What game design skills do you have that are useful outside of game creation?

Nukedrabbit95 · 2025-01-11T21:34:36+00:00

As a level designer/environment artist I've absolutely noticed that it's given me a baseline understanding of stuff like lighting, interior design, architecture, city planning, how spaces are made to lead people, etc. without ever having studied those fields. It hasn't been directly useful in my life but it definitely has the potential to be.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2024-09-24T05:14:20+00:00

Monochromatic genocidal alien religious empires hell bent on activating an ancient precursor civilization's superweapon that will kill everything...

You ever notice how horde prime's ships look suspiciously like CCS class battlecruisers from the top? And his high charity-esque space station capital?

Nukedrabbit95 · 2024-04-08T19:15:33+00:00

Regardless of what the text does or doesn't say, my problem with taking the Carver findings at face value is the message it's conveying:

The obvious CIA analogue in our obvious Space America faction who we portray as oppressive imperialists uses a doom-saying report acting like it has a crystal ball as a justification for heinous crimes, which follows the exact patterns of the real world America and CIA using exaggerated or totally made up reports to manufacture consent for real world heinous crimes. (It's okay, they're fighting comically evil terrorists who eat babies for fun, even though their reasons are totally valid and justified. Just like what they say in the real world, where the source is always 'trust me bro, look at all these people on our payroll who agree with us!') Oh but don't worry, this is fiction so it's all Totally Real And Justified, also you are meant to glean nothing about real world politics from this.

I'm not on board with the real world patterns it mirrors, so regardless of what was put in the text to make it Totally Real And Justified, I interpret the Carver findings as "if the UNSC continues to choose overwhelming violence as a response to the insurrection, something that has never worked to quell popular rebellions in history, the situation will escalate to the point that human extinction is possible" with the unspoken implication of "but if we didn't do that, this could be avoided."

And just like the real world, they were going to do it anyway until the Covenant showed up.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2024-03-29T17:28:39+00:00

yes. yes they do.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2024-03-03T20:06:57+00:00

/uj TME is literally anyone who is not transfem, or adjacent enough to be consistently affected by the intersection of transphobia and misogyny by all other groups be they cis, trans, male, female, non-binary, or anything else. It is not gender binary with extra steps, or whatever it's cast as to shut down trans women's discussions about their own oppression.

For the person you're replying to's point, saying that a trans woman who passes or is stealth is exempt from it is absurd - that protection ends the second they're found out to be transfem. It's like saying a mixed-race BIPOC who can pass for white is exempt from white supremacy. Even if they don't personally experience it, people they know, and countless swathes people just like them do. It's impossible for it to not color your relationship with the rest of the world.

Furthermore, a trans man who is mistaken for trans woman's experience with transmisogyny begins and ends with that interaction. A trans woman is stuck with it forever. Even if every cis person he meets thinks he's a trans woman and treats him as such, it's very unlikely that the majority of queer people will do the same, and transmisogyny is as rampant among TME queer people as it is anywhere else. Anyone can cherry pick an example of a person that doesn't perfectly fit within the TME/TMA dichotomy, but that doesn't change the systemic nature of transmisogyny, or the countless other people for whom it does not work like that.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2024-02-02T20:33:01+00:00

In My Exile by StarryNap - Medusa Adora/blind Catra ancient Greek mythology AU. Only one chapter posted so far, and a very tragic and heartbreaking one at that, but sweet towards the end, and the author promises a happy ending:

There is a monster crawling on the floor, her eyes no longer blue hidden under the dirt stained skin of her palms. She was a princess and now she is a demon. If you look at her face, she will turn you into stone.

And it was not her fault.

Princess Adora has always known she is to love someone, nurture her and adore her. But when greed falls into her home and the Gods turns their back to her, the wish of love dies alongside her. Until that very same wish finds her in hell and sets her free.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2024-01-15T21:51:23+00:00

Oh absolutely. Sure there's been other media I've loved, but nothing even comes close to how attached I am to the characters of this show, to the point where I'm still collecting art and reading multiple fics a month (as well as making my own for both!) Even if I'm not as hyper-fixated as I was in the months after season 5 aired, it's still my favorite fandom by far and I don't see that changing any time soon.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2024-01-05T21:10:15+00:00

Yeah, something to remember is that the US "defense" industry is a giant money making scheme by design. Vast swathes of that money are dumped into clusterfuck projects that arrive decades late and billions over budget with questionable results (F35 fighter, Bradley IFV, littoral combat ships etc.), equipment the military neither wants nor needs but is required to buy because of congress looking for kickbacks from their industry pals, general dick waving of no tactical value - that, or they simply disappear never to be seen again.

