It's nuts in Star Trek that they postulate nobody would know how to cook anymore bc of replicators. True cooking perverts would love the opportunity to have a kitchen where you could get any quantity of any ingredient instantly, AND (maybe more impressive) any cooking implement.
I could use a huge wok or waffle iron or food processor without worrying about where to put it. Just chuck it back in the replicator with the dishes when you're done
@InternetEh And every version you make, you scan it in, so people can eat that whenever they want to without you having to cook it again. So you can spend your cooking time on experimenting and making it better.
@blind_mapmaker@DarkestKale The Skinner-box treadmill of "I did an adventure, number go up" is at the root of the problem, and can partly be solved by not playing that sort of game—rather than generic Hero's Journey, one can start with a competent character and progress slowly if at all.
@DarkestKale@blind_mapmaker I still remember Mike Pondsmith ranting at GenCon about how all these Cyberpunk 2020 players were playing his game wrong and the new thing (Cybergeneration) would show them.
@blind_mapmaker@DarkestKale Yeah, I think D&D 3e and later makes this very obvious with its steady escalation of foe parameters so that you're facing basically the same difficulty of fight for you even as your abilities increase.
I agree, absolute power level doesn't matter. What makes for interesting games IMO is a bit of ability to affect the world and stakes that make it worth the risk. (Which is why a Kids With Bikes game is playable even if you say "there will be no death or serious injury".)
@blind_mapmaker@DarkestKale For me interesting games in the long term come from doing different things, not from doing the same things with bigger numbers.
@futurebird@notsoloud Turns out public health doesn't happen automatically. Who could have guessed, apart from anyone who's ever worked in or learned anything about public health.
When HIM's version of Solitary Man came out, the music channels would censor Ville's cigarettes but not the smoke. My friend went 'is he holding a small fire-breathing dragon?' 😅
I just want Winamp to show the length of albums/playlists and not jump back to 'A' when I go back to my library, or VLC to better remember what I was playing when I left off and compile recently/most listened to playlists, so I can settle on one of them.
@drandrewv2 This pretty much happened at BT in the 90s, they wanted to get rid of some of their older technical people so offered a moderately generous early retirement package… which was oversubscribed by about 3×. So they they had to decide who got it.