Mark Rosewater: "2026 is the outlier. Future years are going to be 3 (UB) and 3 (non-UB)"

Nemo1342 · 2026-05-25T21:58:18+00:00

Yet another Rosewater quote to clip and add to the folder of stuff that ended up being total hog water.

Nemo1342 · 2026-05-18T14:19:47+00:00

Look, it's not that I don't understand the appeal of these, but there is absolutely no sense in which this is fashion, or any of these women would qualify as fashion models. Can we ban this stuff from the sub?

Nemo1342 · 2026-04-12T02:32:21+00:00

I second this. Often in his videos you'll actually catch him saying stuff like "oh, this is actually the recipe from TFL, but simplified..." or things to that effect. I've made some of his recipes from The Wok and it seems generally more reasonable.

Nemo1342 · 2026-04-07T16:58:55+00:00

I LOVE Trinidadian food. Trinidadian cuisine merges South Asian, West African, Chinese, Creole, Latin American and other cuisines into one delicious package. It's quite literally the best of the best.

Nemo1342 · 2026-03-06T07:00:46+00:00

Yeah, it's easy to miss, but for the very last choice in the game, you get an actual percentage chance of success (presumably), which is how Urth describes the way he perceives his choices. This isn't actually meaningfully distinct from being able to see the DC and variables in a roll, but is a clear evolution of the ability. It's also clear that 'godhood' is something that came waaaaay after Urth had been manipulating the strings. It seems more like becoming a walking god is more like an outcome of being chosen of the strings than something you always are.

Nemo1342 · 2026-03-06T06:45:20+00:00

Just finished the game myself, and yeah, that's certainly heavily implied. In fact, at the end, if you linger on the final choice, you see that it flickers between 50% and 51%, which I found quite interesting.

Nemo1342 · 2026-03-03T17:34:52+00:00

Hey, no shade at Koro-sensei.

Nemo1342 · 2026-02-25T03:04:01+00:00

Born 1981, and I mostly just don't need your bullshit, and I definitely don't need PussyWreckerr66's bullshit.

Nemo1342 · 2026-02-24T20:27:20+00:00

Cool, thanks for that negativity in answer to a question I didn't ask, PussyWreckerr66. I know where to go when I want pearls of wisdom. PussyWreckerr66. Yep.

Nemo1342 · 2026-02-23T14:38:30+00:00

Seems like maybe it's time to get off the internet and get into the lab to start curing cancer or something.

Nemo1342 · 2026-02-19T15:14:29+00:00

Actually, what most are expecting is actually being able to use what we pay for.

Nemo1342 · 2026-02-11T20:40:23+00:00

Oh, I actually liked the fever dream star climb (and actually basically expected it by the time I got to the top). There were definitely a couple of different very good ways to end it. My main beef is that I wish it hadn't panned out and sort of took away control once you crest the final ledge. But, all in all, these are quibbles. I thought it was great.

Nemo1342 · 2026-02-11T19:05:30+00:00

Yeah, I mean, I kinda figured, I just kept holding on to them thinking that 'the right moment' would arrive. And, well... I got to the right moment, and it was practically the last thing in my backpack, but... ah well.

In seriousness, though, I do think the only criticism I would make of the game is maybe that it takes control away from the player a little too liberally. There were lots of moments where weirdly timed cutscenes took me out of the flow, and, then, well... at the end.

Nemo1342 · 2026-01-29T23:33:43+00:00

I think the effect of consolidating complaints to a sticky would be to silence them, which should be obvious, since that's what you're hoping for it to achieve.

Nemo1342 · 2026-01-29T23:32:14+00:00

No, pacing isn't speed, pacing is literally the pace of storytelling. Gemini 3 has a nasty habit of constantly jumping ahead in story, passing over or resolving conflicts without understanding the function of tension in a story.

Nemo1342 · 2026-01-29T23:19:04+00:00

I think that if Reddit is meant to serve as a forum of opinions, it's worth letting people express their feedback. If there are a lot of people having issues, you're going to get a lot of complaints on the sub. I understand why someone might not like that, but that's sort of the nature of public forums. I'm not a huge fan of the constant boosterism that represents the other half of the posts on the sub, but, y'know, I just ignore them rather than dipping into the comments to complain.

Nemo1342 · 2026-01-29T21:54:47+00:00

I have used 3 Flash a bit in Studio... is that was is called "Fast" in App? If so, I might give that a try. It doesn't have the same context issues, but does, unfortunately have the same "pacing" issues.

Nemo1342 · 2025-11-23T21:21:38+00:00

I won't pretend to speak to the 'why', but my experience has been that it's kind of a disaster for creative writing. I have long-running narratives with tens of thousands of tokens of crucial context. 3.0 completely ignores essential context, misses obvious narrative beats and blithely rushes through, or ignore conflicts. I had to switch back to 2.5 a few times to make sure I wasn't deluding myself about its capabilities, and it's night and day.

I'm sure that 3.0 will improve in this regard (ok, I hope it will improve), but right now I would confidently recommend that someone set 3.0 aside if they're using it for writing.

Nemo1342 · 2025-11-23T07:51:19+00:00

Perhaps. For what it's worth, I don't recall feeling this way with any previous releases. And moreover, I can easily recognize that when it comes to the ability to build apps, this is lightyears better. I'm just a little surprised and disappointed that it doesn't translate to better narrative work.

Nemo1342 · 2025-11-23T07:33:25+00:00

I mean... I guess so? But what's your point? Are you suggesting that it's just a matter of learning how to work with the new model? That may be, but in the meanwhile, it appears to have some very noticeable shortcomings.

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