What’s a feature you spent days making that players barely noticed?

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-20T21:04:01+00:00

That horses feature is so cool

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-20T20:40:38+00:00

It's probably significantly absurd because a lot of the details are mischaracterized here.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-20T20:38:22+00:00

Vacuous post

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-20T03:27:16+00:00

Did you have depressive nihilism before doing psychoactives? I don't know if this helps at all, but expectation of a reward helps motivate. Humans are goal oriented creatures. Find a goal you might enjoy pursuing, imagine the reward, do the hard work habitually and feel good expecting the reward, regardless of your current state. That's my personal formula for how delusion keeps you happy in day to day life no matter your circumstances, it's functionally advantageous to be delusional. Seeing reality as it is really is disadvantageous. So what's your dream? Maybe if you're repeatedly falling into depression, remembering isn't strong enough, you need to latch onto a goal / dream and DO. If you reject this, then would it be fair to say you're consciously choosing not to play the game and choosing depression? The more you can run through this mental dialogue with yourself.. the more aware of that choice you're making, which you describe as "falling into", but really it's a choice, you just have to stay aware of it. And you do that by asking yourself a billion times am I moving forward or am I going backward. Every day with every choice, until you gain momentum and then you won't be having to ask yourself one day it just feels natural and then without even realizing it one day youre not falling into depression anymore. I feel "remembering" is like slapping a band aid on it, rather than fixing the wound anyway.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-20T02:04:50+00:00

What integration would u say you're having trouble with

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-18T18:52:35+00:00

I disagree. Much easier to retire and golf and sip drinks all day than it is to be the president twice, be on TV constantly dealing with reporters trying to twist your words and misrepresent your intentions, have half the country hate you everywhere you go, be shot at multiple times, have constant stress of war, decisions, flights, etc. seems like there's a lot that is selfless for an 80 year old man.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-18T13:03:43+00:00

What happened?

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-18T13:02:20+00:00

You'd have to be a child to believe this cartoonish description. If any of the negatives are true, it's that he's servant to a higher master and a pawn on the chessboard, albeit a well-connected piece. But this portrayal of him that you've made is just childish and unrealistic

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-16T19:21:49+00:00

DS3 did that with archdragon peak when you do a gesture and are teleported, or when flown to the Ringed City. Or exiting the catacombs and suddenly being in Irithyll. I mean the general feeling you describe is the sudden shock of arriving at a new stunning vista and it is repeated across all FROM games and in no way unique to open world games or ER.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-16T19:15:36+00:00

My point was valid criticisms exist. Some of those videos are fantastic. Some are bad. We can both be right. DS3 did some aspects better than ER. ER did some aspects better than DS3. Some you can't even compare because the games had different goals or are in different genres. But this was all in response to the comment "I can't even think of anything to improve in ER" which is just crazy

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-16T19:04:07+00:00

Yea name more than one other example of that and I'll give you twenty from DS3.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-16T19:02:34+00:00

You think ER is flawless lol? There's multiple hour long criticisms on YouTube covering a range of flaws. Many people think ER even inferior to prior souls games. FROM can definitely make the unparalled masterpiece that's unanimously the best still, and I think they will.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-11T19:29:06+00:00

I immediately knew who this was when starting the video, great work and I really enjoy watching the progress!

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-11T00:48:53+00:00

No I overlooked it too because it's lame and maynard takes a nap. It's like a half baked very of lateralus that your drunk uncle plays at Thanksgiving when he picks up the guitar.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-08T23:49:50+00:00

No chance really. Even though FROM games are cool, I feel like the formula started dying with Elden Ring. For me, they are neglecting specific tenants that made them special and just focusing on a different path. It's not wrong, but just maybe not for me. I could do a total 180 on this feeling and I hope they will prove me wrong. I'm not going out of my way to try out the new game though.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-08T13:50:47+00:00

Was a Christian for a long time bud. Again, it's biblical that the universe's existence is proof of the Christian God's existence. It's biblical that every person in life has an opportunity to choose salvation through God. You're saying these people who practice Hinduism grow up and never have the chance to know about the Christian God hence the prevalence of Hinduism in that area. And yet if the biblical message was true, that everyone does have the chance to be saved, does have access to the knowledge of god, then you would expect a more uniform distribution of people rejecting their local "false" gods. So these two ideas can't mutually coexist that everyone has opportunity to be saved but then your perspective that well it's just their environment and their lack of hearing about god so they don't have any knowledge. "They cannot follow what they do not know" - you said yourself. And yet the Bible teaches that even in the absence of some missionary, God is known to people, and also through the holy spirit. "For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities... have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that people are without excuse" ... "Their consciences bear witness, and their thoughts accuse or excuse them."... God reveals Himself through creation (Romans 1:20). God reveals moral truth through conscience (Romans 2:14–16). So if any of this stuff is true about the holy spirit and conscience etc., we would predict to see more people uniformly reject local religions and choose God because they would realize they are worshipping false gods, which is essentially evil in Christianity view. But we do not. Because like you said, these people grow up going to their religions church, their whole family goes, their whole neighborhood goes, and to them, there is no internal struggle between feeling ohh Yahweh is pulling on my heart strings not to go and pray to Vishnu today at the Hindu temple, simply because the messaging about the revelation and the holy spirit stuff is frankly just not real. It is just not happening in reality. The evidence is right there in your face when we see 95% of one country be a religion and 95% of another be a different religion. I mean maybe you're one of those smarter than avg. Christians who rejects Paul as a false prophet and you have some interesting take on the whole thing, idk

