It was a trick. She knows Enter Sandman isn’t a Megadeth song, and now she knows you’re not a true metal fan.

The games over before it even started.

I actually find the layout and verbiage changes kind of interesting. You don’t really get to see behind the scenes stuff like this very often, even if its just a single comic strip.

Its supposed to be a take on this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Course_of_Empire_(paintings)

That’s as far as I got though.

You are correct, though it looks like there was some intent behind the choice.

I agree - An engine at the end of the day is just a tool.

This isn’t intended to be a bash a specific engine thing. I recently had a discussion with a friend who noted they very specifically avoided certain engines and I was wondering if that was a common sentiment or if he’s just odd.

Well you got stuff like this:

https://automaton-media.com/en/news/ai-generated-rip-off-of-unfinished-japanese-indie-game-beats-original-to-release-sparking-concerns-about-safety-of-sharing-dev-progress/

Unfortunately I think Lucas Pope’s concerns are valid.

I misread the title and thought the game’s name was “someday”.

It seems like the actual game title is “The Legend of California”, which is admittedly not as cool as “someday”.

I hate to wear some tinfoil but I’d 100% be unsurprised if Bungie or Sony were doing ‘marketing campaigns’ using stuff like astroturfing to promote their game. Its not really uncommon on Reddit and I have seen small/medium sized companies attempt stuff like this in an attempt to go viral.

All that being said, there’s absolutely no way bigger companies like that would 1.) be using Discord to conduct this and 2.) paying randoms to do so. There are much easier ways to go about doing this.

I got to admit - I only played Firewatch briefly (~20 minutes). I just remember walking around and replying to a lady on the radio before stepping away and never jumping back in.

It seems I missed what the reactive storytelling was supposed to be about.

Not today, but yeah I’ve been there.

Dang. Maybe I should buy it and finally learn godot.

The OG Star Wars games from back in the day were my bread and butter. The games ended up leaving a bigger impression on me than most of the movies, despite how clunky and odd many of them were.

It says “reviewed in the United Kingdom”.

If you glance over at Mastodon, there are absolutely content creators and people trying to self-promote. I suppose they do here too on Lemmy/PieFed, but its just not as well seen.

I don’t necessarily see it as a problem though if its relevant to the community and its something you can choose to disengage with… And also if the person posting it isn’t aggressively spamming every relevant community.

I was specifically thinking of books with sexual violence, suicide, or promoting toxic behavior, and even then it does go down to the book’s context.

It sounds kind of ridiculous but this is actually pretty smart. I’d prefer to know what my kids are diving into and maybe set up guardrails or at least warnings if something they were interested in was funky.

I’d probably argue games that ‘can’ do this well is JRPGs because they tend to be a slow burn and have a lot of small side conversations that are not directly plot related, which allows the characters and relationships to get fleshed out.

The ones that immediately come to mind are FF 8/9/10 but I’m certain there are others.

In games where the romance is like a mechanic and not a part of the story? Hmm that’s a tougher question because I think mechanics/gameification tend to ruin the human part of relationship building.

Yeah probably. You may be able to get two crew on oxygen and two on the pilot seat for repairs (and then have someone hop over to doors as soon as they can), then jump out of there first chance you get and hope you’re in range of a shop to buy some repairs since you got 150 scrap.

You’re just going to have to cross your fingers that the shield hold long enough and that no missiles hit the engine.

Oh dang no this article didn’t, the one from the Verge mentioned it: https://www.theverge.com/tech/875309/discord-age-verification-global-roll-out

Sorry I read 2-3 articles about this and mixed up which ones mentioned what.

The article says they may check metadata to verify users as well, so as far as I can tell, they will take that into account.