I do like some intellectual stimulation and will hold contrarian views just to test the waters of my own understanding or to test yours. I don’t always believe the things I say online. I want you, AND me to understand the world around us better.

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  • I’d probably do something like ARK: Survival Ascended; but rely less on ‘realistic’ dinosaurs, and do something closer to Horizon: Zero Dawn - where the creatures were still able to be somewhat freeform/modified from real species.

    From there, I would toy around with a couple of ideas - such as semi-procedural maps (where say, The Island is the same up top, but each of the caves can be generated in different places, and the caves that generate are themselves procedural in nature). I want to be able to tell a story where necessary, but make 1:1 walkthroughs impossible - in order to force people who Google everything, to actually have to explore - while still getting some use out of the searched information.

    I’d add a little bit of pal-world to the mix, requiring certain creatures to integrate/operate certain crafting tables, and also some RPG-ish elements where gear could be found that had special traits, such as run speed boots, etc.

    Then I would rework boss battles and tames so that you didn’t just zerg them with the “strongest” creature, but would have to mix stuff up - you would need a creature that helped reduce damage, a creature that could hold aggro, maybe some creatures could stack debuffs, and others could remove debuffs from your team, etc. Balance it so only 1 of these things couldn’t defeat a boss, but some intelligent combination of them could do it pretty easy.





  • I would certainly like an ‘integrated’ multi-post system that would allow content to be posted to up-to 4 other communities, and it would wrangle all posts into the same comment section.

    Slashdot-style voting is another one. Or even bland-voting, with some sort of tagging system (the same overrated, flamebait, informative, funny, etc) – The bland-vote allows no-thought up/down votes for spam control, etc – while the tag system lets you sort things you want to see like insightful for philosophical debate, informative for just factual information.

    Honestly I’d love to see more tag systems just in general anyhow - they’re great for searches, they’re great for categorization.







  • thantik@lemmy.worldtoFunny: Home of the Haha@lemmy.worldIs satire allowed?
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    4 months ago

    hahaha, what a redditor. You gotta dive through people’s history looking for something ‘incriminating’ so you can attack the person instead of the argument at hand.

    If they’re banning an app because a nation wants to control the narrative, but you won’t talk about that, because reeee China bad…but you can’t articulate why “china bad”.

    Do you realize you’re missing important context to that conversation, and all of my viewpoints align with each other perfectly? You know why? Because I’m not a hypocrite.

    I’ll give you another one of my quotes here, just so you understand my point of view on humanity:

    Once you start viewing humanity the same way you’d view organisms in a Petri Dish, you’ll have gotten it.

    You’re here for a purpose. I’m here to argue and observe the dataset.




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    But this isn’t an either/or situation. We can shit on both.

    But you’re not. That’s about as clear as water. None of this legislation has any effect whatsoever on American companies…

    Why?

    Because this is a nationalism thing. Not a security thing. Not a health and well-being thing. This is a nationalism thing.

    It’s also an Israel thing; lots of pro-palestine content on TikTok, and Israel wants that shit shut down.