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fug wrote:

In regards to boiling the frog I think he should just do it in extremes then reel it back. Pull the scab off with the bandage when you rip instead of slowly pulling back the bandage every few days.

Pulling the scab off with the bandage isn't a gradual change.  What you've said implies "boiling the frog" as stupid, since such is slow by definition.

Worse you don't seem to give a damn that it dehumanizes you personally.

fug wrote:

While I'd rather we use water for more tasks than nerf it if he's going for the quick option its to just nerf the thing because content is still a few weeks away.

Right, so it seems openly implied several times over that the game designer used misleading ads at best since "content is still a few weeks away", and Mr. Rohrer's claims of "I'll do such later", when such could get put off indefinitely AND when such is completely incompatible with 100 new objects every week as talked about in an advertisement before the game reached the market.  Again, get your head out of the sand.  Someone using such manipulative tactics doesn't deserve much.  Not your time, nor anyone else's.  No one should be on such a person's 'side'... not with respect to a game that had misleading ads (and if much of the game industry is like that, then gamers should NOT be on the side of game designers in general also).  And people walking away from the game permanently and not looking back is a step in that direction.

Spoonwood wrote:

Move on with your lives and do something else with your time!  And don't play this game... ever again!  Or try to dissuade others from playing by one means or another!
I predict that you'll have a better life if you stop playing and never play this game again.

T  h  e  n  w  h  y  a  r  e  y  o  u  s  t  i  l  l  h  e  r  e  ?

If this game is to get more attention from people watching videos (Jason hypothesized this as the cause of two increases in player count that happened last winter), then it needs to look like an interesting game to watch.

I have looked at some of the old videos from before the temperature overhaul.  The first effect I will note concerns the temperature bar.  No matter where one goes it dances around so long as the player moves.  A similar same sort of dance happens inside of buildings these days near fire, or passing from outdoors to indoors or vice versa.  But, that dance happens in fewer places.  Characters journeying outside of towns would have that dance going on rather consistently.   And the indoor heat dance now seems narrower than before the temperature overhaul, as getting to a burning temperature doesn't occur as much.

I also saw a family living in a small desert between a grassland and a jungle.  Two horses trotted around in the desert!  Who lives with wild animals like that these days?  My eyes see a rather consistent pattern of farms for people playing these days.  Farms are in grass.  But that's nothing dynamic like a horse trotting around wildly.  Or a snake or a boar around.  Or mosquitoes doing their mosquito float. 

Personally I remember hunting lots of boars as an Eve under the old water system.  Often enough your family would have its farm in a swamp before the pump overhaul.  Thus, I suspect, the pump overhaul, though I do think that it changed pumps in an interesting way, with its introduction of springs, made blander environments a more common sight.  Springs have made the game less visually appealing in another way.  Before the pump overhaul, one would see things like a shallow well next to a deep well.  Or a pump next to a deep well next to a diesel water pump.  But now?  Now it seems like you're lucky to see a pump next to a pond.  And there's fewer possibilities that you can see if you were to watch a video at random.

In one video I also saw a seal in a grassland.  That's kind of interesting.  How did the seal usually acclimated to snowy environments, survive in the grassland?  I do remember things like out of biome mosquitoes, but it could be interesting to see a wolf moving around in grass, even with the increased danger of something like that.  But, such danger from nature can provide interest in the form of challenge, though it can also be annoying and seem too unrealistic.

There's also less tundra, desert, and jungles on the map relative to other biomes since the topopgraphic map change occurred.  Players probably see funny penguins less often.  Same goes for those dynamic trotting horses.  I guess players do see more bison, but still that's fewer moving animals than seals, penguins, horses, snakes, and mosquitoes.

And more recently with the introduction of the hideous dropsy, players probably see animals and other interesting things like bananas less often.

As a counterpoint, I suppose malachite and sand pits came into existence.  But, the increase in resources doesn't seem to have quite the same effect as seeing horses trot around.  Or those out of biome animals did.  And though jungles got more interesting with sugar cane and peppers and tomatoes, it's less likely that a new observer to the game would see those plants than before.

Watching television would probably be less appealing for most people if people switched from color television to black and white television.  So, why the hell does there apparently exist a pattern across many updates which causes the diversity of surrounding environments of characters to decrease?  Doing such doesn't make things more beautiful.  It just consistently makes things more bland.

Grim_Arbiter wrote:

The 100 item a week thing is the biggest thing you can criticize in the whole thing, and I'm pretty sure I've even seen jason admit here he was too ambitious to think he could do that many.

You seem to have assumed that he did think he could do that many every week.  I just don't find that likely.  The old-art style promotional video comes from November 18, 2016: https://archive.is/SMVJA, which is 15 months before the game got released.  There's already a sharp stone, and a cut sapling skewer in it, and both of those are craftable objects.  Mr. Rohrer also had something like 12 or 13 years of development experience at that point in time.  And each craftable object takes art work and coding.

Really, I think it's reasonably to ask if there's ever been a single week where Mr. Rohrer did add 100 craftable objects that particular week?  If there wasn't what sort of basis did he ever have for thinking that he could do such on a regular basis?  And even if there was one week, so what?  That's still not much of a basis to conclude that 100 craftable objects could get made every week, correct?  And again, Jason wasn't a rookie game developer in terms of time spent developing games.

Again, it just doesn't seem likely to me that he thought he could make 100 craftable objects every week.

As a clincal psychologist

FishRfriendsnotfood wrote:

  Also I don't 'seem to act' like anything.

Fish, I told you my perception as best I could.  What you just wrote here denies me my perception.  My perception still stands for the record.

Additionally Fish, both you and Jade can be in the wrong.  What you said was in the wrong even if your claims about Jade hold true.

No, I'm not turning the game on.  I'm not playing.  And I'm encouraging others to not play ever again.  Additionally, the notion of consenting to something that happens in adulthood I find preposterous.

If/since it's a core mechanic that players get forced to reproduce, people who have played this game should not play it again and discourage others from playing it.