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I probably should've done this before, but I've decided to write design documents for all the games I've been dreaming of, including the ones I'm not ready to make. Just in case, it comes to a point where I can no longer work on gamedev stuff, even as a hobby, then maybe someone else can make those games a reality, if I can't.

I'm not quitting gamedev. It's just that my life has had many hard turns, as with many people in my age bracket (and you could probably know why), and I had to accept that a such a change in my life could happened that would force me to stop for good. If that event ever happens (unless I die unexpectedly), I will publish all my design docs under the public domain.

But besides that, I think it's important to write your ideas down instead of letting them gel in your head. I have a habit of doing that, but that's mostly because growing up I had fears of people reading private things I write.

It seems like the universe is preventing me from writing a platforming game. Either that or I just don't have that much experience in the genre, but either way real life happenings that have been going on the past month have ruined it for the umpteenth time.

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Americans have spent 25 years being ruled by fear—terrorists, extremists, enemies, crises, emergencies. End result: endless war, mass surveillance, militarized police, secret courts, indefinite detention, watchlists, and a supercharged post‑9/11 presidency.

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Did they fucking reject my appeal or is that just late announcement of the suspension? This is worse than under Jack

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@lina soulslike is just an action rpg without dialogue
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and, out of nowhere, some madlad has made a (currently alpha) recomp for OoT3D!
youtube.com/watch?v=D6T5N4QdVT

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Friction is an underrated part of the gaming experience. I think the two games most engraved onto my soul are Majora's Mask and Xenoblade 2, and both of them have situations where you're just waiting around for time to pass. This might seem like an objective design flaw, but there is value in just taking in the visuals, the music, the world, and sometimes "suboptimal" game design gives you time to breathe and take it all in in a way you might be less inclined to otherwise.

OOT Remake:
+ Link actually emotes
+ Manual camera
+ Manual jumping

- The added details to Link's tunic are unnecessary (just use Young Link's Smash Ultimate model and make an adult model in the same artstyle)
- The day/night cycle in the original was never good and adding it to towns and buildings is probably going to make it worse
- Princess Zelda already looked ugly in the N64 version but somehow she looks uglier in this one
- Why play this when SoH exist?
- Why is Aonuma still the director of the series?

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Google-owned Debug has proposed releasing 32 million Wolbachia-infected male mosquitoes in California and Florida to suppress populations of an invasive mosquito that spreads dengue fever, yellow fever and Zika virus.

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How long have you had your current avatar?
- account migrations don't count
- if you had it before joining the fediverse, count that
- temporary avatars (like for halloween or christmas) don't count
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