This is what happens when you don’t make words mean things. Evil people erode language until white is black is green and the empathetic are evil. And you’re mired in an mud wrestling match with disingenuity, while evil’s cronies shoot the audience.

Why are publishers speaking for devs about how much choice devs would have? Why not get devs to speak?

The only asari I’ll ever truly accept is Dr. Liara T’soni, my OTL.

Ah yeah, of course not. Who would live in a hellscape where having an apartment to yourself is a fantasy?

Ay, you live in Boston too?

Once again, we have lawmakers just making spurious if not outright false statements with no repercussions. When your words decide people’s reality, you should be afraid of what you say. And I don’t see that fear in legislators.

They just say whatever the fuck incorrect bullshit they wish, and walk it back at their leisure when the effect is already resolved in throughout news media. The world’s gotten their soundclip, the base started foaming when they heard their whistles, and then the politican quietly amends “oh, I obviously didn’t mean that.” If more politicans shut the fuck up because they were scared of the repercussions of walking their statements back, then maybe there’d be more reporting on what they’ve done then the inflammatorily idiotic shit they spew every other day.

So when is the government going to deliver my local squadron of tick-squashing gorillas?

You want to have a non-final product write the training for the next level of bot? Sure, makes sense if you’re stupid. Why did all these companies waste time stealing when they could just have one bot make data for the next bot to train on? Infinite data!

How is that weird? You can be fine with suboptimal stuff, and recognize it’s suboptimal. Some people like their relatives and wished they could talk together more readily. Letters were just the fastest (while economical) method of doing that for a while.

I don’t think there is anything to prevent that. So might as well say as much as you can before they snatch away the mic

I should be given uncontested control of the world’s resources for 1 year.

My opponent: the mother Gaia.

I believe that if you wouldn’t be your own current-self’s friend, then you are not your authentic self. You aren’t doing what you like or acting in ways you find enjoyable.

This one is REAL rough, not much interesting I’ve seen

Yeah, it’s not trendy but I don’t think we can do trendy unless we do like I said and derive from standout games with identifiable suites of mechanics. You just have to be descriptive or accept heavy overlap.

“Auto shooter” is not very descriptive. In 10 years, someone would be having this same conversation about that term. Asteroids is basically an auto shooter because there’s no reason to not always be shooting, it’s effectively a QOL change. Some bullet hells too.

Video game genres are one of the few fields in which I’m not a prescriptivist. But survivorlikes only aren’t called RPGs because Vampire Survivor is embossed on the whole subgenre. The suite of mechanics rose to high prominence on the back of one game (or franchise, in the case of Soulslikes) rather than refined through years of experimentation.

We aren’t going to get more, simple names unless they’re similarly derived from a single, famous ancestor like your “Soulslike”. But you can always just be descriptive. Diablo/PoE are “top-down gear-grind RPGs”; it’s jargony but all subgenres are.

I’ve never seen Horizon Zero Dawn called an ARPG but that does seem to be the consensus. I’ve always considered games like that or new God of War to be “adventure games”.

…have I never had a cosmopolitan? That looks great

Don’t tempt them. Or they’ll keep releasing Deltarune(-derivative clones) for the next 5 years

I used to have dreams

Work is a drag

But I guess I have memes

Roses are red

You’re not a gamer but you know how the server infrastructure has changed since Unreal released decades ago. Shove off, dickhead.