Good to know. Im using Sync and thats how it formated it.

Simple answer. Because they dont think about those things or care about them.

Firstly. Are you talking about the olden days or modern games like dark souls?

Secondly. All the hidden doors in dark souls have glowing red texts in front of them.

Thirdly. Dark souls do the same “way foward is always clear” desing all the other games do. Its only the secred areas that are hidden in offline play.

Fourthly. Most of the shortcuts are done in a way where you find the wrong side of the door first, giving the player indication you will be able at some point to open said door/elevator/ladder giving you a visual hint that there is something hidden.

Go play Kings Field and you will experience what games feel like when devs dont want you to know how to progress.

Back in the day we ran againts walls punching them and hoping something would happen. I dont miss that at all.

Very good points and i mostly agree with you.

The yellow paint is very much a balancing act and especially in games like Resident Evil and many other horror games where recource managment is big part of the game making loot to stand out is very important.

If the breakables are easy to miss players will become frustrated when they dont have enough bullets or healing items to progres in game. If devs add loot so much that even blind players find enough loot, then sharp eyed loot goblins will have too many recources to have a challenge. Some games play around this by pseudo randomising the loot and making sure that if some recource is low players will allways find enough >!(The Last of Us does that and if you notice it will ruin your immersion even more. There is no reason to save any recources, because you will allways get enough for the next encounter)!<

Same with games with climbing mechanics. If the game is build around it and is fast paced you will hate the game when you die because you jumped against wall you cant climb.

Im fairly certain that most people who get annoyed about the visual cues would be even more annoyed without them.

Yeah. Im not really a fan of the full toggle system, because the visual cues are such a big part of level desig. All tough i fully support the idea of being able to tune the contrast. It is also good for people with visual impairments.

There are few good workarounds devs use that most people dont even notice. Like in fallout 4 almost every “dungeon” has its entrances lighted in some way and allmost allways doorways that go foward have some visual cue. Another from bethesda is how draugh dungeons have always stone pillars showing the way inside and bandit dungeons have flags. Dead Space has stompable crates that have lights and after opening those the lights shut down.

Then there is always the sixth sense way to do it that i personally like, where player can toggle or ping the what ever skill they have and it leaves the actionable objects high lighted for a time. The negative thing with that is that player can easily develope a habit of spamming the “loot view” all the time and spend too much time collecting every lootable item making the game progress slower than designed.

I feel many people underestimate how important visual cues are for the games. In tighter, more realistic games you can indicate the way foward with things like flickering lights, flash lights in the floor pointing to the right way, glowstick bread crump path or a million different thing.

But with large open world games, where player has freedom of travel its important for the players that they see with a quick glance if the wall is climbable or not.

For the game feel good players need clear rules how the world works. Red barrels explode, breaking this colour crate gives you loot, but these crates are indestructible, objects with this colour can be interactected with this tool etc.

I find it intresting when games have things like HUD on the screen and game highlights enemies and objects you can interact with people dont care about the immersion, but yellow paint is where they draw the line.

I remember reading how somebody hated how Resident Evil 7 marked everything breakable with yellow paint and how it ruined the immersion and made them remember they are playing a game. At the same time there is constantly visible ammo counter on the screen and you have radial wheel to change weapons and those things are not breaking the immersion at all.

They run on pc sure. On the spesific spects computers they use. They need things like support for different resolution. Work arounds for the controller only features. If you want to make things like mouse control feel good, it needs lot of fiddling. Optimizing for million different hardware possibilities, error handling, launching, settings, key bindings and propably million other things i cant think right now.

Its not just flicking a switch.

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Werent there some book or story where everything on earth is just single being reincarnating endesly in to different points in time.

How parental leave is in Finland: Duration: A total of 320 weekdays (approx. 13.5 months), of which each parent has a quota of 160 days. Transferability: From your own 160-day quota, you may transfer up to 63 days to the other parent, another caregiver in the family, or your partner. Flexibility: The leave can be taken in several periods until the child turns 2 years old. Pregnancy leave: The birth parent first takes 40 weekdays of pregnancy leave, after which the parental allowance period begins. Simultaneity: Parents can be on parental leave at the same time for up to 18 weekdays.

I belive in the parental leave. Also i belive that if children is sick parent should have right to stay home and take care of the childs health. Also parent should have right to participate on important meeting, like school things or medical check ups etc.

What i dont belive in is that Karen wants vacation on christmas again because “ShE HaS a cHiLd aT HoMe” fuck that. People without children has the same right to spend christmas with their loved ones than you.

Ukraine has been always one of the biggest wheat and fertilizer producers in the world.

Is Missouri part of international decition making? Does Missouri participate in UN summits? Does the governor of Missouri have voice in international treaties? Does it have embassy in other countries?

There are probably distinct provinces in Canada and China outperforming many countries, so why should they exist on a lower tier than a “country”, just because they were persuaded or “persuaded” to incorporate into something larger?

Because povinces dont decide foreign policies. Dont have militaries, cant make treaties.

Bearnado?

Shit, you are right about the tires. I feel kind of stupid now. I ask you now (because of my utter unitrests to start to google anything right now.) How you guys mark the tire sizes? Like we have something like 175/65/14. 175 mm wide, profile is 65% and 14 inch diameter.

Ratchets tough, never once given even a tough about the size. It was just what fit in what ever bullshit hole it needs to fit and hopefully gave enough leverage. Sockets are in mm and those were the ones I usually needed to worry about.

Robbins and Lawrence is familiar name from school, but never really given any tought about them, nor i dont think im going to realistically ever travel to Vermont(?)

Born and raised on a farm, fixing farm equipment, did work on a autoshop and later gig work as welder in larger refineries and paper mills. Got my CNC operator licences too.

Only times i have seen inches in use was when i was moonlighting at the saw mill. We talked about two by fours, but the saw was calibrated with mm (50×100mm/ so it was not even the close to inches). Oh and my friends shitty transam that had the assbackwards lug nuts and was a pain to find right kind of hoops for.

If you want rest of my life too, i decited at some point i dont want travel for work and went to a culinary school where i meadured everything in grams and dl (also met my wife there.) Decited the pay was not worth of the hours and studied programming, but job market kicked my ass. Went in to sales and later found a company where i was able to use my culinary, programming amd sales history and now i have 8to16 job and my own team.

Never seen a lathe that has not used mm. Even the old ones lathes and colum drills from the 50’s i have seen use mm. My home town does every august work shows with old machines like steam engines, tractors and locomotives and as far as i can remember even those have both mm and inches in the levers and knobs. I think the closest i have seen with the old machines using imperial are some cars with mph meters. (Favorite being old marshall tractor with shotgun starter, having very optimistic meter going up to 100 mph.)

So… whats going to happen now?

What does it matter? I could say any one of the +190 countries and the answer would be more or less the same.

Uh? Done. What happens now?

Easy.

Can you quickly calculate how many gallons of water receptacle with dimensions of 5 inch x 3 feet x 1 yard can hold? Extra points if you can also calculate how many pounds it weight when filled.