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@aescling not sure i would describe alpine as “pretty ok”

@coriander counterpoint: golden retrievers

@noracodes i now know (since writing this blogpost) that this use of `stat` is not portable (i have BSD stat not GNU); it’s not hard to find the GNU instructions on the internet tho [ask me if you need something portable across systems]

@noracodes https://blog.ladys.computer/2023-05-06/touch_grass/

@coriander i think whether they’re games or not probably depends on what you are using “game” to signify, but they are constrained systems players can set goals in that they can then work to achieve

the goals however are open-ended, player-driven, and aesthetic in nature rather than being a part of the ruleset

i think you could argue they are game systems, like Minecraft or D&D

@akjcv i was going to joke about moving from delaware but then i looked up where they are and they are in D·C, it’s just called Virginia for tax reasons

@akjcv you could probably commute from maryland pretty easily

@coriander they absolutely could have released half the assassins creeds and remastered the existing ones twice as often and made more money because people pay more for a single player game with a good story than they do an annual derivative fetchquest slog but this time in france!

@coriander it is really interesting because like, call of duty has a singleplayer but after modern warfare nobody played it, it was a multiplayer game they could just keep releasing primarily

but ubisoft tried to do that with a singleplayer game with a critically acclaimed story, and like first of all, why, and secondly, has any other narrative-driven series gone quite so hard like that?? like bethesda gets on fine just rereleasing skyrim every year

@coriander yeah i mean they just made too many of them

@coriander i thought it was narratively interesting when i played it in like freshman year of college but my understanding is that the series in general failed to live up to the potential it held (i have never finished another assassin’s creed game)

@coriander not being able to dive off of buildings straight into an assassination will be a downgrade tho

@coriander honestly i think pokémon battles instead of murder might be an improvement; the plot armour of important characters in ac2 was always annoying