dude I just found out that vancouver, wa is across the columbia river from portland, or, and not, as I had previously believed, across the border from vancouver, bc

this is such bullshit

is it me or has adobe REALLY not made it clear whether flash is going to just stop being supported or if they're going to use their invasive installer bullshit to make it stop working entirely?

Allegedly it will stop working

https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2020/12/9/22166160/adobe-last-flash-player-update-support-ending-december

bastards!

when has adobe ever missed a chance to be bastards

My internet is out again and in a new and exciting twist, the modem has all three lights on, indicating full connection to that information superhighway, and yet I can't load a basic bitch webpage like this forum without using my cellular data.


This ISP never ceases to amaze

the first quarter of the 21st century is going to be remembered as a time when humanity got an unfiltered look at itself and blinked

the last couple years were made by the Big Historian Industry to sell more history.

Jokes on them we won't need history books in thirty years when public schools are just downloading Wikipedia into student's brains after the printing industry collapsed. But it's still just Naruto episode guides and lists of spiders. They won't even know how to read.

flounderman i put a keylogger into jenissa's heart and she just doesn't love you man sorry

I was only in it for the weird demolition man style cyber sex

she has uninstalled you from her heart-drive

just found out naruto's son is named bort smdh

sasuke named his daughter salad

when you animate with the pencil tool you can resize shit all you want and not worry about line width getting too varied but if you wanna use the fill tool you gotta zoom in and agonize over which vector didn't touch the other one by a micrometer

periodic reminder that the epic games store is giving away free shit
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games
if you haven't grabbed tyranny or pillars of eternity in the last week you have like 10 hours or something idk if it goes by timezone, but starting tomorrow (the 17th) they're doing one a day til christmas

I don't approve of the way epic has gone about establishing their share of marketplace
BUT
wowie zowie that's a lot of free shit

Quote from: FLOUNDERMAN_CLOCK on December 16, 2020, 11:36:44 PM
sasuke named his daughter salad

wow he did

unbelievable

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Quote from: Slurpee on December 11, 2020, 11:09:00 PM

Quote from: DiscoBallClock on December 11, 2020, 06:44:03 AM
regarding complex lore, honestly it's all about how you present it, kinda like Flounderman was saying. you have very distinct examples even in final fantasy itself. FFX did a fantastic job with it because they were able to weave this complex lore without it feeling too burdensome or overly complex. basically, they had a valid excuse to explain things as they were becoming relevant, and not just throw random information at your face

conversely, FF XIII copped out on that and just made it so complicated and convoluted with their lore, without any of it even being shown or seen on screen, one didn't even understand how that wall of text you just had to read has anything to do with the game you're playing. if you asked me to explain it, i wouldn't know. some shit about being cursed by gods or something, idk.

my point is, convoluted lore isn't the problem, even if it directly affects the action of the game, as long as it is presented to you in a way in which you can actually follow. the OG FF VII wasn't too bad in that regard imo (okay maybe a bit with the whole Cloud/Zack thing), but the FF series has worse offenders

right
you're describing motivated action bro

clarity is more a function of relevance than it is of simplicity, sure
but relevance is, largely, a function of motive

in FFX you know what Tidus and Yuna want on a moment to moment basis
you learn what a summoner is because you're helping Yuna, you learn about the ethnic tensions with the Al Bhed because you're friends with Rikku, you learn about Dream Zanarkand because Tidus wants to go home

it's about what the characters want and why they're doing what they're doing, so it's useful to you, so you understand it

there's other reasons for a player to consider information relevant- curiosity's a good one- but character motive is the strongest because it's there for anybody consuming the story

i was thinking more of the fact that because Tidus is an outsider, there's an immersive reason for people to be constantly explaining lore to him without it feeling too forced or convoluted

but you do have a point, the game does try to rope you in emotionally

you seem to know more about plot theory than i do so you know

Quote from: Slurpee on December 17, 2020, 01:07:15 AM
periodic reminder that the epic games store is giving away free shit
https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/free-games
if you haven't grabbed tyranny or pillars of eternity in the last week you have like 10 hours or something idk if it goes by timezone, but starting tomorrow (the 17th) they're doing one a day til christmas

I don't approve of the way epic has gone about establishing their share of marketplace
BUT
wowie zowie that's a lot of free shit

i second this - epic games has given me lots of cool free shit, i recommend everyone to download their shitty client