Gonna disagree with my peers here and say that “fuck the empire” would have worked better.

lol

First of all, you’re the one imposing the outrageous limits. “Gate the requests” doesn’t mean put every single request behind a gate. It means make sure that when you’re serving each request, that request has been paid for either in debt-accrual, or from previous credit. Most newspapers are gated, now. Doesn’t mean…

Oh yeah. Like I said: old paradigms, repurposed for modern content. It’s why devs keep saying dumb shit like “SSR is basically PHP again”, or “Aha! NoDB has looped back around to basically be structured data again”.

Our solution was to send content as its data type (videos as .mp4s or whatever other h.264 format a video element would natively play), but to send advertisements as encrypted chunks that had to be decoded with the client’s private key and only then would they be able to feed that decrypted chunk to a player. The…

lol. “irony”

caring about trolling you is not caring about what you have to say

where did you say anything at all? and who cares?

Regardless of whatever flaws this game may or may not have, I would love to be able to show a kid in 1990 that A) Mortal Kombat is still kicking the same kind of ass (don’t have to tell the kid it’s been through awkward phases), and B) it’s going to look like this. Blow that little gamer’s mind. At least, it would…

it’s cool. not everyone understands good media. or why it was written. what it all means. play with the toys they are making for you (above) if you aren’t able to keep up.

Yep. Perpetually weakened storytelling, one massive swing at a time.

lol. oh well i guess the story’s perfect then. fucking idiot.

cool. i guess the story is really good, actually.

same

Loving the new assets! Only a matter of time, now, until we get that sweet sweet fan game, Final Fantasy VII Restored, which plays like the original game and leaves the story the fuck alone.

You’re free to ignore the fact that it’s a fairy tale, but that’s the height of ignoring the hard canon. The movie starts with “a long time ago in a [kingdom] far, far away...”; the tropes are just as important as the dialog. If they weren’t, the dialog would be utterly fucking ridiculous. In the context of a fairy…

a) it IS a dramatic retcon because Luke being the ‘only’ Jedi was important because of Luke’s training. There was Ben, who could train him but died. And then there was Yoda. But this was it. No more chances. Once Yoda’s gone, Luke is the only one left to carry on the Jedi. Even Leia being force sensitive doesn’t fix…

I mean, I take the point, but that line was a ‘twist(ish) reveal’ line meant to soften a character moment later in the story and cap that sequence with a moment. I don’t think it was ever intended to imply that Luke might fail in his destiny and that their “other hope” would have to take up his fate. If you really…

Retconning is bad storytelling. I mean, I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, I just think it’s very unpleasant storytelling to go “this happened; Ah, and then it didn’t quite happen how you pictured it, but that’s on you, not me; Actually, it’s quite a bit different than how you pictured it, now, but we’re…

I’m lucky enough to have built a web api for a medium-sized company, with enough freedom to do it well (meaning, they were willing to pay the high price for quality work), and I can tell you that it’s all a matter of foresight.