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5 hours ago, gloop said:

This was very interesting, I really enjoyed it!

 

Im an idiot, so sorry if I get it wrong. Would ‘Minecraft’ (specifically survival) then be described as part-RPG? It has eventual goals, but the player is free to do what they want, do they in turn create their own unique story. 

Bit strapped for time to flesh out my rebuttal. But Minecraft is a great example to me of a sandbox that allows for roleplay and yet lacks the mechanics that Delicieuxz would classify it as an RPG.

My opinion is that Minecraft creates an environment for roleplay, there is no actual quest mechanism or storyline interaction, you are essentially aimless left to your own devices.

Yet to me it overlaps with being an RPG it allows for the player freedom and environment for roleplaying. There are mods and servers for it. RPG adjacent ?

EVE online is an RPG full of roleplaying, absolutely horrendous quest/mission and other game mechanics, bad storyline. Yet it gives players the sandbox to play in.

Skyrim etc. are RPGs, they just have sub par mechanics for which the player can interact with the storyline and drive the quest and content. Which is a completely fair point but there is too much RPG genre overlap to strip them of the genre and banish them to the wastelands.

I may expand on this.

My dissenting opinion is that you are wrong, they are RPGs.

Your criteria for an RPG is purely based on game mechanics, that the quest mechanics are too rigid.

But to use your own argument against you. If the game environment allows for a player to roleplay, then that is also giving them agency.

There are some sandbox games that are not by definition RPGs but they allow the possibility for roleplay and may have elements that overlap with a typically categorised RPG or have the potential to be an RPG.

Genres and categories are neat boxes to put things in. That's not how the real world works. Games will span multiple genres, more like a chaotic venn diagram.

They may be RPGs with issues, but they are RPGs.

5 hours ago, leadeater said:

Problem is there's still a lot of people requiring acute hospital care that in any other circumstance would not have been considered or classified as high risk, it's still far too difficult to know how any person will be impacted. That and the other factor for why these lock-downs exist is so hospitals and healthcare aren't overwhelmed and results in tangential deaths (not COVID-19) and delays to critical care. NYC is a good example of how easily it can get overwhelmed and the real danger there, and everywhere else is the sickness and deaths of the healthcare workers.

 

Large scale sickness is a multi-factor problem and the illness itself can only be a smaller part of it.

 

Lock-downs won't last as long as people fear as long as they get done soon enough, it can also not even be necessary with the right border controls and travel isolation but not every country can do that, US and EU being one of them.

 

Where I live we can, and have, just stopped all international travel and only allow freight and export. It's even more critical for places like the Pacific Islands with no capacity at all for the acute care required, any outbreak is an immediate disaster.

 

Economies will be equally ruined and for longer when there is mass sickness in the workforce and large scale deaths and unrest from inability to get access to healthcare. It's a balancing act of two bad outcomes without knowing where the balance point is, nobody knows where it is.

Yeah, so far Australia and New Zealand seem to be in a fairly good place where we are massive islands and can close borders a lot more easily and have taken proportionate steps that seem to be working as well we can be expected so far.

In regards to the Pacific I'm surprised we haven't sent at least one of the baby carriers (LHD) to the area to assist as needed. I think I read the Canterbury is on standby so might be for that reason.

I think the US is in dire straights, seems to be way more red tape and political bull than needed at a time like this. They've been caught by surprise and don't seem to be able to put enough lockdown measures in place and to be honest I question how much the general population would stand for their rights and freedoms being inhibited, even in the face of coronavirus.

Some dark times ahead.

I'm an essential worker and it's mixed, glad to have that steady work and we actually are a contractor for health and other government departments, working in hospitals, so I am directly helping and feel that is important. Just worry that I bring something home to my family. I know actual frontline health staff would be even more in that situation and my heart really goes out to them.

You are so delirious you got confused between bourbon and rum and forgot to tip the Pepsi Max down the sink.

You sir need some sleep.

Woo bottom to top 2000, on a roll.

Thanks for the event GOT and all involved.

21 minutes ago, Casparj said:

is there a way to search in the document ?

 

Should open in Google docs and then just Ctrl+F ?

Also can go to Edit -> Find and replace OR Ctr+H for your more advanced finding needs.

I'm one of the 0 plebs, been flat out with work and so haven't been micro managing the client when it keeps extending the retry

Think I lost the WU lottery.

Also been doing Rosetta due to CPU WU shortages.

Womp Womp