It’s a shame because there’s a great episode where Tendi isn’t able to access her normal Starfleet life in the area she’s living, and she has to turn to piracy. It’s got a really interesting message, about how sometimes people don’t want to be pirates, but because of their location, they’re forced into piracy.
Lots to think about there, about the location and the piracy.
Next county? What about those swivel-eyed, inbred, sister-marrying, six-fingered, funny-talking loons from… the next town along?
Yup, it’s a pitcher of a man drinkin’ ice cool water from a giant mug :D
When adults said things like “In this day and age, nobody says please and thankyou any more”, I misinterpreted “this day and age” as “The Stayan Age”, which was our current age, which obviously followed on from Bronze Age, Iron Age etc.
Why is it Genghis Khan and not Conan the Barbarian?
What are the boundaries or guidelines for what you can be asked to draw next?
Can I just say something like “Give me a 7 second horse” or “give me a 20 minute map of the world, from memory”, or are you specifically looking at computer game characters etc?
In the UK, at least, the beans thing is simply:
Will you give money to charity?
No
If someone sits in a bathtub full of cold baked beans for eight hours, will you give money to charity?
Yes
As for the suffering, it might sound ridiculous, but it appears to be a recognised tactic for fundraisers.
The Conversation: The Martyrdom Effect - Why your pain boosts a charity’s gain
I think there’s a little difference between charity in general and “charity events” or “fundraisers”.
One one hand, you’ve got people personally deciding to give some money towards something they chose to support, which is great.
But sponsored fundraisers are actually a bit weird.
Fundraiser: “Hi, would you like to donate £10 to help cure cancer?”
Potential donor: “I’m an incredibly wealthy man, so I can easily afford that… but… you just want me to give you some money in exchange for nothing?”
Fundraiser: “It’s not nothing - you get to know you’ve helped a worthy cause, made the world a better place…”
Potential donor: “No… unless… no, sorry, that’s ridiculous…”
Fundraiser: “No, wait! Tell me your idea!”
Potential donor: 'Well, I could probably give you some money… if someone suffered."
Fundraiser: “Suffered?!?”
Potential donor: “Yes, I want you to make a fat, asthmatic man run a marathon, dressed in a really awkward, incredibly warm costume that makes him look ridiculous. If he suffers enough, you can have your £10 for whatever it was you were on about.”
Fundraiser: “Curing cancer is seen to be a good cause - are you sure you couldn’t just donate the money?”
Potential donor: “Yes. I can only give away a tiny pittance of money if there is suffering. You could also make the man sit in a bathtub full of beans for a whole day. I imagine that’s unpleasant enough to appease my hunger for suffering.”
Surely we all agree this whole concept is a bit weird?
Fried Ian Slip
His main talent is “already having lots of money”.
Oh, those are just to stop the kids escaping from the paedodungeon.
“Dammit, Floodedwomb! I’m a Doctor, not a Husband!”
Regarding your Robert Engel from previously, there’s a whole load of artists historically, who have virtually no information about them. If they weren’t famous whilst alive, who would bother to write down a biography at the time? Afterwards, you’re left with researching records from census, school, sales, newspapers, possible living relatives etc.
A lot of museums and galleries with permanent collections have 3 to 50 times as much stuff in stores as is on display. You’re not allowed to get rid of anything, but any year, you might receive another truck-load of badly labelled and badly maintained artworks from some rich bloke’s private collection, or someone’s tax write-off. You’d have to choose which ones get processed or researched first (after the existing backlog). Sometimes the information just isn’t there though - that’s why you get all those works that just get labelled “Unknown Man with a blue hat, likely Dutch School, circa 1650s”.
I think the information and documentation of such things is actually getting better, compared to pre-internet, certainly - but yeah, some people will have no information, and some will have information, but it’s still in a paper folder, waiting for someone to type it up :)
“Hi, you left this open, so me and the kids moved in”
Back in my day, we had to hand-draw our memes in the back of school textbooks, then wait until next time we had a lesson in there to see if anyone had seen it.
I had a play on the demo this evening, probably about 1hr 30 for the full match. I enjoyed playing it, and I think you’ve got the base gameplay loop working nicely.
There were a few quirks with the AI opponent getting its soldiers stuck in furniture, and repeatedly trying to reposition them until out of energy, and a few times where I struggled with positioning on top of something (instead of inside/under), but essentially no game-stopping bugs.
I was playing on Linux Mint - I didn’t look whether it’s Linux native or running through Proton, but it runs nicely regardless.
Without a campaign, it likely limits the replayability a bit - but the general gameplay itself is fun, and a great position to be in for developing things further, in whatever direction you want to go.
Also, just to note a campaign doesn’t need to be all cutscenes and gripping plot and voice acting and drama - a set of different maps that follow in an order, starting easier and getting harder (or introducing new units or map features on each level) would do the job just fine. Also, some people won’t care about single player campaign things at all - so please don’t take my personal opinion as the opinion of everyone :)
Anyway, it was good fun to play. I’ll put it on my wishlist, and I wish you good luck with the launch and ongoing development :)
Big congratulations for getting this far! Well done! There’s some novel ideas in this, which must be quite hard to do in a genre like RTS which leans heavily on familiarity.
Is it currently just single isolated random battles, or is there some sort of linked-mission pre-scripted campaign to take over the house or anything like that?
[Edit] After playing the demo, I realise it’s turn-based strategy rather than real-time strategy, but still the point stands.
I have to admit I love these ladder related jokes - they work on so many different levels :D
Britons of a certain age refer to this as the “Trigger’s Broom Paradox”, after a character from a comedy TV Series “Only Fools and Horses”.
Trigger, who worked as a street sweeper, got an award from the City Council for maintaining the same sweeping brush for twenty years (though the broom has had 17 new heads and 14 new handles).
What a lovely, fun little game! Thanks for sharing :)