Little touch of styrofoam as a spice to the mix.

Finnish calles the Soviets RRAB-3 bombs as Molotov’s bread basket’s.

Would be simpler just to call them turtles and landturtles.

Do you think discussions like that happen in real life?

No it does not mean banning anything.

Goverment sets certain stantard of public healthcare and education, but if you want something outside of it, or for some reason, like long wait time for surgery etc. you can go to private sector.

Im really confused.

Is she going to ban capitalism (stock markets, public companies, private properties, bonds, etc.)?

This is communism.

Socialist think that goverment funds should be used to help its people. You know… Society. Schools, healthcare, public infra. Things like that. Socialism does not mean banning private schools and hospitals, or that nobody could not own any land.

Well that is definite proof that we should fine tech giants even harder.

We used to have summer sheeps. I played with them and feed them and cared about them. Then come fall and we slaughtered them. And they were tasty.

You must then be tone deaf. I was implying that your black and white way of looking things does not separate anything between factory farming and free range ie. the quality of the animals life does not matter ie. It does not matter its all the same if they are packed in over crowded cubes or running on the meadow.

But to be honest im being asshole on purpose. Mostly because i find the all meat is murder people naive and it ticks me off.

Im very much against the meat industry. Not because i think animal life is precious thing that must be protetected, but because it is extremelly bad for the enviroment.

So if people cant respect animals they slaughter for food, there is no difference eating pigs grown in places like in the picture or eating pigs from free range farms?

Continuing that line of thinking we should ban free range farms, because they do the same that factory farms, except less optimized.

Good to know. Im using Sync and thats how it formated it.

Simple answer. Because they dont think about those things or care about them.

Firstly. Are you talking about the olden days or modern games like dark souls?

Secondly. All the hidden doors in dark souls have glowing red texts in front of them.

Thirdly. Dark souls do the same “way foward is always clear” desing all the other games do. Its only the secred areas that are hidden in offline play.

Fourthly. Most of the shortcuts are done in a way where you find the wrong side of the door first, giving the player indication you will be able at some point to open said door/elevator/ladder giving you a visual hint that there is something hidden.

Go play Kings Field and you will experience what games feel like when devs dont want you to know how to progress.

Back in the day we ran againts walls punching them and hoping something would happen. I dont miss that at all.

Very good points and i mostly agree with you.

The yellow paint is very much a balancing act and especially in games like Resident Evil and many other horror games where recource managment is big part of the game making loot to stand out is very important.

If the breakables are easy to miss players will become frustrated when they dont have enough bullets or healing items to progres in game. If devs add loot so much that even blind players find enough loot, then sharp eyed loot goblins will have too many recources to have a challenge. Some games play around this by pseudo randomising the loot and making sure that if some recource is low players will allways find enough >!(The Last of Us does that and if you notice it will ruin your immersion even more. There is no reason to save any recources, because you will allways get enough for the next encounter)!<

Same with games with climbing mechanics. If the game is build around it and is fast paced you will hate the game when you die because you jumped against wall you cant climb.

Im fairly certain that most people who get annoyed about the visual cues would be even more annoyed without them.

Yeah. Im not really a fan of the full toggle system, because the visual cues are such a big part of level desig. All tough i fully support the idea of being able to tune the contrast. It is also good for people with visual impairments.

There are few good workarounds devs use that most people dont even notice. Like in fallout 4 almost every “dungeon” has its entrances lighted in some way and allmost allways doorways that go foward have some visual cue. Another from bethesda is how draugh dungeons have always stone pillars showing the way inside and bandit dungeons have flags. Dead Space has stompable crates that have lights and after opening those the lights shut down.

Then there is always the sixth sense way to do it that i personally like, where player can toggle or ping the what ever skill they have and it leaves the actionable objects high lighted for a time. The negative thing with that is that player can easily develope a habit of spamming the “loot view” all the time and spend too much time collecting every lootable item making the game progress slower than designed.

I feel many people underestimate how important visual cues are for the games. In tighter, more realistic games you can indicate the way foward with things like flickering lights, flash lights in the floor pointing to the right way, glowstick bread crump path or a million different thing.

But with large open world games, where player has freedom of travel its important for the players that they see with a quick glance if the wall is climbable or not.

For the game feel good players need clear rules how the world works. Red barrels explode, breaking this colour crate gives you loot, but these crates are indestructible, objects with this colour can be interactected with this tool etc.

I find it intresting when games have things like HUD on the screen and game highlights enemies and objects you can interact with people dont care about the immersion, but yellow paint is where they draw the line.

I remember reading how somebody hated how Resident Evil 7 marked everything breakable with yellow paint and how it ruined the immersion and made them remember they are playing a game. At the same time there is constantly visible ammo counter on the screen and you have radial wheel to change weapons and those things are not breaking the immersion at all.

No shit it wont be easy and working immediadly everywhere. What is? And it does not nees to work everywhere at once. It does not need to be some macical over night build intercontinental mega structure. Simimarilly like good public transportation in cities lessens the need for private cars good inter city transportation lessens the need for cars, trucks and even flying.

If you need to go to Germany fast, fly there. But if you would have options available where you can comfortably travel to your vacation to somewhere with reasonable price you might consider other destinations too.

Also its not like it needs to be single entity bank rolling the whole railway system. Building new tracklines open whole world of cheaper transportation and locistic opportunities to whole slew of industries.

And are you dim? I just said you dont need to penalize the flight systems. Just give people other options so they dont need to default to taking a plane.

And i live no where near central EU.

Maybe building those high speed rails and pricing them smart enough that they are cheaper so people have reason to use them.

Pros: No check in. Railway stations can be build closer to city centers than airports (hard in USA where rail infra is horrible). Nicer to travel. (Restaurant cars, night cars, can take car with you if needed, can take bike with you, more leg space, more flexible (some trains stop at every station and some only in major cities) can transport both cargo and passengers at once, onboard wifi makes the travel much nicer as you can watch movies or even work)

At 1-3 hour flight the train is not even slower than flying because you dont need to spend 60min at check in and 20/60 min at shuttlebus and waiting your luggage.

You dont need to penalize airtravel. Just offer alternative service that can compete with it.

In fact today i choosed a train for my travel. Flight would have been 1 hour and would have cost 170€ + taxi to and from the airport (add the check in, luggage claiming and transport from the airport to home it would have been closer to 3 hours). I took the train. It cost 37€ + 1,50€ subway ticket, and 300m walk from the station to hotel. I could use my phone the whole time. Nobody asked me to take my belt off, i had plenty of legspace the whole time and i got better meal than in any airplane.

Cons: Somebody needs to build the railways.

When i said that?

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