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> I have massive issues with how the game awards runs itself, but the solution isn’t to artificially restrict what a game can win. It's an awards show. Everything about it is artificial

> Are you trying to say that any game that gets funding of any kind is automatically not worthy of winning? ??? How did you get here?

> If a game does the best in multiple categories should it be skipped over just to highlight another game? It's all subjective. If you make Balatro and I make BG3, there's no objective way to evaluate "Best Game" between the two. You've got to make some subjective judgement (or just put your hand out and collect bribes). Giving one of them a full stack of awards doesn't signal quality, it signals bias. > If an indie studio’s first game wins best indie game how can it not also be the best debut indie game E33 wasn't the studio's first game. So it shouldn't be winning the "award for debut games" on the ground alone. But yes, if you're winning the "indie game" (which E33's budget shouldn't have qualified it for anyway) spotlight another game under "debut" even if you're predisposed to favor turn based RPGs over platformers or puzzle games or simulators. In fact, especially then. > This isn’t just recognizing the game, it’s recognizing the actors. It's recognizing the budget more often than not.

> I don’t think e33 is unreasonable. For any individual award, sure. It's an arbitrary decision of taste and people can agree to disagree. When you're stacking up all the awards on a single game, you're effectively ignoring the rest of the releases for the year. > The only issue I have is sandfall shouldn’t count as an independent game I'm more disgusted with giving "Best Indie" and "Best Debut Indie" to the same title. Why even have two categories at this point? It isn't even the studio's debut title. Similarly, three "Best Performance" nominees to the same title. You know what you're doing and it's not evaluation or recognition, it's just promotion. But then these awards gave Pretty Derby the Best Mobile Game and FFT: Ivalice Chronicles (a thirty year old remaster!) Best Strategy, so whatchagonna do? Game awards have always been glorified ads.

> Whether you go to the Silksong, KCD2, Death Stranding, Dispatch, Arc Raiders, or any other games subreddit that was nominated for any award about half the comments saying E33 is trash, overhyped, and their game deserved to win instead. Nine awards is a lot. And this is [after they swept Golden Joystick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clair_Obscur:_Expedition_33#Accolades). It's a fine game. It's just not the *only game*.

"We've picked one game and we're giving every award to that game because it's the best game at everything and have you played the game yet? You should it's so good it's just the best at everything." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kepler_Interactive > Kepler Interactive was founded in September 2021 at the initiative of former Ubisoft employee and French entrepreneur Alexis Garavayan, who had previously co-founded the video game investment fund Kowloon Nights. Self-described as a "super developer" publishing group, Kepler was born out of an alliance between seven independent studios to “pool their resources and knowledge”: Hedge Fund ass publisher. Come on, guys. The Gaming Awards have always just been sponsored content and you're getting hoodwinked because you don't recognize the sponsor this time around.

Naming my main character "Alexander" and every time I visit a city I tell the DM to refer to it as "Alexandria" going forward.

It was called "Earth" because we needed to distinguish it from Sky and Water, which were totally different things.

I mean, the first part seems to be the root of the problem. By the time you're talking about booting this player, the game is already on life-support. I've had games disintegrate because of out-of-game beef between players. But that signaled the collapse of the whole social group, not just the D&D table. So much of D&D is just an excuse to hang out with your friends. If your friends hate each other, there's not a lot about hanging out that's attractive.

I always see these "how do I ditch this annoying player I absolutely hate". I rarely see anyone consider why this person was in the group to begin with. Is this the younger sibling or always-around cousin of the DM / game host? The best friend of a person you *don't* want to lose from the table? The next door neighbor you roped in specifically because you wanted more than two other people at the table? The kid at the comic book shop you invited in because they were giving you puppy-dog eyes for weeks prior? Someone you otherwise enjoy being friends with except when they're playing this particular board game? I mean, yeah. Its trivially easy to ostracize or freeze out a person from a social group. But there's usually a reason this person was included. And friendly players / skilled DMs can often find a way to make the game fun for more people. Once your solution to a frustrating player is to invent an elaborate way to boot them (in my experience) the table doesn't last very long afterwards.

> Deep rectal itch I counter with Bigby's Vibrating Finger

Appropriate, given the context

> Access to it is 100% a free speech issue. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_safety_on_Roblox I grew up in the 80s, when we had these huge high profile congressional debates over everything from Mortal Kombat to Twisted Sister. It still stuns me to see modern game platforms become everything the hysterical Satanic Panic folks warned us about. But now that it really is a hothouse for scamming, grooming, and extremism, nobody seems to fucking care. Nobody should be letting their kids play Roblox. This is probably the best thing the Russian Parliament has done since Yeltsin ordered tanks to shell it.

I remember back during the NFT hype cycle how people were claiming they'd patented particular shades of color and were selling rights to them on the blockchain. I gotta wonder who even enforces this shit. Where do you go to register a font-type you claim you own that looks shockingly similar to a font people have been using since the printing press was invented? So much of this just feels like vexatious litigation. "Ah, yes, that's actually *my 'a'* and you need to pay me $20k to use it".

Warlock  Bard  Wizard 

Sounds like a skills issue.

Enshittification comes for us all. But we'll always have the OG. Great thing about a good game is that it doesn't go away because of a bad sequel.

*Laughs as I cast Tenser's Transformation*

> And if your DM is just looking at the die and saying, ‘yah’ or ‘nah,’ they shouldn’t be your DM Where do you think DMs come from?

> If your group has the trust This is the heart of tons of table drama. The DM wants to tell a story and the players want to be heroic. The dice add randomness that can add drama, but they also cause chaos by introduction outcomes people don't want. If you're just trusting the DM, why have rolls at all? Just tell GM what you're doing and GM tells you what happens. But then players feel like they've got less heroic agency. They're not pulling together a brunch of cool traits to do something risky and daring. They're saying "I leap over the battlement and drive my spear into the champion's throat" and the DM either says "Yeah" or "Nah". You need phenomenal trust in your GM for that to work. A bunch of 12 year olds at a table aren't going to have that. > Let them handle the mechanical elements of the game so the players can focus on the role play. The mechanics are, ostensibly, there to facilitate the roleplay. The paladin's smite isn't just a set of numbers, it's an expression of their role as holy warrior and divine judge.