TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 21 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Mamaw was a hound for it. And that's okay, JD!

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Are you sure it was an Irish plantation owner? Most of the time Irish people in the Caribbean were working on plantations, not owning them. From what I've read, the person in question was a British person from Antrim - which is on the island of Ireland, but is part of the UK and was itself "plantationed" by Britain.

It would be weird for example to refer to George Orwell as Indian, Louis Theroux as Singaporean or Duke Wellington as Irish - after all, "being born in a stable does not make one a horse" as the Duke put it when 'accused' of being Irish.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

While it's nice to have a development team that doesn't have to chase every single possible dollar, and they might go on to make something even better, that final 10% part isn't true.

With the game engine itself now finished, tested by millions of people, a huge amount of work has been done that feels wasted. Putting content into a game engine not only isn't the hardest part (maybe is the most creative part, which can be... hard) but also is usually different people than the ones that create the engine. The engine itself literally has the content split such that another story can be dropped into it.

Maybe mods can pick that up if the process of adding a story get documented?

Maybe their next game will use the same engine, probably with tweaks if some of it is D&D fixated. So maybe rather than make a new D&D game they are starting from 70% into an un-chained RPG game. As an audience it is possible to be both disappointed by the decision not to create more of a thing we love and understanding and supportive of it at the same time. Music fans deal with this all the time. They've obviously earned a lot of trust.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Please understand you live in a different reality to the rest of us, one where "Emiratis" had spent 70 years have their land and lives stolen before being "denazified", one where Saudi Arabia is a model to aspire to and definitely don't use violence to pursue their aims, one where Palestinians were somehow radicalised by anything other than the actions of Israel and Zionism.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

Yeah it'll all blow over eventually once "Hamas" is gone.

If you're from the UK I'm guessing you're under 30 right?

Britain's cycle of exterminating Irish nationalists every generation and being surprised when the next generation hates you too would be familiar otherwise.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

I don't know if you get this, but the Netherlands and ~~Australia~~ Britain are different societies. Who do you think is lying?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 12 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Do you think all these people work for Mr Olympic or something? What don't you get?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 15 points 3 months ago

Not having a personality distinct from your work is not the same as being a workaholic.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if it's not clear, this is exactly one kind of uninteresting game. Not the "Itch Summer Sale".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 17 points 3 months ago

"Rust Belt" isn't literal, it refers to an area of the US where industrial manufacturing declined significant in the second half of the 20th century. It's called that in part at least because its previous moniker was "Steel Belt".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 20 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Well apart from how tired the "this thing is bad, this thing is good" meme format is, I think there are credible allegations of grooming?

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