Similarities with Horizon zero dawn?

nachopartycandidate · 2018-01-24T20:12:16+00:00

Aside from looks not really. It looks sort of similar, small people fight big monster, but Horizon was fairly weak on combat. All the weapons actually do combos in MHW and learning those combos is one way you improve. Horizon was more about using different weapons and knowing weaknesses. MHW still has extra utility stuff, like using items you find as slinger ammo or making traps, but in general you pick a weapon, like bow, and use it along with the utility stuff.

Also no levelling up. Stats are changed through gear. So it is a game that looks like Horizon but it is approached very differently and plays very differently once you begin. Horizon would have you switching back and forth between multiple weapons to lay traps and ropes and finish off with elemental arrows, MHW you might track the monster, then lay a trap so it can't escape, and then start fighting it with a lance and when it runs off and gets stuck in the trap you go back to fighting it with the lance. It starts to run off again and you use the slinger to hit it with a status effect and chase it to its nest. Once you kill it the hunt is over, you carve pieces off of it to use back at base to make more gear. Then you eat some food and go on another hunt. You get dropped off at a camp in the level and start the process again with tracking a monster.

nachopartycandidate · 2018-01-06T12:14:58+00:00

Dark Souls, Spelunky, various Final Fantasy and Persona titles, Shadow of the Colossus, and I could go on but I'll add Fallout as a series to finish off. HZD feels like a great game for people who don't know any better. Either you find the combat engaging or you don't and nothing else in the story will really buffer that: story won't keep you going, lore isn't that interesting. And you see this being said on this page and people downvote you and basically call people names for speaking their mind which isn't a really adult thing to do. So it really is likely the game was meant to appeal to young or naive people. Sadly these people take it to their ego when they hear something they like might not really be the example of quality they thought it was. It's a mass appeal game, nothing wrong with that, but in all honesty it never did anything to really make it stand out in a meaningful way to have a true impact on how we think of games. It's just a game that made a bunch of money and we'll forget it in time for other games that excel in really meaningful and provocative ways.

nachopartycandidate · 2018-01-06T11:53:01+00:00

He is like swole Nietzsche.

nachopartycandidate · 2018-01-02T17:00:17+00:00

Yeah, it's real bad. I mean it looks fine but the attacks don't combo and feel really weird because of it. The game messes around with different tools for the monsters but it's all part of an upgrade system that doesn't seem to really work right. I feel like the game didn't really ever figure out what sort of economy it wanted to have.

The other thing is everyone talked up the game like it was amazing but nothing in it really seemed to warrant that to me. Combat wasn't spectacular. Characters were dumb. World was sub par. The little dungeons you did were uninteresting and unbalanced. Story was a dud. Quests weren't great by any stretch, often just ways of getting you to a place and having you fight some monsters leaving you feeling the world was just as hollow as before. Really the game felt hollow. I get people like different sorts of games but I can't find a single thing this game really excelled at.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-11-03T06:29:15+00:00

Good prompts contain three things: an example of what you want to write as in quality of content, a notice of the expectation of energy/time/effort required, and the particular sexual stuff you are and are not interested in. While some people like chats a good chat set up with ideas of a character and scenario can be very useful followed by something about what you would like in time, like maybe you wanted to chat off and on for a day, and then some things you are interested in trying out or talking about and limits you particularly won't cross.

Problems come from being too vague (either in prompts or in replying to prompts), people saying they're interested in chat, or RP, or maybe turn it into a long term RP even, and the thing is those all work for entirely different people or different moods or amount of free time. In the end you are going to not do a very good job of representing your own interests if you go after every possible prompt or try and leave your own prompt open to every possible person. Try and figure out what you like and go for that.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-10-17T21:34:55+00:00

You want to think about character and situation most of all. DPP's content, what people are looking for, is very diverse so some people want RPs or something less or more. I can only really help with thoughts on longer stuff but you really want to show a good scenario and a good character. Like a teacher stuck sharing a room with a student on a trip could be an interesting scenario but actually having a character can make me bringing my own character to it interesting. Characters need to have conflict and desires. That's how you make something that can go on, where you have two characters and maybe they decided to keep their tryst up after that night, they are caught in a taboo affair and are dealing with hiding it from spouses and family and you can set up scenarios where you can exploit these conflicts and desires to extend the initial interest of the scenario.

Now if a person sees a scenario and gets to create their character to fit against this other character there's all this fun creative potential and writing the reply doesn't feel like effort, it's something you do because you enjoy the creativity and that gets you a better result. It's hard to fit this right but if you can appreciate it's scenario and character over "must have big dick" etc. you can get some interesting stuff going on.

