The kids today will never know what it was like when every game killed you eventually unless you somehow managed to crash the computer and get a kill screen, something only the Billy Mitchells of the world ever achieved.
Maybe it was a better life lesson -- some folks score higher than others, but we all die. Instead we now talk about "winning" at life, when it's really all relative.
I’ve had Will’s & Jeff’s book in my kindle for a while & it had gotten forgotten amid the onslaught & deluge that is life 2020s style, sadly. Thanks for the reminder it was there; I promptly read 10% of it before getting back here to thank you.
Folks, even the introduction by Wil Wheaton is worth the price of admission, it’s that good a book. Go get it. Read it quicker than I did (actually having ebook of the 2015 edition)
A game designer scripting a game to make a player lose when they clearly won, is a level of vindictive sadism reminiscent of how GRR Martin (Game of Thrones) treats his characters and readers. Such people do not deserve our money.
The kids today will never know what it was like when every game killed you eventually unless you somehow managed to crash the computer and get a kill screen, something only the Billy Mitchells of the world ever achieved.
Maybe it was a better life lesson -- some folks score higher than others, but we all die. Instead we now talk about "winning" at life, when it's really all relative.
Get the humanoid. Get the intruder.
I’ve had Will’s & Jeff’s book in my kindle for a while & it had gotten forgotten amid the onslaught & deluge that is life 2020s style, sadly. Thanks for the reminder it was there; I promptly read 10% of it before getting back here to thank you.
Folks, even the introduction by Wil Wheaton is worth the price of admission, it’s that good a book. Go get it. Read it quicker than I did (actually having ebook of the 2015 edition)
A game designer scripting a game to make a player lose when they clearly won, is a level of vindictive sadism reminiscent of how GRR Martin (Game of Thrones) treats his characters and readers. Such people do not deserve our money.