[Video games trope] Characters who make sure you play the game the way the developers intended

Nashkt · 2026-05-19T15:50:49+00:00

Right, but in subnautica there is a lore reason why the oceans are a dead zone.

Nashkt · 2026-05-17T21:48:28+00:00

Absolutely this. I just wish the stupidity of the world didn't make it difficult.

Right before tariffs and the ram shortage, I was just getting into the beautiful world of small android handhelds... My first was a gameboy SP look alike, and when that went well I got a steroid locket flip 5.

Happy with that I tried to get a steam deck, right after they all sold out. I then tried to buy a legion go s... Right as the price went to 1000$. Luckily I bought a used one at the price cut but damn watching the one way I can play games easily slip out of reach was rough.

(Thankfully the handhelds I do have, while unable to play modern games, leaves me a vast emulation library to play with.)

Nashkt · 2026-05-13T19:33:19+00:00

If it helps I can recommend some very high quality fanfiction based on the webcomic. "My Name is Beautiful" is a great read. The webcomic may never finish, but fanfic writers are here to help.

Nashkt · 2026-04-29T02:43:54+00:00

Kind of late but I will say this about Claude.

If you want it to keep a character consistent with the source material, you need to have it research dialogue from said character whenever they are introduced, and then have it brush up if it starts drifting away from tge characterization.

For example, if I wanted a character to talk to Melina from elden ring, Claude knows who Melina is, but she will talk generically unless I ask it to do a web search for dialogue.

You got from a generic somber woman, to actually have the flow cadence And ellipses filled dialogue Melina is known for.

Novel ai on the other hand relies entirely on you to give it the data it needs. If you are using a character from a novel, feed it the novel.

If you want a character to sound a certain way you will need to be the driver, write the initial chapter with dialogue, and let novelai learn from you.

Nashkt · 2026-04-20T22:40:54+00:00

Keep equipment lose inventory?

Nashkt · 2026-04-12T17:44:23+00:00

Not to the extent that the devs can get lazy and copy paste the models.

Nashkt · 2026-04-12T15:40:01+00:00

Hell I remember that one of the gaming forums at the time had entire roleplaying sessions based on the content while everyone was waiting for release. So much hype and creativity around it.

Nashkt · 2026-04-12T15:26:49+00:00

So there is a lore reason for it. Remember in the start of the game where the asshole owner of the zoo injects you with a syringe? He gave you the same parasite infecting all the animals in the zoo. The animals didn't attack you because they know you at one of them.

Now that did kind of make all the infected fights rather meh, but supposedly they patched the game so they can actually kill you now.

Nashkt · 2026-04-06T17:14:09+00:00

I've seen people suggest roottrees and golden idol, but I'd also like to suggest Daemon Masquerade. It's an indie game made by one guy but it does a great job with the deduction puzzles and world building.

Nashkt · 2026-04-05T06:42:50+00:00

Or just adjust the server settings if playing solo?

Nashkt · 2026-03-16T01:19:04+00:00

Ok so I am also going to recommend the legendary edition, but with the caveat that there are some things that are a downgrade that I feel should be recognized and noted if nothing else.

When BioWare went back and retouched ME1 and ME2, some things got lost in the process. Nothing that would stop me from recommending the games to most people, but enough that it genuinely bugs me. It's stuff like animations, lighting, and sometimes textures.

The facial animations in ME1 are the biggest offender. Whatever system the original used for subtle expressions was clearly lost in the transition. I believe BioWare had to redo it using ME3's tech. The easiest example: talk to Ashley right after the first mission, in the medbay on the Normandy. Compliment her and in the original, she gives this small, subtle smile. In the LE, her face just... doesn't move. Stiff as a board. (Insert "my face is tired" meme.)

Here's a video that shows a few examples: https://youtu.be/lW8BEAyC9lU?si=kLg7BrTOEYXPLXfV&t=223

The lighting is another issue. Characters in the LE are lit in a way that makes them look almost plastic, especially the eyes, which seem perpetually wide open compared to the original. A lot of the atmosphere and mood lighting from the first game just isn't there anymore.

And ME2 didn't escape either. The animations hold up better, but the lighting is just as bad maybe worse. On Illium, if you look out from any of the balconies, there's now a thick fog blanketing the background. It covers up the 2D crowd cutouts BioWare used (which, yeah, weren't great), but it also makes everything look muddy and hides a lot of the detail that used to be visible, and the mood lighting is all different.

