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15 Jul

The strangest The Last of Us take I've repeatedly seen is that Joel is 100% morally ok because the Fireflies were terrorists.

Which is strange thing to say without the context that what they were resisting is a military dictatorship that abolished democracy & civilian Government

Like, the game doesn't hide this fact. It's in the prologue. The US is under permanent military rule. And not even competent rule. 90% of the Quarantine Zones we see have failed and fallen. Boston's probably the most successful we see, and it's still a mess.

This leads into another common related argument which is 'They appear incompetent so they'd never succeed' which is arguably more true, but they seem to be doing better than anybody else we see.

Do people think that world should just give up? Not bother with science anymore?

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@ManyATrueNerd

1 Jul

Hmmm. Hold up. Just did a bit of Fallout 76 maths.

So there are 100 Legendary Run spaces. First space costs 1,000 SCORE. Each step is 25 more than the last. If my maths is right, that's ~224,000 SCORE needed for the whole thing.

The Season is 10 weeks. Weekly challenges provided ~1,000 SCORE each, there are about 6 of them. Over 10 weeks, that's 60,000 SCORE.

Daily challenges are 250 SCORE or so each. Again, normally 6 of them. That's 105,000 SCORE over 10 weeks.

Put the two together, that's 165,000 SCORE if you do literally every challenge.

Which is over 50,000 short of what you need to complete the challenge.

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@ManyATrueNerd

24 Jun

In Elder Scrolls VI, I want to start the game as a guard, with my guarding duties as the tutorial, culminating in my first quest being to capture a mysterious silent character of randomised race/appearance, who then escapes in a staggeringly unlikely accident.

For the rest of the game, every town you get to, every character is talking about the exploits of this mysterious stranger. Many of your quests involve helping those who got screwed over when the stranger chose to help an opposing faction in town.

In addition, there should be constant rumours of the Return of the Great Demon, but at no point in the game do you ever see a demon. Just clear signs that there used to be a Demon summoning spot, that somebody else already trashed.

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@ManyATrueNerd

14 May

It'll also take a long time to verify whether it is consumer-unfriendly or not.

So let me just put my Former-Marketer hat on for a second. If I wanted to make this as profitable as possible, here's what I'd do;

Step 1 - Start it off like the early levels of an MMO. Levelling up is fast and easy. Make the challenges simple for the first week or so. Put some decent rewards early in the progression. Make sure people feel like they're making fast progress, and getting rewarded for it.

Step 2 - watch the data carefully. I'll have access to how many people are on each level of the progression-board.

Once the average player is making some good progress, make the challenges a but harder and slower to complete.

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@ManyATrueNerd

13 Apr

I have the craziest game of Warhammer 2 Mortal Empires going on right now.

Playing as Snikch, I made friends with Grimgor and Khalida, all normal, and then I saw what was happening in the rest of the world.

Where bloody TILEA had decided to reform the Roman Empire.

I realised something was wrong when Tilea kicked Ikit out of Skavenblight. And then they just sort of kept going. With 4 full stacks. Expanding faster than anybody else in the world. Luckily, I confederated Ikit just before all Skaven were eliminated from that bit of the world.

To the north, Wissenland are by far the largest Imperial faction, while poor old Reikland is stuck in perpetual war with Couronne. Also, Couronne owns a third of Ulthuan.

The Dwarves are basically extinct. Grimgor ate them.

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@ManyATrueNerd

6 Feb

So Tony Stark's big Thing is that he used to build weapons, but saw how terribly they could be misused in the wrong hands, so built the Iron Man tech instead...

Which immediately was terribly misused after falling into the wrong hands, but he just sort of went with it anyway...?

At which point Nick Fury asked him to build a fleet of flying death fortresses, specifically designed to commit mass murder.

Stark built these, and they immediately were terribly misused after falling into the wrong hands...

At which point, Stark decided to build an AI robot thing, which immediately went rogue and almost destroyed the world.

At which point he added an automated instant-kill-mode into a teenager's super-suit, because he wasn't even pretending anymore.

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