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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • Strange, outside of the CBS logo before Paramount Plus things start on Amazon (I hate every noun in that sentence progressively more) I haven’t had an ad in almost a year (from that same subsection of that same platform). Apple put some ads up for other shows of theirs, but made them skippable.

    Twitch is probably the worst for ads, I sometimes have to watch one.

    As a child of Saturday morning cartoons, ads today aren’t 2% as bad as what we used to endure, and on demand shows (you can watch a series even if your missed the first episode, instead of waiting for the season recap, or entire season re run before the finale), and the ability to watch, and pause, damn near anything, makes the experience at least 50x better, so I’d say we’re about 2000% better off than I remember us being.









  • I tried to address that by 1) having the silent protagonist option where the story unfolds as it would without the flourish before the canned response so now it’s only 3x as much, and 2) all of the response dialog is the same because they were going to reply the same way as they would to the good or bad option anyways.

    This will triple the amount of PC options that need to be “written” but the rest of the writing (NPC dialog) doesn’t have to change at all, and that’s where most of the writing goes anyways.



  • I wonder if they could fix that by having 4 options that align with whatever archetype you’ve selected.

    Then you don’t need “ridiculously good” “meh” “ridiculously evil” “… Just continue the story” options

    Pick if you want to play ridiculously good, meh, or ridiculously evil at the start of the game, or if you want to be a passive observer. They’d have to write 3x more player dialogue, but that’s really not that much (have the responses barely change, you know they barely change anyways)




  • The sheets of paper are getting filled in minutes before they’re announced,

    The teams can trade their picks between each other,

    It’s not known what teams are going to take what players, if my team (4) thinks team 1 is going to take player A, and team 2 isn’t interested in that player but team 3 is, if team 1 takes player b instead my team might talk with team 2 about trading draft pick positions so we can get that player.

    There’s a lot of talking between a lot of professionals representing a lot of teams, the whole situation is very fluid, and it might change the course of your franchise (unless you’re the Jets)

    It’s also 3 days of spectacle.