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people get very emotional about the politics and economics of cloud computing and cloud gaming, which makes discussion about the practicality of it nearly impossible. That's a shame. the political/economic side IS worth getting emotional about, but I would separate it from the technological

RPG designers think they're better than the Karma Point system but the companion approval system where the Eeevil party member approves of bad boy things and the cute saint approves of good boy things is exactly the same system.

space is the hardest place to build anything. it would be 100 times easier to build data centers inside Buckingham Palace, at the bottom of the ocean, or in Chernobyl.

Nobody should own 3 pairs of Crocs. By the time you consider your third pair you deserve to upgrade to real clogs. You're worth it.

new game like a pantful of piss

a PHANTONYM is a word that is a name for ghosts. examples of phantonyms include: specters, wraiths, oolie-goolies, spirits.

Slay the Spire 2 messed up by still allowing you to remove basic Strikes and Defends. The most obvious flaw in the first game is that the card removal mechanic is uninteresting to use and overpowered. You never have to think about if or what to remove. They probably won't change it now.

They're not speedruns. The goal isn't to complete something as fast as possible, it's to get as deep as possible before being forced to retreat. Scientology runs are dungeon runs. You get as deep as you can, then later use your experience to go deeper next time.

A lot of indie developers are making small games, putting them on steam as demos, and getting feedback. But wouldn't it be better, if they're free anyway, to upload them elsewhere as small games,as not to implicitly commit to making the small game into something bigger before recieving the feedback?

I predict that nobody will go on the Northernlion Cruise who isn't themselves a streamer recording the experience for content. it's like Twitch Con but more expensive.

Every proposal of a flag for all unified humanity is a LARP because no unified humanity has ever existed. When it does, the symbols to represent it will be obvious within its culture. I doubt it will look like reddit's designs.