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  • For MMOs, fair enough. I can see the problem of the believability of the setting if everyone are running around as humans.

    I thought we were mainly talking about smaller/local games like tabletop rpg in which the DM or settings creator are annoyed at players mostly preferring humans in their settings.

  • This has literally killed games that failed to deliver the reality of their brief to their players. Promise one experience, deliver another, and people quit.

    Could you elaborate on what you mean by that in relation to people generally preferring to play as humans/vanilla experiences?

    Maybe people are downvoting your replies because this is a commonly discussed and well-studied issue in design circles, but you're failing to understand the problem and dismissing it as a "misguided" concern.

    No, when I was writing my comments it was only the person I was talking to that was downvoting, votes are public so you could easily check. At that point, just tell me you don't want to discuss the topic and I'll stop replying.

    Just because YOU don't think it's a problem doesn't mean it isn't a problem.

    I'm arguing it's only a problem in the mind of the creator. For the ones it actually do matter for, the audience/customers, it's not an issue.

  • It's misguided in the sense it's not a real problem for the target audience. BG3 does not have a problem of players not choosing the more exotic races. Maybe some game developers are annoyed about it, but it's not something that devalues the game. The option is still there for those who wants it.

    If you as a creator see that your players are only interested in 20% of the world you have created, you might want you reflect on why that is, and if you're not better off focusing on those 20%. If you don't want to do that there's nothing wrong focusing on the more obscure fluff for own personal enjoyment either. And I really don't see the point of downvoting all my replies, I'm not trying to argue in bad faith.

  • I get your point about creators wanting to show off and have all of their creation explored, but at the end of the day, if you are creating something for a user base, what matters is what the users are interested in.

    The vast minority ever bothered to learn a single word of Sindarin, but I doubt Tolkien ever cared. You got to figure out if you what you're making is for your own interest, or others. Calling it a problem that most people prefer the playing humans seems misguided.

  • Since Microsoft has access to your entire windows system, there's no harm letting every other company have it too then?

  • I honestly don't see why people picking humans is an issue, just let people choose what they prefer.

  • As someone who has lived within 5 minutes to a football stadium my whole life across multiple cities, I'd argue it's a positive to not have it that close. Too much noise.

  • Other than the primary school (~20 minutes) and the physical bank, which we barely have any left off in Norway, they're all within 15 minutes.

    Trondheim

  • Sort by new and report what you see. If you notice a pattern (same website, similar names, etc...), add it in the report description.

  • Looking forward to the day I can just copy paste the Silmarillion into a program and have it spit out a 20 hour long movie.

  • Deciliter is a common unit in cooking though...

  • I think it's a US thing to start on Sunday 1

  • Nuclear power plants are top 2 in area footprint for energy generation. It's clean, safe and a reliable baseload source. Personally I'd rather have nuclear power plant in the outskirts of my city than littering our nature with noisy bird killing windmills. Solar is cool, but won't work as a baseload source.

    SMR won't mature without investments, it's the sort of short sightedness that has made us burn coal and gas for 50 unnecessary extra years.

  • Yeah, and then you ask which industry might have profited from it. I swear to God, if nuclear hadn't been a real threat to the coal and petroleum industry 50 years ago, it would never have gotten the reputation it got. Imagine where we could have been.

  • However, in examining the role of SMRs, the EAC heard that a final investment decision on the first station in the UK is not expected until 2029. The timeline means it is unlikely to contribute to the 2035 target, or Labour’s pledge to run the grid on clean energy by 2030.

    That argument is so old that you could have built three generations in that time. If you never start, it will allways be late.

  • I still want to know the source of what I'm being told. There are plenty of brains out there smarter than mine, I'll still ask for sources.