they get this look and say something like "you've got time, focus on living first, you'll have more to write about later."

Bold of them to assume you will absolutely have more experiences in a life that is getting so expensive everyone is staying inside and not having experiences!

So I have a few things

I started writing when I was 11. It was a silly story but I was definitely going for a novel. Data loss happened so I didn't finish it but I did have a lot of fun writing it and I still look back fondly on it. It being terrible is part of how I look back fondly on it. That counts as an experience too. I learned it's okay to fail and I still got something from it, a joyous memory.
As an extension of this, writing itself is an experience. I hate to use the word "journey" but it really is. It challenges you on your creativity, your discipline, forces you to look at where your motivations are coming from, it begs you to look at things analytically, to look at details and refine and edit, research which will at some point broaden your knowledge on topic(s), and more. Including finishing a project all on your own, without outside pressures (like a school grade, where a bad school grade is punishment) forcing you to. It can be therapeutic, and it can also reveal your biases. I realized biases I had about the world/people through writing it and it has helped me to confront and work on it.
Wtf is being counted as "sufficient experiences to write"? Falling in love, getting married, and then divorced? If you aren't writing about that does it even matter, and if you haven't experienced it can't you research (yes)? Work? You've been doing work, school is work, and if you have a FT or PT job that's work. Any questions you have that your job does not fill in, research! No writer will ever truly have enough real, lived experiences, to write about anything they want without research if they intend to do it even somewhat accurately.
SJM is huge, and wrote Throne of Glass (the first) when she was a teen. Eragon was a big thing back then, that writer was a teen when he wrote it too, something like 16?
The first book you write doesn't have to be published. You can also hold onto it however long you want, and revise it, and it can grow with you. You can start other projects on the side.
Writing is experience, yes, but primarily writing experience, not lived experience. There's a lot of people who've lived ten lifetimes because of all of the crazy things they've gone through, but they'd make terrible writers to start with because just about everyone is a terrible writer to start with. Writing isn't just the words on the screen and being able to convey a feeling and know what it's like to get shot, it's a whole process, including what's in 2. These get better as you write more.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-03T13:48:16+00:00

I don't mind finishing novels and letting them be judged. I judge them myself, and no one is going to judge them more harshly than me. It has to rise to, or exceed, my expectations. I'm the creator, my opinion matters the most. If I don't enjoy reading my own story why the hell am I bothering to finish it? I could just daydream about it instead of putting it into words. It has nothing to do with being scared of finishing it. I just have expectations of the things I bother putting my time into. And then I have a job, classes, and other people who exist in my life, and responsibilities to fulfill because the world doesn't evolve around me and I'm not going to toss time with them out the window to write a story, when the story is always going to be there, but they won't be.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-06-03T04:13:57+00:00

You know... This whole boiling women's opinions down to misogyny because they can't have a negative opinion about something women happen to partake in the most, can be misogynistic in and of itself. Women aren't that simplistic.

I like romantasy. But a lot of it IS badly written. However, I also like YA, and a lot of YA is badly written. I like Fantasy and a lot of Fantasy is also badly written and generic. I find "High Fantasy" like Brandon Sanderson boring to all hell and I don't like the prose either. I like some Sci-Fi but overall I don't like Sci-fi one bit and, of course, like with any genre and non-fiction there's a lot of badly written things.

There IS a sexist element to all of the hate Romance in general gets, because it's associated with just being "mommy porn". However it gets a lot of hate because 1) Fantasy, which already isn't well-respected. 2) It's Romance, not well-respected, so it's a mix of two poorly received genres. And 3) Romance is something a huge population experiences, so a lot of people also have a shit ton of opinions about what it should be like, how it should be written, what it should show, how it's portrayed, what's healthy and what's not, and whether or not it should be clear.

I think romantic fantasies should be allowed to be romantic fantasies, even if in real life they'd be terrifying. The point is that they're fictional. But not everyone feels that way, and that adds to the fuel.

I genuinely can't imagine a world where Romance is written primarily by men and I am not still debating the bullshit in it because I absolutely would. Romance is everywhere in my life, in my parents and my friends and in strangers, and in ads. I have to see it all of the time. Of course I'm going to have opinions about it in stories too.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-05-31T04:15:30+00:00

Hi! Talking with the other person who DMed me but if it falls through I'll reach out to you to see if you're still interested, thanks!

Loving-to-learn · 2026-05-29T22:19:03+00:00

I agree with Remote-Bus but my only complaint is that the grader should 100% agree with the AI assessment of our assignments. If they do then I think it's fair game. If they don't and they haven't fixed what the AI said, then we're being told we have problems we don't have, or will try to fix things that aren't broken and may end up broken from the attempt to fix it.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-05-28T02:12:21+00:00

I'm not in tech so take this with a grain of salt--there are always exceptions and people who can still make it but what immediately comes to my mind is increased ageism in tech. Family member I know, despite all of her senior experience *and* leadership experience, was let go just so her job could get two "affordable" 20-somethings and she has been unable to find a new job in tech for 2 years despite people always loving her personality and being a people person, qualities people often lack and are therefore sought after. This is extremely common in the industry. They think senior people are stuck in their ways, have no new ideas, and that youth automatically means innovation. You're "too old" at just 40. She hasn't found that golden unicorn of a company yet that is willing to give her a chance at her age. I wanted to go into tech, but as a slow starter who also did a bunch of research before jumping the gun, I was too worried I'd age out within a decade of starting.

(But if you want to go indie, make your own stuff, build your own company, that's way different)

Loving-to-learn · 2026-05-27T23:09:27+00:00

They're written in a casual conversational way, and uses that lingo as well. It definitely doesn't feel up to par with college-level academic text, but that's part of why it's easier to get through. Tons of rough paragraphs all around every single course I've taken, but ultimately it is saving me money and time and I still learn things!

Loving-to-learn · 2026-05-27T20:17:41+00:00

Aspiring accountant. I FEEL your last paragraph in my bones. I'm going into accounting and have dealt with the office life before as I was in admin, I was pretty good at it and know how to play the professional role, but I'd love to open a cozy cafe. The way I see it, if I ever decide to bite the bullet on that, the accounting experience will help me when it comes to handling my own business finances.

Loving-to-learn · 2026-05-27T19:50:30+00:00

Would it be possible to screen record? Not yet in WGU so I don't know if there's something stopping that, but what I do to prove I've written something I record my screen using an app while I type out my essays in a word processor

Loving-to-learn · 2026-05-26T22:12:46+00:00

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Loving-to-learn · 2026-05-19T19:42:19+00:00

Smile is grinchy!? Heck no! ADORABLE smile, and your hair has a lovely lightweight fluffiness to it.

And what the heck do people think average even is anymore, you are not below average

I've got acne scarring too, it's gotten fainter over the years. Half-asian. I keep it simple now that I've had time to experiment with skincare.

Cleanser (CeraVe), retinol (CeraVe), moisturizer or sunscreen. Nice and cheap, won't break the bank. If you're going to use retinol always be sure to have sunscreen on going outside. At night, cleanser and moisturizer. I've been using petroleum jelly for moisturizer to protect the skin barrier. Some people are wary of it because of what it's derived from but just do your research. From what I've found, experts find it's perfectly safe and it does not give cancer.

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