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    7 months ago

    The red circle is helpful for me because Stack Overflow’s UI is garbage. I always read the post, and then read the thing under the post, which is a bunch of nerds nitpicking over TLAs instead of an actual answer. Every time I open that site I forget that the answers are underneath the neckbeards, because it’s so unintuitive.





  • I think Solo fell flat because they made all the interesting adventures you heard about in the OT happen in a single week. Solo isn’t a daring adventurer with a long and storied history, he’s a guy who had one exciting week. Also he’s supposed to have been a liar when he said he made the Kessel Run in 12 parsecs, but Solo retconned it so he was telling the truth. Which means Solo’s arc in Star Wars from scumbag to hero isn’t as steep or dramatic.





  • I haven’t played Morrowind, but I hear that you can connect to an enemy with a hit, and then a die roll determines whether that actually happens. It seems to me that while such a feature would be good for making a character with their own unique strengths, it would be damaging to the immersion required to inhabit that character. Thus, immersion building features that make the character do what the player does, can easily be considered roleplaying features.









  • Red Dwarf has a gag where the crew has a time machine, but have sworn never to use it because of the potential dangers. But then the ship’s curry supply is lost in a flood, and Lister (an average British slob) decides to go back to 20th century Earth for some curry.

    Later on in the series they need a tyrannosaurus rex to lose its lunch, so they make a giant curry. The dinosaur loves the curry, and after having its fill it goes for the ship’s supplies of lager and ice cream