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Very British
Whenever I listen to Americans talk about anything involving the war of independence I get this odd feeling of frustration in my gut. I think my inner imperialist wants to come out and this feeling gets unbearable whenever I see a joke about the tea being dumped into the sea.
I wonder if other great empires feel like this, they look at a map and try to imagine what there people must have felt like at the height of there power.
Since people keep asking for this picture, here it is.
The Mental Model
Sometimes Tumblr advertises blog posts to me, and it’ll be somebody lauding high praise on a TV show for defying stereotypes. Today Tumblr advertised a post where somebody venerated a show that established a fake culture, then defied the stereotypes applied to that fake culture. It got me thinking: the show was good, and that’s fine, but I’m really interested in the person who was impressed that a show broke its own stereotypes. I’m thinking to myself: has there even been a popular show since the nineties that really tried to enforce the idea that stereotypes are absolute? Can a writer take themselves seriously if they don’t understand stereotypes? . I think that what’s interesting about these posts isn’t that they’re profound, because they aren’t. In fact, a lot of them turn around and try to make an opposite generalization, which is like a snake eating its own tail. What’s interesting is that it’s like telling a child for years that a snake can unhinge its jaws, then seeing the child marvel at it when it’s depicted in a cartoon - not even real life, but a work of complete fakery that relied on professional entertainers to have done research on actual snakes. . But they feel so proud and so smart because a work of fiction lined up with their expectations, and essentially, this is how Freud ruined psychology for years. This is how racist ideas come forward in the first place. This is how people came to believe that certain Pacific islands were a sex paradise, because an explorer wrote a book saying that was true and then most fictional depictions of those places reinforced that for ages afterward. It’s how propaganda works and how people become politically polarized. . I think that when you congratulate a writer for not sticking too close to stereotypes, it’s like congratulating an artist for painting the sky blue. It’s like saying, “congrats on going outside and meeting different kinds of people, on knowing what color the sky is”. But they don’t really grasp how to write about a culture themselves, because if they did, those types of compliments would feel patronizing to the writer. I see posts like that get hundreds of thousands of likes and reblogs, but the reality is, what those thousands of people are really saying is, “I’m so glad this popular show holds the same perspective as me”. I wonder how many of those thousands of reblogs actually understand what they’re looking at and have their heads really wrapped around what a stereotype is, and I think that maybe a lot don’t really get it. But then on the other hand, a lot probably do.
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Wait… Guys what?
Is this what you guys think it means when GMO comes up in conversation?
Do you know what else is a GMO?
Dogs. Literally ALL dogs have had their genetics modified to make them more docile, loyal, trusting, energetic, obedient ect.
Ears of corn used to be the size of your thumb. Through selective ‘breeding’ we chose the strains of corn that were the biggest, fastest growing, most resilient ect. Ect.
THAT is a GMO. I don’t know where the idea that genetic modification meant they’re injecting your food stuffs with chemicals to change its DNA. That’s not how it works.
However, they ARE spraying your veggies with pesticides and that is something you should be worried about.
Companies like Monsanto are evil. But not because they are breeding crops to feed more people. But because they’re monopolizing the farming market, sueing farmers who share a geographic area and have some of the same strains of crops in their fields because of unavoidable cross pollination and lying about their business practices.
ummm you do realise that selective breeding and genetic engineering are completely different. I mean today the intention is more or less the same, but different dog breeds don’t exist because a scientist changed the genome by adding genes from another species. They were simply selected for favourable traits. Humans were not even aware of what they were doing until very recently. It was natural selection of naturally occurring genes. For example: aggressive dogs were killed and so were not able to breed. While cute dogs were kept as pets and thus had a higher chance of breeding. That is completely different for physically modifying the animals genome. I am not even opposed to GMOs per se, but I don’t trust the companies that doing it or their motivations, and thus I am disinclined to believe their products are safe for human consumption.
According to wikipedia:
“A genetically modified organism (GMO), also known as a transgenic organism, is any organism whose genetic material has been altered using genetic engineering techniques.” “Genetic engineering, also called genetic modification, is the direct manipulation of an organism’s genome using biotechnology.”
