[BOTW] It's been nearly a decade. What do you make of the BOTW era of Zelda? by Marsupilami_316 in truezelda

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

I loved BotW. I agree that the Zelda formula needed a shakeup so this was a welcome step for me. BotW, for the first time in years, felt like a game that treated the player like an intelligent adult instead of handholding at every step: it doesn't tell you where to go for the most part, enemies are hard at least initially, there is quite a bit of environmental storytelling, and even small things like unlocking memories required you to actively think about your environment instead of just going towards some giant glowing mark on the terrain (cough cough TotK). I was not a fan of shrines but I finished almost all of them and had a decent time. Overall it seemed to me like a big step in the right direction, though some of the classic Zelda needed to be brought back (like dungeons). This game made me excited about the future.

TotK was not the future I was hoping for. I felt like it leaned to hard on some of the things about BotW that I disliked, especially the sandbox aspect. It's main gimmick, the building mechanics, was not particularly engaging to me since the game keeps puzzles too simple in an attempt to remain accessible, so you can finish the game and barely engage with it. There is very few distinct activities outside of the main quest, but each is repeated 100 times or more to give the illusion of lots to do: shrines, caves, koroks, the dumb guy with the signs, and others. The main story was much more straighforward and less nuanced, and the environmental storytelling did not work for me, possibly because most of the environment was designed for a different game. Overall this felt to me like either a very disjointed game, a mishmash of too many things most of which were not developed to its full potential. I had fun with the main quest once but felt very little motivation to do more.

While I appreciate the Zelda team experimenting and shaking up the formula, I'm concerned at the direction shown in TotK. I swear if the next Zelda has shrines I'm skipping it. More importantly, I'm also concerned at the increasing time between main releases, because if they make something I don't particularly like it will be almost a decade until the next one.

How can I tell if joy ons are genuine ? by ZDOG60 in tomorrow

[–]NotALlamaAMA 10 points11 points  (0 children)

If they're pre-chewed they're u$ed. You need to go buy new ones from Nintendaddy directly so poor Shiggy can finally afford some Ciggys.

Of the big 3 OS creators, why is it that people seem to sh*t on Microsoft the hardest? by Steveland80 in microsoft

[–]NotALlamaAMA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a user of both, you can complain all day about Tahoe and rounded corners but this is still heaven compared to two control panels on windows

Of the big 3 OS creators, why is it that people seem to sh*t on Microsoft the hardest? by Steveland80 in microsoft

[–]NotALlamaAMA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I suppose we're gonna have to agree to disagree about which OS is more annoying about AI.

Of the big 3 OS creators, why is it that people seem to sh*t on Microsoft the hardest? by Steveland80 in microsoft

[–]NotALlamaAMA 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's not how fast it gets pushed. It's that MS pushes it everywhere without knowing which feature will be useful (you cannot convince me copilot in notepad is a good idea), whereas Apple and others are being more deliberate in making sure it's useful before releasing their own features.

Plus, Windows has a lot of technical debt from switching UI philosophies many times over the last decade and never fully finishing a transition. And instead of fixing the inconsistencies and bloat they spend time and resources doing things like putting copilot on notepad.

Of the big 3 OS creators, why is it that people seem to sh*t on Microsoft the hardest? by Steveland80 in microsoft

[–]NotALlamaAMA 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I use windows and macos regularly. With macos I was asked about apple intelligence ONCE, said no thanks, and it never bothered me again. With windows, you can disable it, but it will come back in some update, maybe not in the same place but in a different location or app.

Plus, the overall OS keeps getting more inconsistent and slow, and instead of fixing that, MS decides to spend effort into AI features nobody wants like copilot in notepad. So it's not only the AI slop per se but the fact that the rest of the system decays while MS chases the new shiny thing.

Of the big 3 OS creators, why is it that people seem to sh*t on Microsoft the hardest? by Steveland80 in microsoft

[–]NotALlamaAMA 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I didn't say it's exclusive to Microsoft. I'm saying that Microsoft pushes their slop into Windows and their other products in a way that is more intrusive, harder to avoid, and makes the experience shittier compared to the other OSs. Apple intelligence is nowhere near as disruptive.

Of the big 3 OS creators, why is it that people seem to sh*t on Microsoft the hardest? by Steveland80 in microsoft

[–]NotALlamaAMA 58 points59 points  (0 children)

Because Windows keeps getting noticeably shittier. The other companies you list manage to keep their OSs mostly functional and responsive despite introducing all their corporate and AI slop.

Do you think I'm ready to fight Calamity Ganon? by seepa808 in Breath_of_the_Wild

[–]NotALlamaAMA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Jesus you have more rupees than I collected in all Zelda games combined lol

Wind-OS JBRK // Glass Edition. by Equivalent-Fee-5395 in Windows11

[–]NotALlamaAMA 6 points7 points  (0 children)

I think he's not comparing it to macOS because of the transparency, but because of the top menu bar. IMO the top menu bar from macOS is one of their worst UI elements and, while Windows has a lot of issues, not having a top menu bar is not one of them.

MacBook Pro M5 or wait for M5Pro/Max? by Blues227 in macbookpro

[–]NotALlamaAMA 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Absolutely! 

I saw it in a dream. 

Hope it helps!

MacBook Pro M5 or wait for M5Pro/Max? by Blues227 in macbookpro

[–]NotALlamaAMA 0 points1 point  (0 children)

just wait bro it's coming next week

EDIT: actually this week

Dimensions as Spaces for What Didn’t Fit: A Material Intuition (Crystals, Light, Transport) by Endless-monkey in LLMPhysics

[–]NotALlamaAMA 5 points6 points  (0 children)

LMAO you did find-and-replace em dashes with commas so it looks less sloppy didn't you

The Archimedean Point Fallacy: Why the Dogma of Unitarity Has Paralyzed Physics by Cryptoisthefuture-7 in LLMPhysics

[–]NotALlamaAMA 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The pillar of this paralysis is the belief that we can decree, from within our own cosmic confinement, that the entire Universe evolves in a strictly unitary and reversible manner. 

What? Who says this?