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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • Sure. More recently it’s been anything whose marketing is all or partially AI slop. Instant red flag. Person below mentioned emojis, ditto on that. Pretty much anything that looks too “slick” to me. If the name is something like “Leaf” it’s probably shit. If it looks like it was made by a team of 30 marketing graduates, it’s probably shit. If it’s called “UltimateRePak2K” and looks like an industrial tool that hasn’t had a graphics update since Windows 7, it’s probably an unbreakable great bit of software.




  • I understand what you’re saying (I think) but you know that… you can kill everyone, right? The worst the game does is throw a few more enemies at you (to kill) and some moral characters say mean things to you. Pretty standard RPG mechanics, IMO. It’s just a choice and like I said, the narrative framing sets you up to be a highly-trained stealthy assassin, not some mass-murdering juggernaut. But you can do that if you want

    Similarly I could not use the tools the game gives me

    Offers* you. There’s even an achievement for completing the game with just a sword and pistol, no upgrades or powers ;) Choices!!



  • IIRC you still get the low-chaos ending if you only kill the targets. It’s just by going wild and killing everyone that you get high-chaos, and I think this fits in the moral framing of the game.

    I do agree with your gripe that D1 gives you a lot of fun ways to kill people and challenges you not to use them, while at the same time giving you very little nonlethal tools. They addressed this well in the sequel IMO, but I did also love the challenge and the temptation knowing that these enemies would be so easy to defeat with a rat swarm but I just shouldn’t. Like I said, keeps with the moral framing about the slippery slope of mindless revenge IMO














  • I disagree but that’s just my opinion. I love Ramsian design and the (exterior of) Tesla’s do it well. The new Prius is good too but gets a bit too futuristic to call it Ramsian.

    Either way, my point is that most of the copy cats have moved on to other designs, “trend chasing.” Yeah, a couple years ago every automaker was ripping off Tesla, but I don’t see that anymore, they’re going towards a more 80s angular look. What I’m saying is that Tesla’s maintained their design language really well. That’s not a fault, it’s a success. Tesla cars are apparently Tesla on the road, just like an iPhone is obviously an iPhone and not one of the thousands of iPhone copycats that were on the market ~10 years ago or how a Starbucks is obviously a Starbucks, and not one of the thousands of wood-toned internet cafes that came up a few decades ago.