Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space

And I suppose I get the appeal of "yeah, that but hundreds of planets and millions of generic people".

But my dude, if I wanted that, I could play an Elder Scrolls game.

We've seen that, it's a mile wide and an inch deep. I don't need generic dialog to make me feel like an always-needed, nigh-unstoppable superhero.

I want the dish on what the space bartender thinks about the locals. Why the drapes are red. And who got slipped a cup of piss instead of their gargle blaster for being a jerk.

@Leviamicky Yeah. YEAH. Ostranauts kind of has this vibe too, and it's something I've been trying to get into.

I used to be a huge Star Wars nerd, and the parts that stuck the most with me weren't the movies, or the important books like Shadows of the Empire, X-Wing, or (what I read of both versions of) Thrawn.

It was a humble set of volumes that told us about who the background characters were. Like this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tales_from_the_Mos_Eisley_Cantina

I think I got it then, then somehow forgot. The people are what make those worlds, and so many folks forget that.

@roguecnidarian Like, I think that we kind of peaked at that idea that portable devices could be allowed to be offline some or most of the time. And so much of the software-as-a-service-but-AI-to-sell-your-data-back-to-you brainrot comes from giving that up.

@roguecnidarian I mentioned this somewhere before, but this is kinda what led to me dusting off my (homebrewed, well-cared-for) 3DS (pedantic: New 2DS XL).

Especially compared to the whole always-on, your-console-is-a-cloud-client model of newer tech, having stuff be fully offline, having full confidence in my data, and having it just work is... fucking liberating right now.

@roguecnidarian Tbh: if this is the headfake companies convince themselves into, instead of actually hoovering up and stealing monstrous amounts of user data to back these claims: that might be better somehow?

Laziness in ad copy saving us all would be a hell of a thing.

@mawr Anyway, my plan is to live long enough to see them tried in the Hague just like Duterte is right now.

@mawr IMO: nah.

Shit's bad. But there's a benefit to the most brazenly stupid fascists being the ones with wealth and power instead of the more competent ones. And that's that they're single points of failure, bad at securing their gains, and more about smash-and-grabs than building their power to last.

That said: hoo boy this still sucks.

Awhile back, I vaguely recall a friend (@mawr, I think?) saying they were glad Google+ hadn't succeeded. Because Google would be much more competently evil with that data than Twitter was.

Anyway, I think about that a lot now.

No, Gemini, I do not want you to read and write my emails for me. My crippling anxiety over being precise in what I send will not be improved by you pretending you know what you're talking about.

Also, I still remember the mic drop thing.

@Aether @DarkOverord Part of the joy for me in this one was also going, "okay, I'm not going to spend any money on this other than a $5-10 minimum to ensure they don't wipe my account in 6mo. What can I do with the worst cards that I get during the first hit free period to completely slay the single player and in tourney events?"

I am... not their normal audience.

@Aether @DarkOverord I know the monetization angle on modern TCGs is all "chase the high value and synergy cards", but I want to use the commons and build the trashiest decks to play against each other or in a draft cube.

It's what I enjoy doing with MtG cards too, to no surprise.

@Aether @DarkOverord Oh it's _totally_ gacha hell, they're just doing payment processing right now. I enjoyed it for a bit, but put it down for now.

That said: I want to see the format they developed for it succeed. First to 3 points and simple, legible card effects that play well. I think it would play very well over the table if they print the special versions they introduced for Pocket as real cards.

@DarkOverord Same. I was pretty active on it early on, until DeNa burned me on their monetization being arbitrary and hella insecure.

DeNa got better at the mobile thing since then (going by TCG Pocket, anyway?), but that kind of whimsy was what made Miitomo (and the Wii generation in general) so neat.