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maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 18:36:01 EST 
maiyannah
@katiekats @nerthos They were all synths.
Obvs -
RDN's Lucifer (nerthos)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 18:33:29 EST 
RDN's Lucifer
@takepapayaakenji @maiyannah "Bad posts always come from the non-fascist instances" -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 18:32:04 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos It really was begging for a proper management aspect, in having to deal with people trying to take over your new settlement or screw with it in and other ways. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 18:30:55 EST
maiyannah
@takeshitakenji Oh no, an offended mastodon user, THATS unusual. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:54:25 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos Oh yeah, seems like every place has some version of them, the point I was making is that while a stereotypical depiction, it's grounded in reality (something many people deny) -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:50:04 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos But it just highlights the lack of actual choice in how to deal with things you're given in these games. I will agree that New Vegas at least tries to present more options in this regard. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:49:05 EST
maiyannah
@gameragodzilla @nerthos Doesn't mean that it doesn't weaken the story a lot every time it's used though. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:48:41 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos All I'll say (in an entirely politically incorrect way that will be called racist) is that for certain communities of blacks in America, this is entirely normal behaviour.
(It's why we have BLM after all) -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:46:22 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos The big problem for me with NV is that the organizations that I'm supposed care about all evoked my empathy like pictures of Andrew Lloyd Weber evoke animalistic lust. Which is to say not at all. In my NV character's position I would have just taken a place over myself and told everyone else to fuck off.
Maybe that's why FO4 had the settlement mechanic. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:43:19 EST
maiyannah
Review from Trever coming after dinner, gotta do the graphics for it. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:42:38 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos He's uh, very certain American black community. For lack of a better term. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:38:47 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos Characters acting in a way that doesn't make sense for them within the confines of the fiction is a big way to instantly rip me out of any fictional work, be it video games, movies, comics, or whatever. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:34:25 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos Well, that's an example of ludonarrative dissonance that acts to the detriment of the story. The character's actions don't make sense within the context of the game world, so they stick out as irrational and stupid.
Still, one has to concede they can tell where the writing effort in 3 went. The side characters are _bad_. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:32:31 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos Compassion is a precious thing. I don't waste it on those whom haven't invested in me. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:18:19 EST
maiyannah
@andstatus @thefaico One important feature I'm going to build into the API is flexibility in what you request and how. I want it to be easy for clients to get JUST the data they need, as this will alleviate server load greatly (a single API request for a timeline right now can run over a hundred queries in some circumstances!) and also make things much easier for t… -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:14:45 EST
maiyannah
@andstatus @thefaico I think I will have it available both by a hash and a namespaced notice_id
A hash is unique and therefore a better idea, but not really easily-supported in the older software (youd have to do something like have a modern remote generate one for a remote and then have it honoured) - but a namespaced notice_id would give us most of the benefits and still "work" in GS. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:12:28 EST
maiyannah
While a lot of suggestions for the API are sound things that would improve the software, many require changes in the backend that aren't trivial. Obviously, the suggestions that don't require backend changes or involve very minor ones are going to happen first. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 16:04:12 EST
maiyannah
@xj9 @andstatus @thefaico @archaeme I don't have much interest in adding unneccesary external libraries to the software. As is the majority of GS's technical debt comes from having a bunch of very old external libraries, one of which hasn't been updated since 2009. Nonetheless, a hash could work. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 15:53:34 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos @flaxx As an aside, I really adore how I can be more productive than many of these e-beggars when I have a chronic terminal illness that was supposed to kill me 15 years ago and make a mere fraction of what they do. The power of that emotional appeal when you have anything resembling a platform is monumental. Emotional blackmail. -
maiyannah (maiyannah)'s status on Monday, 12-Dec-2016 15:49:53 EST
maiyannah
@nerthos 3's characterization outside of "Dad" was pretty bad, but the DLCs were better. I don't know. I liked New Vegas' story better if I consider it in a bubble, but it doesn't feel like a "Fallout" story to me. The formula punishing a player for exploration I felt basically broke the basic premise of a modern Fallout game too. The whole idea is to explore…
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