Rant 987 / The Only Thing Worse Than The 32 Degrees Celsius Is A Broken Air Conditioner

And this is how an unforgettable first date should go.

And this is why I'm still single.

Can't afford a private plane.






















Ok I'm starting to see why Dragon Age 2 got bad reviews from players.

It's the story. I'm pretty sure that's the biggest problem.

Certain things just happen. Realistic for sure, but when it comes to fiction, characters of some degree of importance don't just die or disappear.

For example, Bethany. Spoiler here but the game's pretty damn old anyways.

If you didn't take her down to the Deep Roads, she gets taken by the templars. I didn't finish that run but I'm pretty sure nothing ever happens that involves her after that because if something was planned for her, her abilities would include that special Friend/Rival part too.

If you do take her with you, she dies suddenly at the end from darkspawn poison that somehow got into her.

Or there's Leandra who got killed and mutilated by someone that came out of nowhere.

Yea sure, shit happens IRL, but that's not how fiction is written. If we want an actual documentary or biography with all that hard-hitting stuff, a RPG is the last place people look for those.

Neither does that make it "mature", only simply bad.

This is like an anti-deus-ex-machina, which means something happens out of nowhere, except in the game they're bad.



Other than that, the Tactics system is rather tedious. It feels like I'm programming the AI with handicaps, as in I can only use one set of condition for each action.

If something happens, do something.

I can't use two conditions, like "If something and something happens, do something."

Doesn't really make sense either. Were they trying to force it to become simple? Because it's still tedious as hell, ie they failed.

In the end, I find that it's far easier to programme the tank(s) and healer(s) properly than the others, so even though my protagonist is a tank, I control a rogue to improve the efficiency of all the attacks.

















There's no such thing as too much money. There's always something more that we can do with that extra cash.

Singapore hasn't had a major corruption scandal only because it's still a relatively new country.

Humans are not infallible.

When it finally hits, what then?

Some stains can cling on for multiple lifetimes.

Canada is a strange place.