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  • Oblivion is the go-to example of how not to do level scaling. It's impressive how badly they fucked it up. Like, they managed to make exploring pointless and unexciting.

    You find a tomb, but you know that whatever's inside will be "level appropriate". If you're low level it'll be steel weapons, and if you're high level it'll be daedric. There's not really any point in going in at low level. Might as well level up some other way and come back when the loot will be good.

    On top of that, the gameplay is so bland and unresponsive that you can't really punch above your weight class. The game is very much a levels game. It's not like Dark Souls where someone can get really good and beat the whole thing while naked (and in the game, too). There's a lot of "well, this guard is level 30 and you're 10, so no matter how many times you hit him with your hammer he's not going to flinch." Knowing you're always going to get kind of bland treasure wouldn't be so bad if the act of getting it was fun. Like, sometimes a tomb or whatever in Elden Ring will have crap loot, but it's still a solid core gameplay.

    Morrowind had a lot of these problems, but it was also kind of wacky and heartfelt.

  • That feels like an easy loophole to patch- Treat loans as income. Maybe tax it at some separate progressive rate so people using small loans as intended don't get fucked. But if Muskerberg has $100 million in loans taken out against his stock, taxing $90 million of that as income would make a difference. Especially if the top rate is like 90%.

  • There are many things wrong with the laws in the US. I'm not even sure where I'd start

    But the other bigger problem is enforcement. Some people do a murder and get a nationwide search. Others the victims family get a "lol can't help you".

    Recommend reading "the new Jim Crow" for one look at one part of this.

  • Makes sense. Many people are living paycheck to paycheck and can't tank a $500 surprise bill. Maybe that's not the market for what these people are selling, but it seems to be the general state of the us.

    The rich have too much money and everyone, even the rich, suffer for it

  • Looks pretty typical to me (longtime nyc resident). It's rare to see trash, and graffiti is pretty uncommon. People sometimes think the subway is still like The Warriors where it's just a wall of spraypaint, but not so much.

  • Yeah, I think there's a big difference between "I thought they were going to investigate the smith, but they're really suspicious of the wizard now and want to check her out first" and "they decided to forget about the whole civil war for the throne thing and open a BBQ joint for the local goblins"

    Nowadays I'd probably just explicitly be like "Hey, so, when we started this game we agreed on a certain tone and direction. Specifically, it was going to be about a power struggle for the throne. Running a restaurant business in D&D sounds wild, but that is really a different kind of story and a different game. If you want to do that, let's talk about it. Otherwise, I'm asking you to stay more on theme."

    Though I say that and my best game had plenty of "beach episodes". One time literally, after they saved some sahaugin from being subjugated by a siren.

  • Software engineer.

    Morning meeting that's supposed to just be "what you did yesterday, what you'll do today, and if you need help". People fuck that up and go off on tangents. What should be a ten minute meeting takes 30.

    Product owners at some point told you what the features to work on this month will be. For example, we need to add the ability for some reasons to bulk delete appointments.

    Chat with product and other engineers about what that entails. Product probably won't give complete, clear, requirements so you need to pull it out of them. (Hard delete or soft delete? Do you need an audit log? Are you sure with no take-backs you don't need an undo? Do you want to notify anyone when it's deleted? One email per request or per event? Do you have designs for that email? No? Of course not. And what do you want the UI to look like? If I "just put a button somewhere" we both know you won't like it. Give me details or that blank check in writing.)

    At some point sit down and make code changes to do the thing. Change the backend server code to accept your new request. Write automated tests. Change the frontend to make the request. Write more tests. Manually bang on it. Probably realize some requirements were missed (you guys know there's a permissions system, right? I hooked this up to the existing can-delete permission. What do you mean CS doesn't use permissions? You made them all superusers??)

    Manually bang on it a little. Deploy it to dev or some non-production environment. Have product and other stakeholders look at it and sign off. Probably get feedback and either implement it, or convince them to do it "later" (or: never, because they'll forget and it's not actually important).

    Get code approval from other engineers. Make changes as needed.

    Merge and deploy. Verify in production.

    Meanwhile, do code reviews for other people's work. Context switch. Feels bad. Other guy is working on a progress report tool that's in a whole other part of the code, so every time you look at it it's a shifting of brain gears.

    Also look at dependabot for libraries that need updating. Read release notes. Make changes if needed. Test. Pray.

    Also periodic meetings to go over work in the backlog. A meeting to discuss how the team is doing that usually doesn't produce results, but can be a vent session.

    I imagine from the product owner it's something like:

    Get a mess of contradictory ideas from leadership. Try to figure out what they actually want and in what order. Manage their emotions because they have all the power and don't like being told no or otherwise feeling bad.

    Talk to customers and other users. Try to figure out what they want. They say things like "make it go faster" or "can you make the map bigger?". There's no map on the website.

    Talk to engineering. They ask so many questions. Why can't they just do the thing? They're always going on about stuff that doesn't seem important (like security and permissions and maintainability). This needs to go out Friday because the CEO wants it out.

    Write tickets (a short document describing work to be done). People don't read them. Or maybe don't finish writing them, and leave a vague "as a user I want to be notified about changes to my project", without specifying any details. (Notified how, Ryan??)

    I don't know what else they do.

    Startups are a mess. Anyone who says they want to run the government like a startup should be banished from the land.

  • Owning or renting a home has the same requirements of dependency on multiple companies

    Are you suggesting people go without homes? And that's analogous to going without a car?

    Maybe you're really radical and want free public housing like people want free public transit, but that's far outside the overton window.

  • happy to pay some money for mobility in exchange for all that.

    Most of the costs are probably externalized and not paid for by you

    Also good neighbors vs bad neighbors isn't intrinsic to city vs country. You could easily have a neighbor out there that shoots guns unsafely , or feeds bears, or whatever. I had a whole DND crew here in the city that we could walk to each other's places.

    But this is kind of getting off the topic of cars aren't the freedom people say they are.

  • Guild Wars 2 @lemmy.wtf

    how do people feel about spears?

    LFG @ttrpg.network

    [Fate][UTC-5] Looking for a Thursday Evening Game

    No Stupid Questions @lemmy.world

    What's up with memes suffixed with "rule"?