you know what, agreed, time to call them Soysung exclusively from now on

They could've been great at it if the woke mob didn't cancel Samsung over their combnation smartphone battery / gunpowder substitute tech attainments just because it occasionally burned down a house by itself

I feel like the even further odd thing here is that what is discussed, which is mostly geopolitics, public opinion also doesn't seem to have any impact either. Like value neutral so much geopolitical stuff polls horribly with the general electorate and it's still done

I googled some of the alleged claims and I don't see them. Well, bing'd,

the fuck

great enviromental storytelling is when you can figure out someone was strangled to death and the strangler also died of a random heart attack at that exact moment how wacky

Fair point but neither games have permadeath re-run mechanics that I'd argue characterize the roguelike

citing castros moral vest quote to a bunch of engineers terrified of being beaten to death by the woke mob to get them to develop a consciousness

citing Subcommandante Marcos gay in san francisco quote to further facilitate the realistic development of personas for user journey testing (and accusing anybody who objects to latinx-based racism)

STALKER and FO3 both suck major ass at conventional storytelling, albeit for different reasons, you'll find no objectives that Planescape or Systemshock or an indie game blow them out of the water, albeit indie games pre 2007 is a pretty small category on account of you needed a publisher to send those DVD arounds, you just got like a lot more weirdo A or AA games instead of the AAA++S-Rank shit only you get today.

Enviromental storytelling though I've still not seen STALKER beaten, albeit I fell off the wagon per gaming a while ago. Mind giving some examples here?

I also think STALKER and FO3 would've been popular in similar circles back then, STALKER was called oblivion with guns before FO3 came out

(it may have been sort of technically true at a very early stage when the game didn't really have much of a story or missions, but it's definitely not true for the finished product, which does have a more conventional narrative running through the game that you as the player are the driving force of)

They can't finish the game but unpatched STALKER SoC absolutely allowed mission critical NPCs to die or objectives to just resolve themselves by random mutant spawns or whatever, which is why all the important NPCs all have PDAs with the shit you need. I still feel like this gets pretty close.

Shadow of Chernobyl predates even Demon's Souls by 2 years which is why one of the hills I'm dying on is that the genre should be called the stalkerlike instead of the soulslike because the important, all combining factor is the game basically treats you as an NPC as per power and such, you only have your wits to excel

Disagreeing here, the original STALKER came out a year before and it had way better enviromental storytelling because it didn't rely to much on wackiness like FO3 and even with the A-Live system gimped to no end you could come across entirely diegetic, non planned enviromental storytelling where you could feasibly backtrack what happened.

Like a line of dead pseudodogs coming up to an electro-anomaly with a dead stalker in it and in the distance you could still see one or two of them limping about

starting off my project management seminar with this castro quote and accusing everybody of latinx-based racism if they object

To be fair if I'm launching the actual schwerer gustav at things I don't think "human that rides on it could survive" is high on the priority list

You know the whole thingamabob about how everybody that reports cars parked on sidewalks and shit is basically a Stasi-Gestapo-Blockwart? At this point this seems like one of the more obvious projections

flunkeys

I feel like just saying this carries the chance of Donald Trump personally reading it and doing it if only to use it in some speech like "the losers in Ukraine, they say they can't do it without our money, can't do it folks. They say I can't cut their money but I'm cutting it, I'm cutting the money to the [hard T] Ukraine, they can't do it without us so I say they can't do it folks."

And we have some pretty good batteries but they really dont compare.

I feel like Samsung had a grip there on leading the development of batteries that explode

(note that the actual principles involved in them are used in real things, but mostly for accelerating things along rail systems, not as guns or cannons)

[Legendary - Success]: Schwerer Gustav, but you don't shoot from it, you shoot it.

Ohhhhh I hate this.

not to go to bat for the swedes but the fact that "your word means something funny in english" is a mainstay of even international english speaking community is just absolute american cultural victory