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 favorite bit of weird art at DIA will always be the giant blue anatomically-correct demon mustang out front
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
Can you believe people are still using operating systems?
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
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
Why hasn't the government figured it out yet: If you call it "Jensorship" instead of "Censorship" it won't be considered a free speech violation!
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
This book is called Twisted. It's about were-roller coasters. It's written horribly, very horribly. I just read a chapter of it, and it has 7 typos, illustrations that came from Deviantart (literally), no sense of setting or realistic dialogue, and characters that make the Twilight cast look likable and human. And this book has been published. And it got three 5-star reviews on Amazon, and one of them isn't an obvious joke (though it's obviously the author or a friend trying to goldplate a mudpie).
A 17-year-old girl has written a childish wet-dream fantasy into existence with nothing resembling an editor, and people have bought her book.
What I'm trying to say is this: nothing you write will be worse than this book (which was published, mind you), and you can follow your literary dreams (no matter how far from the mainstream) and still get people to buy your book.
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
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
I wonder how many fields of study/career paths don't require a decent level of familiarity with Microsoft Excel
Excel is such a useful tool for any business so it makes sense
That said it mostly comes down to knowing the basics of excel, nothing too exciting. Don't think most places expect you to be able to do VBA scripting or anything like that
People on the internet get really attached to Hard Determinism, and I have no idea why
"But guys the Libet Experimennnttttt"
The Libet experiments were literally people choosing whether to push a right button or a left button. Even putting aside how meaningless that "choice" is and how the people were told to essentially choose randomly, and the trouble of generalizing the results, the whole thing relies on a weird pseudo-dualism to work as a proof of hard determinism.
Gameplay-wise you'd be pretty hard-pressed to argue ME3 isn't the best in the series. i prefer ME2 overall but only really when taken in isolation; its biggest weaknesses pertain to its relation to the overarching narrative, imo.
ME3, well, it's a really good, strong game with some excellent writing and character moments, but the ending really didn't work for me. We've been over this.
The original ME had some interesting concepts and worldbuilding and the odd amusing line, but otherwise struck me as fairly dull, at least in comparison to the subsequent two. In terms of writing it was the more thematically consistent, and i do think that's a fairly big deal, but it's clearly a lot harder to maintain that kind of consistency over a trilogy than over the course of a single game.
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
Real fuckin' cute, Flickr made their loading bar rainbow-colored
I should be preparing myself for an onslaught of shallow "we totally care about queer people!" from corporate brands now, shouldn't I?
I honestly disagree that it was even thematically consistent.
You have a reasonable arc between Eden Prime, the Citadel, Virmire, Ilos, and the final battle, but dozens of hours of sidequests and main quests separate those. Most of it essentially pointless filler. It suffocates any thematic consistency, and that's ignoring how stilted the writing is and how thin the characterization is. It's completely without focus, and the things that make it a good game shine through in relatively small moments.
It's quite like Dragon Age: Origins in that regard, though Origins had a much worse ratio of good stuff to filler.
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
Compare 2- which embraced episodic storytelling, and 3, which was hyperfocused and the fluff was entertaining and well integrated with the story as a whole.
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
I'M SO SMART I'M LIKE THE BRITISH EQUIVALENT OF HERMIONE GRANGER
ME1 was a game with plenty of holes, but the novelty of its elements (as a party-based third person shooter space opera RPG) was enticing, especially since BioWare were still predominantly known for d20 cRPGs back then. It was close enough in time to BioWare's most classic games, when they were going from strength to strength, that there was trust in seeing how this panned out. I do consider the second and third games an improvement (ending notwithstanding), but I can also see why that first entry into the series and its weird combination of elements would be a fond memory.
Something about it worked. I remember it a lot more fondly than I do Origins, if nothing else.
I think one of the issues was that the most overtly BioWare-y elements to the game were its biggest weaknesses. The RPG progression and class system was functional enough gameplay-wise but diegetically nonsensical and the tutorial - four nonlinear levels - finale structure was REALLY showing its age
It's just a hard game to put together really. Its flaws are too minute and numerous to really quantify in any satisfying way (not to mention the ever-looming threat of stans nuh-uh'ing all of your criticisms) and the search for what about it worked is maddeningly difficult.
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you denying that there's an aesthetic that's common in anime? When you bring up criticisms, is it not in reference to things you dislike?
This is my starting point: Anime has an aesthetic. Yes, #notallanime, but by and large, there is a collection of visual, dialogue, plot and characterization tropes that are common to the medium. I don't dig those visual, dialogue, plot or characterization tropes. I don't think it looks cool, or sounds cool, I don't respond to the dialogue ticks. They're annoying to me, or, if you'd like, they're silly in a way I dislike.
When I end up liking anime, it's when it avoids those things. Which does happen! But I'm not sure if you're saying the aesthetic isn't there (which I disagree with) or you're saying you shouldn't dislike an aesthetic (which I also disagree with). Yes, I can scour the world of anime for exceptions but why would I? I know they exist, they land on my door step sometimes, but life is too short to swim upstream for media. There's media everywhere.
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People on the internet get really attached to Hard Determinism, and I have no idea why
"But guys the Libet Experimennnttttt"
The Libet experiments were literally people choosing whether to push a right button or a left button. Even putting aside how meaningless that "choice" is and how the people were told to essentially choose randomly, and the trouble of generalizing the results, the whole thing relies on a weird pseudo-dualism to work as a proof of hard determinism.
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Genius
Assassin poems, Poems that shoot
guns. Poems that wrestle cops into alleys
and take their weapons leaving them dead
Is this a fetish thing? This feels like a fetish thing
That said it mostly comes down to knowing the basics of excel, nothing too exciting. Don't think most places expect you to be able to do VBA scripting or anything like that
ME3, well, it's a really good, strong game with some excellent writing and character moments, but the ending really didn't work for me. We've been over this.
The original ME had some interesting concepts and worldbuilding and the odd amusing line, but otherwise struck me as fairly dull, at least in comparison to the subsequent two. In terms of writing it was the more thematically consistent, and i do think that's a fairly big deal, but it's clearly a lot harder to maintain that kind of consistency over a trilogy than over the course of a single game.
I'm not sure what your point is. Are you denying that there's an aesthetic that's common in anime? When you bring up criticisms, is it not in reference to things you dislike?
This is my starting point: Anime has an aesthetic. Yes, #notallanime, but by and large, there is a collection of visual, dialogue, plot and characterization tropes that are common to the medium. I don't dig those visual, dialogue, plot or characterization tropes. I don't think it looks cool, or sounds cool, I don't respond to the dialogue ticks. They're annoying to me, or, if you'd like, they're silly in a way I dislike.
When I end up liking anime, it's when it avoids those things. Which does happen! But I'm not sure if you're saying the aesthetic isn't there (which I disagree with) or you're saying you shouldn't dislike an aesthetic (which I also disagree with). Yes, I can scour the world of anime for exceptions but why would I? I know they exist, they land on my door step sometimes, but life is too short to swim upstream for media. There's media everywhere.
(let's see if embed is allowed)
His rollercoaster-sona
Why must we turn away from heaven's light
Could you repeat the question?