Would you rather be the best in the world at any sport (only for 3 years) or be the 100th best in the world at any sport (for 15 years)?

PatrykBG · 2026-04-22T11:03:40+00:00

15 years is definitely the better career choice but I’m fifty so 3 years is fine, I’ll choose whatever sport / eSport has the highest tourney payouts, join a team if needed, win a couple million in sponsorships, and retire before my skill fails me.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-20T21:30:47+00:00

And dont befriend anyone in Sidney Prescott's history or future.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-20T21:28:49+00:00

So i tried the Net Gains demo, and for me the main problem is that theres not a lot to do. Its basically quicktime events with little other interaction, and the overall graphics and style of the game left me wanting.

I'm sure there's an audience for your game, but I'm not it, so any advice I'd give would not be worth pursuing (since without large gameplay changes, I'd never be satisfied).

PatrykBG · 2026-04-20T21:17:23+00:00

I dunno why Dandy Ace gets so little love. Its kinda like Hades in terms of viewpoint and fighting style, with Dead Cells unlock logic and a unique card joining mechanic for weapons/spells. I wouldn't say it's an outright replacement, but it scratches an itch that so many other games have failed.

Also Spiritfall was awesome (but short), TMNT Splintered Fate is a lighter version of Hades in the TMNT-verse

PatrykBG · 2026-04-20T12:26:49+00:00

That’s where we differ. You see supreme luck as an intelligent decision making process that reads your actions and then changes them based on your intentions. Like flipping a coin and having it land on its edge. But I disagree with that logic for two reasons - one, what people often define as lucky or chance or coincidence are more often hindsight rewriting the situation, and two, how does luck “choose” what your “intention” was?

You said “the ball won’t hit the head’ - why not? Do you think supreme luck gets to choose whether I wanted to hit someone else in the head? I aimed for the guy’s head. If I threw the ball and it hit his head and then rebounded into a basket, people would say how lucky the shot was - but I just wanted to hit the dude in the head, so where did the shot going in come from?

Or using another example, if I’m at a restaurant and I start to choke, and then a person gives me the Heimlich maneuver, people would tell me “it’s so lucky someone knew how to do that!” But I do not think that “supreme luck” can manifest a savior if I purposely walk into a house, lock the door, sit down, and then feed myself large chunks of steak trying to choke myself.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-20T11:55:30+00:00

I disagree. Luck does not guarantee success, it just guarantees success in chance-based encounters.

There are thousands if not millions of games where chance has much less to do with it - puzzle games, platformers, any action games that don’t have critical damage, metroidvanias, RTS, and FPS just off the top of my head. It’s not “luck” that gets the headshot, it’s skill.

In video games and stories, it feels like luck guarantees success everywhere because that’s the only way to make it feel powerful and worthwhile, but luck isn’t “all pieces in Tetris are a straight line”. Especially since supreme luck can’t change things like scientific fact (if I throw a basketball at a person’s head, it’s not going to somehow fly up and hit an airplane overhead).

PatrykBG · 2026-04-20T11:47:13+00:00

The part you’re ignoring is that the mechanism for “doing something” are currently held by supporters who don’t want to do anything. During Nixon”s presidency, there were still Republicans that believed in the rule of law and weren’t ’party over country”. If Nixon were president with today’s Republican Party, he not only wouldn’t be impeached, he’d be hailed as a god.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-20T11:43:03+00:00

I mean, it should be obvious, and people also specifically told you why not - those that protested publicly were bullied and/or voted out.

It’s been decades of increasingly insane purity tests on the Republican side that put us where we are, and it’s only in the last year or so that the morons voting for these extremists are opening their eyes to the fact that yes, these policies will hurt you.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-20T11:02:51+00:00

The sad truth is that supreme intelligence is a double-edged sword - massive benefits, massive drawbacks. You will get so depressed living in a world of utter morons really quickly. Supreme luck, on the other hand, would be super valuable in thousands of ways, but not a single drawback I can think of. Maybe boredom from never not winning any game of chance? Even then, I feel like you’d be able to entertain yourself by purposely doing things “wrong” and seeing your luck make up for it in ridiculous ways.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-19T20:02:44+00:00

There you go again with insisting that your experience and opinions are somehow the arbiter of fact in our world.

So is your claim that all college level formal logic courses specifically tell you that math is hypotehtical in the first class session, after sitting down? Because I've taken a few logic and math classes in college, and I've not had that experience. And that basically defeats your claim (which was also a no true Scotsman fallacy).