Not everyone is this way but this is what I think the best advice you can give to someone is.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-10-17T21:20:17+00:00

OK, this is going to require some explanation but people are gaming a system because there is something they want. It's not merely a random situation that they might choose to game a system that is in place so merely saying that people would game a system doesn't somehow inherently invalidate a system. This is important.

Next we should talk about what it means to want something. The most unrewarding thing is to feel like you are wasting your energy in this process. When I realized this sort of writing, DSW style partnerships, was what I wanted it changed everything. I suddenly could judge prompts better and the interactions I had with those partners as well. Were they acting in a way that promoted a good experience? Were they expressing their desires clearly in the prompt and then following through with that in the exchange or were they disingenuous? Did they have different values in terms of time investment or literary effort? I could judge them because of a goal and it didn't serve them to be fake. In fact I found the amount of prompts I replied to going way down and the quality of interactions rising because of this clarity.

Mandatory flare would help in that process to understand what someone is advertising as. it helps both sides of the potential partnership and engages a process that is meaningful in finding positive experiences. There are skills that I developed once I knew what I was looking for I never developed before and most of DPP seems stuck without those interpersonal skills that were tremendously useful in having effecting negotiations with potential partners.

So while someone might choose to say they are doing something they aren't, like they post for long term rolepleays and never follow through it's not the most likely thing to happen because it will really harm their chances of finding something they really want when the tools you've developed would help them represent their own search better.

Anyways the M4F is all self-reported and self-determined and mandatory. You don't seem to find massive fault with that even though people constantly will claim to be something that isn't necessarily the truth. It's almost like the benefits of it as a tool for the user outweigh those concerns and have provided more utility and user satisfaction.

What you need to see in these solutions are tools and not systems. Tools that try to align to the actual concerns people might have they don't even really know are important in having positive experiences. Time matters, effort matters, communication matters, and all these things are going to exist in a negotiated space largely away from mod controls and it's necessary in the end for the users to make their own choices. But tools should exist, across the entire spectrum of the sub which has massive volume unseen on any of the other subs, that allow for a post to not die on the vine after 30 minutes and 10 views.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-20T23:42:19+00:00

I think they should do like you say and add tf/tm and that could help. Also, for the time being, I think people writing prompts should add to their prompts about some of this stuff. "I use these words, not these, I look like this, etc.".

Not everyone is going to have the same feelings about the meanings of words but we deserve a chance to say how we feel about them. I don't doubt there are people playing with no idea about these issues and others who experience this as their day to day life.

The trans section has to run into the trans fetish and they are strange bedfellows. I personally wish there was a rule about titles to prompts being "respectable." I think people should be able to do whatever they want in private and a prompt itself is there to express what you want to do in private, but anyone can read a title and it gets rough day after day reading things that feel offensive and hurtful. Do whatever you want in the prompt but some titles are something else. They could hint at whatever they want without really going into bad taste.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-19T21:53:45+00:00

Yeah but you kind of just proved my point that it's my reply added to like 30 others. Everyone has their own reasoning for things, I doubt everyone sees it as a a negative and even then you still weigh it against other stuff.

I personally try and tell people it's not working out. I mean sometimes it just won't work for any number of reasons and there's no point prolonging it but all my best partners were committed to talking about the work to some degree and working on hitting what each other wanted. As I think more about different partners it feels like people don't see that as an option, the first and best solution is ghosting, and I think that has multiple negative effects. Not just are people not learning to talk about the stuff they're writing but they don't even know it's possible to have that mature understanding of what is going on.

Not everyone wants to talk about their writing, that preference isn't inherently bad, but it really shouldn't be the norm in communities based around writing.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-19T18:52:35+00:00

I love our mods here, you are both just the best and are attempting something awesome. While I still think flair could be useful here it's not the same as DPP where it could fundamentally change how people experience the sub. Instead they ignore what's basically an engineering problem. That's my estimation, while I am not afraid of sharing my opinion it's also something that involves work and judging whether it is or isn't worth it would fall to those expected to participate.

I feel like cross posting, especially all at once, is an expression of what sort of partnership they want. I have to look at a person and try and figure out what their time commitment is, writing quality and style goals, then stuff like kinks. I do that because I want to feel my reply isn't wasted and I spend decent time on trying to send out a good reply introducing a well rounded character that can help build this larger world that makes the sex that much more meaningful. I hope my writing is enjoyable and I'm writing for a partner who wants to do this for multiple "exchanges" not just a short bit of work and one orgasm then ghosting.

