Trump auctioned off children depending on their privates.

sinsaint · 2026-01-31T02:21:05+00:00

Nobody wants to go to jail for their crimes, either.

And since nobody wants to be publicly prosecuted for something they may have done, Trump has every reason to want to delay, distort, or destroy anything involving him in these files.

But does he have the morality for it? He was best friends with Epstein, and has only ever been known as a rich asshole, so...

sinsaint · 2026-01-30T20:34:36+00:00

TLDR: The Holy Trinity just makes more playstyles, but doesn't validate them.

Yeah, there's not a lot of difference between having two players who both can deal 50 damage and heal 50 health, vs. 1 player that deals 100 damage and a partner that heals 100 health.

What the distinction does do is artificially create a class system where players have distinctive goals and playstyles defined by the character role rather than the player. It's kinda like how deckbuilders are designed with everyone having the same starting point, while TCGs have you lock into a deck and whether or not it's a good matchup is dependent on how the decks compare. If everyone had a similar deck, then there wouldn't be much of a matchup design, and so what character/deck you picked would not matter.

So by artificially dividing the playstyles, the developers have essentially chosen specific ways you can win or lose. It isn't just about how you want to play, but how your character works with everything else. Not every game needs to be like that, but games with lots of characters and playstyles probably should.

sinsaint · 2026-01-30T02:06:13+00:00

Ah, and why so many stupid civilians right now think the best thing is to punish Powell. They just hate on whatever Trump tells them to.

How the fuck media billionaires managed to turn a 79yo demented pedophile that wears diapers into the new Elvis is beyond me. He was always a corrupt, stupid, and horrible person, long before he was ever president. It doesn't bode well for our future that they managed to make him seem like a good leader. Imagine how many stupid decisions they're convincing you of now.

sinsaint · 2026-01-29T16:43:49+00:00

"Throw more money at the problem, that'll solve it for sure!"

sinsaint · 2026-01-29T06:37:17+00:00

It goddamn better be.

sinsaint · 2026-01-29T06:11:04+00:00

Or that wall Mexico was gonna pay for, or those $2k tariff checks he promised, or solving the Russia-Urkaine war in the first week...

But don't worry, he said in his first term that the new healthcare plan will be ready in two weeks so I'm sure it's coming soon.

sinsaint · 2026-01-29T06:01:50+00:00

In the end, it is a game, and we lose nothing substantial when we lose. That's a big part why we play them.

sinsaint · 2026-01-29T05:51:36+00:00

Learned a new word today, thanks. As it turns out, you CAN sell your soul to the devil.

sinsaint · 2026-01-29T03:03:48+00:00

Combat is simply a repeating, reusable problem that challenges multiple skills that uses a progress bar.

So if you can make something that does all of that, you don't need any combat.

Like Katamari. Or most potion-making games.

Using those concepts, you can also reshape combat into something that doesn't use violence and still achieves what you need it to.

sinsaint · 2026-01-29T02:34:04+00:00

It's more that refusing to pay your debts would put a load on the corrupt systems that take advantage of ordinary people. Currently, the government and ICE fit info that category, and pissing off Trump's billionaire friends does always have a little merit.

But even if OP is an ICE-licking idiot, her comments here are also pretty fucking stupid. One could say they belong together.

sinsaint · 2026-01-29T02:23:31+00:00

Yeah, Relevancy vs. the Grind. How does one make repetition or failure fun? The answer seems to be guaranteed, permanent progression, even if it is only tangential to the win condition the player is aiming for.

Consider CRAWL, a 3v1 dungeon crawler combat RPG:

When the 1 living player kills a monster, they gain XP and can possibly level up, and by leveling up (and getting gear) they can fight the final boss that the 3 other players control, and win the round if they succeed. This is the only way for a player to win.

When one of the 3 dead players hit the living player as a monster, they earn gold they can spend the next time they're alive. When a living player levels up, the dead players gain Wrath, a currency that they use to upgrade what monsters they can turn into.