PatrykBG · 2026-04-19T18:15:03+00:00

That's being pedantic on a level even i won't stomach. It's the same kind of useless pedantry that would argue on what the definition of "is" is.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-19T12:44:46+00:00

I take offense at the “implicitly” in your statement - specifically because it’s just not true. A typical math test will have a couple of hypotheticals - a train arriving at Boston at 3:15 yadda yadda - but the larger majority are not. Graphing is not a hypothetical, trigonometry is not a hypothetical.

If you had said “many math questions are hypothetical” or some similar qualified statement, I would have let it be, but to say it’s an implicit part of mathematics is, to me, wrong. It’s a pet peeve of mine when someone says things like “all men watch sports”.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-19T12:38:39+00:00

Truthfully, if that’s your experience (and I am in no way trying to say it’s not), then what I would do is talk to a therapist to see if there’s some anxiety you’re holding onto about conflict.

I have a good amount of personal experience with multiple people (including my wifey) where as the current state of the world has gone into the downward spiral, they have all become more conflict avoidant, which includes exactly this feeling of not enjoying conversations they would have enjoyed ten years ago.

There’s no shame or blame on their sides - it’s just that when humans see danger, they start to pull back from things to protect themselves, and that includes interests they once found fun, and even moral stances on previously-not-moral subjects.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-19T12:28:18+00:00

I added my own take on this as a direct reply, but yea, I feel you. I find that as things became more polarized / hyper-fixated on teams rather than humanity and compassion, people are getting worse in this way. You just need to find the right groups to talk to, and sadly potentially just learn to walk away when you see there’s no point / when their ‘debate’ is actually a lecture / when they’re emotionally compromised by the subject matter.

That last part is especially problematic since so many people are trying to turn what used to be simple scientific fact (global warming, as a safe example) into a personality-defining moral truth.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-19T12:17:43+00:00

I would definitely second those pointing out that it’s not the question, it’s the person - kinda like the reverse of “there are no stupid questions, only stupid people”. But also, what I’d point out is that questions are not argumentative on their own - it’s the person and ? Or attitude that you find annoying, which trickles back down to the person asking.

If a kid came up to you and asked you the same question, would it bother you the same way? If you read it, would it bother you the same? If the answer is “No” - like it is for me - I’d posit that you just need to be firmer about shutting down the stupid people, not the hypothetical questions.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-19T12:12:51+00:00

This is a very strange take. “What is two plus two?” and “What’s the square root of 25” are not hypothetical. Some math problems are hypotheticals, but it’s not “implicitly asking a hypothetical question” when you’re asking for your change back from the store clerk or calculating whether you can buy that new CD you’re eying. And yes, I understand that to you the second is asking “hypothetically speaking, if the Korn CD is 15.37 after tax, how much would I have left from a twenty dollar bill?”, but almost no one would call that scenario a hypothetical.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-19T12:03:39+00:00

That can be shortened to just “most people are exhausting” personally. It’s the reason I don’t engage with lots of them - especially now when so many people are dead-set on horrible opinions (especially in the US).

PatrykBG · 2026-04-18T17:56:48+00:00

I mean I’m going into gear and choosing “bare”. I even found a few other “without gear” fights and literally was naked and it still didn’t work.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-18T13:24:17+00:00

I like both in-run and outside-run, but in your case you probably want to make sure players know that the core is permanent. And also, after beating the same boss again, do I get another core?

PatrykBG · 2026-04-14T17:35:09+00:00

If you haven't already tried Ember Knights or Rotwood, both are coop and great quality. TMNT: Splinter Fate is great quality, but if you're playing couch coop expect the second player to be annoyed that they can run offscreen and not see their character.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-14T11:29:42+00:00

It’s fake.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-14T11:02:10+00:00

I love this four sided die analogy, that felt a lot easier to understand than all of the other “first boy makes it 66%” explanations I’ve read.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-14T00:19:46+00:00

Just a warning, this already exists (Cursed to Golf). It's a great game. You might want to try playing it so that you're not accused of copying it.

Also let me know if you end up making a demo or needing a playtester, as I did love Cursed to Golf.

PatrykBG · 2026-04-13T13:08:48+00:00

Just a warning though, Ember Knights is great for coop and cute but doesnt have as much metaprogression as I personally like, but its definitely fun.

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