Did that sound clever in your head?
406 karma · joined September 3, 2015
To see people speedrunning as a negative is just...odd. People played it, and not only that, put the time and effort in to explore it and share with friends. What's the problem? How is spending literal hours collecting secrets and brute-forcing new tech "destroying" the game? Someone's clearly never run a game of D&D before, because I'd be ecstatic if people took literally anything I created and expanding it into a new form I couldn't have gotten on my own.
Imagine, instead of complaining about the exposure, the game's creator used the feedback for another level (LEAVING the exploits in) and leaning on them as intended tech instead of seeing it as some "look how they massacred my boy" pity party. Crazy, doesn't even have to rewrite any engine code, just design a new level that emphasizes the new tech for these speedrunners.
Average Joes can still play the "normal" version to practice, then ramp up to the new one. Why piss on a community that's shining a light on and celebrating your work? Author even ends with "It was difficult to watch them do this to my game but I learned to love watching them" - so is it just a clickbait title? Have I been played? Should I have listened to DJ Khaled?
I didn't realize it had gotten this bad until that moment, but we've been creeping toward installment plans and subscription services over ownership for a few years now and it's absolutely wild that it's not a warning sign that no one can actually afford to own anything upfront anymore.
What happened to the Google that made things that Just Work™?
I'm significantly more left leaning that anyone else in the group, and most of them are also 30 years older than me, with the other two still being a few years my senior.
We bicker a lot, but it's gotten me to see things from a ton of different perspectives. And even if we don't agree, it gives me a chance to better argue against those points later or at least better understand why someone might think that way.
Obviously I don't think we're the brightest minds in town or anything like that, but I think there's something to be said about this sort of social gathering. It's almost like sparring with people I just disagree with but (mostly) like so that I'm better equipped against the real thing.
Been looking (not as hard as I should be) for a new job since that review, unfortunately being stubborn about staying in central New Jersey isn't doing me any favors. Just trying to maintain my sanity in the meantime while I look around :/
Got the same raise/bonus as someone he referred to as "retarded", so I've been working on #1 because I've already caught myself doing #2 because even after voicing concerns and trying to fix communication issues, management hasn't changed at all.
The shitty part about #2 is that a lot of times you don't catch yourself doing it at first. It starts off as just having a bad productivity day, then you stop caring about busting your ass for a deadline because it's never recognized, then you stop trying to chase after people to answer your emails despite getting told that, rather than programming, I need to reply faster...Slippery slope of apathy. I think I liked my job at some point.
So we just settle for how things are? Why not at least to try to cut out some of the bullshit that absolutely doesn't need to be there?
That's just demonstrably false and sounds like gatekeeping. 4E had a lot of good ideas that didn't always have the best execution. And a lot of the grid-based stuff was pushed so that an online toolset could be released alongside it, but it never actually happened. I think it's telling that even in 2018/2019, D&D Beyond has only JUST started being good enough to be truly usable, and it still doesn't have an online grid/board system (ala Roll20). Imagine how much of a mess it was in 07? Even the character generator that you could get back then was insanely clunky.
D&D didn't need 4E to get people into buying minis, that's just ridiculous if you look at MinatureMarket or any other site that sells oldschool minis. You can disagree with design decisions or the marketing, but to say that it's not D&D is a bit much.
I mean, isn't that a decent summary of a lot of things we rely on in the real world? Too late to stop, already out running in the wild, and everyone hates it but are used to using it, but what's the alternative?
NJTRANSIT, I'm looking at you.
They're not my peers, they're a force of power and intimidation and an interaction with them feels more like a confrontation waiting to happen than anything else, even if you're not even doing anything wrong.