#bignumbers

[phantomsaysstuff]

I got a 75 day streak on Duolingo!

[darkaac]

also here's my amazing idea to gamify going on walks: make it a rhythm game

like, have it integrate with music apps so it can detect what you're listening to and it gives you points for how close you were to being on beat while walking

[rlyehtaxidermist]

"gamers" will say 'stop being poor' in response to current-gen games being able to run on affordable hardware and then wonder why mobile titles completely took over the public space

If anything, I'd argue that cause and effect are the other way around here.

Mobile games got big because more users have phones than desktops, and more users spend more time on their phone than on their desktops. As phone specs improved, the bigger market became more available, so many developers went towards it.

This left PC (and to a lesser extent console) developers with the question "how do we get people to come back from mobile?", which was of course the wrong question to ask - they aren't coming back because they never left, most mobile gamers weren't major PC gamers - but these are business majors, asking the wrong questions is their entire career. The conclusion many of them reached was "do things that only a PC can do", which meant bespoke horse testicles and all the other highly polygonated absurdities of modern AAA gaming.

Once it was clear that people weren't going to "come back" they doubled down on the market that did respond to BIGNUMBERS - which was incidentally the market they already had, now armed with a new thing to be condescending about. Kickbacks from hardware manufacturers didn't hurt either.

[mileymint]

5000 posts!

Woag. Bignumber

[docnad]

Today the blog hit 3,000,000 page views. You're welcome.

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[rosstmcd]

This reminds me of a scam I heard about once.

You start by collecting a huge number of email addresses or SMS numbers or whatever.

Then, a couple of days before the first weekend of the football season, you pick a game - say between Team A and Team B - and you send half your contact list a message saying, "We use psychics/statistics/time travel/whatever to predict the winners of football games with perfect accuracy! Team A will definitely win the game!" And you send the other half the same message, only with Team B as the winner.

Then, whichever team wins, you throw out the half of the list that got the wrong prediction. Then you divide the remainder in half and repeat the next weekend. And so on.

(You may need to start partway through the season, or do every other week or something, to avoid halving your pool too small too soon.)

Anyway, by the time you get to the Superbowl, you have a group of people for whom you have correctly predicted every game. And to those people you now offer to reveal the guaranteed winner of the big game for a mere $BIGNUMBER. They can make much more than that by betting on the game! And you're clearly reliable, because how else could you have predicted every game right?

In Canto 20 of Inferno, Dante confronts a pit where the sinners have had their heads twisted around backwards; they trudge, naked and weeping, through puddles of cooling tears. Virgil informs him that these are the fortunetellers, who tried to look forwards in life and now must look backwards forever.

In a completely unrelated subject, how about those election pollsters, huh?

— Cory Doctorow

In a century of history, we see a new pollster predicting elections with uncanny accuracy a few times, and then failing spectacularly, followed by another polling star repeating the cycle. And the failed pollster has an excuse. For example, after Nate Silver called the 2016 election for Clinton, he backpedaled by saying that he was actually right because he gave Trump a 28% chance of winning.

My $.02: All Silver was saying was that Trump might win. How is that in any way useful?

Allow me to call the 2024 election, based on my polling: Trump might win this one. So might Harris. Also, one or both of them might exit the race (death, disability, etc.)

Related: I regularly see headlines quoting someone who called the last nine (or whatever) Presidential elections, touting their prediction for this one. But tens of thousands of people publicly predict every election. Sheer luck will give one or more of them a perfect record. For a while.

Cory:

When it comes to serious political deliberation, questions like “who is likely to vote” and “what does ‘undecided’ mean” are a lot less important than, “what are the candidates promising to do?” and “what are the candidates likely to do?”

But – as Perlstein writes – the only kind of election journalism that is consistently, adequately funded is poll coverage. As a 1949 critic put it, this isn’t the “pulse of democracy,” it’s “its baby talk.”

[lumber]

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[changterhune]

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[whiskcrcd]

I’m dumbass but I think that Bakugo would not beat Sans or at least it’s an even match

[darkaac]

trying to do a "canon-compliant" team for clearing ch 14 (so RI (Amiya, Kal'tsit, Logos), Glasgow (Siege, Indra), Victoria (Horn, Bagpipe, Delphine), and The Babel Trio*) and for all the bignumbers we were struggling with survivability until i added one (1) Gavial. never forget your lowstars

[sukimas]

Have you played every single FE game, and if so, what would a tier list of all FE games look like for you?

i have! for better or for worse.

favorite to least favorite (note: this is not objectively best to objectively worst) by all factors combined (i can make separate gameplay, story, etc lists)

1. fe4. it is the fucking video game. does it have flaws? most certainly. does it scratch the itches of BIGNUMBERS, interesting politics, and grounded but neat characters, all while taking place on maps the size of jupiter? most definitely. almost every quirk this game has is something that actively improves it in my personal opinion.

