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With all this talk about how Super Mario Odyssey’s mechanics are great, but its world designs are cliché, I’ve gotta wonder: what’s left? Like, how do you design themed platformer worlds without falling into cliché if you’re not allowed to have:

a world set in a forest, in a desert, at the beach, amid the clouds or on the Moon;

a world themed after fire, ice, water, castles, food, flowers or ghosts;

a world characterised by ancient ruins, modern cities, or giant machines

… and so forth? The game goes so far as to have you fight a damn Dark Souls boss at one point, and even that’s been described as predictable tonal break.

I think we’re reaching a point where we’re going to have to stop expecting novelty for novelty’s sake in open-world platformer design, simply because nearly every reasonable world theme has already been done by someone, somewhere.

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Hey, D&D players!

A Facebook acquaintance of mine is working on her PhD, which involves studying the experiences of people – and particularly women – who play Dungeons and Dragons. (Yeah, she’s living the dream.) As part of her research, she’s passing around three surveys.

1. Main survey (open to all D&D players; takes about 10 minutes tops)

2. This survey asks people about their characters - very quick

3. Finally, this survey is aimed at non D&D players.

Please pass these around – let’s help this fellow nerd get a robust dataset!  (2/11/20)

@randomitemdrop​, @prokopetz​, @dungeonqueering​, @battlecrazed-axe-mage​, @yourplayersaidwhat​, would you mind signal-boosting?

When we say “tax the rich,” we mean nesting-doll yatch rich. For profit prison rich. Betsy DeVos, student-loan-shark rich.

Trick-the-country-into-war rich. Subsidizing-workforce-w-foodstamps rich.

Because THAT kind of rich is simply not good for society, & it’s like 10 people.

TAX THE RICH. A LOT. LIKE, A LOT, LOT.

Can we stop this whole rudely replying to curious anons who have genuine questions?? Like who raised yall to be this nasty?? In the time it took you to type “I’m not fucking Google look it up” U could have answered the question like shit I am exhausted by all of this nastiness

If You Just Believe 🎁