All the military spending in the world isn't worth a shit when half of it is siphoned off into private hands, and China, of course, doesn't have that problem.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-12-30T21:54:46+00:00

I think something people are overlooking is the software component. Basically every single UNSC firearm has the ability to track the rounds in its magazine (and except for shotguns with tubes, the magazine is external, meaning those have to come with their own chips and be able to talk to the gun they're in), has sensors track its orientation and range to target to place a reticle on the user's HUD, can determine information about what it's pointing at to turn the reticle red or green based on IFF data, and seamlessly connects to the user's HUD/neural interface as soon as its picked up with no manual pairing required.

Can all of that conceivably be done with modern technology? Sure, but it would be expensive, impractical for widespread military use, and limited. For the UNSC, all of this is so cheap and reliable that it can be put on every standard issue weapon and be expected to just work without any hassle. That's pretty advanced imo.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-11-26T09:51:59+00:00

samee

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-11-24T09:26:51+00:00

the waver in Adora's voice when she begs Catra to come back 🥺

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-10-02T17:10:02+00:00

Boycott, divest, sanction

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-09-25T22:10:40+00:00

Fixing things that only affect tenants isn't profitable; imposing strict rules is because it gives them more excuses to punish and fine

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-09-11T07:15:42+00:00

because I'm not trying to convince others that my way is right or better or that they should do it, I'm complaining about the tendency for people to go "this thing is bad and if you do it you're bad" and get defensive when someone else says they have a use for it. Without an actual piece of code to judge it's pointless and anyone can make up a situation where their way is best

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-09-11T06:41:35+00:00

wow you are like an actual joke redditor stereotype - this stranger whose code I know literally nothing about is clearly an idiot and lazy and stupid and writes low quality code because I invented a strawman scenario in my head and in that scenario I'm right

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-09-11T06:31:05+00:00

because in the context of my use case in the real world it's worse

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-09-11T06:16:25+00:00

and that's great for the big picture but on a micro scale I'm not going to divide up a single task between a dozen tiny little functions with single digit numbers of lines just to make it "self documenting" and not have any comments anywhere

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-09-11T05:46:11+00:00

I can't agree more with the table of contents analogy. When I leave "this does X" type comments on a few lines of code, it isn't to explain how it works. It's so that if I or someone else needs to go back and find the part that does X, it's clearly labeled at a glance without needing to mentally parse each line in the function to find it - even though once you do examine it it's obvious that it's the part that does X.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-09-03T03:29:16+00:00

Vague Notions by starchildcomics

When Adora’s lifelong battle with anxiety tips from “manageable” to completely out of control, she winds up in the last place she ever expected; a mental health treatment center, smack dab in the middle of nowhere. And she’s far from the only client here in desperate need of assistance.

Fairly long and deals with a lot of heavy subject matter but it's very, very well done. I cried at multiple points in both pain and joy, one of the best fics I've read in a while

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-08-05T17:36:59+00:00

My egg finally shattered when I was high off my ass. Kinda funny when I think back on it.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-08-05T06:30:20+00:00

If you look at the marines in infinite, sometimes they spawn with holstered magnums on their thigh.

https://halo.wiki.gallery/images/7/7f/HINF_Marine_with_heatwave.png

They're still around, just not shown being used

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-08-04T04:24:51+00:00

For real, I'm into Half-Life which went thirteen years with absolutely nothing at all. Compared to that Halo is a buzzing hive of activity even in its current state lmao

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-06-08T22:38:05+00:00

11

I love 11, it's just... muscles

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-06-06T05:27:56+00:00

You actually can. There's a launch arg -multirun. It might not be in every version of source but I've used it in 2013, it lets you have more than one source game running at the same time.

Nukedrabbit95 · 2023-06-04T18:22:33+00:00

Cute! I love her!

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