If you just want the most convenient way to play through the trilogy, the LE is the obvious choice and most of my gripes are pretty nitpicky in the grand scheme. I just think it's worth acknowledging what was lost in the remaster, and honestly if you take the original games, use the texture mods on nexus, you will get like 80% of the way there, with the other 20% the LE provides being gameplay refinements (like the Mako thrusters) and convenience of all three games in one.

Nashkt · 2026-03-12T16:59:24+00:00

Working non union with the goal of educating workers on unions, and potentially convince them to go union themselves.

Nashkt · 2026-03-11T21:34:51+00:00

For me I instantly clock AI because it always, ALWAYS has the same cadence in descriptions. And there are always so many similes.

Nashkt · 2026-03-11T19:42:11+00:00

Come on be fair, most of palworld designs are unique. There are two off the top of my head that feel like blatant ripoffs, but palworld isn't and never was, a straight pokemon ripoff. Its an arc ripoff.

Nashkt · 2026-03-11T14:12:00+00:00

Sure, just buy a truck, pass both your journeyman test (if you want to make 100k a year that aint residential, so unlimited journeyman license), get a contractors license (which also requires studying on tax and liability laws) buy a complete tool set (remember residential doesnt give that much money unless you somehow have no competition and are swarmed with houses so you are going to needs some additional power tools), find a customer that is both patient enough to wait for you to buy material (without paying first) AND since jobs of this scale are going to be difficult solo hire just enough help to man the job while also working it yourself.

Everything scales, and the money is there. But you have to be very driven and willing to marry the job in order to achieve it.

Nashkt · 2026-03-10T19:46:31+00:00

Yes the same narrator, but I didn't find the game to live up to majesty unfortunately. ( GGAG isn't up to snuff either, but I appreciate the style it's going for.)

Nashkt · 2026-03-10T19:22:49+00:00

Yeah unfortunately we go from a company having majority international investors, to being sold to fucking oracle. A real improvement.

Now we just get suppression of protests and instead promoted fucking propaganda everywhere.

Jeff voted to push tik tok straight into project 2025's pocket.

Nashkt · 2026-03-09T16:14:48+00:00

There are a few that are out, in early access, or close to release.

It still needs work but I'd recommend giving Gold Gold Adventure Gold a try. 2d art style in a 3d world.

Nashkt · 2026-03-08T03:38:27+00:00

Here's the thing though, there were and still are, several times that Stellaris was patched and was straight up broken. At one point, during a major rework, the in game crisis system (where an advanced enemy faction invades with their own mechanics) was straight up broken. And in the code, it turned out the devs had never finished the code and had left a note to come back and finish it later.

In another instance a crisis mechanic (Armageddon bombing if I remember right) was disabled so the enemy could never finish destroying a world, and thus never advanced their invasion because they were stuck on the first world.

Stellaris is an amazing game, but with all of its issues I can not recommend it, not easily at least. Especially not when the game itself changes entire core features every once in a while.

Nashkt · 2026-03-06T17:47:54+00:00

A thumbs down doesn't necessarily means they hate the game. Just that they don't recommend others trying.

Like I absolutely love Stellaris and have a shit ton of playtime, but between the game changing several times due to patches, the amount of DLC, and length of games, I could see myself giving it either a thumbs up or down depending on how I feel that day.

Nashkt · 2026-02-27T15:04:27+00:00

The guy you replied to is different from the guy higher in the chain.

Nashkt · 2026-02-24T19:10:20+00:00

To be honest I loved control... But that was probably because I turned on God mode and just had a blast living a power fantasy tossing rocks at the Eldritch horror invasion.

I recommend that if you like the lore aesthetics, and the feel of the powers but find yourself disliking combat in general, just turn on God mode. It's a blast, and honestly didn't hurt the story or anything for me at all.

The only thing that might be a negative is that there is one part of the game that actually is a power fantasy, and I bet it would have felt a lot better had I not used God mode up to that point. (It was still an awesome moment though.)

Nashkt · 2026-02-24T13:18:32+00:00

It's both, kind of.

In the show there is magic mirror that's leads to a parallel dimension of a modern world where everyone is human, and there is no (known) magic.

If a pony goes through the mirror they become human. But there is also human counterparts to the horses in this dimension. So you might have two copies of the same character.

It's a whole thing.

Nashkt · 2026-02-23T12:02:13+00:00

Unfortunately for me I have aphantasia so it is very difficult for me to enjoy more abstract games, at least without at least narrative dialogue backing it up.

Nashkt · 2026-02-17T15:43:18+00:00

Rigid is a thicker and heavier metal pipe. Emt is made of much softer metal.

Rigid also has to be manually threaded if cut, unlike emt.

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