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opinion: unless you plan on replacing your glasses at least every year or two, anti-reflective coatings are actually bad 'cause they tend to get damaged way more easily.

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My submission: fast travel in Skyrim.

The game is supposed to be this enormous, inhospitable country, and the way fast travel is implemented reduces the functional size to "get off at the nearest metro stop and walk three blocks".

Thankfully, mods.

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Open thread!

What's a bad game design decision in a game you love? Something that compromises other parts of the game, or weakens the narrative, or is otherwise just really clumsy or awkward or out of place?

IMO like 2/3rds of the plots of Star Trek TNG could be reskinned into pretty good tabletop rpg adventures.

In case you didn't know: in "Jurassic Park", when Lex says "It's a Unix system! I know this!", it's not a Hollywood mockup.

What she's looking at is fsn, the File System Navigator, running on an SGI IRIS Crimson computer running the IRIX filesystem. IRIX was a variant of Unix System V with BSD extensions.

@benhamill@witches.town fwiw I listen to a podcast that is about reading terrible books.

idontevenownatelevision.com/

...okay I need to set the paperclip game down or I won't actually get anything done this evening :D

@noiob I've never heard loctite to mean anything but a thread lock :)
Wonder if it's a region thing.

Dadliness is absolutely a thing that some people just have.

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