お疲れ様 (good job+“you look tired”+“I an acknowledging this and presenting recognition of your effort”)
Keigo modifiers. ご覧 vs 見る. They both mean “look”. One is, somehow, more polite.
Kansai dialect. しばいたろか (“wanna get smacked?” but it’s playful) or まいど (“thanks” but also “nice to see you again” and “hello” but only in specific contexts between specific people. Mess it up and you’ll probably hear the other Kansai term previously described.)
Now you have.
An idea for a game I had as a kid before I realized such limitations existed was a game where you start from the earliest parts of prehistory, and you are Death. The Grim Reaper. Shinigami. HE WHO TALKS LIKE THIS. However you want to slice it.
From the beginning, you decide who lives and who dies, and the manner of their demise; your choices would influence the course of history not only based on who is left living, but also the way that people died would influence future cultural or historical or societal developments. For example, a beloved public figure dying of cholera might encourage more medical research.
Possibly, advances in medical technology or safety measures could thwart or balk you, although I would prefer to take the angle that death can never be denied and is inevitable.
This would not work as a video game because there would simply be too many branching timeline possibilities for one, and for two, there’s not really a win state. It would be more like a sandbox or ant farm.
But what relation does a game about stealing have with an anime about drill-wielding robots?
I wonder where I could find more members of the club. I should try searching “motherless”!
Wow, all of those apply to me as well.
In addition to the above…
Sometimes you just tell yourself “time is passing, no matter what I do. Eventually it will be enough, even if I do nothing.”
That was a better ending than expected tbh
I just can’t imagine the kinds of scenarios that are implied. Such as the “if I sent this to you by accident” thing, like…in this imagined scenario, would the response be “oh, well, since I accidentally got a naked picture of you, let me hit that?” For me it would just be embarrassing for all around, even if by some stroke I did find the other person hot.
Yeah the urge to be a jerk is kinda there just to see what they’d say but you’re right, it’d be unkind
Is it still really a win for them here on Lemmy where such algorithms are, to the best of my knowledge, non-existent?
In Psalm, would you want to be a robot or a human?
Blow Your Load and Hit the Road
Semiosis and Interference by Sue Burke were my last two, but while interesting they didn’t go in the way I thought, and it feels like there’s a big hunk of… I hesitate to say wasted, but certainly unrealized potential. At the same time I feel like my expectations or preconceptions about what could or ought to happen are causing me to miss the point that Burke is trying to make.
I have so far bounced off the third and final entry in the series, Usurpation, but I have faith in both it and me and will take another crack at it soon.
That’s certainly a strong entry in the series. Hell, maybe it’s time I gave it another go.
Sounds like early Dresden Files!
That’s pretty neat. It’s nice to hear.
It would probably take some massive PE/VC enforced changes at Valve where they start to enshittify Steam and the loss of confidence in the platform that will follow to make the other platforms competitive.
Make no mistake, it’s coming eventually. I held off on trusting discord for years buy finally they won me over. Now look where we are.
Never again.
The inside of my apartment. My stuff is already there and the lease is signed.
しばいたろうか？