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    Computer games and the save checkpoint system

    Yeah and in that era (2014) it wasn't as trivial to find that out either, because few if any reviewers mentioned it, and most forums where people would have complained about it were very poorly indexed (if at all) by Google. I have no idea what the purpose of no-save-on-exit was. It's bizarre...
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    Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

    Y'all could also live in a place where the air didn't hurt your face and ALSO there weren't monstrous beasts and ALSO there weren't earthquakes or volcanos or tornadoes or hurricanes or real blizzards or similar (though climate change may yet grant us the latter three), it's called Britain...
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    Computer games and the save checkpoint system

    This is a pretty hilarious and silly thing to say. Do you really think it advances your argument? The reality is, most people don't really care about needing save/reload the way you do, because it was a weird thing PC gamers in the 1990s latched on to, for the most part. You say "enough...
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    Computer games and the save checkpoint system

    I think you maybe confused re: the point being made. People aren't saying it's always a "processor overhead" or that it's impossibly technically hard (though it does require resources which could be devoted to other things in both cases - hardware and development) or something. They're saying it...
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    Computer games and the save checkpoint system

    Yeah the whole notion of the save/reload at any time "savescum"-style approach is like, my generation and older, really, maybe a little younger, down like 35 or so. It's also PC-specific, for the most part - very few console games have ever had that. The vast majority of have used savepoints and...
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    The easiest explanation is that the Dark Side tricked him into not seeing Ben Solo as a child but a "terrible threat". This is also exactly what Luke says happened in the video you guys seem to want to avoid watching! As soon as he stopped focusing on the looming threat of the Dark Side he...
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    Proven wrong by the video.
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    Computer games and the save checkpoint system

    If you want to argue that, it's much easier to argue that the arrogance is on your side, so are you sure that's the approach you wish to take? Games are art, they're not just "tools" or "products". Especially good games. As for in the advertising, what is it you want, exactly? Literally every...
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    For god's sake man, please watch the scene. You were literally wrong in how you were describing it. If you can't admit that, I don't know what to say.
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    If we followed this logic Andor wouldn't have happened.
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    I think it's inexplicable for EU Luke, was like Super-Luke. I don't think it's inexplicable for a Luke who came from the OT but didn't do all the EU stuff. This is where I think the disconnect is. People see this saintly, super-experienced EU Luke, who has had countless adventures as the good...
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    The Oblivion Remaster Is Releasing Today. This Is Not A Drill.

    I haven't been able to find exact figures, but the summary I was given by someone who makes mods was that the HP calculation has changed (and higher-level enemies have less insane HP, but still pretty wild, I'm told), but essentially nothing else changed. Hence me using the mod to constrain...
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    How Much Do You Care About Novelty?

    We need to know what you mean by "the same kind of game events", because this is a strange question. I say it's a strange question, because, broadly speaking, there are multitude of RPGs which don't have escalating HP per level (and indeed don't use levels at all in many cases), where the PCs...
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    But that's not what's being said - the film doesn't hate people who "don't agree with the approach", and nothing you or others have said has shown any "hate" for people merely based on not agreeing with the approach (which is a pretty significant bar to reach, to claim a movie-maker "hates" you...
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    The Oblivion Remaster Is Releasing Today. This Is Not A Drill.

    Aha thank you. This one was very noticeable and is kind of important: Magic schools, such as Restoration, Destruction, Mysticism, Illusion, Alteration and Conjuration, now have their experience correlate with the magicka price of the spell cast, meaning more expensive spells now advance the...
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    Wizards of the Coast Says That China Tariffs Will Have Minimal Impact on D&D

    The one benefit the megacorp might give the industry is, if the megacorp is importing RPG books as books rather than game accessories (and thus avoiding tariffs), it may presumably be easier for for smaller companies to point to that if customs gives them any trouble on this front.
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    Please don't "we" on this. This is part of why people think it's "bad faith" (and as you say, a lot of it is clearly is), because of "we all know" stuff like this! Let me be very clear. I didn't think, for one bloody heartbeat that her hair colour was supposed to indicate anything at all...
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    The Oblivion Remaster Is Releasing Today. This Is Not A Drill.

    I mean, given the ways you damage enemy health and heal your own health it's pretty clearly primarily "meat points" in a TES context. There might be some "moxie" in there, but not a whole lot. Further, whichever it is, you'd have some idea how hard you got hit, and playing Oblivion, that's...
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    Star Wars Rewatch

    As someone who did hold that opinion, I think I understand it. It was a kind of passing madness, like AotC being better than TPM. People were desperate for the prequels to be good, and not just weird, poorly-edited, terrible dialogue, kinda-racist waffle aimed at kids. And RotS was massively...
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