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While I can sometimes remember specific details of games I played a year or more ago vividly, I notice I forget a lot of stuff within just a few weeks as well, which often leaves me confused about side quests in particular when I take a few weeks off from a game and come back to it. Do others also quickly forget some video game content?
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Has a video game ever helped you explain something IRL? For example, I saw someone on Reddit explain how it was easier for them to tell others about what it is like to be bipolar when they used the Shivering Isles from Elder Scrolls: Oblivion as a kind of metaphor (amazing DLC, btw—just finished it, and my mind was blown). I’m not sure a specific game has helped me explains something about how I think/experience the world, but gaming in general does. I can explain exactly what I dislike about adulthood via a gaming metaphor: it is immersion-breaking. Instead of being fully immersed in the world I’m in, it’s like I’m always trying to fix the metaphorical equivalent of a buggy game or broken controller.
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I like what they did with The Last of Us Part 1, where it is more than a typical remaster, but it isn’t a full on “remake” in the sense of replacing story or voice acting elements. It’s just a really comprehensive overhaul. What are some other games you feel could benefit from this type of overhaul?
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What are the most rewarding friendships portrayed in video games? For me, I would list mostly examples from Bioware games: Varric in Dragon Age 2, Dorian in Inquisition, Garrus in Mass Effect.
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What are some of the most tragic side quests ever in video games? There are a number of them in the RDR games, I think (especially Birth of the Conservation Movement). Another that springs to mind is the Shepherding Wolves quest in Dragon Age II.
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What moments in games made you feel most awful about something you’d done? For me, the worst was in RDR Undead Nightmare when I finished the Birth of the Conservation Movement quest.
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During a gaming session, are you playing the entire time, or do you sometimes pause and do other things? I usually pretty much have to pause in the game and play with my cats, as otherwise they make sure that I can’t focus on the game. =D I usually take a break to work on personal projects too, and then return to gaming.
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lol. As much as it alarms me to say, I do think AIs will replace most of our jobs eventually. Regardless, one thing an AI can't do is share the inner subjective experience of a human being with me. No AI will ever replace what originally got me to play TLOU, which was reading a draft of your review of the game on another forum years ago, where you shared the ways the game affected you. It wasn't just the beauty of your insights that stuck with me; it was that I felt I could relate to you well enough through your review to know the game would impact me similarly, and it did.
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I'm working on the final edits for my second book. I advise you to find your own writing and editing process. Mine is like: 1-Start writing a batch of chapters. Do some editing as I go. 2-Go back over that batch. Edit intensely twice, and then one more time more lightly. Now the batch will seem relatively "finished." It gives me a solid foundationt to build the next chapter batch on. 3-Proceed with next batch, do edits as listed. 4-When I have a whole book, do the same process of edits I did for each batch, but for the whole thing combined. For every "edit," I have listed, there are actually stages of nested smaller edits. It's a very looping, iterative process for me, because I am autistic, and that's how I work. Something like this might work for you, or something totally different. :)
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Confusing comments from NPCs about character’s appearance
StaceyPowers replied to StaceyPowers's topic in Gaming Forum
Thanks! They were just giving me really generic comments of the "Do you KNOW what you look like?" variety, so I never did figure out what it was. -
What is your system for reminding yourself to keep your controllers charged?
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For some reason in open world games, when NPCs comment on the character’s appearance negatively, it takes me forever to figure out what they are talking about. Like in Skyrim, I think I had to look it up to see that NPCs were alerting me that I had a disease by saying I looked ill. And in RDR 2, I still can’t figure out why NPCs say I look bad.
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Has anyone here built a gaming PC from the ground up? What was your experience like?