The Random, Meaningless Announcements Thread 3!

[Shadow Wolf]

I need to learn how to sweeten and flavor tea with fruit. Doing it during the brewing process hasn't done much, other than dye the tea a lovely, deep shade of red the time I tried it with raspberries.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've been thinking lately how, while some video games do better in an open-world format, still others do worse.

I think it's hard to make Sonic and Pokemon work better in an open-world format. But for something like Halo or Zelda, in my opinion, it works pretty well.

Hasn't Zelda always mostly been open world?

 

[sun rise]

Since it's stopped raining, I'll take our four-legged furry person for a casual stroll after lunch.

 

[Wu Wei]

My mother's little 4 legged friend was just at the vet and the pup has a heart condition.... now on meds

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Wu Wei]

More than ever I want to retire... right now..... TODAY!!!!

 

[sun rise]

Something to consider

 

[Revoltingest]

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

Hasn't Zelda always mostly been open world?

I'd say that before, it was close, but the line was blurred due to dungeons, and towns being their own room, area or separated event. The thing about open-world games is you try to avoid that - and you end up with dungeons, towns, shops seeming to be more "outside". It's hard to explain through text, and without using a video for reference. Although, I feel that one area where open-world games are worse is that, while the world exploration ability is often better, I feel it's harder to implement indoor areas and complex towns in an open-world game, maybe due to RAM. It's hard because you can't just cause them to "poof" indoors to a completely separate area, for one reason. You have to kind of depict it as being inside a building while outside.

 

[sun rise]

 

[sun rise]

As we used to say in the 60's: heavy, man

 

[Shadow Wolf]

You under-value Tex Avery & Bugs Bunny.
But tis true that Brock Samson's gaze would
cause Chuck Norris to change his name to
Schmuck Doris.

Nope, just putting those that paved the way for greatness in their proper place.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I've never understood where the modern idea of stoicism came from, what it's based on, or when it happened, but none of it is Stoicism. Stoicism is basically the great parts of Nietzsche but without the baggage.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

As the Golden Globes has a new headliner and main event I shant ever watch more of it. Ricky Gervais was the reason to watch it, and it was still good despite all those wankers constantly interrupting him.

 

[sun rise]

As the Golden Globes has a new headliner and main event I shant ever watch more of it. Ricky Gervais was the reason to watch it, and it was still good despite all those wankers constantly interrupting him.

I can't remember the last time I heard or read the word "shant".

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I am remembering it is exhausting to do those dumb, idiotic, moronic, ill thought out and stupid preemployment questionnaires, and frequently having to remind myself they are from the perspectives on those handicapped with neurotypical ways of thinking and those of profound deficiencies in imagination and actually thinking about things and considering them.
And they have a history of often being sued, successfully so, on the grounds of discriminating against those with disabilities and for violating both HIPAA and ADA laws.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

@Shadow Wolf - here's an article on open-world games that explains it better than I can:

Open world - Wikipedia

But I do mostly agree that Zelda always had some form of open-world element. However, I also think the statement "Zelda became open-world with Breath of the Wild" is a non-fallacious statement as well. I just think what happened was that Zelda went from a game with open-world elements, to a full open-world game.

Thanks for bringing this point up.

 

[PoetPhilosopher]

I've decided that when it comes to the NFL playoffs this year, I'll root for the Bengals.

 

[Stevicus]