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Open-world 2D platformer which initially appears to exclusively employ lock-and-key gating, but the various key items actually are granting you new movement tech and not telling you about it. The new inputs are unintuitive but not particularly hard to execute, so you're just constantly having "wait, could I always do that?" moments.
I've been seeing a lot of confusion in the notes about exactly how this proposed gimmick is meant to operate, so let's break it down. Broadly speaking, there are three principle mechanisms of access gating in non-linear platformers:
- Ability gating: Permanently altering the player character's capabilities in a way which allows them to overcome previously impassable obstacles; for example, a high-jump upgrade that lets you reach new platforms.
- Lock-and-key gating: Permanently altering the environment in a way which removes previously impassable obstacles; for example, a keycard which causes certain locked doors to open when you approach them.
- Knowledge gating: Revealing ways of acting or interacting which the player character already possesses, but which were deliberately obscured from the player, typically due to requiring unintuitive sequences of inputs and/or only being possible in very specific situations which are unlikely to arise by chance.
Most of the "this is just [insert game]" responses are simply name-checking other titles which employ knowledge gating, which isn't what's being proposed here.
Rather, we're talking about breaking a very specific implicit rule which almost all non-linear platformers observe: knowledge-gated movement tech is either available right from the start of the game, or else tied to ability-gating in such a way that it's obvious in retrospect which upgrade is granting the tech in question.
Critically, knowledge-gated movement tech is almost never tied to lock-and-key upgrades. This is a rule you probably haven't worked out explicitly if you're not a game design nerd, but you'd be hard-pressed to find counterexamples in mainstream titles, and for pretty obvious reasons: it's hard to secretly give the player new abilities without changing how they interact with the environment.
(This is why, for example, something like Tunic doesn't qualify. The hidden manual pages inform the player of knowledge-gated movement tech, but don't actually grant it – you can still do all that stuff without finding the pages that tell you about it.)
The central joke at the player's expense, then, is that we're proposing a non-linear platformer which pretends to exclusively employ lock-and-key gating, when in fact the pickups which appear simply to passively unlock paths are also modifying how the player character is able to interact with the environment in non-obvious and undisclosed ways.
But if it's pretending to employ Lock-and-Key gating, then what are the extra movement abilities for? Isn't Lock-and-Key separate from Ability gating, by this taxonomy? It sounds like what you're proposing is a game where you pick up a keycard which opens all the red doors for you and also secretly lets you airdash by spinning the control stick in a circle 3 times, but you don't actually need to use the airdash to get anywhere? Just for fun?
The ideal deployment is probably a "game has a good ending and a bad ending, and the good ending is only accessible by using the movement tech."
In form with the tone of the suggestion, it's probable that there is nothing in the text of the bad ending that suggests there was a better outcome.
Depending on how blatant we want the player-hostile design to be, you could also just deliberately softlock players who haven't twigged to the secret movement tech two-thirds of the way through the game.
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starting a collection
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The last time I played Puck, the director was a huge freak about not letting us wear shoes on stage because it would "ruin the look", but we all kept eating shit, and instead of just letting us wear skintone dance shoes or something with grip, motherfucker poured Pepsi on the floor so it'd be sticky and we had to schlorp around. I fucking hate you, David.
Why couldn't this have been a one time I dreamt
Coking the stage (mopping it with diluted soda so it's a little sticky) is a legitimate low-budget tactic for slick floors, but he just poured so much Pepsi on the floors that for about a whole week, it was audible.
Maybe the course of true love would run a little fucking smoother if we didn't have to ford your Pepsi river, DAVID.
I would just quit. Fuck people like that. It's easy to walk away
No it's not. Didn't you read the post? There was dried Pepsi everywhere.
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as good of a time as any to share my list of activities I do during what i like to call Scheduled Soul Maintenence to avoid burnout
- go on an aimless bike/ride/walk - move your body, do it for as long as you feel like it, discover new places near you weather that is a frog or a cafe
- watch a new movie/read a new book/listen to a new album - get inspired, excercise having opinions and longer attention span, break out of consuming content and make a choice about what you want to expirience
- create something in a medium i haven't used in a while - get out of a habit, rekindle a flame you haven't been upkeeping, making a friendship bracelet counts
- go have a fun new drink/snack - arguably most important, have a little treat without rush, slow down and focus on physical sensations, treat yourself in a way that isn't landfillcore
- meet with friends and/or go to a place where you meet strangers - human connection is good for you, (maybe some casual sex if you like that/try something new with your partner)
- make some bad art - create for the sake of creating without any expectations
- play an instrument - this can be anything that makes you reach a kind of flow state
- go see something you haven't yet - get to know the cultural/geographical map of your area, this includes events, places, or just anything that makes you go out of your way to expirience something new, can be like a viewpoint or it can be a museum exhibit, anything you find cool
- cook/bake something new - nurish your body, break out of cooking habits and routine, make it an event, plate it nicely too and i would like to point out that none of these have to cost more money than your usual lifestyle.