“Selective breeding (also called artificial selection) is the process by which humans use animal breeding and plant breeding to selectively develop particular phenotypic traits (characteristics) by choosing which typically animal or plant males and females will sexually reproduce and have offspring together.”
Two VERY different processes…
“They are feeding us chemicals”
… boy do I have bad news for you concerning the composition of natural foods…
HAHA good point… Although I think they are specifically referring to artificial chemistry that did not exist in the environment that we evolved in. If life (i.e. plants) evolved chemicals that were dangerous they would ever damage themselves or have evolved them as poisons. While, modern chemistry has the ability to create compounds that are not naturally occurring. The chemicals that they are referring to are herbicides and pesticides which there is a lot of building evidence are often not safe for human consumption. The chemistry used in horticulture is also what I would call ‘cowboy chemistry.’ With a product like Roundup for example, the only chemicals in the product that need to be tested (by the company itself and NOT independently) are the ‘active ingredients.’ The inert ingredients do not have to be either tested or labeled (to protect the companies IP to their formulas). The problem is that these ‘inert’ ingredients often do things like increase the active ingredient’s cell penetration. As you can probably imagine, this likely fundamentally changes the active ingredient’s ability to damage cells and thus potentially cause cancers. There is also issues around testing the interactions between chemicals. In horticulture for example, there is set limits on how much of a particular product/chemical you can use. There isn’t however, strict guidelines about how many different products you can use. And as anyone that has some knowledge of chemistry can appreciate, mixing chemicals can fundamentally change their properties.
In short, there are certainly a lot of legitimate issues around the use of chemicals in food production. As my old horticulture teacher once predicted: in 50 or 100 years people will look back and call this the ‘Chemical Age’ and wonder how we could raise our children in such toxic environments with so little understanding of the long term effects.
“Although I think they are specifically referring to artificial chemistry that did not exist in the environment that we evolved in.”
There are plenty of environments we did not evolve in that does not make them “bad” on that detriment alone. We did not evolve in space, do you think we should never go there?
“If life (i.e. plants) evolved chemicals that were dangerous they would ever damage themselves or have evolved them as poisons. While, modern chemistry has the ability to create compounds that are not naturally occurring.”
I don't like the implication that “Natural” is good and “Artificial” is bad but that issue is so far reaching its insane. As for the Plants evolving chemicals that are dangerous... They all do, all plants develop poisons, all plants try to kill the things that eat it even the ones that USE animals eating them to spread there seeds. Animals also evolve over time as plants are evolving and become resistant to the chemicals being used.
“The chemicals that they are referring to are herbicides and pesticides which there is a lot of building evidence are often not safe for human consumption.”
GMO’s are the subject here and while herbicides and pesticides should be used carefully they are needed to ensure good return on crops to feed large populations.
Besides if you want food that has not been grow in the most effective manor you will need to pay a higher price for the luxury good you are consuming.
“The chemistry used in horticulture is also what I would call ‘cowboy chemistry.’”
You call it “cowboy Chemistry” do you? I am sure that does not colour your argument at all.
“With a product like Roundup for example, the only chemicals in the product that need to be tested (by the company itself and NOT independently) are the ‘active ingredients.’ The inert ingredients do not have to be either tested or labeled (to protect the companies IP to their formulas).”
Yeah the chemicals should be tested by a independent (I would say government) company but lets see where you are going with this.
“The problem is that these ‘inert’ ingredients often do things like increase the active ingredient’s cell penetration. As you can probably imagine, this likely fundamentally changes the active ingredient’s ability to damage cells and thus potentially cause cancers."
Well, nice language there, “Likely, Potentially, Probably” you are trying to frame your argument in a way that makes all chemical use look bad because it “MIGHT CAUSE CANCER GUYS!”
“There is also issues around testing the interactions between chemicals.”
What issues? you state this and then go onto problems with guidelines... You never expand upon this statement and I find that odd but whatever.
