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TalkingFlower

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  • No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer

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  • A good game doesn't have to be deep, but it has to be well-executed by a well-formulated concept.

    ETS 2 is even simpler, and what do you do in there? You drive from point A to B, but the journey is the reward; it is fleeting, but it is a limited yet beautiful representation of Europe.

    There are mountains of Diorama Builders trying to do exactly what the chill crowd want.

    Those are way more honest chill games than a fanbase trying to claim to be the best space game, yet you do garbage collection.

    I mean, sure, I love to turn off my brain as well when I watch Supernatural, but it is a shallow show despite its charm. xD

  • No Man's Sky Remnant Trailer

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  • Nah, the length of an artwork does not indicate depth, tons of TV shows lasting over 10 seasons and 42 mins per episodes and they are still shallow, still don't pack a punch like the good old BBC Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Alec Guinness plays the role to perfection.

    But remember, that's where they spent their development time, instead of improving the original concept... Oh, wait, they still have the sandbox as the shield to widen the ocean as much as possible.

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  • Pretty sure the ***chill *** portion of the fanbase will disagree with the survival aspect of the game and note how mundane it is, unless you blindfold yourself and never use any scanner.

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  • Honestly, I would rather pay for quality than be forced to accept a bad update like this one, at least with paid DLC you know what to avoid. The game is still wide as the ocean, deep as a puddle. It's becoming a salad of minigames without any regard to its original premise - a lonely space traveller.

    I will play Snowrunner if I want to play offroad trucker, this update is another cheap imitation from HG.

  • GOG caught using AI tools, head of product tweeting AI Instagram scams

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  • AI is a very good summarizer, and I use it to reformat and modernise tons of legal texts into markdown and an easier-to-read format for my own reference at work, which I would not dare ask another human being to brave such mundane work. I really don't see the appeal of AI in art other than place holder.

  • Real Struggle 😔

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  • "Working with engineers as my profession"

    "Henry Ford over a hundred years ago called the assembly line."

    Engineering IS a multidisciplinary career; you are not going to do finite element analysis on a stack of paper, I don't even think governments will accept a full-blown hand sketch drawing. Everyone will at least want a cad file, everyone will want to use software with interoperability, paper doesn't do that...

  • The developers of PEAK, explaining how they decided on pricing for their game.

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  • Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

    I spawned as a nun in-game on the rooftop of a cake restaurant. I've got nothing but a bible to wreck zombies. And there are so many, there is no tutorial, the controls are tanky, the devs are out of their mind.

    0/10

  • This is the guy who directed the Melania movie

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  • I know that guy from the Hannibal Lecter Red Dragon and Rush Hour, he's kind of mid as a director, somehow I am not really surprised by these Hollywood types...

  • Real Struggle 😔

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  • Yeah, but I mean if you are fully qualified for the job and the company is being run efficiently, and there are no projects that have nasty extra demands/complaints that deviate from the norm and the skillset of the company. Why need tertiary skills aside from your boss having a sense of humor "yOU sHoUlD leARN thIS, i pAy yoU tO lEaRN"?

    Unless you caught me learning something so remote from my core work, so much work for little improvement margin, then you've got every right to question me.

    Besides, what I have been mentioning are NOT tertiary skills; they are becoming primary skills, but no one actually wants to admit that. It is a constant reminder to your superior that they can't elevate you even if they want to.

    It sounds to me you are talking about a cultural problem called conformity and KPI tunnel vision. Sometimes it becomes so stiff that even working efficiently requires permission because someone is adverse to change.

  • Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder

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  • I have:

    -Brave as my browser

    -Ublock Origin

    -DNS-wide AdBlock

    -Youtube sponser block

    I barely see any ads now, except those that pop up as an overlay and nag you, and some of them can be block manaully.

  • Real Struggle 😔

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  • I am not sure about your projects. Other than InDesign, all I mentioned are essentially project /client requirements; daily operation in the site office is going to be crippled in one way or another if you don't know how to use those software. Sure, you don't have to know two drawing software programs; they are being framed as "extra" on job ads, but it is really handy when there is an opportunity to make an impression on the client with 3D.

  • Real Struggle 😔

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  • As an Engineer, I need to know:

    -At least two professional-grade drawing softwares

    -Word processing skills

    -Presentation skills in documentation, such as InDesign

    -Excel

    -Quick comprehension in a mountain of contractual documents

    -Digital Document Management

    -Two languages minimum

    I have already skipped a bunch of soft skills, we are not paid enough, while watching my Boomer PM taking 3 days to write three questions to client consultants.

  • "Benefit of the doubt" is a very important aspect of a game's success

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  • "Without some benefit of the doubt, many good games would be dropped and deemed bad. Wanting to like a game is a really important factor."

    That depends on what game and what crowd you are talking about. 4x/Grand Strategies/management crowds are much more patient; 70+ hrs/playthrough is common with a steep learning curve, and this is where a reputation for being complex overrides the need for intuitive tutorials, so people are much more forgiving.

    Highguard is not one of those games; it was doomed to be Concord 2.0 at the beginning, but then again, I don't really understand those crowds either, since I hardly play PVP shooters.

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  • Victoria 3, still the undisputed king of world economic simulation. I had a blast with Vic 2, but I just can't bring myself to support Paradox Interactive in their current form with ridiculous monetisation of DLC...

  • Obsidian's The Outer Worlds 2 Underperformed, and There Won't Be a Third - IGN

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  • For some reason, I just felt the humour was trying too hard, plus the price tag made the overall package unappealing to me.

  • 'Go Back and Play Morrowind and Tell Me That's the Game You Want to Play Again' — Former Bethesda Veteran Delivers His Verdict on Potential The Elder Scrolls Remasters - IGN

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  • I have no problem with Daggerfall Unity, why should Morrowind be a problem?

  • What is immersion to you?

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  • "The Gep Gun is the most silent way to eliminate Manderley."

  • What is immersion to you?

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  • I only know a couple of games that do this:

    Stalker: Anomaly X4: Foundations Dwarf Fortress

    Edit: Forgot Saelig.

  • What is immersion to you?

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  • I kinda know what you mean, but I come from Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, not Zomboid. I lost my first character when I was happily siphoning gas from cars. At the same time, I was too relaxed and bumped headfirst into a gang of giant wasps, can't fight or run because I was carrying a steel jerrycan, RIP. That was a month of work with this character. xD