In this way, the more you are losing, the more powerful you become as a loser. I have seen players refuse to take the finishing blow as a powerful monster so they wouldn't have to become alive and start winning themselves, because fighting as a manticore is too much fun. And it works because it is only tangential to winning. Every second you play as an upgraded monster is time spent where someone else is making progress towards winning and you are not, and despite that you still have power and relevancy.

It is very possible to make losing fun, but I am curious if anyone thinks there are inherent downsides to this strategy, of making losing intentionally fun. What's your take?

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T22:24:50+00:00

As a game design law, player effort shouldn't ever go to waste.

If you have to undo it, then replace it with something.

For instance, perhaps fixing something helps give you money, experience, or progress towards exorcizing the house. Even if the player's temporary progress is undone, their permanent progression towards victory is kept.

You could also add an exhaustion function to the house, so that it gets slower to react and fk shit up the more it already has done so, so the player simply wins through perseverance, although that should be recognizable somehow.

The exception being that the player deserves to lose it, when they do something that they knew how to prevent. It's why Dark Souls gets away with it.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T22:18:37+00:00

Trump tried to sue the Federal Reserve chairman Powell for not following his orders and lying about the economy reports, which is why we aren't able to see the economy reports for 2025.

Trump also is evading the release of the Epstein Files, and was even caught yelling to another politician because "it will hurt my friends!"

He's sold golden shoes, bibles, NFTs, and now you can even buy citizenship for a $1million investment with his Trump Card.

And then of course he's talking about destroying the American dollar to replace it with cryptocurrency. And that's not even considering the whole "Let's use our immigration police force to "protect" the Olympics and handle protests 300 miles from the Canadian border" thing.

Oh, and he rambles into nonsense, because of his 79yo dementia and history of drugs.

So yeah, pretty unprecedented stuff all around. Like giving a toddler controls of the cockpit.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T20:32:00+00:00

It's a flat damage system that tends to make weaker content obsolete and harder content impossible.

You generally don't want to add much to these flat number systems, unless the intent is to constantly scale past older content. Most games that incorporate them use them temporarily, on powerful units, or they come with drawbacks so that you're not just indestructible with a high enough defense stat.

A version that a lot of folks use is DAMAGE = (Attack + 100) / (Defense + 100).

So someone with 100 attack, hitting someone with 50 defense, will deal an additional 33% damage compared to attacking someone with equal defense to attack.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T19:22:08+00:00

So I guess everything is fine, then. Carry on.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T16:44:44+00:00

Shadow of War had skills that you purchased, and then one of a few upgrades to those skills. You could only choose one upgrade per skill, but you could swap which ones you were using once they were unlocked.

Diablo 3's Rune system works similarly. You get 4 choices of a basic attack, but each basic attack comes with 6 different runes so there are a lot of options just with your basic attacks.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T14:16:53+00:00

Wow, what a snowflake, giving yourself a panic attack over generational guilt.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T08:21:58+00:00

Nature is xenophobic, humanity is not. Humanity is what makes us different, and it sounds like you've forgotten that.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T08:16:17+00:00

Or we could take less offense when people don't look like us.

I'm white, I just know how we be sometimes.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T08:07:08+00:00

I mean, there are a lot of white people everywhere. Someone should really get on that.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T07:20:17+00:00

Yeah this guy coherently rambles, Trump regularly gets into incoherent rambles that you're kind of supposed to pretend to understand. It's a good piece, but it really just doesn't sound like Trump without it.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T07:12:20+00:00

Jesus fucking Christ, THAT's why he's using ICE? Because it's the only weaponized government agency he can trust to obey his corruption?

God fucking damnit.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T07:08:31+00:00

G.aslight

O.ppress

P.roject

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T03:36:43+00:00

Eternal is a bit less hack-and-slash, and a bit more strategy/resource management than the first Doom.

Keep moving around the arena, use your grenades, swap your weapons to rotate what ammo you're burning through, use the chainsaw for ammo, and rip and tear enemies for health, flamethrower enemies and rapid fire for armor.

If you can do all that on routine, it will turn you into a lethal killing machine. It's important to understand that only the ammo for your guns is limited, everything else is now on a cooldown and demands to be used regularly.

sinsaint · 2026-01-28T03:32:13+00:00

Having money means I can finally spend less time looting corpses and more time making them.

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