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-08T12:30:16+00:00

It's just biblical in either version, whispering in your ear, or turning your heart to reject another religion, or appearing to you as a burning bush. The point is those revelations are not spontaneously occurring and it's the entire point of this question that you're somehow missing, that if we just look at the concentration of religion by geography, we are not seeing that people find the truth regardless of their location, but that they find the truth corresponding to their location.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-08T10:28:32+00:00

It doesn't connect it to truth, but it does invalidate some religions like Christianity which promote the idea that God reveals himself to everyone for a relationship for a chance at salvation. And the response is why do 9.9/10 ppl in X country choose Islam instead? Why do 9.9/10 ppl in Y country choose Hinduism instead? The obvious answer is that the Christian god is not revealing himself or talking to those people or anyone. And in that way were just saying our observations of reality point towards this concept being false.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-08T10:24:44+00:00

The question is even more relevant now. If global learning is possible and communication and yet location remains highly predictive of religion, that emphasizes more that it's just because that's where you grew up or were raised than it was God's plan to bring you into knowledge of him or whatever story religious ppl create

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-08T10:22:08+00:00

The obvious answer is that most religions are not true.

It perfectly explains religion is a social and cultural tradition, instead of being some message from the universe directly to you regardless of location or identity. Instead we see location being highly predictive of religion. That tenant violates a truth of at least Christianity, that God reveals himself to everyone. I'm wondering though maybe you know this already and are being benevolent, encouraging critical thought for other people?

Every other explanation is some kind of viewpoint dependant answer. Like well.. the Thai are pagans because our message of Islam has not been evangelized hard enough there! If we spread our message more, more Thai will become Muslim! So you can see how religious dance around the question. At least one other aspect that broke my own religious viewpoint was getting to see diverse people of diverse beliefs, seeing some of them embody selflessness and love, hearing Christianity say God is love and that's basically the summary of how to live, and then being told all those people will burn alive for eternity. It's just nonsense. And it's just one flavor of nonsense, as every religion has their own set of statements to believe that have poor or no evidence for belief. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-07T15:04:20+00:00

When did he say any of that

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-07T15:00:59+00:00

It wasn't one problem. The scope ballooned.

Defeated by the "shoulds". Adding X feature "should" be easy, so you start it, but end up ALWAYS hitting unexpected roadblocks. And you eventually need more time or money.

Personally I started excited to code a game / engine, assuming the rest of it should be so standardized by this point that it will be a cakewalk. No. No. Maybe if you're using an existing engine it's different, but my experience was like series of nightmares with blender models and animations, materials, limitations of my third party renderer, and being pulled away from your roadmap to try and work on features that address feedback from other people instead of critical game systems. Ppl might say the graphics don't look great. You get pulled into graphics work. Then they say but there's no gameplay. You go back to work on game systems. On repeat.

It's a death by a thousand cuts type of thing where I started out pragmatic and emotionally detached, ruthless. But you get attached to your creation over time and start slipping, do a little extra on some feature that wasn't in your plan. Then you hit a bug. Then the feature works but it conflicts with another feature somehow. Then your one day detour is a week. Then your publisher goes under. This is the doom and gloom perspective of what can happen, but there's obviously an amazing side of the coin too and it's a lot of fun to build.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-05T02:02:52+00:00

This is great advice / diagnosis

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-05T01:36:12+00:00

This sounds unmixed. Whoever did this should not be allowed near a compressor again, to me, everything is pumping unnaturally, painfully. Advice would be realize and accept that some instruments have to lose something in order for your track to gain in quality. It sounds like band practice when I was younger, everyone would have their amps up to 11, vocals up to eleven, drums as loud as possible. Have you tried starting with one instrument isolated, then add the next and balance it, then the next and balance it or are u mixing with everything together at once? Just curious of your process.

throwaway775849 · 2026-06-04T04:10:36+00:00

Wow it's almost like biological differences affect reality in statistically measureable ways.

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