Reminder to myself
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“You have to cheat. Ask for as many extensions on papers as you possibly can. Pretend your computer is broken. Use your charm if you have any. If you’re going to cry, don’t wait until you’re out of the room–do it where the people in power can see you. Eat the same food every day if you can’t think of anything else to make. Put other things ahead of taking a shower, even if your mom said you have to take a shower every two days. Sometimes people won’t notice you’re cheating but even if they do and are annoyed you might still get by. My mom goes to workshops for people with ASD and then gives me the really long printouts that go along with them. The printouts tell me to sit down and make a list of everything I have to do. When I am anxious, as I have been this year, it’s hard to think about these things so I hold on to the printouts out of guilt but don’t actually read them. Then my mom finds them and gets upset that I haven’t read them and says that I’m not ready to live on my own. But I am ready to live on my own. Badly. Just like I can hold down a full-time job. Badly. Just like I am getting my homework done. Badly. And I forget to balance my checkbook, which none of my non-disabled friends do because you can get it online, and my mom says, “Well it’s different for you because they would be able to do it if they needed to, but you wouldn’t, so you have to do it.” Theoretically I understand this is true, but my checkbook remains unbalanced. Which is bad. And I feel bad. I do! At this rate I’ll never be able to go to college. But I do go to college. At this rate I’ll never be able to have any friends. But I do have friends. I just don’t do everything right with them all the time. For people whose lives are controlled by executive dysfunction, I firmly believe the difference between getting stuff done and not getting stuff done is not caring about doing things right. You cannot always make a list all the time and be early for everything. You just can’t. Hopefully you’re good-looking or funny or you remind someone of their niece. Exploit all opportunities. Do not do what people who are not disabled tell you to do (unless you want to, of course). All too often I find myself waiting for the day when I can do shit properly, which more or less amounts to waiting until I’m not disabled anymore. Then I can feel good enough to deserve everything I want. Well my cure is slow in arriving, so I’m just going to do everything I want now, if that’s okay with you.”
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from I’m Somewhere Else, “Max is a Miracle”
The best advice I’ve heard on how to get through college with a developmental disability when there are zero accommodations for executive dysfunction. You can’t let anyone else try to live your life for you, and you cannot worry about “doing things right”. Also: none of the things described here as “cheating” are ACTUALLY cheating.
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How is bnha anime of the decade...... they aren’t even anime of the hour of the minute of the second
The notes on this post were so toxic that staff just axed em
1969.........
Yes, when the original post is deleted from the server (not just the blog, but the Tumblr servers), there is no root post for notes to be added onto, and also no root post for time to be counted from, so it starts from zero. Most computer operating systems use Unix, which was launched in 1971 with t.he epoch date of midnight on January 1, 1970 as 1. Therefore zero is one second behind that date: December 31, 1969. Also, very unfortunately, this also means nobody except you and anyone you reblog it to will see this explanation, as you cannot open the notes to see comments when there are no notes.
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Au where Batman doesn't want to tell the Justice League his secret identity but it's because he's really embarrassed about the things he's done as Bruce Wayne.
The thing is; Batman has spent years crafting and perfecting his public persona.
'Brucie Wayne' is supposed to be a dumber than life himbo, with daddy's credit card and the maturity of a seventeen year old. He's supposed to be someone so outlandishly ridiculous no one would ever even dare to mention him in the same sentence as Batman... And Batman has been acting that part perfectly.
It's a genius plan.
But then the league begins talking about maybe all sharing their secret identities, to become closer as a group and work better together. And the only thing in Batman's mind is 'Oh. My. God. Please don't'
Superman is saying something about trust and how he has come to value all of them as friends. Batman is thinking about last year Christmas' Gala, where he took off his clothes in an improvised strip-tease, and started swimming in the fountain.
Wonder woman is talking about how she wishes to strengthen their bonds so they become greater warriors. Bruce just remembered there's videos of him fucking twerking and pole dancing to Ariana Grande all over the internet.