“In horticulture for example, there is set limits on how much of a particular product/chemical you can use. There isn’t however, strict guidelines about how many different products you can use.”
Yeah I agree that is an oversight.
“And as anyone that has some knowledge of chemistry can appreciate, mixing chemicals can fundamentally change their properties.”
STOP THE PRESS!
“In short, there are certainly a lot of legitimate issues around the use of chemicals in food production.”
Yeah, legislative ones.
“As my old horticulture teacher once predicted: in 50 or 100 years people will look back and call this the ‘Chemical Age’ and wonder how we could raise our children in such toxic environments with so little understanding of the long term effects.”
Wow okay this is gonna be fun, lets break this down step by step cus this is a work of art!
“As my old horticulture teacher once predicted”
This is an argument from authority, nice starting point as it frames the rest of the paragraph.
“in 50 or 100 years people will look back and call this the ‘Chemical Age’”
Will they? Is it like how we look back at the 50s and call it the radioactive age? except we don't :I
“and wonder how we could raise our children in such toxic environments”
Children have been raised in toxic environments since we developed cities, in fact we are FAR cleaner and safer when it comes to Toxic compounds and chemicals in our air and environment.
“with so little understanding of the long term effects.”
Like what? Cancer? That is your only argument and it could be rephrased as “THIS might potentially could CAUSE CANCER!” And thus, you are using the current fear of our culture to frame your argument, I think that is a bit dishonest but hay ho!
I’m not actually sure anyone can fathom the amount of hours I’ve put into Halo Mythic. It’s gotta be in the thousands. Actual years of work. Breaking down the system, rebuilding it. Taking some time off, coming back with bigger goals.
This could be it. It could be my ticket to a job I’d enjoy, the very possibility of being recognized for my work makes me wish it could happen even sooner.
But it can’t, and I can’t let it. I have to bide my time and build the best system I can, the best Halo tabletop I can, the best GAME I can.
I just pray it will all be worth it in the end. I want to be that guy who set out on a long journey and find his destination the way he always dreamed it to be.
Your system is fantastic and has helped me with understanding more about role-playing games and how they are built, you have made something special here and I hope you feel accomplished even now, with a long way still to go.
And if yall wanna bring up wage gap
this is your wage gap
That is an Earnings gap not a wage gap...
consider that the PC is a veteran, and was going to a veteran party before the war happened. considering the military uses power armour, it's possible they have already had training in how to use it
True, yes, but only the male protagonist is seemingly a veteran. And, from what we saw in the character creation demo, they may not even be a veteran, they’re just going to a veteran’s hall. They could be any kind of public presenter. However, yeah, they probably are a veteran, but it’s always good to make note of the fact that vague info doesn’t confirm anything. We still don’t know what the female protagonist’s history is. The best anyone’s found is a law degree sitting on a shelf in their living room.
I think they should have the same profession, it would not make sense from a game play perspective for the male character to be a vet and the female to be something else given that they will both have the same skillset available to them.
Besides in the fallout universe there are women in the army and there is no instances of women being discriminated against.
I hope for Halo Mythic’s big 3rd “first fully-functioning version” will be the one that everyone sees. Release 2, which was buggy and a test bed for what is to come, got really popular. Even V1.4 still has a playlist of people still using it and trying to send me ideas and fixes for something long dead.
I really, REALLY pray that people will help me get Release 3 out there, I really want this to be the thing people use. The tabletop to end all other projects I have worked on.
This is the biggest, the longest I have ever worked on anything. The most work I have put into anything. The most I have cared about anything I have made. Really, the only thing I care about that I have ever made. This is my baby, and I really hope my thousands of hours of development wont go to waste. That’s a big fear of mine.
Your work is fantastic and should be shared!
