Bad Ending: Chelsea Clinton 2020, Misogyny and Berniebros Prevented Hillary From Going to Michigan
True Ending: Emanuel/Bloomberg 2020, We didn’t learn shit my dude
Golden Ending: Jeb!
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well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.
what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode
i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat
honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?”
the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements.
not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether
Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE.
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.
Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.
Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??
me:andromeda has 2 easier modes before normal like its called casual and narrative or something which i think is great for people who are fucking shit at shooters. I mean i play on normal but there will probably be a moment in the game when i flip it to casual for a boss fight or something because tbh i am a shit shot.
I have a coordination disorder and lemme tell you that is 90% of the reason I never got into games…
Like I used to really like gaming when I was kid, I had a bunch of shitty kiddy computer games that I adored but like, gradually without fail I would reach a point where I physically couldn’t progress anymore and had to just abandon it.
So now whenever I consider gaming I just think about all the time I had to quit as kid because it was inaccessible and generally decide to save my money instead.
Me with Mario: I loved the games but never ever could get past a certain point
This is me with Remember Me. The story seems cool, and honestly even the whole master martial artist combat combo system seems cool, but I can’t do it. So I played for like an hour before trying to do combat stuff just took too many spoons and I quit playing.
Then there’s games like the Crystal Dynamics reboot it Tomb Raider–the combat is floaty and kind of messy, but it works as a representation of a person who’s never used a firearm before that point, but if they didn’t offer lower difficulty levels, I’d never be able to play it.
The only reason that anyone objects to this idea is if they believe that “might makes right” and thus think it’s their moral obligation to punish weakness with misery and/or violence.
No.
The people who are in favor of this are mostly SJ/non-gamers. Gamers have had to defend gaming for years from outside meddling forces (such as legislators) and as such have become very suspicious of it. That rash of articles about how “gamers are DEAD, you don’t need to pander to them anymore!” was a pretty blatant attempt to kick the long-term residents of a subculture out of that subculture.
But of course, gaming doesn’t meet the criteria for a protected culture, so launching an attempted cultural takeover was considered “Justice”.
As a result, they think the kinds of people who propose this are entryists that will shift games more in directions they don’t want, interfere with their ability to get games that they like, and muddy the waters of their identifiers.
Thanks McDonalds. Your new uniforms confirm the dystopian future is upon us.
Good game McDonalds… Perhaps you could have them wear masks to dehumanise them further?!
That isn’t how it works anymore. Corps are all about Diversity now. The empty smile is the mask.
You have woken up to find yourself in the body of a professional gamer and you now have to keep their YouTube channel running. The problem is that you don’t know anything about the gamer and you don’t know how to play video games at all.
“D.Va, here, I- wait fck I don’t know Korean-”
Also, Anon-kun, are you really binge-reading my tags, or at least my genderpol tag?
I’m touched.
Anonymous asked:
Can you read all your posts under “gender politics” tag and truthfully say that you want to live when the life is like that? I couldn't.
Dearest Anon-kun,
My representation is a bit more dire than how I actually interpret the situation, in part because it’s intended as a counter-balance to mainstream feminism, which strips women of their agency and refuses to critically examine their role in the social dynamics which create these situations.
“Women are powerless” is really quite deeply normalized almost everywhere! It’s very insidious.
Comments regarding even cishet neurotypical women should be regarded as generalizations that do not uniformly apply to the population, and many subgroups don’t necessarily fit them. Additionally, low-status women also exist. In fact, women that don’t fit this mold are more common in my subcultures!
Additionally,
1) I have a reasonable shot at making it to the Transhuman era.
2) I have a close relationship to my ex WRT expressed vulnerability & female companionship, though not sexually.
3) Have you observed the number of self-identified “traps” and other such individuals among the Alt Right? I believe this represents a sign of an impending Male Gender Meltdown, the consequences of which are hard to predict. Overall, I do think progress is being made, as indicated by the appearance of multiple male gender movements.
Also,
All my exes are bisexual (and therefore have no set reason to behave in a certain pattern of attraction), and this blog will continue to not disclose my sex/gender.
Kind Regards,
Miti
P.S. If you are secretly the tumblr user known as BA, this blog hopes for your swift recovery regardless of whether that is low in probability. If you are secretly tumblr user RO, this blog hopes for an increase in your available useful energy.
Lesswrong probably doesn’t need to concern itself with being more accessible to those with autism
(via rationalists-out-of-context)
Less Wrong needs to concern itself with being more accessible to those poor allistics
(via bpd-anon)
TBH that’s basically how I read the quote.
@rustingbridges
Look, I don’t need milk delivered straight from the cow to me every morning, but if you could get it from the cow to me in less than two weeks I’d take it
“Cow Trucks” Hottest New Craze in Fab Food
Popularity Soars in Hip San Francisco Neighborhoods
by Cauhip Sterman - June 17, 2024
The days of the antiquated Texmex food truck will soon be behind us, ushered out by the new startup Uddare. The venture, which has backing from Google, Microsoft, and various Bay Area venture capitalists, was started by young Nigerian immigrant Oluwa Ishan with only a single cow and a rusted out Ford 150, but has quickly amassed a fleet of 17 vehicles which are dispatched via app to the most popular neighborhoods in the city…
If that 3-d printed house business plan doesn’t work out, I’ll have to go with my next idea. It’s like a Keurig, but for milk.
keurig’s already a keurig for milk, if you jam one of those creamer pots onto the hopper
I’m not sure that creamer pots meet the freshness desires of my customers.
You’re stepping on my new startup idea, which involves using quadcopter drones to deliver milk and fresh coffee-creamer to the doors of upper-middle-class professionals every morning. It’s called Miruku (ミルク) and it’s based on a hot new trend of air-based robotic milk delivery in Japan*.
(*Don’t tell anyone this isn’t actually a thing in Japan or I’ll sue you.)