Dojan

I think that’s just the norm of modern day gaming. The goal is to have a wide audience and so in order to facilitate that they make the games as approachable as possible.

I recently bought two games that got a fair amount of negative reviews for lacking a tutorial. Hyper Light Breaker which is in early access understandably doesn’t have much of a tutorial. It does give you a general direction, and it feels more or less like any other roguelike I’ve played (which admittedly isn’t many). It wasn’t hard to pick up and I don’t really get why it would need more of a tutorial than what it has.

Mind Over Magic is a management sim akin to RimWorld. It also doesn’t really have a tutorial, but all of the information is in there and not very hard to discover yourself. The game will give you plenty of hints as you encounter challenges, and there’s a comprehensive in-game codex with all the information you could possibly want.

I don’t think either game is unapproachable. There’s trial and error involved in both. You might fail a few times doing things, but you learn and next time around you’ll do better.

Perhaps people have forgotten what that’s like. Maybe that’s something some people genuinely don’t like. I don’t know.

It’s giving OMGWTFBBQ.

This is an interesting read. English isn’t my native language, and while I’m quite proficient, I lack a lot of cultural context, particularly when it comes to American English. My partner is American, and through/with them I’ve learned a lot of problematic phrases and expressions. It’s baffling just how much language is used to dehumanise, other, and discriminate against people.

That’s not to say it doesn’t happen in my native tongue, it definitely does, but I guess it’s more baffling when it’s something that’s unfamiliar to you.

Marijuana obviously sounds like it’s rooted in Spanish, but I never thought much about it. If you’d asked me, I’d just wager a guess that it’s the Spanish term for it. I hate how oftentimes when I start poking at these preconceived notions, an uglier reality reveals itself. It’s never as benign as I initially believe.

Wow you unlocked a memory in me. I recall doing something similar but using some send command to do the same with any computer logged in and on the network.

Week after that I met a dude from municipal school IT support and that’s when I first learned about Linux. He had Red Hat on his laptop and he was happy to talk about it. Very cool dude.

Dangerous. Don’t insert things without a flared base or some other appendage for easy removal. That thing looks less like a sex toy and more like a paperweight.