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well this isn’t necessarily a bad point. there are games with great stories and really awful shoehorned fighting sequences. then you also have handicapped/disabled gamers who don’t necessarily have the dexterity to finish a game but would still like to be able to.
optional “cakewalk” modes aren’t that bad of an idea.
what if i want to just see the story of the game and dont want to actually play it? like??
as it is i would never pay for a bioshock game or a fallout game but i am very interested in the story. so i just watch youtube videos of it. they could get money from me if they sold the skip combat mode
i’m a games developer and an avid gamer and i really really think games should let you skip combat
honestly one of my favourite things about la noire was when you failed a sequence twice the game was like “yo do you just wanna skip this bit?” the gaming industry/community has a huge problem with accessibility tbh. like, thank god for standardised control schemes (although bring back full customisation jfc not enough games have that anymore) but fights require time, literacy in both that type of gaming & in the individual game, you need to be able to navigate the system which can be anywhere from slightly difficult to hellish for people with visual/audio processing disorders. and tbh sometimes you just wanna enjoy the story and not get stressed the hell out doing the sAME FIGHT 700 times. it’s why i always put a game on easy/casual when I’m replaying unless i’m specifically going for difficulty based achievements. not to mention SO MANY GAMES have either poorly designed battles or fights that have been shoved in for no reason other than to pad out the game (dxhr & da2 come to mind immediately) that sometimes it’d honestly improve the gameplay to just skip them altogether
Imagine if you were a gamer with arthritis or MS or some other disability that took away your ability to click buttons quickly, and every fight became as frustrating as THAT GODDAMN DA: ORIGINS OH FUCK I’M ON FIRE SLIDE PUZZLE.
Yeah. Skipping combat might seem like a not bad idea then.
Mass Effect 3 has this:
[Screenshot from a Mass Effect 3 menu, with title: “Choose Your Experience”, showing the options ‘action’, ‘role playing’ and ‘story’.]
‘Action’ makes most story choices for you and conversations become straight up cutscenes. ‘Role playing’ is the default experience, both challenging gameplay and character/story building. And ‘story’ has the roleplaying but very easy combat, letting you breeze through it. (You also have a ‘casual’ difficulty setting that’s a bit more rewarding but still pretty easy.)
The thing about video games (particularly RPGs or in general games that allow you to explore or direct the story) is that the interactivity is what makes it different from movies or watching LPs on youtube. And I’ve played games that got FAR stronger emotional reactions out of me simply because I had to carry out the actions myself rather than just watching. And that experience should be more accessible.
Because SHOCKINGLY: games aren’t always about winning, or being good at it. It’s about having fun. This is kindergarten education here.
Yeah, it always baffles me when I see people react so negatively to a perfectly reasonable suggestion like this.
Why the hell shouldn’t games let you skip combat if you want to? Why shouldn’t there be a super-duper-easy-peasy mode for everything? No-one is gonna force YOU to play it like that if you don’t want to! Continue to be as hardcore as you like!
I just don’t understand the resistance at all. What we’re talking about is simply having more options for gamers. You’re adding something that would make games more accessible and fun for loads of new fans, and you’re not taking ANYTHING away from existing fans.
Like…do you…not want more people to enjoy these games?? Do you really hate the idea of other people having fun so much that you’ll rile against it even when it literally has no effect on you or your experience whatsoever?? Are you honestly that selfish??
The more people look to video games for compelling stories and entertainment, the more they actually want to participate in this new and growing medium, the more the old guard hisses like a cat in a rain storm and resists. Gamers want to be taken seriously until that actually starts to happen.
“I should be able to enjoy literature without reading a book”
“I should be able to enjoy cinema watching a movie”
“I should be able to enjoy music without listening to music”
“I should be able to enjoy theater without watching a play”
That’s how you sound.
What you fail to take into account with your snide little addition is that literature, cinema, music, and theatre do not have the secondary barrier to entry that video games do. Games are, as far as I can think of, the only form of medium that require SIGNIFICANT motor skills to experience. They are the only form of media that will withhold the story from you if you do not perform additional tasks up to spec.
And I hate to break it to you, but some games are fucking hard. Like, I have been playing games literally for as long as I can remember, and there are games that I cannot complete and experience.
