Is there even an objective truth though? I’d say there technically is, but I think we all have our own subjective versions of what our “truth” is that rise and fall like a sine wave around the straight line of objective Truth.
Just remember that what is popular is not always true, and what is true is not always popular.
I’ve been running an STA campaign for a group for almost two years now – wild to think about, usually I get GM burnout after about six months – and I’ve been curious about picking this up since the announcement. Both for myself, and as a potential aid for creating on the fly scenes for my group. All those tables you mention do hold a lot of a appeal.
That’s great question! From psychological perspective, people like to think that they are right. If they encounter some person or situation that threatens their believes they have three choices:
accept that they were wrong - might cause some unpleasant emotions, risks being perceived as not trustworthy/knowledgeable
assume the other party is wrong - the belief is upheld, no negative consequences
find some condition under which the belief in question does not apply - middle ground Of course, there are many situational and personal qualities that affect how easily person accepts other view as their own.
Eg. if you are self-proclaimed expert on some topic, naturally opinions different than yours are wrong, at least to you. However, if you approach your expertise with attitude of trying to understand underlying principles, it would be easier to accommodate for new, sometimes very surprising facts or theories.
Also, humans are very susceptible to biases, meaning the world they perceive is different to what “objectively” is. One of them is attribution bias, which causes people to assume some results depend on their actions - even if there in no basis for that. This bias started the whole “vaccines cause autism” belief. The reaserch paper which started the whole thing is based on a survey directed to parents of autistic childen asking, do they think autism of their child was caused by a vaccine. It is ridiculous belief for most nowadays, but it provided a clear cause of the disease for those parents.
I know my writing can be confusing sometimes, so let me know if you would like some clarification.
Agreed, CRT and real hardware (FPGA counts) just feels right. I always rolled my eyes when people talked about frames of lag, but when I went from HDMI to CRT/component, it was noticeable. Like my childhood muscle memory suddenly works again. Not “oh I must be getting old, I have to relearn how to play because my fingers forgot.”
Like, getting all the coins from a ? block in NES Mario. Emulation, I always flub the first couple bounces because the timing is different. Via CRT I could have not touched the game in months, but I nail it because muscle memory still works.
That era or design is long gone. like even PS2/GameCube have firmware to let you change settings/manage memory cards without game disk. With the variety of hardware you can connect means you need to separate the software layer that talking to hardware’s from the game, thus the operating system. You can turn on GBA for example without a cartridge, but it would kinda just stuck. That’s like the last boot to game device I am aware of.
You’re talking about machines designed to work like that. OP is talking specifically about the current community of software developers that are, for fun, releasing games like that in 2023 for X86 and ARM.
There are versions of Tetris and other games designed to boot the system and start the game - no underlying operating system or anything else. It’s a challenge, and it’s fun.
I’m running NixOS on my laptop and I really like it though I haven’t been able to get Resilio going. It’s challenging sometimes but when I have things the way I want them I have a great sense of order. So it’s the most satisfying Linux I’ve tried.
I’ve been using Syncthing for a couple years and it works pretty well. Haven’t tried Resilio but the main difference afaik is that Syncthing doesn’t have an iOS client and Resilio isn’t open source.
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