2. fe5. certainly a Rough game to play blind. but in terms of story, gameplay, and the integration of the two, probably the most seamless. fun to snap in two or to play fairly normally. suffers a little bit in my ranking from being a bastard for blind play and lifting most of its large scale story elements straight from fe4.

3. radiant dawn. almost entirely a gameplay choice; the story is not bad but on normal this game is the most fun to fuck around on of any in the series for me, thanks to bexp abuse and the variety of units you can use. i wish mages were better and the part 3 plot is kind of a wet fart, but overall it’s really fun to play. we don’t talk talk about hard mode. or the changes to laguz gauges.

4. surprise! it’s mystery of the fucking emblem. tis an extremely, extremely silly game gameplaywise, but silly in a way that is very enjoyable. the plot is the template for essentially all femblemembles that follow; fe1 is a rough draft but this is the quintessential FE. VERY done, team. has some of the better music in the series despite being very snes

5. path of radiance. honestly, just extremely solidly done all around. not much that makes it UNIQUE beyond superficially (the laguz can be seen in plenty of other factions in various ways) but it puts everything together so well and world builds excellently. unfortunately gameplay is a total snoozefest even if you actively try to make it more difficult for yourself. not bad by any means but just boring to me.

6. three houses. mostly gets this spot thanks to first playthrough gameplay and story alone; on repeats it really falls off hard. but the worldbuilding and characters remain fairly good (though still number 3 in the series, imho) throughout; despite being unfinished, most of the stories are very compelling and the monastery is very fun on a first playthrough. suffers severely from a case of wanting to fuck rhea. like she’s not even a bad character but the way the game goes out of its way to go You Should Fuck Rhea is something special. edelgard is somewhat different because in the routes where you don’t pick her it is essentially onesided. but anyway despite all that good game. love to play it again someday.

7. echoes: shadows of valentia. they have absolutely shot themselves all the way in the foot with the story on this one. gaiden was limited by the nes’s hardware limitations, so that it managed to have a better story is exceedingly significant; fucking power of love stab in the gut. no dracozombies. the game MECHANICS of this one are quite good (in particular i’m very fond of hp-cast magic) but they do not get to shine because of The map design. the presentation however is top notch. mostly gets this low of a spot because of stupid map design and celica route, but is still a very very beloved game to me; the games here and above are essentially my really liked games tier. below here is Good.

8. first Good game: fe8/sacred stones. does not have much unique going for it i will be totally honest. however, it executes pretty much everything it does pretty well, much like PoR; the problem is it simply is not as ambitious as the former, so it doesn’t get points for, say, fantastic worldbuilding. has an engaging plot, good characters, fun classes, and is an enjoyable game to play if you ignore seth.

9. second Good game: awakening. it may be balanced like shit. its story may be full of holes. it may be full of anime tropes galore. but god fucking dammit it is Fun and this is what matters. got me into the series and i can still toss afternoons into its gaping maw without question. stupid game. it’s great sometimes.

10. third Good game: fe7. there is not much going on here story wise i am not gonna lie. the maps are also fairly poorly put together in much of the game. however the cast dynamics are quite good, and the characters you get are fairly well balanced; it’s a fun game to play even if i don’t think about it often.

11. [deep sigh] fe11 technically counts as a Good game i guess. i deeply enjoy the story of fe1, as it’s not as generic as one might think, and putting the pieces from the manual into the actual game is neat. unfortunately the presentation is shit and the gameplay is less fun than fe3 book 1 in every conceivable way. can someone please make a fun marth game.

12. fates (all routes). irredeemable light novel story. complete garbage. i am also not a huge fan of conquest’s gameplay and map design! i do not like skill memorization; i much prefer interesting weapons and terrible enemy staves to fuck you poison strike. however, this game is quite good at giving you unit customization without the stupidly large ranges of customizability that awakening/3h/marth remakes do. it can be a lot of fun sometimes. but only sometimes.

13. fe6. mystery of the emblem again! but actually, it’s worse in every conceivable way. despite the support system, characters are less compelling; gaiden chapters with no well-telegraphed requirements needed for the true ending, instead of being explicitly told to get the star shards (and getting them being fairly trivial); bland ass protagonist who literally talks to the convoy because he has no other friends; underbaked dragon lore that tries to get you to feel something; overly tanky enemies for no good reason; frankly childishly written antagonists, even compared to the likes of fucking medeus and hardin; and just no fun allowed in general.

14. new mystery of the emblem. have you ever wanted mystery, but with no fun allowed? have i got a video game for you.

15. gaiden. has a better story than echoes. otherwise lol three thousand year animations.

16. fe1. i love the mechanics here! it is unfortunate that they are on a game on the NES from 33 years ago. the story is also pretty good. but generally some weird choices here, good and bad. aged significantly worse than for example famicom wars. RIP. some day, see you again!

[candleboxheart]

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[freebroccoli]

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The average account only makes $180/month, but how much does the median account make?

This isn’t about defending OnlyFans, it’s about caring whether the things you’re saying are factual and truthful.

[teck-the-rapper]

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