Changing the names of the swords and mana potions doesn't make them not that, you know.
You can call them pencils and crackers or whatever, they're still swords and potions and the core gameplay of your game is still boring as hell.
OFF had an interesting story and world built around an extremely dull, ISO-standard JRPG core. This has lead to many games that do not have stories or worlds as interesting as OFF's copying only that second part.
But they're "quirky" cuz the swords and mana potions are called something different.
This doesn't make a game awful in of itself (recall a certain hospital-themed JRPG) but it's not a good foot to start on.
And maybe blaming OFF for all of that is unfair, but they're problems OFF itself has too.
Changing the names of the swords and mana potions doesn't make them not that, you know.
You can call them pencils and crackers or whatever, they're still swords and potions and the core gameplay of your game is still boring as hell.
OFF had an interesting story and world built around an extremely dull, ISO-standard JRPG core. This has lead to many games that do not have stories or worlds as interesting as OFF's copying only that second part.
But they're "quirky" cuz the swords and mana potions are called something different.
This doesn't make a game awful in of itself (recall a certain hospital-themed JRPG) but it's not a good foot to start on.
And maybe blaming OFF for all of that is unfair, but they're problems OFF itself has too.
I do remember that Ghost Suburbs 2's combat was also kind of a butt.
I'll admit, I did like the idea of changing combat terms to fit the story, and it's something I incorporated into School Theatre. Of course, I put a bit more work into how combat works.
I'm probably missing something but where did anyone say that OFF was a game breaker in JRPG mechanics? and what influence does it have are you speaking of?
I'm personally more inclined to put the blame on how limited RPGMaker is, but I'm only going by what I've read by others
@Acerak: Look out, we got a real thinker over here.
Someone finally figured out that parts of the bible seem/are illogical or outright impossible/insane, this changes everything!
Time to go secular and start using the metric system, we got some PURE REASON happening around these parts! Let me get my gas mask and run to the shelter, truth bombs be dropping all over the place.
Someone had two scoops of Validity in their analysis cereal today. This article be so piercing, kids in China better hope it doesn't fall all the way to them when he drops it like a meteor on foolish Abrahamic Dinosaur-Thought!
@Acerak: Look out, we got a real thinker over here.
Someone finally figured out that parts of the bible seem/are illogical or outright impossible/insane, this changes everything!
Time to go secular and start using the metric system, we got some PURE REASON happening around these parts! Let me get my gas mask and run to the shelter, truth bombs be dropping all over the place.
Someone had two scoops of Validity in their analysis cereal today. This article be so piercing, kids in China better hope it doesn't fall all the way to them when he drops it like a meteor on foolish Abrahamic Dinosaur-Thought!
@Acerak: Look out, we got a real thinker over here.
Someone finally figured out that parts of the bible seem/are illogical or outright impossible/insane, this changes everything!
Time to go secular and start using the metric system, we got some PURE REASON happening around these parts! Let me get my gas mask and run to the shelter, truth bombs be dropping all over the place.
Someone had two scoops of Validity in their analysis cereal today. This article be so piercing, kids in China better hope it doesn't fall all the way to them when he drops it like a meteor on foolish Abrahamic Dinosaur-Thought!
Only since the eighties. I mean, the computers that got us to the moon were in SI, but their input and output were in a converted US imperial. The humans/scientists used Imperial to get to the moon.
There is no inherent deficiency with imperial, other than being slightly more difficult for humans to use.
I think that having multiple systems is a good thing. We need more than one way to measure, to think, to speak. It opens the mind, in my opinion.
My new favourite thing is watching people get ready to board a fancy train, only for the train to go and be replaced with the actual train they'll be getting, which is shitty compared to the previous train. The looks on their faces are priceless.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My new favourite thing is watching people get ready to board a fancy train, only for the train to go and be replaced with the actual train they'll be getting, which is shitty compared to the previous train. The looks on their faces are priceless.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
My city doesn't have any sort of passenger rail or light rail so the closest experience I get is buses.
Let me tell you though, on those icy winter days it sure is satisfying to be able to take a bus back and forth to campus instead of having to drive in the treacherous weather.
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Remember when well-meaning people who talk at high schools tried to convince us that emo wasn't a subculture, because it was a genre of music, and clearly it could not be both
Uniformitarianism is a first principle of science. It holds that the fundamental natural laws and constants do not change over time.
The laws of physics are the same today as they always were.
Based on this, we know that carbon decays at a reasonably constant rate, and that the canyons and valleys of the world could only have been carved over millions of years.
It is unfalsifiable, but so is the principle that life is real and we aren't all hallucinating everything.
I think creationists would be more interesting if they woulf question the unverifiable first principles, rather than stuff that has been measured and tested repeatedly (like evolution). It might be interesting where that goes. Or it might be boring. At least it would be a change.
I kinda like to imagine worlds where uniformitarianism is false.
when i was in high school I made the mistake of attending a schoolboard meeting in an attempt to be 'politically active' and I heard a woman in her 40s suggest with a completely straight face that our school dress code should ban the color black because it's (this is a direct quote) "Lucifer's color".
the other members of the board then proceeded to debate this as though it were a serious issue instead of dismissing it as shoelace-eating lunacy, and it took up almost the entire time of the meeting.
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fuck that tbh
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Someone finally figured out that parts of the bible seem/are illogical or outright impossible/insane, this changes everything!
Time to go secular and start using the metric system, we got some PURE REASON happening around these parts! Let me get my gas mask and run to the shelter, truth bombs be dropping all over the place.
Someone had two scoops of Validity in their analysis cereal today. This article be so piercing, kids in China better hope it doesn't fall all the way to them when he drops it like a meteor on foolish Abrahamic Dinosaur-Thought!
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
But I'm not giving up a perfectly good system just because it doesn't have nice clean base ten unit conversions.
Sillytalk: We got to the moon on imperial. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it, other nations! WE GOT TO THE MOOOOOOOOOOON!
THE MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!
lockheed martin used imperial and it fucked up an orbiter
There is no inherent deficiency with imperial, other than being slightly more difficult for humans to use.
I think that having multiple systems is a good thing. We need more than one way to measure, to think, to speak. It opens the mind, in my opinion.
No universal language. No universal weight.
But that's my view.
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
but on the other hand, lockheed martin using imperial when nasa used metric and crashing a mars orbiter is lol
Whoops.
also i got no sleep
Whoops.
everything on this page will be satire
though the disparity between the two styles of music termed 'emo' was always a little odd to me
The laws of physics are the same today as they always were.
Based on this, we know that carbon decays at a reasonably constant rate, and that the canyons and valleys of the world could only have been carved over millions of years.
It is unfalsifiable, but so is the principle that life is real and we aren't all hallucinating everything.
I think creationists would be more interesting if they woulf question the unverifiable first principles, rather than stuff that has been measured and tested repeatedly (like evolution). It might be interesting where that goes. Or it might be boring. At least it would be a change.
I kinda like to imagine worlds where uniformitarianism is false.