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New comment by morelisp in "Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)"

morelisp — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 20:12:39 +0000

Unfortunately the site in general has gotten increasingly unhinged lately. One of those is a literal "well, actually" defending torture!

I wish you'd stop playing this "I don't want to ban you, but I will ban you if you don't follow the rules, which I also set" game. Do it or don't but jesus christ, this obsession with tone over meaning is so 2010.

New comment by morelisp in "Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)"

morelisp — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 12:40:44 +0000

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New comment by morelisp in "Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)"

morelisp — Sun, 28 Jan 2024 04:13:54 +0000

Simple sentences are great for simple ideas. Most video games, including most RPGs, only have simple ideas.

You appear to have linked to an anime. We’re discussing video games.

New comment by morelisp in "Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)"

morelisp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 17:09:41 +0000

Yeah if I’m being honest my position is pretty close to https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/03/video... but I know this is way too radical for HN.

New comment by morelisp in "Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)"

morelisp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 17:08:14 +0000

Pokémon (most of them) have pretty good writing. Planescape Torment has ok “endcap of the airport bookstore fantasy shelf” writing. You’re making exactly the mistake I’m talking about.

(Even narrative-heavy FPSs like Bioshock have an order of magnitude less writing than most RPGs.)

New comment by morelisp in "Why Is Game Writing So Terrible? (2021)"

morelisp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 14:34:33 +0000

I find FPS writing is often a lot better, probably because there is a lot less of it. Yes, RPGs have a more narrative focus so more nuance to characters or whatever but you're asking a committee of 1-5 usually mid-tier writers to pump out 2-10 novels worth of text within a year under often radically changing requirements. The actual writing is usually hot garbage.

New comment by morelisp in "A Terribly Serious adventure: Philosophy and war at Oxford"

morelisp — Sat, 27 Jan 2024 08:44:42 +0000

This feels more like a defense for some mid like a Plato than a Wittgenstein or Kripke.

New comment by morelisp in "Alabama executes Kenneth Smith using untested method of nitrogen gas"

morelisp — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:29:11 +0000

It also needs to be a method that isn’t pharmacologically complicated, because manufacturers and pharmacists refuse to be complicit in this today. That’s the main reason, and also a reason Alabama has botched so many executions in recent years with experimental drugs and untrained executioners.

New comment by morelisp in "Alabama executes Kenneth Smith using untested method of nitrogen gas"

morelisp — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 11:34:52 +0000

> It's something you literally wouldn't realize is happening until

they wheel you in on the gurney and put the mask on your face.

You’re deeply evil.

New comment by morelisp in "Portable EPUBs"

morelisp — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:40:10 +0000

The file format doesn’t matter one bit when the reading and authoring tools are shit and the editors can’t/don’t fix anything. And papers will generally have a lot fewer resources to deal with this than major book publishers, who have been epub-focused for over a decade now and actually make money from it.

New comment by morelisp in "C Is the Greenest Programming Language"

morelisp — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:52:34 +0000

Development time makes up a nearly immeasurable fraction of power resources outside of the tiniest teams.

New comment by morelisp in "Portable EPUBs"

morelisp — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:49:44 +0000

The bar for epubs is so fucking low I have a hard time believing this matters at all. Just last week I bought a book set in the late Middle Ages which managed to transcribe all “þ” as “p”. Until publishers care about that stuff, none of these high-falutin technical discussions change anything.

New comment by morelisp in "Portable EPUBs"

morelisp — Fri, 26 Jan 2024 09:46:51 +0000

Some of us are equally nonplussed by modern web dev but still quite miss PostScript.

New comment by morelisp in "College Is All About Curiosity. And That Requires Free Speech."

morelisp — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 16:46:56 +0000

“At Yale” is bearing virtually the entire plausibility load of that extract.

New comment by morelisp in "A Single Small Map Is Enough for a Lifetime"

morelisp — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:43:32 +0000

The further you go, the less you know.

New comment by morelisp in "Jon Stewart Returns to 'The Daily Show'"

morelisp — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 20:15:22 +0000

Probably both true, I would not recommend myself for the role either.

New comment by morelisp in "Jon Stewart Returns to 'The Daily Show'"

morelisp — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:55:30 +0000

I haven’t kept up but sad if so. Colbert was always at his best when he brought lots of himself to the show, in contrast with Stewart who was great at capturing public vibes.

New comment by morelisp in "Jon Stewart Returns to 'The Daily Show'"

morelisp — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 19:46:15 +0000

Awful. One of the best things about Stewart is that (I thought) he was smart enough to step out when he was done. Now it’s going to be an old tired man making out of touch japes about two even older tired men.

New comment by morelisp in "Another Roman dodecahedron has been unearthed in England"

morelisp — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 16:46:07 +0000

Lots of dick jokes are also fertility symbols / rituals today.

New comment by morelisp in "Czech republic sets IPv4 end date"

morelisp — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:38:25 +0000

ping6 and ping4 are symlinks to ping on my system, and are equivalent to passing -4 or -6 to force a specific version. The default behavior negotiates either fine.