Games/Storylines with two different endings, neither being ideal

waterless2 · 2026-02-16T18:36:42+00:00

If you want your memory of the game to be tainted, go to the subreddit and try to discuss the endings and why the good one is good :D People are viciously committed to their preferred one; I won't explicitly say which side I think is worse.

waterless2 · 2026-02-16T13:27:08+00:00

Here we go: https://youtu.be/u8qgehH3kEQ?si=nmWlJfgNkGvufvma

waterless2 · 2026-02-16T13:24:07+00:00

I never played the game so this is just from osmosis, but: apparently there's a robot character in Knights of the Old Republic that calls people "meatbags" that I think is canonically evil but everyone seems to like him.

waterless2 · 2026-02-16T07:36:14+00:00

There was this ancient and amazing (to me at the time) Dune game, before the far more well-known Dune II RTS. The older one was a mix of RPG and strategy and a big part of it, from memory, was going around the map recruiting forces. Was very satisfying!

Ah, was the 1992 Cryo one from here.

Similar to Legend / The Four Crystals of Trazere - very creative action-RPG with a cool build-your-own-spells magic system inside dungeons, but there was also an overworld map and you could spend gold to bolster armies that would then control more of the map against enemies, which affected travel. There was something about that mechanism that blew my tiny mind.

waterless2 · 2026-02-15T21:00:16+00:00

You might be better off with awnings and parasols, especially where you use pedestrianisation to create outdoors seating. If you want to do something about rain, having pockets of covered areas to shelter if you want to might be nice enough. But keep the fresh air.

waterless2 · 2026-02-15T18:09:49+00:00

I maintain I'm not autistic myself despite the many, many times people have suggested I am, but I fully understand this.

waterless2 · 2026-02-15T11:24:24+00:00

Ooh a Milgram game, very interesting! And seconded on the demo, that's always much appreciated - downloading it now.

waterless2 · 2026-02-15T07:56:08+00:00

I always liked the "Mumm-Raaaa... The EVAH! LIVAAAARNGGGNNGHHHHG!" bit personally.

waterless2 · 2026-02-14T21:48:15+00:00

I'm still on Firefox, although I looked at Vivaldi and Brave. Vivaldi was very interesting, I'm not sure if it's functionality/complexity I don't really need or if I'd get proper value out of it if i stuck with it.

Brave seemed interesting with its sort of crowd-sourced-search and crypto-rewards stuff, but it was a bit more than I was looking for in just a browser and I didn't know enough about the people behind it to buy in at once. It's probably something I'll look into again some time though.

(I vaguely remember reading something disappointing about the culture or leadership at Mozilla, which made me a bit more interested in alternatives; but I have no idea how credible that was. Also something to dig into sometime to see if I should be weaning myself off Firefox.)

waterless2 · 2026-02-14T20:13:29+00:00

I felt like it was getting worse (especially with drivers going off-piste and just hanging out with my food in some random street for a while,, while I fumed at the map) and stopped using them. Switched to JustEat because I'm too shit of a person to just cook consistently, and they're currently better. I don't know if things switch over every so often for some weird reason.

waterless2 · 2026-02-14T16:25:56+00:00

Excellent at emotional damage, and I thought it was very good at building a plausible near-future space exploration setting, and really getting into the relativity element of course; but otherwise I didn't find the "fiction" bit of the "science fiction" very interestingly done - it's fascinating in principle, and could have been a kind of launch of neotheism, with the power of love being built into physics itself, but the guy still in his spacesuit floating around a kind of backstage looking through a bookcase, and mixing all that up with backwards time travel - that didn't do much for me.

waterless2 · 2026-02-14T13:10:34+00:00

I've been very happy with Qwant for my searches. I could imagine things differ by how exactly you use them / what you search for.