Flash starts smiling and telling them he already trust them with his life– Bruce once said chocolate milk came from brown cows.
'Oh. My. God'.
There's just no way he's telling any of them.
It's even better if he's met the rest of the League in his Brucie persona, and they never realized.
Clark was at a charity gala, trying to get some quotes for an article. He had known he wasn't going to get much out of Brucie, but he had asked the man for an interview anyway. Brucie had said yes, only to immediately drag Clark into a coat closet. When Clark rightfully freaked out, he discovered that Brucie genuinely thought that an interview was sex in a closet during galas. That that was the definition of the word interview.
Diana had been hosting a museum opening, and seen the himbo looking at a peridot statue. As he was one of the biggest donors, she decided to go talk to him. He seemed confused when she asked what she thought of it. He told her that he didn't understand why they had a fake statue. Diana, now also confused, asked what he meant, and learned that he didn't think green stones were real. That they were all painted that way. "I think it would look better without the paint," he said, very serious. Diana, slowly as she felt some of her own brain cells dying, told him that it was made out of peridot. He replied with "isn't that what girls get?"
Barry Allen had been in Gotham with his nephew Wally to meet Wally's pen pal, Dick. They ended up in this huge house, being led through by a butler. Dick was sitting at a table with a man Barry recognized as Bruce Wayne, staring down at a puzzle. Only, the puzzle and all the pieces were upside down, showing only the back. He stopped to introduce himself to Barry, then looked around, confused. "Dickie," Brucie said, "I thought you said your pen pal was coming." Dick snickered, covering his mouth. "Yeah, Bruce. This is Wally." Brucie looked down at Wally, blinked, and then said "you're not a pen."
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i go to the ytp bar and order the usual. the bartender sets a Snoopingas in front of me. i pick it up, raise it to my lips, and set it back down, repeating all of this while gradually accelerating until i have finished the drink. my favorite way to spend a frirfday evenineve
i go to the ytp tennis bar and order the usu. the usuasusual. bart- orders the Snoopingas. the bartender sets a Snoopingas in front of bart-. i pick it up (hey!), and set it back down, and i pick it up, and set it back down, and i raise it-and set it back down, all of this while pea-ing and gradually accelerating until i have finished. *cartoon splat sfx* i repeatedly drink bart-s drink until bart- sets me on FIRE!! *crackling* my favorite waaw to spend a frirfday evenineve. …veve.
y y y i go to the ytp siis bar? *long pause* to order the bartender to set me on FIRE!! The bartender iS Snoop *snoop dog smoke weed song distorted* i pick the PINGAS up (hey!), and set it on FIRE!! *tf2 pyro happy noises* llAll of this while bartender Snoop gradually accelerating and ♪it's the wall, hit the wall!♪ *cartoon splat sfx 3 times, last paulstretched* waw waw waaaw way to drink aT the ytp siis bar on a friirf evenev lAl
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The diagram for the classic Origami Goat, with a twist to make its horns curve ! It's from this video by by Origami Word, but it seems to be a pretty old/intemporal design that a lot of people have made. I could not find a diagram online so I made one.
(If you make her in yellow/orangy-yellow, then decorate her with red ribbons, you can make your own origami gävlebocken ! )
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Gonna start gratuitously colour-coding words like in one of those hypnoslut hornyposts when describing my stupid player-hostile metroidvania concepts.
Metroidvania where each upgrade caries strict, initially undisclosed rules regarding its proper use; e.g., it's rude to air-dash over water. Inappropriate behaviour draws harsh punishment, but only if observed, potentially turning any puzzle into an impromptu stealth section because the required tech is available only if you don't get caught.
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I remember one time I got INSANELY high off of edibles while playing Among Us, and it quickly became apparent to the other players online. I forget how honestly but literally anything "sus" I did was ignored by everyone because I was so fucking high. I tested this theory by standing in front of a body and the person that actually reported it didn't even mention me. The funniest part was when I was trying to do wires, I kept fucking up over and over again, so I was just standing in front of wires for actual minutes trying to figure it out. A small crowd of players gathered around me to watch and would get mad every time someone reported a body or emergency meeting because "she's never going to get her tasks done if you keep interrupting them." I don't think anyone cared about winning at that point, they just wanted to see the high crew mate succeed in her tasks.
THIS IS 1000% ACCURATE LMFAO. Thank you op
Ohhhh yeah
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Firefox updated recently, don't forget to open config and turn off the AI shit the update turned back on