On the Nature of Things | Forum

heh, write what you love and all of that.

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The beauty with speculation is it could be almost anything, and depends how one weighs what's available. We have Achaemenid royal inscriptions and the similarities between the 17 Gathas and the Rig-Veda. The Gathas aren't full of biographical data; and the common source obviously shared by the Vedas...

So called Art Games are the indie music wallpaper of today.

I'm sure there is one or two in this thread I gave a positive review for but what a disaster overall, and that is when we went hunting for something good.

Never have that problem with the art movie or art music.

Well, I wish 'em the best but yeah, I'm pretty burnt out on role playing. These things aren't always my decision though. :) There is an eye on everyone's game of the year in Baldur's Gate III but it just looks like another thousand hour game. I am okay with Tetris and Pac Man-- pick'd up Pac Man Cha...

Yes. The irony that the brand is its biggest attention getter and hindrance. Probably would be in much better shape just to borrow bits of it, like bands of mad men in a post-apocalyptic world and run with that.

Get the impression that brainstorming what a Mad Max game is started with: "he drives around in cool cars...and....we are making this for Sony/Xbox so...." A quote from the game's wiki: Avalanche Studios found developing a vehicular-combat video game a challenge because of their inexperien...

Mad Max is low-key supposed to be one of the better examples of sandboxes too. -------------- Breath of the Wild was a tutorial area then it was all intrinsic motivation. That game is still here but there is now this other layer of a linear, gated narrative stretched across the sandbox. We stumbled ...

Indifferent is a good way of putting it. It's hard to root for any one; maybe the bedouins of Dune but the story goes out of its way to hold them in a pitiable contempt- everyone is contemptable when not filled with dread. The dangers of fanaticism and hero-worship or messianic fervor (or however on...

A few of us went out and saw Dune Part 2; think it elevates the 1st part which, going by memory, was somewhat uneven. This was consistently good throughout and breezes by despite it's 2 hour and 45 minute runtime. As a whole, it's a very beautifully shot movie with good performances and perhaps the ...

Oh! A new jeremaid with all the facts marshalled to justify abuse of a segment of people because they will not follow diktats.

Even as a kid any 100+ hour tradeoff just to cross something off a checklist would've been preposterous. 10 hours would've been too much. The time commitment and resource-gating suggest to me that there is no expectation for a normal person to, say, "upgrade every bit of armor," and it is ...

I 100% Tears of the Kingdom and It Destroyed Me This is the type of player I have in mind. The value-fan is a different sort of thing in my head. But it is an important aspect too because x amount of content is expected for high price point games. ---------- Nowadays the guy in the video above is a...

The Cask of Amontillado - Stewart Copeland | American Modern Ensemble

51 Minutes About Harmony With Julian Anderson

How to compose like Arvo Pärt, tintinnabuli style

The Four Piano Styles of Paul McCartney

Yes, and I underestimate the number of players who approach games like that, finishing the narrative start to finish and then returning to reach 100% completion status. The Zelda series famously doesn't save anything past the end boss since the SNES days, so obviously a number of players have always...

We are still grinding through Tears of the Kingdom. It's way too much. We have taken several breaks from it and as I argued, I'm at the point where if we put it down again, I'm out- I don't want to string it along for years just to get some fake sense of completion. I checked out reddit to see what ...

It's not the 19th century anymore and the orientalism fervor has broken on subsequent recoveries and sobrieties. Avestan literature, outside some poetry, is not old enough and compiled selectively in late antiquity (though there are those who disagree). The Sassinids made it the state religion; its ...

Yes, let's get around to the indigenous: the Samaritians. :) The great irony is that there is an avenue of argument for those into all speculative manner of higher criticism, that the obsession with matching a land & people was the cardinal influence Persia had on the Jewish religion. That and/o...

Nonc Hilaire wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 4:13 pm

NapLajoieonSteroids wrote: ↑Sat Feb 24, 2024 10:05 am

Professor Rosen is ignoring the interest rate.

I hear about people who had music classes and teachers who'd drill them on stuff and I wonder how I got stuck with several variations of "Everyone's okay, I don't believe in grades" teachers several times over. We were one of the last classes to have mandatory public school music classes, ...

Yep, the Clash conundrum. The minute some experience is gained, the move is away from just making noise. ------------------ I can read sheet music; sight-reading may be too much for me. My musical training was a few months, if that, of violin and flute lessons. At this point I can't say why it was t...