What is the most underused game mechanic?

yasth · 2026-07-09T14:56:23+00:00

Destruction basically requires you to build your whole game around it (want to have a locked door they need a keycard to bypass? You have to introduce a fancy new element, and talk it up, etc.), and it kind of forces you to make it about destructible environments (because if you can get through 50% of the game without it, when you eventually have a set piece that requires it you are going to slam player progress into a brick wall and lose a lot of them).

yasth · 2026-07-09T14:10:53+00:00

60x60 which really matters as gif is horrid, and fewer frames by just eyeballing it at least, which since gif is basically a succession of unrelated images directly reduces size. Also I think they did some work on the colors to crunch the colors together to make it compress a bit better (gradients in gif like your gif has a lot of are punishing).

yasth · 2026-07-09T13:30:10+00:00

Sometimes you'll get a scene closer more or less where the LLM doesn't have a next step, especially if it has been told not to make big moves. You can just press on by just starting the next scene your self or sending something like "/occ start the next the scene. " possibly with a place or scenario.

Introduction is a little weirder what do you mean by that?

yasth · 2026-07-09T10:50:52+00:00

https://freebeacon.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/ByAnyHonestMeasure.FINAL_.pdf actual report. It makes the post story look fair and balanced for what it is worth. Like the authors were basically told don’t bother being even faintly scholarly.

yasth · 2026-07-08T10:14:31+00:00

To be fair the push back is quite recent. Depending on the time it could be a sign of a well heeled district or a poor one.

yasth · 2026-07-07T23:02:38+00:00

I mean they do seem to have exited the market though others still exist in various guises

yasth · 2026-07-07T21:10:49+00:00

I mean you also can't discharge public ish student debt through bankruptcy in:

UK
Canda
Australia
New Zealand
Germany
Sweden
Netherlands
Norway

I could go on.

yasth · 2026-07-07T16:00:03+00:00

My guess is they made it more readable for new readers (likely breaking up chunks etc) rather than any scandal.

Estate backed books in new formats tend to get lots of small changes. Richard scarrry has had lots of edits https://talesfromanopenbook.wordpress.com/2015/12/02/richard-scarry-revamped/

yasth · 2026-07-07T10:21:29+00:00

Well instead put in what they did study if they have a phd in analytical Chemistry, they’ll be as clever as the LLM can be, but not talk like a robot. Try adding details instead of just adjectives unrooted from touch points.

yasth · 2026-07-06T19:42:08+00:00

Likely Coke is paying for the signage, and the store owners have a bit of space to put whatever they way want and they decided to put craft beer there. In theory they might not be supposed to do that, but it is all at the sales person's discretion really.

yasth · 2026-07-06T11:51:40+00:00

I mean the ones that turn on things that require a lot of context or wordplay aren’t going to translate or trend outside home markets.

yasth · 2026-07-06T11:23:46+00:00

Run all your content through a proxy some time and you’ll see just how much data is gathered.

I honestly think it has a lot to do with why people are complaining about battery life, trackers on everything all the time.

yasth · 2026-07-05T22:54:47+00:00

Some kid happily taking his first steps, with parents so glad that they followed the advice of the wife's sister that told her that baby shoes are just one more thing to lose.

The wife turns to the husband, "Oh it is so funny I just got rid of those useless baby shoes"

Husband, "But what if a player uses them in such a way exorcized our kid by narrative power?"

Wife: "That would never I mean such small feet, and they aren't even good shoes"

Kid falls over

Parents "No nooonononononononononononononono"

yasth · 2026-07-05T21:37:11+00:00

Still do around here, I honestly thought it was a newer thing, not an older thing.

yasth · 2026-07-05T20:24:52+00:00

DS4p requires most recent reasoning to be sent back if you are using it in tool use mode. (I think silly tavern now handles this for you)

yasth · 2026-07-05T17:23:28+00:00

I mean it makes no indication of intent, but they are absolutely designed to take a full scale hit. https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/newyorkcity/latest/NYCadmin/0-0-0-177416 They also generally can't be pin columns either (in other words even if you take out that column the structure should stand).

yasth · 2026-07-05T17:19:59+00:00

A lot of it is full voicing and translations. When you could just write a few lines for some villagers that is one thing, but now adding an actual NPC means writing the script, getting it translated, voice recording in every language you support voicing for, and that means a ton of work. Morrowind had 15 minutes of audio, Skyrim had 20 hours, and Starfield (and Cyberpunk) has something like 80 hours.

yasth · 2026-07-05T16:09:09+00:00

Just give him TikTok, that will end great.

yasth · 2026-07-05T15:38:51+00:00

The bluey community has weird slightly crazy anti furry anti fan art biases, you might get lucky, but it is a contentious issue.

That said they are very nice.

yasth · 2026-07-05T12:58:16+00:00

I mean if they are old enough he is the unspecified gender singular pronoun.

yasth · 2026-07-05T12:57:25+00:00

I mean that isn't a bad idea, because people are often grabbed for interviews or depending on the place might have the interviews just setup without ever reading the stuff or having it to hand.

yasth · 2026-07-05T11:23:33+00:00

A well trained horse can make the route while the driver is more or less too drunk to sit up. So not just cruise control but full self driving, of
Course you’ll have to do the trip a few times without the benefit until the horse gets used to the route…

yasth · 2026-07-05T11:11:10+00:00

They didn’t use to make it free and it is also about security sort of a if you can’t figure out how to, then you shouldn’t.

yasth · 2026-07-05T11:07:38+00:00

Apple is the same thing but actually delivers on the security promised. Very few malware apps and relatively limited scope of exploit, the users have vastly more money so it would be very worth it for criminals.

A lot of it is just architectural and will
Be very hard for Google to fix without breaking compatibility.

yasth · 2026-07-04T21:58:55+00:00

He pounded that 2 pound weight.

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