Chris Flick

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The intuition here is that anything sufficiently complex can only be designed; actually, anything sufficiently complex can only be grown. LLMs, human intelligence, multicellular organisms, life on Earth. You can’t assemble an equilibrium — it has to equilibrate on its own.

@thegameawards @geoffkeighley The inspiring are silent. Regal bleeds. New thickness stirs. Its gotta have something to so with the three words somehow right?

@geoffkeighley The █████ are silent. █████ bleeds. New █████ stir.

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@CaptainRelyk @VarlusMD @SandyofCthulhu I'd prob agree with you than, but I'd add the villainous factions where in places of power within the human race. Typically I think having an entire race be inherently evil is problematic.

@datChrisFlick @VarlusMD @SandyofCthulhu I feel like your missing my point with constant whataboutism The point remains that there are villainous factions not races

Goblins are a great addition to a fantasy game. But only if they remain toxic, cruel, & petty. If you "rehabilitate" them then you need something else to be the vicious little monsters in your world, and you haven't solved any problem. If orcs or goblins or beholders become potential good guys in a world that heroes who must stand up to evil, then who will be the evil they stand up to? Something else, presumably. At some point you realize that the people whitewashing goblins & orcs are hoping that you'll make humans - your own species - the bad guys.

@CaptainRelyk @VarlusMD @SandyofCthulhu Correct and I think she's important Humans aren't truly unredeemable. She tries to bridge the gap and ally with the Horde but her father ruins that again with racism. It's important to note though that later in WoW she becomes much more like her father and is now super racist.

@datChrisFlick @VarlusMD @SandyofCthulhu Yes but I was talking about Arthas/the Lich king in WOTLK Though even in the example your talking about wasn’t there characters like Jaina?

@CaptainRelyk @VarlusMD @SandyofCthulhu Humans where absolutely antagonists at least in Warcraft 3. They are shown as being racist as hell even against former allies (Blood Elves) and hunting down Orcs who are just trying to flee persecution. The Horde we're really shown as being the main protagonist.

@VarlusMD @SandyofCthulhu Thing is, humans as a whole weren’t the antagonists. The scourge was pretty diverse with death knights of numerous races, the San'layn elves, and undead dragons

@SandyofCthulhu x.com/SandyofCthulhu… Humans being the "evil" species kinda makes sense.

Fallout creator Tim Cain has rejoined Xbox’s Obsidian Entertainment as a full-time employee. “I can’t talk about the project that I’m working on at Obsidian, just because that’s covered by NDA. Don’t bother guessing, you’re not going to guess right. I would probably say that I’m a lot less retired now.” videogameschronicle.com/news/fallouts-…

@SocDoneLeft > Abstraction exists Checkmate atheists

Math doesn't exist "out there", in some ideal plane. Math is just a model. Our math is extremely useful because we designed it to match physical reality. It's easy to imagine Other Maths with different rules. We don't use them because they don't describe reality well!

@deviousjourney If you don't want ambiguity don't make it ambiguous.

@deviousjourney Isn't the whole point of Watchmen that super heroes being real would be fucking awful? Rorschach stands apart as having an unbreakable code (still awful). Ending seemed ambiguous to me; Ozymandias does something truly horrific and the rest kinda accept it for the greater good.

Has Alan Moore ever considered that it was the choices he made in how he presented Rorschach that led to people misinterpreting the character as being aspirational?

@PlayDoW4 Let's go!

Here’s your first look at the Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War IV story trailer, marking the long-awaited return of the Blood Ravens to Kronus, the world they’ve sworn to defend. youtube.com/watch?v=w_m2vm…

@IGN It's not like each ending has cataclysmic levels of consequences on the area or anything.

The creators of the Fallout TV show have confirmed Season 2 avoids making any New Vegas ending canon by taking what they call "the fog of war approach." bit.ly/4pbYOcc

@Apogee_Ent RTS and Arena shooters

Which gaming genre needs a comeback?

@ArbitrarySimple @cptCodeBreak3r @WiggerHunter @Svedan82911 @TripleSixBoss @Vibetom @rnrqkq123 Fallout 3 also inspired me with how you could modernize turn based combat back then by making the actions more cinematic. Granted it wasn't actually turn based but I saw the potential. When I prototyped a Fallout style CRPG my goal was to capture that cinematic feel.

@ArbitrarySimple @cptCodeBreak3r @WiggerHunter @Svedan82911 @TripleSixBoss @Vibetom @rnrqkq123 I would be more than happy with handing the series over to Obsidian to make though.

@SaltSudoku Sometimes I just want pure unfiltered dopamine injected straight into my veins via the monitor.

Vampire Survivors, which is literally the direct video game equivalent of a casino skinner box scam managed to do this much damage to a 30 year old subgenre in less than 3 years.

@SandyofCthulhu Kind of like the ideas in Vampire Masquerade or GURPS; GM can compel you to deal with roleplaying and you can roll to resist temptations/addictions/quirks etc. The how is up to the player but if you fail a roll you have to deal with what's on your character sheet.

Anti-Roleplaying Activist: "The 'dungeon master' has complete control of everything, and the players are forced to act out his dark fantasies." Real Dungeon Master: "Please, just swim across the river or use the rope bridge. You've all tried to seduce the catfish and it didn't work."

@ShitpostGate Breeding Dwarves