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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I appreciated your comment, but chuckled at the idea of Canadians as a peaceful species. We have our fair share of ruthlessness, from indigenous mistreatment 🤫 to shutting down our capital during the pandemic to our behaviour during WWI being a cause for some of the Geneva conventions 😅 we’re generally a peace loving group, but we don’t eff around if pushed haha

    For the record I feel the need to point out I do NOT endorse our country’s indigenous mistreatment, it is in fact one of the saddest parts of being Canadian.

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  • This has been exactly my feeling for the past decade or so. I love open world, when you have a good concept and a solid story. But corridor is the best way to convey that story and keep the player engaged.

    For me, Assassin’s Creed is the ultimate brilliance to rags example: corridor gameplay that became an open world as you progressed in the early games. Which evolved into the meandering, mindless stories of the more recent games. I genuinely have no idea what Valhalla was supposed to be about lol. I finished it, but it was 120 hours I’d rather have back. A corridor style for the late 2010/20s games would have made all of them far more interesting, as they were phenomenal concepts imo.

    All this to say, I don’t mind some impactful world decisions that affect story arcs, but bring back the dang corridor and stop hiding behind massive content dumps… Damn it!








  • Interestingly, this is a reflection of a natural human phenomen. Evolution taught us to be wary of negative events (being dead is a bad look), and to remember them so they’re less likely to get us. As a result, we bias towards negative information because it keeps us alive.

    Positive events don’t convey much more value than our base drives can figure out (e.g., this food good, can be eaten). So they aren’t remembered without effort, and ppl prefer to share info on things that will keep us alive as opposed to things that make life a little more pleasant. It’s a shitty system for modern life, but it worked to get us here lol