tiramichu

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[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago

If a tree falls in the woods...

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 11 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (5 children)

Pop!_OS is the next big

(It finished there)

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes Daddy uwu

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago

That's the strategy, yes

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 40 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Why is "helicopter" commonly shortened to "helo" rather than "heli" ?

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I can easily see both sides on this one.

In one way I have little sympathy. It's the same as parents complaining after they show their child a violent anime, that it was a 'cartoon' and so it must be for children - having made that snap judgement without investigating the contents in the slightest.

On the other hand, as the article rightly suggests, there are established conventions in the publishing industry and this book defied them.

They are conventions I personally kinda hate, because they are the reason every Crime paperback looks the same as each other, and every Sci-Fi book is instantly recognisable as that genre on the shelves. But the conventions do exist.

In mass-market publishing terms, sparkly happy cartoon = children.

The publisher and author totally knew what they were doing here and they did it anyway. It's wilfully misleading.

Whether established standards should be enough to absolve a parent of the responsibility to understand what they are giving to their child, though, you decide.

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Even if the common advice is to avoid spoilers, I'm glad you found your own way to enjoy it :)

I'm sure I could play it again myself and still enjoy the atmosphere, even if the discoveries weren't new. Or maybe it would be fun to watch a stream of someone else playing for the first time instead!

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

This may be a nonsense suggestion but is the game trying to activate the headphone mic?

If so this could be switching it to a different mode and cutting your headset audio quality in half.

EDIT: two other people suggested the same thing at the same time, never mind :)

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The blogpost was made four years ago, though.

Quite a fascinating read, nonetheless :)

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Y'all got any of that ECC?

[–] tiramichu@lemm.ee 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

For real. It's an amazing game that just can't be the same again once you know all its secrets.

I bought it for two of my friends, and they both ended up hating it lol. I don't blame them, but I think it's very much to do with the mentality of how you approach the experience.

One friend just got plain stuck and gave up. The other found it frustrating that they were doing the same thing several times over, and just wanted to rush as quickly as they could to make progress.

Personally, I enjoyed the slow pace of discovery. I loved that feeling of being a true explorer, discoving facets of lost civilisation. Watching in melancholic awe as a world crumbled around me. Finding just a small piece of new information was always a joy, and made it feel worthwhile to get there, even if I'd done 90% of the journey before.

Slowly getting richer in a game where the only currency is knowledge.

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