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sinvega

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Big gay chronologically ill hermit in the middle of a complicated yet boring time. I write about games and media because the work I used to do now means licking plague off people's eyeballs or whatever.

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searching the vast fantasy world for one (1) engineer or mason who can explain any of the architecture

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"the ancients made it!"

okay so where's the quarry. quarries don't fuckin go anywhere man, I don't care how dead your ancient twats are, that's a big fuckin hole in the ground within transport distance of everything. where is it, bitch. show me the fuckin quarry

sinvega OP ,
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skyrim points here for having lumber mills but then losing them all for having 3 of them for every village

sinvega OP ,
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kodp/six ages gets a lot of points here for rarely/never actually showing you the villages but through context and culture making it so easy to believe that they are real, working places that you never really question it

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also for being about cultures that are kinda-to-very xenophobic (in a generally insular cultural way rather than oppressive/racialised) and thus when they see some weird shit they don't go "cool ancient ruins! Let's live here!", but instead "this place is strange and therefore scary and dangerous, let's get out of here" more often than not

...while also having gods who encourage exploration and learning, so you can still overcome those fears if you're careful about what stones you overturn

sinvega OP ,
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it's probably cheating at this point to include six ages in any discussion of fantasy games because those games have been operating on a whole other level for nearly 30 years.

(which is helped also by the established tabletop world they're based on itself being another 30-odd years old)

sinvega OP ,
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also also yeah obv a village management game explicitly about culture and interpretation is a very different project to an open world game of any kind, never mind an action-y one. It's not a fair comparison for several reasons

BUT YOU GET WHAT I MEAN SHUT UP

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(also, Gothic came out in, what, 2003? So it's not like there's nowhere they can meet in terms of making a world semi-plausible)

sinvega , to random
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getting older is just finding out how right you were to be pissed off at everything as a teenager

sinvega , to random
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suddenly occurs to me that instead of spending years showing people how to do basic stuff on computers in libraries that nearly always amounted to "you can learn this just by spending an hour or two clicking on the menu options and seeing what they all do", I apparently should have been making websites that amount to "to sponge the walrus, click on the 'sponge walrus' wizard, then click ok"

sinvega OP ,
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the business that wants to replace google as "we made a search engine that's actually useful" could do it within a year by figuring out a way to add a tickbox that says "the recommended solution does not work" to filter out 100,000 smug twats and garbage seo spamsites telling you the same useless answer

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remember, if you find a blog post or article you like:

save it as a txt file.

The internet is being eaten by wealthy philistines and most good things will be gone by the time you need them again.

sinvega , to random
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I think I've overwatched Superstore since rewatching it so many times as comfort/breaktime tv. Does anyone have recommendations for a 20-25 minute comedy series?

More episodes is good. Doesn't have to be hilarious but should be an easy watch. Light drama is fine, but I'd like something that's not completely frivolous. Superstore was ideal. I think Brooklyn 99 lost its way after a while but that was pretty good too.

sinvega OP ,
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@saddestrobots ooh I loved Derry Girls, might give that a rewatch ta.

Didn't know that's what What We Do In The Shadows was! This is really helpful, thank you

sinvega OP ,
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@saddestrobots I watched the first season of Abbot and kinda liked it, yeah. Maybe I should stick with it. I'm saving this list!

sinvega , to random
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simple english wikipedia really is the best version huh

sinvega OP ,
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wikipedia has a huge technical term problem honestly. It's partly why the idea that "all knowledge is online for free how come we're so ignorant" is a little misleading. Sure, the information is out there, but reading definitions isn't the same as being taught.

Intentionally learning a new subject is a huge "where do I start" problem. Context matters, especially in history and science.

and if you're already a pretty bad student like me, you're gonna struggle even more to work through that

sinvega OP ,
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@saddestrobots yep. You just need that beachhead to know where you are and find your way from there. But most sites and texts just throw the whole map at you

admittedly it's hard to do in reference text form precisely because you can't have that dialogue to figure out where to start

sinvega , to random
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the thing about poverty is that if you've never experienced it you can never understand it and if you have experienced it you can never fully shake it off

sinvega , to random
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"maybe it's time I do the thing"

(attempts to do the thing)

"oh, they're all hotboxing the plague, nvm"

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