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i heard this song that nyanners' pomf is a parody of a couple days ago for the first time and it threw me for a loop

youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3

i'd like to run an experiment

if at any point you engage with some chronically online retard, chuck this (or a variant) at them

i have a hypothesis that normiefags have developed their sense of normalcy and determine how they feel based on internet memes

this is shown with stuff like taking the "jail is just a room" and "officer she's actually 500 years old" stuff actually seriously

therefore, suppose there was a counter memetic which promotes a non-aggressive reaction

supposing it somehow were to blow up, would this promote a more sensible reaction because it's the "next cool thing" for these animals?

@Waldbrand @PensiveCowboy borderline, but no. It it were tsudeneres then definitely not, but yandere is getting close.

@harbeau How could they not with anime lolis on their side

@DrRyanSkelton it's also way too expensive for what it is. When I did my little review of it I said it was the worst good game I had ever played lol. It's extremely janky but overall I had a good time and the story was also really good, I thought.

Just finished nu-Alone in the Dark. It's beautiful, but janky. Writing is somewhere slightly more intellectual than Sam Raimi B-movie. It's hard to call it top shelf survival horror because it's not trying to be RE (Either action RE or classic RE), but whatever it is, it's really an enjoyable thrill ride. It respects your intelligence so much that if you don't read the files, you'll have no clue what you did or how you "won" at the end.

All the writing feels like a fever dream. EVERY scene is totally insane but it's charming all the same. Whichever protag you don't choose doesn't see all the voodoo cthulu shit your protag does, so even if you pick the girl you get a bunch of great lines talking around "You haven't seen anything... WEIRD here, right?... no of course not, you're right, you're right." Detective Carnsby is almost TEW2 Sebastian tier in terms of great horror game protagonist.

The thing I was most worried about was the payoff, and I can verify the game pays off the finale really well, including lengthy (And different per character) segments chasing down your own protagonist's past as well.

That said I have to recommend pirating it as Embracer shut down the dev studio sadly.

anyone been playing first descendent? it totally blended in with everything else when i first saw the trailer but i've heard some good things about it.

@xianc78 There are a bunch of different ways. The most common thing to do these days is a shotgun approach, just picking at random whether that's automatic, a big open beta test, or selecting from applications. The other big one is to make people pay for beta access, through something like Patreon.

Before they ever do this though, they are doing focus testing throughout many parts of development. Regular people playing the game while they watch and/or record their thoughts on the experience.

Then there are also seperate companies that will actually try to break things. That's more useful for big single player games or for the final step before launching an open beta.

My method is just going to be doing this small insider beta, collecting feedback from it and adjusting accordingly, then sending out applications on a few different places (here, RPGcodex, Reddit, Discord, and RPG Maker Web) and then pick based on the responses. I don't want a bunch of people who know nothing about game development because they may not be intuitive enough to break things in some cases, and I also don't want just game developers because they might not play it like a regular joe would. Ideally, from the applications I'd like to select a good mix of people that I think will give me diverse feedback, but not so much that it's hard to keep up with it all.

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