sherclod holmes @wallhackio@cat.family

how tf do you spell mnemonic

@monorail reported.

@Lady I will probably even forgive you for your Haskell slander because of this

@Lady you are my favorite today thank you

@monorail monads are hard to learn but they are even harder to teach

@Lady @aescling but it looks fun :)

@aescling @monorail C++11 and beyond, specifically

@monorail expecting someone to get what a monad is from a single conversation is insane behavior

It took me a couple days to feel like I understood what a monad was

Extremely obnoxious that you have to spend money to read the C++ specification

Which concept is more challenging to learn?

the fact that this has two sources is fucking sending me

@aescling @coriander reported.

@coriander i was quite surprised when i gave let her choose regarding her parents that she chose to let them go

@coriander i also let her choose regarding dame alyin and was pleased that she did not kill her

@coriander i am very curious what choice you made with shadowheart's story, assuming she did not kill the nightsong in your run

@coriander i think my criticism mostly stands

after convincing astarion not to ascend you have a dialogue with him the next long rest where he remarks that he feels that ascending would have cost him his humanity and that he felt your influence saved him from himself

right after he says this the camera cuts to your character making this weird-ass uncanny smile and i bust out laughing and unintentional comedy was not the appropriate vibe for that dialogue

@coriander fuck i hate being wrong

@coriander my bad

@coriander oh what

i think a lot about the cutscenes in this game and how uncanny the procedural animations look. it's something you just have to get over quickly if you're going to invest in the narrative.

which is a shame because the technology here is impressive and clearly took enormous work to make functional (any character you can make in the character creator works in any cutscene with any armor or clothing! there are cutscenes where the characters models flex their eye muscles to get smiling eyes!!!!)

i wonder if it was really worth it though. it's hard not to compare bg3 to disco elysium (which is more or less this generation's planescape torment). disco elysium sticks to the isometric perspective completely and doesn't really have cutscenes. and it's not distracting, there is much less uncanniness, and it will age spectacularly.

i can't help but feel that it would have been a better use of resources if most dialogue occurred in dialogue trees (keep the voice acting though!!!!!) and then particularly important moments have hand-animated cutscenes