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Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

You could try that one detective game and figure out how to just be a complete piece of shit in it.

An Open Challenge

No sell it. It's a three way now.

Or I'll join and it's a Free Four All

All about role plays maps (world, town, dungeon)

Game maps are great. Even if a large portion of it is just for flavor, places you will not visit in the RP, they're still very helpful for making the world feel established. If your character is from the Dortani Highlands and I can look on a map and go Oh, so their ancestors passed through the SkrubbaDubba Mountain range to get them here, it just adds to the story.

I like to have map maker characters. Seems like something that would be handy

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

That's generally not what people mean when they say "stay out of politics" or "make it political"

It's when things are thrown in as a reference or parody of real world politics of the time. Particularly when they're presented in a partisan way.

Folks usually don't complain about the politics of Skyrim because it wasn't a poorly disguised socio-political commentary on politics of the time.

Same with Dying Light 2 or the Fallout series. They're not expies of real world situations or hackneyed attempts to insert the developers own viewpoints (or self insert) into the story.

Folks usually don't care much about picking a gender either. I've seen some folks annoyed that Male and Female are sometimes now referred to as Body Type A and Body Type B but that's a very small minority.

Unless it's funny. Everyone loves funny.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

If developers could stay out of politics that'd be swell.

Horizon is one of the relatively few Sony exclusives I'd like to try and haven't. Gameplay seems cool. Concept is fairly unique. I've seen a clip or two of the new DLC and the world looks beautiful.

I'm definitely interested in Diablo IV as well. A little worried about what choices they might make given how that mobile Diablo went but it looks solid.

Another game that could be amazing but I'm worried about it, Starfield. Building off Fallout 4 and with all these years to make improvements it could be and ought to be amazing...but Bethesda is expert at fucking up a good thing.

Fear and Loathing in Gotham City: a One-Shot Crime Adventure

Sounds like a lot of fun. Great concept.

I love the idea of an RP where folks aren't safe and victory isn't assured.

Using AI For RP Visualization

For Writing

Using Chat GPT to try to replicate how I write, or how any author I like writes, would be cool and a fun way to sort of spark off ideas rapidly. If I had a vague idea about a story I want to tell and could relatively quickly and effortlessly get a few short entries to use as prompts basically that's a huge boon.

I wouldn't want to have it make posts for me, and I wouldn't much respect someone who did. If you're going to write RPs it should be your writing. The same way I feel like using Grammarly or a Thesaurus to punch up your writing artificially is basically cheating and antithetical to being a writer posting Chat GPTs production would be antithetical to being a writer.

Interesting to think about where that might go in the future.

For Visuals

In regard to AI Art, I think it's amazing. Great tool for face claims. Also a great tool, like Chat GPT, for prompts and inspiration. The ability to pick an artist, a medium, and a subject opens things up immensely. My current Discord pfp is a Halfling Barbarian oil painting in the style of Frank Frazetta and it's pretty cool.

In Summary

Much like Chat GPT finishing your favorite unfinished series (Game of Thrones, Dark Tower, Stormlight Archives) or continuing a beloved series (Harry Potter, Ender's Game, Lord of the Rings) mimicking a style of writing will not mimic the inspiration and invention of the writer that made you love those series in the first place. At least not for another few years and then wooooweeee it's over.

In the same way you can get an idea of what defined one artist or another's style during his or her life, but it can't guess how that artist's talent and tastes might have developed. If all you have of Picasso is his Blue Period you're only ever going to see a subsection of his genius.

What I've noticed since joining..

Stay away from the 1x1 to avoid a lot of the smut.

You might still get occasional DMs, from the weirdest people, asking you to RP some shit, but for the most part that is all quarantined to 1x1

You could always make a new IC Tavern type deal.

Dungeons and Dragons, Elder Scrolls, Fallout, Noir Settings.
Lots of places taverns would fit right in.

What shows/movies are you watching?

Both AntMan endings sound terrible. Granted I haven't seen it but...

Endings

AntMan hasn't been around long enough for a big sacrifice ending
His daughter isn't enough of a character for me to care about her taking up the mantle
The character/mantle swap idea is way overused
That would have worked better with Iron Man and his daughter, here it would be forced

A better ending would be his daughter choosing to trap herself in the Quantum Zone, maybe with old lady Quantum Vet, to prevent Kang from leaving. AntMan being decimated that he can't get himself back in there to get her back out. Setting up a reason for him to be more in the fight, more vicious, more skin in the game in the coming movies. They must win. Banner and whoever must get back in there. He can't let his daughter be lost.

Have her/Kang in some post credits scenes. Maybe extended ones showing what she's doing while she's trapped out there. Have her be a fundamentally changed person when AntMan finally finds her.

Video Games: The General Discussion & Community Thread Number Two

I wanted to want Valhalla. I had a ton of fun in Odyssey and Valhalla sounded cool but as soon as gameplay came out...

Oh. Good. You doubled down on the shittest part of Odyssey. Forced combat.

Who wants Assassinations in a game called Assassin's Creed.