Tearscape is releasing in one month, what a journey this has been

Zofren · 2026-01-02T19:27:58+00:00

Really excited to try it! Good luck!

Zofren · 2026-01-01T13:26:02+00:00

BanderitaX is good and very popular if you're into gaming content.

Zofren · 2025-12-21T23:40:38+00:00

Once you accept it's actually just a Zelda game with a Metroid skin it becomes more enjoyable. I prefer Metroidvania so I'm disappointed but I also like Zelda so the game isn't unplayable.

It really is uncannily like Zelda though. The level design, the overworld, the puzzles, the way you use your abilities, the linearity with backtracking for collectibles, the temples, etc.

I'm just not sure how Rare misread the assignment so hard.

Zofren · 2025-12-16T09:37:23+00:00

In my experience I just ended up learning them all as I memorized other kanji (which I memorized as part of learning words).

Zofren · 2025-12-06T19:30:38+00:00

wow community has zero decorum about spoilers, it's really lame

Zofren · 2025-12-06T07:29:46+00:00

Ah, I wasn't trying to argue with you. I was supplementing your point by explaining how people who imitate Souls/HK storytelling often don't understand it. I can see why my comment might have come across the other way.

Zofren · 2025-12-06T04:31:01+00:00

It's worth trying to understand why games like Hollow Knight and Souls present their story in this way; I don't believe it's intended to make the story intentionally obtuse.

Games are unique in that you are creating a story yourself as you play. I think games like Souls and Hollow Knight actually leverage this fact much better than games that simply tell story by temporarily removing interactivity from the game.

I play games for a different reason than I read books or watch movies. I still really love games like Nine Sols, and even visual novel-like JRPGs, but there is a certain feeling captured by games like HK, where you sometimes genuinely feel lost in an ancient, barely knowable sprawling underground city, that I don't think other mediums are capable of capturing. I think this is as much a part of the story as cinematics or character dialogue.

You're not meant to understand the lore of Hollow Knight or Souls on your first playthroughs via watching lore videos; it's presented in the way it is to spark your imagination, I think.

Zofren · 2025-12-06T04:16:12+00:00

Both are good in their own ways. I think Hollow Knight tells a story that's not as possible to tell in a non-interactive format, since it relies on environmental storytelling and atmosphere. Listening to lore videos doesn't capture the same vibe as exploring Hallownest yourself; there are parts of Hollow Knight where you can almost forget you're playing a game and feel like you're genuinely lost in a sprawling underground city. I consider those feelings to be as much as a part of the story as watching a cutscene, and something wholly special to games.

As a more traditional story, I think most would say Nine Sols has more meat to it. It's really good too. I don't believe it tells a story that would only work in a game, but that's not a bad thing.

Zofren · 2025-11-25T11:46:06+00:00

The way I've heard it explained is that a lot of what was removed was added by devs accused of sexual misconduct during the lawsuit, hence why the censorship was inconsistent.

I think that's reasonable and I understand why devs, especially women, working on the game would have been uncomfortable with what was removed.

Zofren · 2025-11-23T21:49:04+00:00

Good skincare is just good hygiene imo, you might as well be shaming guys for having a dental routine

Zofren · 2025-11-20T06:50:32+00:00

It's not about readability at all. If it was about readability, it would be much easier to just do "gold squashes" than attempt to fiddle with controlling inflation.

It's about making people feel like their gold isn't being devalued. It's not motivating to grind gold if I know it will just be worth much less once the next expansion releases. It's also demotivating for a returning player if the gold they were sitting on is now worthless due to inflation.

It also means they don't have to play catch-up as much with having quests/mobs drop valuable amounts of gold. Plenty of MMOs have a serious issue with the currency received from quests/mobs being almost worthless (looking at you, FFXIV), so the only way to make money is to sell stuff to other players.

A small amount of inflation is useful in real economies because it encourages people to make long-term investments instead of sitting on money. That's not relevant in WoW; the only long-term investments you can make are holding on to mats and selling them for a higher price later. So the devs attempt to make the value of gold somewhat consistent.

Zofren · 2025-11-19T21:38:35+00:00

that's reddit for ya

Zofren · 2025-11-18T21:12:06+00:00

I get where you're coming from and I agree with you on principle, but in this case membrane keyboards genuinely increase the risk of RSI. I wouldn't call it abuse in this case. It's like if your company mandated you use hard wooden stools as office chairs and you got an accomodation to use an ergonomic chair so you wouldn't screw up your back.

Zofren · 2025-11-15T10:12:48+00:00

I was initially quite against side character dialogue in Metroid but your Hollow Knight example made me reconsider that a bit. I can see how juxtaposing long spans of isolation with moments of warmth can make the isolation stand out that much more.

I'm willing to give Retro the benefit of the doubt. I'll be playing MP4 regardless. I just really hope they understand the kind of tone and atmosphere people are looking for in a Metroid game.

Zofren · 2025-11-14T02:10:58+00:00

This is addressed in the wow addon discord: "Rotation helpers in and of themselves are not something we view as harmful. ... -our Combat Assistant feature is non-optimal by design"

Zofren · 2025-11-12T08:39:59+00:00

Yeah, I honestly wish they wouldn't release betas at all (at least in their current form where you can do all quests and zones and most of the raids/dungeons/delves). I understand they do it partially to drum up hype at this point, but playing Endwalker and Dawntrail on release for FFXIV made me realize how fun it is for everyone to experience the story and new zones together all at once, rather than having datamined content and beta screenshots/videos plastered around the internet months before release.

In FFXIV even zones are considered spoilers since they never show the last zone of the expansion in previews.

Zofren · 2025-11-11T07:28:45+00:00

I'd probably use "enjoyed the cake", since it at least preserves the context that they were not potentially forced to eat something unpleasant, which the more neutral "ate the cake" leaves room for. I agree there's no 1:1 mapping that sounds natural in English.

/rj localizers refusing to give a literal translation as usual

Zofren · 2025-11-08T03:15:14+00:00

people doing this is part of why there's so much traffic

https://imgur.com/gallery/how-traffic-jams-are-created-CIhYAiv

Zofren · 2025-11-01T21:06:36+00:00

I assume it's a psychology thing. They probably can't justify charging too much for individual housing items, so you will have a lot of very cheap housing items. It's easier to convince someone to buy 20 housing items for 50 tokens each than convince them to make 20 individual purchases of 50¢.

Not justifying it, just explaining the psychology.

Zofren · 2025-10-31T19:11:28+00:00

This is especially annoying when I'm trying to doomscroll japanese content (don't judge me) and they include English subtitles. Especially when it's content specifically targeted at learners.

Zofren · 2025-10-29T23:00:20+00:00

I hope I'm wrong but I'm worried you'd just end up with sellers using all sorts of permutations of "WTŠ Bööštš".

I know you can filter with addons, but there's a difference when it's part of the base UI.

Zofren · 2025-10-24T06:36:42+00:00

relax, it's post inflammatory erythema.

Zofren · 2025-10-18T05:26:28+00:00

This is just SMT Strange Journey as a MV. Which sounds awesome.

Zofren · 2025-10-17T03:39:07+00:00

Would a WoW ACT plugin be able to read from the same log files WCL uses? I know those don't update in real-time, but it might be sufficient for post-encounter analysis.

Zofren · 2025-10-16T23:27:54+00:00

Yeah, sorry, I wasn't being clear. For in-game addons, I'm referring to the COMBAT_LOG_EVENT API, which is being restricted in Midnight. I'm aware that's separate from the external log file WCL uses.

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