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I hope that Mr Rossignol will write something better than mediocre eventually. Three attempts and not quite over that hurdle. He is a master at figuring out an interesting concept and then executing it in the most boring and linear fashion.

Or you can write a short story. Setup a situation and interesting characters in such a way that you can deliver a twist or a point or a punchline or whatever you want to call it at the end of it. This one is hard to do so people go for the first one basically always.

I hope that Mr Rossignol will write something better than mediocre eventually. Three attempts and not quite over that hurdle. He is a master at figuring out an interesting concept and then executing it in the most boring and linear fashion.

And this is the pattern for all three exceptional stories, I am interested at the very start of them, hopeful and excited. And then I get bored. There are two basic ways you can write an ES, either as a videogame story or as a short story.

I hope that Mr Rossignol will write something better than mediocre eventually. Three attempts and not quite over that hurdle. He is a master at figuring out an interesting concept and then executing it in the most boring and linear fashion.

My main wish is that somebody ever applied this level of critique to Disco Elysium. The police procedural where a quarter of skills are useless and everyone knows it.

The neat thing is that you cannot criticize DE on how it treats gender and feminism as it has iirc basically nothing to say about them. How Harry feels about women is not a thing the game cares about beyond the laughable "overt misogyny is fascism and by doing you accrue fascism points".

My main wish is that somebody ever applied this level of critique to Disco Elysium. The police procedural where a quarter of skills are useless and everyone knows it.

Disco Elysium is pretty directly inspired by The Shield which can then trace it's ancestry through cop/detective media back to the same westerns that inspired DND. Hell DE is much closer to this concept than EE, one of the climactic scenes is literally a shootout before the doors of Saloon!

The synthesis here is that in our social media-saturated age, we are often just as willing to substitute lucre for emotional satisfaction or social capital. To feel good, to feel righteous, to have the good opinion of one’s peers, may be just as alluring as classic capital

There is this thought that keeps bouncing in my head. So large part of Peter Watts literary work is that any system capable of housing consciousness can only host one, no matter the amount of constituent parts, if he bandwidth between the parts is high enough.

with two bodies, your consciousness isn't presumably based on a discussion between the hemispheres and hive mind doesn't allow conscious discussions between the brains. The main problem is who would willingly join hive mind? Because by many definitions it would mean killing yourself. You can

There is this thought that keeps bouncing in my head. So large part of Peter Watts literary work is that any system capable of housing consciousness can only host one, no matter the amount of constituent parts, if he bandwidth between the parts is high enough.

I don't think people are even aware of the slight weirdness of czech-vietnames restautants, combined with "Mexican" in this case. This is called burrito, albeit it most resembles spicy czech risotto in tortilla.

It's kinda fucked up that there are books, games, movies and so much stuff that I can never experience because it's in languages I don't know. Like my favorite gamebook author is Zbyněk Dach and he will never be translated from Czech and he is barely known even here.

Memorable moments include: getting to experience guerilla style hit and run tactical on your army from the bows of rangers, choosing to Vlad Tepes the head of league of assassins for next mechanical benefits, bit of slave trading, getting gigantic armies over flooded rivers and much more.

It's kinda fucked up that there are books, games, movies and so much stuff that I can never experience because it's in languages I don't know. Like my favorite gamebook author is Zbyněk Dach and he will never be translated from Czech and he is barely known even here.