The music and the bright colors in that cel shading style were great. They also did a really good job with the seagulls and the barrels and the silhouettes in the distance as you were sailing. Maybe it was just the contrast with all of the ‘dark’ games at the time. It was a gigantic mood swing from majora’s mask. The music really helped sell it.

I think wind waker is good example of how to handle ‘open world’ without letting on that you’re controlling the experience. I don’t think any of the official ‘next steps’ ever had you sailing more than three squares away. The teleport was right when the world ‘opened up’ to you doing whatever you felt like, and the easily grasped concept of one square=one island with some interaction made sure there was no loss of focus on the developers or players. Obviously the main islands had more to do than the ones with just a platform/reef, but it worked.

traveling to another city is actually so inconvenient that you only do it if you have to

They don’t work. Vanguard did it way back when, with their three continent world. Each one had enough content to get from lvl 1 to lvl 50, the max, and your starting race determined your starting location. It could take up to an hour to get to friends. Even on the same continent, with a mount (before they added flying mounts), it could take a half hour of running to cross the map… and players complained so vociferously that they were forced to add fast travel options.

Odd that there is no mention of how to deal with people who broke the covenant with the lord. Surely no bible would have such information.

I don’t see the problem? I can see the character’s expressions, their stances, their clothes and clothing decorations, the objects they’re holding… I don’t necessarily agree that this should be the way a federation starship would be lit, but I don’t see why people would say they couldn’t see anything.

Stickers? I’ve seen entire car wraps of just shy of hentai. The stickers I always see are the ‘peekers’ and I try to see how many I can guess right.

I think that idea was why I avoided warhammer writing. One meme about the fart ladder and I realized it wasn’t worth the paper it was written on.

That was the weirdest thing for me when I worked at a little kid’s school. When I was a kid, we didn’t have designated drinking time at the fountain. We just drank randomly during recess and lunch.

I lost someone who I thought was a good friend. He was no joke addicted to it (he once let a pot of food rot in his room while he played for days straight) and met his wife on it. I wasn’t interested in it (I played burning crusade with him and just didn’t have fun), and somehow that drove a crack in the friendship. He was such a good guy, and I wonder what our friendship would have been like if it wasn’t for wow.

I think that knife needs to be used more effectively if all the pupils are to be replaced.

It almost looks like some form of temporary registration, shoved up under the plastic. The one bit of semi-legible writing doesn’t look like english though.

The reason it’s legal? Because it’s not illegal.

ha ha

But seriously, the chances are so low that it was likely never considered. Politicians have to pass a law to make something like that illegal, and what politician is even going to think about this, much less bring it up for a vote?

My guess is venezuela is going to ‘kick it off.’ Trump does something stupid as another bit of red meat to toss to his little horde, he pushes argentina to help in some way, maybe he gets really brazen and tries something against brazil for their crime of daring to say anything against him (and maybe because he still has bad feelings about them from when musk was his little bestie), and china and russia decide to get rich by selling weapons to the south american countries, who will obviously have feelings about the whole us invasion. That pulls american attention away from asia, letting china have more options in their local area to bully around, and that kicks off something from that area.

Europe, africa, and the middle east might get out mostly free of conflict. The ukraine/russia war will likely still plod along.

A court says to do something, trump says no. We’ve played this game before. The few times the admin actually follows the rulings end if it gets to the supreme court.

The play is fun, but you can get the highlights from watching the hilarious videos people have made on them. Just in case anyone wants to save the megabytes on the hard disk ;)

It’s been less than a week since I had to deal with a pack of dogs in the street, so… yes?

That’s my joke with people all the time: ‘Microplastics are better than plastic surgery!’

… which then cues the question of wtf microplastics are and I look at them like they’ve been living under a rock.

I think there are often fried sushi rolls on the menu of most places. It’s the only way I can convince certain family members to go.

DAmn you.

I mean, in us terms, genxers broke the most heavily for trump. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/20/cherie-westrich-alt-rock-gen-x-maga-00033769

Sure, but what IS responsibly? If part of being responsible about it is limiting it, how do we decide to go about limiting it? Every answer does touch on eugenics. I agree with the proposition that we need overall less humans in addition to every other step to reduce our carbon/ecological impact, but doing it ethically is pretty hard.