Well that makes my job easy

Once you dabble with storytelling, dramaturgy and all tropes, you automatically start to dissect any media you consume, notice the patterns and wonder about it. You'll notice what's meant to be easy to digest, fast to setup and made to please the masses (like classic Shonen). You'll notice when good authors try to make something new or take popular formulas to dissect them as a commentary or underline tropes.

Enjoyment is no science though. There's more to a story than tropes and dramaturgical tools. You may like a certain theme or a system in its world building for example. I personally like well-written and deeply psychological characters with development. Or take one of the many slice of life things, that have nothing much going on, which are something like Zen for your mind. So even if the formula is bland and predictable, there can be other aspects that make one enjoy a story.

Ps: I love Higurashi, too. They established a pattern with deeply dark and psychological arcs, then they broke out of those patterns themselves by undermining their own patterns in ways I couldn't predict. Also they layered their arcs in such a way that you always learn of a new, deeper aspect of the overarching story they were trying to tell.

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So, if a dev uses AI, they fail because of haters, but they also win because they're more productive than devs that don't?

Being strong and weak at the same time is always a fun rhetoric.

Also, afaik, Valve only asks for disclosure of generative AI for asset generation, not productivity tools like coding assistance.

I feel so out of the loop. What crisis is hitting the industry? From my point of view things are going as usual. Is this about big publishers creating mediocre bullshit I don't pay attention to anyways?

Built-in obsolescence should be illegal. It's so wasteful

It's April 1st. Maybe it's just a prank

Better don't tell your dentist

I know nothing about paintball, but I feel like there has to be vegan paintballs.

I have to admit though, getting two app updates per day through the Apple review process is an achievement. (He probably paid them.)

Meat allergy? Unpleasant but ironically good for the environment.

The hammer deals holy damage, so it'll be very effective to keep hitting.