Rosemary @Rosemary@awoo.space
Headmate to @Felthry, still figuring out how things are after a long absence.
Twenty-something feminine-leaning androgynous arcaninetales taur usually with two heads. Interests in puzzles, engineering, and a good book, and curling up with a good friend.
Pronouns... zhe/zhir for now, but that might change in future.
Rosemary#3888 on Discord. Talk to me here before adding, please!
Time: UTC-6
Joined Jan 2018
Well, I'm glad I noticed that bug before I saved. I don't normally expect to find game-breaking bugs that are easy to encounter by accident in modern games, but the 3ds remake of dragon quest vii has one.
@violet @monorail @Frinkeldoodle What's EBNF?
@monorail One of the few ways in which English is not a completely terrible language, honestly.
@monorail Fortunately, English does not have any authority telling you what to do.
@cozykaffe@snouts.online Looking into it, it sounds like the earliest tic-tac-toe-like game involved moving three pebbles around, rather than placing any number of marks, which would make the game much more interesting since you could move your pieces into places that used to have opponent pieces in them. I imagine the modern form came from people attempting to create a pen-and-paper version of the original game.
@cozykaffe@snouts.online Checkers, for instance, has been mathematically proven to be a draw if both players play perfectly.
@cozykaffe@snouts.online There are other games that have been solved, it's just that for most of them the winning strategy, or the strategy to force a tie if no winning one exists, is too complicated to memorize.
@cozykaffe@snouts.online Ah, these kinds of massive structures seem like an appealing project to undertake sometime...
@Motodrachen @chr The fighting style really only applies to non-canon instances; I don't think there's any actual fighting scenes involving Zelda or Sheik in OoT.
@chr We always thought they were either plural or genderfluid.
@Rei@snouts.online are there shadow pokemon in pokemon go now, or is this some kind of growlithe-gastly hybrid?
re: mh (-, but improving)
@dodec You're a good person, regardless of what your level of weird is.
It looks like there's an even split of circle-pad-likers and mini-stick-likers! Before I redrafted this to clarify some meaning, someone had also voted for the touchscreen analog stick and it seems they didn't repeat their vote, so let's just pretend there's one for that too.
@cozykaffe@snouts.online Make sure you call your bank and cancel it immediately, or do it online if your bank is closed right now.
@cozykaffe@snouts.online I think we saw a mod that did that once.
@Dex You don't want your final boss to go down in just three decently strong hits.
@Dex Restricting even bosses to have no more than 255 HP would seem to limit the damage ranges to a bit lower than what DQ uses today, at least.
@Dex After all, any limitation of that sort you can work around in one way or another by using multiple bytes to represent the data, even if it complicates calculation somewhat.
@Dex Pokemon has a similar system to dragon quest, for what I assume to be similar reasons.
Did Final Fantasy start with that limitation? I seem to recall early entries having thousands of damage too, though perhaps I'm thinking of remakes.
It seems like RPGs can't agree on what is a lot of damage. In the Dragon Quest series, an attack doing over 100 damage is a lot, but in Final Fantasy you're regularly doing multiple thousands of damage in an attack, whereas in dungeons and dragons an attack doing 30 damage would be a grievous wound, if not outright deadly.
Headmate to @Felthry, still figuring out how things are after a long absence.
Twenty-something feminine-leaning androgynous arcaninetales taur usually with two heads. Interests in puzzles, engineering, and a good book, and curling up with a good friend.
Pronouns... zhe/zhir for now, but that might change in future.
Rosemary#3888 on Discord. Talk to me here before adding, please!
Time: UTC-6
Joined Jan 2018