So how frustrating do you think it is for people who want to get into games later in their lives, that don’t have those skills? Or people with physical disabilities that make it harder for them to play?
A Tourist Mode (as its been called elsewhere) takes NOTHING away from you. It does literally nothing to affect the core gaming experience. It only adds to the potential audience. And hell, I am a Legit Gamer and I *use* Tourist Modes in some games (Dragon Age: Origins, I tend to play on Casual when I just want the story).
Chill the fuck out and let the industry evolve, for fuck’s sake.
Difficultly modes are as old as fuck. Remember Doom? Did you beat that on Nightmare mode? Or do you only ever play the easiest mode? Hey, remember Goldeneye? Did you beat all Agent, Special Agent, and then 007 agent levels? Remember Megaman 2 (us version), normal & difficult? The ideas that providing easy difficultly modes allows for more players to enjoy is not a new one. I bet you cut your teeth as a kid on easy modes. The idea that having difficultly modes is a great way to lengthen the gaming experience and teach necessary skills so that you feel bad-frickin-ass when you finally beat hard mode, that’s not new either. You’re not really interested in games though, are you? You’re interested in gatekeeping newcomers. Alright, go ahead, rip the difficultly modes out of Doom so that either you’re stuck on super-easy, or little Johnny here never gets the appeal because he can’t figure out how to kill a single monster on nightmare mode. He goes back to Fifa ‘15 and cheers for the British, and twiddles with Angry Birds a bit before bed, because those games *are* accessible to him. And your games will enjoy a slow death as the market slowly dwindles and dies because you insist that no new gamers can be a good thing.
My only thing about difficulty is that it has to be well thought out, because the first Dawn of War(if Soulstorm is any indication) is a good game, with dated graphics, but if you go from Easy to Normal difficulty you go from being able to win most of the time to winning maybe 50% of the time, if you really know your builds, and how to play the AI(maybe it’s just ‘cause I play the Sisters of Battle, who knows). By contrast, Endless Space has about twice as many difficulty options so the learning curve is way more gentle(though a lot of people dislike Endless Space because reasons I can’t recall at the moment). At least that’s my two cents.
I’m a gamer, and a designer, and I 100% believe in skippable/super-easy combat options. It’s a) not really hard if you’re already doing difficulty options, and b) expands your market, and c) lets more people play and enjoy your game which kind of, y'know, THE POINT? Like, I get that there are games where the brutality towards the player is part of the appeal (Dark Souls, Megaman, etc), but not every game has to be that. This also ties into my ongoing frustration who think “Nintendo hard” was a product of careful and deliberate design choices, as opposed to an immature art form that was still basically just duplicating what was used in arcade machines to suck quarters out of children as fast as possible. Video games are not disguised slot machines any more (well, not all of them) so we don’t need to build them that way any more. Skippable/easy combat isn’t like “reading a book without reading a book” it’s like watching a movie and having fucking subtitles available or being able to skip tracks on album.
Well, even Dark Souls(well Dark Souls 2 at least) has ways of making the game easier, so instead of a menu, they have choices in the game that you can google to find out, if you’re willing to do the research.
Though I was under the impression that Nintendo Hard was about making sure that the small number of gamers with a home console could sink hours into the games, but eh, you’re (probably) right that the immaturity of the medium was a bigger factor.
The funny thing is most games are comprised of systems that have a set of rules with a set goal, the accomplish said goal you have to know the rules and interact with the world, a world that does not wish for you to succeed. This system is called game-play and it is the MOST IMPORTANT THING in video games its what makes or breaks a video game.
What value does the narrative in a game like Xcom have when you can skip the fights? “I just want to experience the story” well then you are going to have to suffer, cities are going to get bombed and soldiers that put there lives in your hands are going to die because you make mistakes, that is the story, its the story that you would not get if you never had a shot miss or never had any of your soldiers die. Its not like having subtitles on movies or skipping a song its like taking a book and removing everything but the dialogue, its like removing everything that makes games what they are.
