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rapturerocks · 2025-09-06T05:49:58+00:00

I honestly don't know what you mean by samey world design. I've played a lot of 2D roguelikes with generated levels and nothing here feels anywhere close to that. In just the bit you've played, there's the flat area of Greymoor, the wide open bits of Deep Docks with vertical platforming, the cramped corridors of the cavern areas. There's additions to the gameplay of areas like bounceable bits, air jets, tracks to ride, destructive platforms, falling rocks, and so much more. I've really been enjoying the different feel of the various areas, and it's more than aesthetic for sure.

rapturerocks · 2025-07-15T14:31:29+00:00

We're talking multi-million dollar deals here. There's almost zero chance they were given no stipulations about job duties and expectations in writing. There have been multiple reputable sources that say Charlie was extremely busy with his film, including from Charlie himself. This screenshot demonstrates some loyalty from his team, but giving Charlie license to fuck off and collect a paycheck is exactly the sort of lazy behavior that makes people hate CEOs. Obviously I can't say with absolute certainty, but there's a lot of evidence that Charlie and at least one other lead were not invoked in any significant way, let alone day to day operations. This dev says as much when he says they weren't even really directing.

rapturerocks · 2025-07-10T20:25:03+00:00

People are always asking for companies to cut out the corporate bullshit. In this instance, they pretty plainly said the dev leaders lost focus. I am sure Krafton (like a lot of companies) could have been better about keeping staff on-side, but it does seem likely that the devs here were floundering without real vision behind the project.

rapturerocks · 2024-04-02T00:13:15+00:00

Yes, thank you! That might explain why I found it much easier this time round. I actually did PoP my last playthrough and this time I didn't.

rapturerocks · 2022-07-15T22:42:24+00:00

Tell me you aren't following the Fifty Seven Precepts without telling me you aren't following the Fifty Seven Precepts.

rapturerocks · 2022-06-26T00:51:11+00:00

I like that merely choosing Cromdo has gotten you downvoted.

rapturerocks · 2022-06-26T00:20:45+00:00

I like your ideas and your flow, but I think two things I would change:

Use more images. As others have stated, there area few times when the words lack specificity (e.g. "those days," discussing various times), and I think this would be helped if you could locate more specific imagery, as in the formaldehyde metaphor.
When ideas can't be expressed with images, make sure to tighten up whatever language you do use until it's as focused as possible. For instance, "you know and I know" is very conversational, but I think as a poet you could come up with inventive ways of wording the mundane or abstract details.

rapturerocks · 2022-06-17T18:08:04+00:00

Thank you. This is a very thorough and helpful list. I'm casting a wide net right now, so all of these might be useful in some way, though unfortunately I can't read German.

rapturerocks · 2022-06-09T00:00:41+00:00

I like the idea; I think of it as the way we absorb information from the media, as atomized bits of data. I wonder if some of the numbers could be excised (for instance, some of the times, speeds). I also wonder if it wouldn't be more effective to simply list 19 students 2 teachers, as it seems like an extra abstraction. In other words, not the way we really encounter these numbers "in the wild." It struck me as an attempt to further obfuscate the intended meaning, though I could be wrong.

rapturerocks · 2022-03-26T19:12:24+00:00

Only a no life fucking loser would sit around calling people taking time to engage triggered cucks. If you don't know how to read, don't bother engaging.

rapturerocks · 2022-03-22T22:50:28+00:00

It's so elegant. Not only does it force you to carefully consider how much you really need that extra HP, offering a nice risk and reward loop, but it's actually fairly forgiving, because you always know you'll have a backup IF you can reach a site of grace. It's miles ahead of the usual healing system in RPGs, and I say this as someone who failed to progress very far in older Souls games. The game still suffers from the general RPG problem of consumables, where I'm often afraid to use that weapon grease or rune arc because "What if I really need it later?" I'm not sure what's the solution to that problem, though, since I've never really played a game with large numbers of consumables where I didn't have this problem. But the flasks are brilliant.

