morelisp

Unfortunately the site in general has gotten increasingly unhinged lately. One of those is a literal "well, actually" defending torture!

I wish you'd stop playing this "I don't want to ban you, but I will ban you if you don't follow the rules, which I also set" game. Do it or don't but jesus christ, this obsession with tone over meaning is so 2010.

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Simple sentences are great for simple ideas. Most video games, including most RPGs, only have simple ideas.

You appear to have linked to an anime. We’re discussing video games.

Pokémon (most of them) have pretty good writing. Planescape Torment has ok “endcap of the airport bookstore fantasy shelf” writing. You’re making exactly the mistake I’m talking about.

(Even narrative-heavy FPSs like Bioshock have an order of magnitude less writing than most RPGs.)

I find FPS writing is often a lot better, probably because there is a lot less of it. Yes, RPGs have a more narrative focus so more nuance to characters or whatever but you're asking a committee of 1-5 usually mid-tier writers to pump out 2-10 novels worth of text within a year under often radically changing requirements. The actual writing is usually hot garbage.

This feels more like a defense for some mid like a Plato than a Wittgenstein or Kripke.

It also needs to be a method that isn’t pharmacologically complicated, because manufacturers and pharmacists refuse to be complicit in this today. That’s the main reason, and also a reason Alabama has botched so many executions in recent years with experimental drugs and untrained executioners.

> It's something you literally wouldn't realize is happening until

they wheel you in on the gurney and put the mask on your face.

You’re deeply evil.

The file format doesn’t matter one bit when the reading and authoring tools are shit and the editors can’t/don’t fix anything. And papers will generally have a lot fewer resources to deal with this than major book publishers, who have been epub-focused for over a decade now and actually make money from it.

Development time makes up a nearly immeasurable fraction of power resources outside of the tiniest teams.

The bar for epubs is so fucking low I have a hard time believing this matters at all. Just last week I bought a book set in the late Middle Ages which managed to transcribe all “þ” as “p”. Until publishers care about that stuff, none of these high-falutin technical discussions change anything.

Some of us are equally nonplussed by modern web dev but still quite miss PostScript.