Yes easy mode is there to be used but its a far cry from just letting you skip parts of the game! An easy game mode needs to be made in such a way that is hard to fail, easy to win, but STILL challenges you.
What is the point of Lord Of The Rings if you can just skip the long walk and drop the ring into the volcano via griffin?
If you remove challenge you remove much of the narrative of games and no self respecting game dev should want that.
your rpg has lovely page formatting but it's so fucking unnecessarily complex
Which is complex, the tabletop itself, or the design?
Either way, the tabletop is a D100 system. Think percentage and 10s. It’s pretty simple when you learn D100 systems.
D100 systems are, I think, the best systems because they are easy to grasp and make quite a bit of practical sense.
Most of the people who have problems with them A have never had any experience with PNP games or B have only ever played a complex system that does not translate to the more sensible d100.
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So you want to End Racism by having companies fire white people and hire “people of colour?”
What the hell is wrong with this world.
We wouldn't need an umbrella. We'd be hit from the sides. But. But. Hear me out. The Radiation suits nobody really used in previous games. What about them. They could work!
You must be really bad at using an umbrella
No one used Radiation Suits? What did you have a Rad Away Drip?!
I want one of those scenes in a dude bro film where “tomboy” chick has to wear a dress to go undercover or whatever, but instead of the guys drooling as she walks down the stairs, they’re like “k. U need to stop. Go put the cargo pants back on. You look super uncomfortable and awkward in that. Brutus, you go be the fake prostitute.”
I’m just imagining this super ripped guy called Brutus being like ‘YESSS!!! I’VE ALWAYS WANTED TO BE THE FAKE PROSTITUTE!! Now is my time to shine!!’
so I got inspired… and had to make a comic….
This isn’t funny like it’s transmisogynist AF…….
Sorry if this comes across as offensive, I am asking an honest question here, I think in this context this man is clearly NOT trans, he is just quite happy to put on clothes that are considered normally feminine and in our culture it IS strange to see men in feminine clothes, what is funny about this comic is the team dynamic, I don't see how this is Trans-misogynistic can you tell me why it is?
Halo Mythic now supports planet generation.
To roll for planets: Size Gravitational Pull Atmosphere Water/Land Percentage (waterworlds and desert planets, anyone?) Continent Count Biomes per Continent
NPC generation and wildlife generation will be next.
The NPC Generation will allow a GM to roll up quick NPCs using:
Race
Sex
Build
Complexion
General Attitude
Current mood, etc
Nice, this will be helpful!
Watch: “Feminist” isn’t a dirty word — and it’s time we embrace the truth
If people just learned the definition of “feminist” it would be so easy
…these are simple, easy questions man. This is entry level, white feminism 101. You’re not a feminist for agreeing with those questions, you’re just a decent fucking person. Maybe dig a little deeper into real, actual feminism such as:
their thoughts on trans women being subjected to violence, sometimes even death, due to men’s threatened masculinity?
their thoughts on men in politics trying to have ownership over women’s bodies?
their thoughts on reproductive issues for black women choosing not to have kids because of the very real threat of police brutality?
their thoughts on lesbians and queer women being sexually objectified?
their thoughts on gendered violence, when 1 in 4 women will be raped or sexually assaulted in their lifetime?
I’d also ask how hard they’re willing to work to achieve those ends. It’s one thing to say you’re for equality, it’s another thing to actually think through your own behavior, who you vote for, and how you handle gender issues.
I doubt most people would phrase it like that, but that’s probably where the reluctance comes from.
They might have problems with things like the “Kill all men” Tag or abusive comments made by vocal feminists.
Saying “Oh you want gender equality? Feminist! HA CAUGHT YOU!” Is bloody wrong, its not a good idea to go around and tell people what THEY think.
When it comes to Feminism it brings quite a bit of baggage, feminists have a PR problem that is almost as bad as the MRA’s and somehow they are gaining support, people don’t want to identify as a feminist because of how feminists act, its all well and good complaining about the bad people who make up feminism but if you don’t go out and counter the stuff they are saying people will assume that is the normal MO of feminists.
