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Craigp

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Green energy day job, game dev / design talks & tutorials at night.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFL6-QAPmuin1iXUY1MEe0g

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gvy_dvpont, to random
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We've got this cheap egg cooker that plays the loudest, most terrifying alarm you've ever heard when it's done cooking. My wife requested that I make it "less aggressive" so I hacked it into the most gentle egg cooker of ALL TIME

(warning: probably loud)

Before shot: egg cooker finishing an egg before modification. Jarring alarm goes off, I say "fuck!" After shot: egg cooker finishes. A few moments later, a small mechanical music box next to the cooker starts playing Pachelbel's Canon

Craigp,
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@gvy_dvpont ... Why did they design it the original way? Who thought that was a good idea?!

fuzzybinary, to random
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Weird game industry moment: watching that 4 hour video on Star Wars Galactic Star Cruiser and seeing someone you used to work with was likely heavily involved in its creation 😬

Craigp,
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@fuzzybinary Not a game designer, I presume.

Craigp,
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@fuzzybinary Haha, it's such a disaster.

Craigp, to random
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Randomly wandering the back alleys of animated shorts on YouTube.

GOBELINS is an interesting group. Half their shit I hate, half their shit I love. Here's one I loved:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jKh-DP89FPY

Craigp,
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Also, nearly all their stuff seems to be French-only, not that it significantly gets in the way.

Craigp,
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@khfr Nope! That explains a lot.

Craigp, to random
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Every few weeks I think about a setting where the writers introduced a fascinating piece of lore late in the story that completely invalidates everything about the story and then just... never acknowledge it.

"Whoops, accidentally made our entire story the worst possible story we could have told in this setting. Lol. Lmao. Nobody will notice."

Or - and here's an idea.

Or you could tell A GOOD STORY. One your setting amplifies and supports.

Craigp,
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A great example is Mass Effect.

The aliens are all "flavor text" aliens. But if you learn any lore, you quickly realize "authoritarian space cop fights off space zombies" is the weakest possible story to tell.

For example, there's the teeeeeeny tiiiiiny little detail that all of spawn is owned by ancient telepathic aliens that need to breed with other species and everyone seems perfectly happy with that.

They never bring it up. Just casually mention it.

Craigp,
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"Yeah, the asari are basically mindflayers but hot. And they run society and everyone's fine with it. No, we aren't going to go into it. Instead, here's a gun, go kill zombies."

Craigp,
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Nearly every lore detail of the setting spins up a far more interesting story than the story they went with.

It's really funny.

Craigp,
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Imagine being human space cop, then being promoted to citadel space cop...

And realizing, holy shit, Cerberus is right. The aliens are literally all mind controlled. Good thing I have that weird chip in my head they gave me.

Imagine if you did most of the same things, but instead of space zombies actually arriving, the threat was the council's reaction to the historical finds.

Craigp,
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This is something that bothers me about a lot of game plots - a lot of them are about shapeshifting spies ermagawd more shapeshifting spies it could be aaaaaanyone-

And it's like... no, they'd just run things?

They'd be the government.

That's how it really is - spies are an arm of a government. Sure there's (insert any government you don't like here) spies, but there's at least as many spies from your nation keeping your overlords in power.

Craigp,
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Games with publishers seem to universally choose whatever the weakest possible story is, with the status quo being the ideal.

It's really, really boring.

If you want a real threat, a real enemy, guess what. There's one down the road. It wears a badge and kills anyone that calls for help.

Craigp, to random
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Watched a man eat a common thing in exactly the opposite way I do, and now I'm caught in the existential dread of knowing that one of us is a fuckin' idiot and not being sure which.

Craigp, to Unreal
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Ugh, I finally decided to grab some assets from the shop (free ones) and I can't figure out how to put them in a project.

The only way it seems I can is to "create a project" based on those assets in the Epic Games Store Shopfront (unrealenginetab), then manually export every fuckin' asset to a format I can import somewhere else.

Craigp,
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@fractalus So that is the only way, it's terrible.

Every time I update the engine, I have to spend hours upgrading the content library projects.

knizer, to cooking
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It’s hot this week, early in the year.

don’t what to have the oven on. What’s your go-to hot weather minimal stove usage/heat up the kitchen meal prep ?

Craigp,
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@knizer Late dinners and open back doors. XD

Craigp, to random
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Yesterday, I talked about the idea that player crafted goods in an MMORPG could give visual shows depending on how players created them. For example, eating a sandwich would have a kaleidoscopic particle effect representing the ingredients and prep.

It'd be something the players could control, not just a few canned options. So even if the stats are the same, you get different experiences.

Especially if you can see other people's, and if you do course-based meals, drinks, whatever.

SO...

Craigp,
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I was thinking about how flexible this is.

Because you can backfill compatible ingredients as you update the game.

For example, if you paint a landscape of a frozen city, it's a canned subject and you get a specific result that can be put on a wall.

But the paints and tools and canvas you use, as well as the finishing coat, precoat, all this stuff-

Those determine how the painting "reaches out" visually to people passing nearby.

And you can simply... use more recent paints.

Craigp,
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If this month released the new Tropical Joys locations, that comes with a bunch of new paints, some new materials for brushes, maybe a new canvas material, and so on.

Those can all be used to paint the "same picture". The result will look the same (aside from maybe a small palette tweak) and will have the same stats.

But you can have an entirely new experience looking at it, because the new paints and such have different effects and progressions attached to them.

Craigp,
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Obviously the same thing is true of sandwiches and novels and whatever else.

Craigp, to random
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Are there any real slick practices for assembling small first person town scenes? It seems like a slog and curving roads are real fragile.

Craigp, to random
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Ugh, the smell of gasoline in my house. Thanks giant truck and yesterday's rain.

Craigp, to random
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Watching a little old lady slowly start wobbling across the street because the light turned red. Screw the brain damaged traffic engineer that designed this light to turn red for one second before turning green again. I presume they enjoy screams and horns.

I hate this engineer so much and i will kick their shins if I ever meet them.

shinmera, to random
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This comic deals with marriage ceremonies, and it just made me realise that I do not understand the appeal at all.

Usual emptor: I can rationalise it; I mean that I do not connect with that appeal on an emotional level, thank you, you do not need to explain it to me, thank you. thank you.

Anyway, it just feels like a huge waste of money and a source of stress for everyone involved. Having a secluded outing somewhere all just to share between you and your partner seems much more appealing to me

Craigp,
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@shinmera Maybe the secret to writing a good wedding is understanding why the characters want to do the bullshit. XD

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