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Let me tell you how willingly being immersed in a thing that is 75% reading is extremely unlike that other thing that is willingly being immersed in a thing that is 99% reading. Furthermore
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itry posted:Let me tell you how willingly being immersed in a thing that is 75% reading is extremely unlike that other thing that is willingly being immersed in a thing that is 99% reading. Furthermore It is, if the engine makes reading painful.
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Dec 22, 2021 20:50
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Alexa, how do I find an optometrist near me?
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Dec 22, 2021 20:53
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the only mod I really use for bethesda games is better bodies for Morrowind because while the environmental graphics hold up pretty good for 2003 but the character models are some 1998 PlayStation 1 trash tier garbage
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Dec 22, 2021 20:57
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itry posted:I think if you're the kind of person who enjoys disappearing into a good book, then you'd probably enjoy PS:T. Sounds like something somebody who's never read a good book would say
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Dec 22, 2021 20:58
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Myst is a good series for someone who enjoys disappearing into a book
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Dec 22, 2021 20:59
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fridge corn posted:Sounds like something somebody who's never read a good book would say In this context, a good book is a book that engrosses you. Gaius Marius posted:Myst is a good series for someone who enjoys disappearing into a book 
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Dec 22, 2021 21:00
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Gaius Marius posted:Myst is a good series for someone who enjoys disappearing into a book
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Dec 22, 2021 21:01
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Gaius Marius posted:Myst is a good series for someone who enjoys disappearing into a book lol
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Dec 22, 2021 21:02
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Gaius Marius posted:Myst is a good series for someone who enjoys disappearing into a book lmao
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Dec 22, 2021 21:03
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Myth > Myst
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Dec 22, 2021 21:06
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Normality starring Corey Feldman > Fallout 4
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Dec 22, 2021 21:08
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Pfft those barely even share the same letters, idiot 
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Hmm... Myth > Myst > Tryst Edit: Far-Out > Fallout (4) itry fucked around with this message at 21:25 on Dec 22, 2021 |
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Dec 22, 2021 21:22
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itry posted:Hmm... wow. dyst.
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Dec 22, 2021 21:23
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The Myst 2 walkthrough was like a small novel and it took about 45 minutes to load each screen on the commodore 64 so i would just study the walkthrough and pretend i was playing it. Also never had any quarters so just pretended to play arcade games for hours.
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Dec 22, 2021 21:33
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that sounds really sad
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Dec 22, 2021 22:32
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Gaius Marius posted:Myst is a good series for someone who enjoys disappearing into a book 
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Dec 22, 2021 23:01
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If only Disco Elysium had punctuation like a Cormac McCarthy novel!
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We used to talk about death, she said. We don’t anymore. Why is that? I don’t know. It’s because it’s here. There’s nothing left to talk about. I wouldn’t leave you. I don’t care. It’s meaningless. You can think of me as a faithless slut if you like. I’ve taken a new lover. He can give me what you cannot. Death is not a lover. O yes he is. Please don’t do this. I’m sorry. I can’t do it alone.' gently caress does Cuno care? (He doesn't care.)
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Dec 22, 2021 23:08
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Im reading that book rn its no harry potter but its pretty good
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Dec 22, 2021 23:22
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X JAKK posted:The Myst 2 walkthrough was like a small novel and it took about 45 minutes to load each screen on the commodore 64 so i would just study the walkthrough and pretend i was playing it. Loser
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Dec 22, 2021 23:23
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KonvexKonkav posted:Terry Pratchett was such a terrible writer, putting all of Death's dialogue in small caps. Should've learned some proper typography in college.
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Cracker King posted:If only Disco Elysium had punctuation like a Cormac McCarthy novel! I'd actually use his stuff as a perfect explanation of why the punctuation poo poo in DE is valid criticism. If your unconventional punctuation hinders the reader rather than being user to a point, it's bad punctuation and needs work. Just because he writes the opposite extreme doesn't suddenly mean that smothering your text in the stuff doesn't make it uncomfortably off feeling to read.