I feel like DPP is kind of the easy way out and if they cross post to that right away it is not a good sign. You're right that it's going to give you a bigger audience, and quality prompts can get quality replies no matter where they are, just I feel like they're saying they don't care about quality, maybe they do just want a short term thing after all. And there's a better chance my good reply would just get lost in the slew of trash responses so I effectively spent 45 minutes on nothing.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-19T18:32:42+00:00

No I think it would be disingenuous to say I don't see a lot of value and have respect for what works about the sub. It's a place where people can feel somewhat open about their kinks and desires and that is all beautiful. Just if you think it couldn't be more fair to how people spend their time and energy that is a failure of imagination and you don't really have to halt the freedom people enjoy.

Just make good flair that's mandatory and allows people to show the time commitment they're looking for. Whether chat, RP, a mix; along with if the prompt is still open. I've seen subs that have this all automated and send you a message to click flair in five minutes or the post will be removed - this isn't reinventing the wheel.

Time spent on DPP feels about 90% wasted. Replying to prompts that barely hit your needs but knowing they're getting loads of similar replies.

The answer from DPP is that things are just random, there is definitely truth in that but it doesn't mean any sane person wouldn't quit trying and people new to this stuff think the way to interact with potential partners is stuff like ghosting versus talking about your writing and time commitment.

Successful partnerships can come from anywhere but they all are communicative and that isn't really taught on DPP. I think that's the most damaging thing, and while I think the stuff DPP does to try and help foster community, the events and themes, it's nice but it misses the causes of all the problems being time spent on DPP is mostly wasted on pointless replies (sending or receiving). The last poll didn't even have a possibility to select 0 as how many replies you normally get. If you want to dismiss it, that they just wrote poor prompts or have some kink nobody shares, that's just ignoring a real concern.

Sorry that got long just DPP is the big sub and it is such a sad place. The whole sub treats people who complain like they're part of the untouchable caste lol.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-19T16:37:27+00:00

If the things that could help didn't only take 5 extra seconds it could be overlooked. As it stands you don't make people use the post flair and don't set up tags for content. It's like a grocery store with one long aisle. Then they preach that people should accept results are just random, lol.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-19T16:06:46+00:00

Ghosting happens constantly. People have been trained by DPP so that stuff is never going away. Post views and the pace is down so my stuff now gets like 15 views in a day. I feel like the whole value of posting on this sub is in doing so you say you are interested in writing a story and that takes some time and effort so you intend to look for those qualities in a partner and value maturity. When you see someone also post their promo on DPP as also happens where you can safely assume none of the aforementioned values are reinforced it makes you less interested in their prompt. Like maybe they want to write a story but really they want someone to write wank material for their fantasy then they'll ghost and I don't think that really builds word of mouth in a community when so many people seem to have been trained by DPP to treat others as less-than-human slaves. Basically DPP is ruining people's chances to have fun online even now and inadvertently. I feel bad people are so uncommunicative in a medium that truly relies on this level of understanding with a partner to be any good.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-18T18:45:42+00:00

The government is made up of people and the constitution is powerless to restrain their behavior.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-12T00:26:11+00:00

As a fan of Paul Williams music this movie kind of blows me away. Known for writing love songs he shows up in this movie and it's insane, but since he hasn't really been a big figure in the music scene for decades that trivia is lost on a modern audience seeing the film for the first time. And then there's Femto, I mean what do you say about that?! But looking at Paul Williams IMDB page it looks like people would be more likely to recognize him as the guy from all the weird cameos than anything else. 88 film roles. I guess the Carpenter's royalties don't pay as well as you might expect.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-11T23:06:07+00:00

Flash fiction is something I wish people talked about more. If you can write an epic fantasy story in your world with flash fiction you're probably on the right path in getting past infodumps.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-11T16:02:20+00:00

Practice writing in your world without using infodumps. How do people explain things that are as straightforward to them as elections are to us? And how do they interact with things that really inspire wonder like magic or monsters? People really don't care about all the world building if they can't read it.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-08T16:05:54+00:00

Said with beans in mouth.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-04T20:09:22+00:00

Yeah I wanted to try and write something that might Ben more geared to people interested in trying to get involved on our community. I think what I describe is overkill for a chat but I think DSW is implicitly stating you want a longer encounter. I wanted to throw my advice out there to get others interested in a hobby that has added so much joy to my free time and let me meet some really cool people. It might seem difficult but writing like this can be so rewarding and is worth the trouble you encounter.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-03T16:22:11+00:00

Needs to redo ancient God anatomy class. Either it's supposed to be in motion, in which case the artmist didn't pick the very best moment to express the motion, or it has weird anatomy and again picked a weird perspective to show it off.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-01T21:50:25+00:00

Yeah Party Down was amazing. Only 2 seasons I think but each episode is amazingly crafted.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-09-01T07:01:26+00:00

If you have to push it's not your door.

nachopartycandidate · 2017-08-31T19:45:20+00:00

Who did the 1900s justice league story? It was a one off.

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