HARMONIC'S PROFILE

author=Space_Monkey
The funny thing about Cinco de Mayo is that a lot of Mexicans don't care about it. It's a bigger holiday in the US than in Mexico. Mexicans say it's just an excuse for Americans to get drunk.

Just about every cinco de mayo was a big deal in school during my youth, so it's just a small example of a degree of worldliness that fights American stereotypes. Yes obviously Cinco Dy Mayo is bigger here than in Mexico, but I usually take any opportunity to tease people from the former british commonwealth, but all in good fun. Spend enough time on the Escapist forums and that'll happen to you too.

Wait, you really didn't know why we call it Independence Day? Nice.

Shit, I coulda told you all about Canada's Independence process when my voice was still crackling from puberty, and the US even has a quasi-celebration of Mexico's quasi-Independence day on the 5th of May.

So much for insular dumbass Americans huh ;P

Can we hold off on the vitriolic, armchair moral preaching from the former British Empire for one day? Come on, it's our birthday. Give us the gift of your silence. :)

The follow things are too true, Ciel.

author=Ciel
Unfortunately Craze already has a pretty good stranglehold on the design aspect here, so most everyone is interested in making slot machine simulators in RPG form, wherein random chance is present to such an extent that correlation between success/failure and the player's input is heavily marginalized.

I didn't make any such post here because it would instantly be pushed into oblivion by 'updated charset today' blogs, a design issue several staff members and the site creator agreed was problematic and discouraging to those wishing to contribute thoughtful content, but 1+year later is still mysteriously unresolved.

Absolutely yes on the random chance versus player input. The Craze-style design takes the interactivity away from making, then seeing the results of, meaningful decisions. This is the kind of high order thinking that you could help people with.

On the "updated charset today" crap, another huge yes. Legionwood got it's 8 billionth update today. It's the Brett Favre of RPGmaker games. I agree that this is a design flaw.

Helping everyone from the top down is next to impossible from an effectiveness standpoint, and helping from the bottom up is a lot of work. I think the happy medium is to lead by example. People don't really care about reading long musings, though accurate and insightful they may be.

Seriously, Max?

There may be women who enjoy wearing revealing clothes (duh) but throwing labels around like that is so out of style.

i.e. http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/002/135/sw50sw8sw578.gif?1293729577 (but replace with sexist)