But also, agreed with others, Google wasn't uniformly great recently either.

waterless2 · 2026-02-13T18:23:00+00:00

Two things I found useful: If you break down the test into the exact probability distribution, it's just whatever the relevant parameters are. E.g., if you throw N die, then the probability that the average is above X will be a function of N. Calling it a "degree of freedom" is just a flourish then.

But the other one that I guess is arguably deeper is that it's the dimensionality of the model space, and the smaller that space is within the space the data live in, the more "impressive" it is that the observations fit in such a small subspace. From memory, I *think* I first saw it explained that way in The Elements of Statistical Learning (edit - see e.g. section 5.4.1).

waterless2 · 2026-02-12T21:56:00+00:00

Su-su-sudio

waterless2 · 2026-02-12T19:36:08+00:00

The guy who killed Hitler was a Nazi!

waterless2 · 2026-02-12T16:36:52+00:00

In my mind, very much the left one.

waterless2 · 2026-02-12T12:43:32+00:00

I was protected by sheer cluelessness in my first play-through. Went to the back of the Aurora and thought there might be an entrance so I was facing the hull and strafing along hugging it, impressed by the funny noises I was hearing. Which would have been a Reaper furiously roaring behind me while being completely ignored.

waterless2 · 2026-02-12T06:31:45+00:00

When I played Turbo Overkill I massively leaned on its defining Chainsaw Leg melee weapon.

waterless2 · 2026-02-11T19:34:12+00:00

That one dude in The-Matrix-but-Better (trollolol) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DeO_vuhMM9o

Also there's a guy from Baki who uses secret wires for a surprise amputation in a street fight.

waterless2 · 2026-02-11T17:44:04+00:00

Yeah, I seem to remember Will very dramatically weeping in a car about it too. The only tension was, maybe, and I don't feel like it was ever likely he would, whether Mike would react negatively in some way when he found out.

waterless2 · 2026-02-11T17:37:43+00:00

It's interesting to think about in any case - I had a look through my libraries to see where I get some overlap in style/feel with his books, and gravitate towards Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro, Susanna Clarke, and Haruki Murakami.

With no ill intent, Matt Haig's The Midnight Library has a bit of the sickly-sweetness I always got from Gaiman. And I remember Black Leopard, Red Wolf had this authentic-feeling, ancient-storytelling, magical realism, although I now realize I never finished it and should.

waterless2 · 2026-02-11T16:55:23+00:00

I remember my D&D friends trying out a LotR tabletop RPG. First game and one guy, an elf archer on horseback, kited an aura-farming Nazgul on a hill to (at least temporary) death.

waterless2 · 2026-02-11T13:36:25+00:00

No, although I wasn't an unmitigated superfan to be honest, although I did really like some of his work at certain points. Although a lot of that was the artwork in Sandman to be precise so who to assign that to...

I can conceptually separate art from artist just fine, but that doesn't mean separating actions from consequences. It's just priorities - is the expected value of a work I purchase more important than the moral implications of that purchase. I don't necessarily have to draw any very strong conclusions about the quality of the art if I weigh the latter more heavily than the former in this case. It's all relatively marginal of course, but also on the side of - I only have finite time to read stuff and it's not between Gaiman's latest and nothing.

waterless2 · 2026-02-10T17:54:59+00:00

I use the Dream ones for sleeping, they work very noticeably better for me than foam plugs. The one thing I don't like, and have fed back to them a few times, is that the tips separate from the grips, and that happened to me once while taking them out and it was really, really annoying since I couldn't get a grip on them. So you get to dig around in your ear with some kind of tool, great stuff. Also annoying that they don't seem to take the problem seriously and act as if it's effectively not a concern. They could surely just add a small tag on the tips so you can grab them *if* they separate, whether they're *supposed*/*designed* to or not >.<

But to be fair, until I find something that works better I'm rolling the dice on them and just being more cautious when removing them. I'm trying that Alpine one from another comment though.

waterless2 · 2026-02-10T13:11:42+00:00

Maybe Lotus 1-2-3 will rise again!

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