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  • Deestan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldThe Star Citizen Situation
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    16 days ago

    The term “scope creep” comes up a lot, but to be honest that’s not happening here.

    They have no scope in the first place. No coherent vision.

    The say surface-level vision-like things and present scope-like plans, but only as disposable tools to get investment. No single person in that company tries to tie it together to a real scope or real vision, or align development with it.

    Smart and capable people work on any random game-like stuff that they find interesting, in the hope that it will all somehow become a complete experience all by itself.








  • Deestan@lemmy.worldtomemes@lemmy.worldHave Kids They Said
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    21 days ago

    A plea for anyone having this happen, be gentle.

    It is easy to think a tantrum is because the child wants something and either gets pissed that they don’t, or are trying to make a scene to get it.

    Sometimes (often?) it is more of a stress and panic reaction. And it can be hard to tell. Even if the tipping point was not getting biscuits.

    Whether your reaction is to give in and buy them something, remain very firm that they do not get biscuits today and this is not acceptable behavior, or decide to pick them up and carry them to the car, be a safe and calm presence for them.







  • It is indeed a systemic issue, but his government is the strongest player in making sure this system is strenghtened rather than weakened.

    In addition to all the bad stuff, there has also been more and more people pushing to make things better: Reduce laws and influence from religious fundamentalists, return land claimed by settlers and spread an understanding that they are doing evil, peace and trade with neighboring countries, etc.

    And he is afraid of them. That is why he is trying to move to what is practically a dictatorship and go into perpetual war.

    With the current government gone, there is at least hope that the non-fundamentalist politics can take the wheel.

    I’m stretching the word “hope” to near breaking point here, I know. It would go from “impossible” to merely “impossibly hard with decades of hard concessions” to fix things.





  • Yes, but it would be an effort that does not come down to any strength, machinery, physics or logic, because in his universe the Narrative Force is infintitely stronger than any natural laws.

    And the hammer is ruled by a strong narrative: Thor’s storyline.

    So he would have to create a compellig narrative where he moves the hammer in a way that makes an interesting Thor story.

    He can’t just move it with a planet-size magnet powered by the sun itself, but he could move it with a planet-size magnet powered by the sun itself if it could be explained in a cool way and gives Thor a great struggle to overcome, causes tension to test his relationship to Odin, or moves his character arc.