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Dec 23, 2021 00:37
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Waltzing Along posted:I never had a single game over. Alternately, my first play through of Disco lasted 1 minute because turning on the light while hung over inflicted lethal damage lol. The writing was a fun gimmick which really overstayed its welcome
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Dec 23, 2021 00:38
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Cormac McCarthy refuses to use quotation marks
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Dec 23, 2021 00:41
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Cormac McCarthy had prose that can support itself without punctuation. Most writers cannot write so well
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FoolyCharged posted:I'd actually use his stuff as a perfect explanation of why the punctuation poo poo in DE is valid criticism. If your unconventional punctuation hinders the reader rather than being user to a point, it's bad punctuation and needs work. Just because he writes the opposite extreme doesn't suddenly mean that smothering your text in the stuff doesn't make it uncomfortably off feeling to read. I'm pretty ambivalent about DE's grammar, but in so far as a) capturing the cadence and phrasing of the character who's speaking in that screenshot and b) deliberately replicating the way people often write online it's 100% successful.
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Gaius Marius posted:Cormac McCarthy had prose that can support itself without punctuation. Most writers cannot write so well Either it's worth pointing to as an indicator of quality or it isn't. Either Cormac McCarthy's work would be better with punctuation or it wouldn't. If anyone wants to talk poo poo on the writing itself with regards to characterization and whatnot that's cool, but it's laughable to go for punctuation before anything else without giving other work the same filter
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Dec 23, 2021 01:35
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:nevermind bro I found it. Had it saved, appropriately, as "Disco Elysium sucks.png" This is funny you use that passage because it actually kind of owns. It's funny and interesting and it immediately causes you to understand the type of person they're talking about. It's good. Maybe you just didn't get it but that's no reason to get mad at the writers e: oh poo poo I quoted this from for pages ago but people still discussing it lol nice
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Dec 23, 2021 01:52
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I know that you were criticizing the obstructive grammar and atrocious flow of this ad lib but maybe you just didn't get it 
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QuarkJets posted:I know that you were criticizing the obstructive grammar and atrocious flow of this ad lib but maybe you just didn't get it 'atrocious flow', 'obstructive grammar' Lmao. That's pretty funny, maybe you can figure out why. The point is that segment reads easily, and quickly paints a pretty vivid picture of the person they are talking about. That's why it's good writing. It's funny that someone chose that to represent the 'bad' writing in the game when 1, it's not bad and 2, there's way worse writing in that game if you're really looking for it. It's also funny because one of the only games that dares to attempt to write intelligently is dumped on, for its WRITING, because it's not the marvel style one liners and base simplicity of pretty much every other game. That's amusing to me. I think people just don't like to read actual prose in games and react aggressively when they do. 'Writing in games should be as dumb and straightforward as possible at all times, and no chances should be taken', apparently because otherwise it makes people feel stupid and frustrated for some reason and we get into situations like this
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runnypoops posted:Loser  ill dry my tears upon your mother's bountiful bush
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Every single video game has bad writing, and every single book is well written, I know this because I am an intelligent well read book reader who has engaged in the entire canon of Brandon Sanderson. Sorry, I know a video game goblin like you wouldn't have heard of him, hell you guys porobably haven't even heard of books.
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i would rather enjoy my time reading a terrible schlocky generic fantasy book or 500 chapter serial web fiction thing on my kindle in a chair or in bed than read a 10/10 story in videogame textbox it's even worse if a story-based videogame is based on voiced cutscenes instead of text because that means you can't even read at your own speed video games are just a bad medium for stories.
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Dec 23, 2021 02:35
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RPATDO_LAMD posted:video games are just a bad medium for stories. 
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The choose your own adventure series is clearly the best of both worlds
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Dec 23, 2021 02:43
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SilvergunSuperman posted:The choose your own adventure series is clearly the best of both worlds Too easy to cheat, it needs some DRM (Difficult Reading Mode)
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there's a book called MEG. they made it into a Jason Statham movie. The cover of the book has a shark and a t-rex fighting in some water. There isn't a t-rex in the book, but there is a giant megalodon shark, and a submarine fires a nuclear torpedo into it's mouth while it tries to eat them. The writing in it was better than the writing in 99% of videogames.
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Books have terrible graphics and gameplay, honestly even the best gameplay in any book doesn't match up to even the simplest video game.
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