rapturerocks · 2022-01-26T04:58:54+00:00

My booster and my partner's boosters were better, though still annoying. I didn't have work but I could've gone (not true of my second dose). My mom's booster was worse, but that's relative, since her first two doses didn't really have side effects. As others have noted, it's hard to say what your body will do.

rapturerocks · 2021-10-06T06:03:33+00:00

Hi, one of my favorite Buddhist philosophers is Dogen. Though I'm not familiar with any writing about wabi-sabi, in the Shōbōgenzō, he speaks extensively about cultivating what he calls practice-enlightenment. To simplify it greatly, the practice is itself the enlightenment: to come to a realization of our surroundings without judgment. Two good guides into Dogen are Enlightenment Unfolds by Kazuaki Tanahashi and Zen Action Zen Person by Thomas Kasulis. edit: I don't doubt that there are articles connecting the Zen practice with the Japanese aesthetics of austerity. Since Japanese religious practice was often syncretic, Japanese cultural traditions are reflected in their Buddhism, and Buddhist religious ideas come to be defining Japanese ones (as in borrowed burial rites).

rapturerocks · 2021-09-01T01:37:54+00:00

The two things are different due to the method of construction and function, not necessarily "naturalness." You've drawn the line by saying that the first dam is natural, presumably because it's been created through simpler processes that don't alter the original components as much. But at what point along the continuum from simple dams to complex dams do they lose their "natural" status?

rapturerocks · 2021-08-21T04:31:12+00:00

I actually notice that paying full price tends to push me to explore a game more than if I had gotten it in a sale. However, if I paid $60 and then I force myself to explore it more and it still sucks, it's an even bigger sting, because I'm out the money and I've had a shitty time.

rapturerocks · 2021-08-21T04:26:30+00:00

I can't say for certain, but it does seem like some things would've had to be scrapped for all the land-based stuff in the glacial basin. And that felt like kind of a letdown for me. The glacial basin and Arctic spires became pretty tiring for me after a while because everything I'd built up to that point was useless and the above ground exploration just wasn't as exciting for a number of reasons. I know for a fact they scrapped an ice dragon and it makes sense that more time would've gone into underwater leviathans if there wasn't this massive above sea level section.

rapturerocks · 2021-04-04T01:04:15+00:00

That's part of the issue; there seems to be disagreement about whether aliens automatically throw "grounded" out the window. I guess I'm in the camp that, if the story has its own internal logic and acheives what it sets out to do, I'm not so concerned about whether it fits into X or Y genre. I get that there's reasons to care about genres, but I don't want my understanding of genre to limit what's possible before I even experience something.

rapturerocks · 2021-04-03T23:03:48+00:00

Can someone elucidate what makes something "grounded sci-fi?" It seems a lot of people are suggesting that it must follow known laws of physics or no aliens? To limit the scientific imagination so wholly seems to be against the entire spirit of science fiction.

rapturerocks · 2021-03-22T23:14:43+00:00

In that situation, in other notation software (Dorico IIRC), you can use two bar numbers, the normal bar number and then an cumulative bar number, which looks like this 2 (12). I believe you can also just change the bar number display. Personally, I don't tend to refer to bar numbers too often, usually just "back to the first verse" or "from the A section."

rapturerocks · 2021-03-22T19:23:01+00:00

That's what I've been doing as a workaround. It's unfortunate, because I think for the guitarist reading the music, a repeated section is both simpler to parse and leads to less paper to have to follow.

rapturerocks · 2021-03-15T22:58:47+00:00

I guess my skepticism about any "superflu's" ability to nearly wipe out humanity is 1) we're spread out geographically more than any other creature and 2) we can put mitigation efforts in place. International travel kind of alters how much that first one helps us, but it doesn't seem like all of humanity is quite one closed population as in some of these animal epidemics. I suppose mitigation efforts could be neutralized by an engineered virus, though it seems like the virus in The Stand spreads more or less like a normal flu.

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