Posted by alexandra_k on August 24, 2018, at 22:21:38
In reply to Re: personal diary correction, posted by alexandra_k on August 24, 2018, at 21:28:09
balance.
the thing with computer games.
you have different races
classes
weapons
spellsand so on.
and a great game is a game where things are balanced.
where there are genuinely differnet ways of being...
and when none is overpowered.
you see peoples reponse to things being overpowered.
you see an immature strategy where people only have an eye to their own particular preferences (interesting, huh, how people get to pick their starting stats to a greater or lesser extent). some people think it's just great when theirs is overpowered. or they think it's just great that there is an overpowered spell or something. or that there is a particlar artifact that they know how to get. that's there reward for keeping their eyes open and so on.
and then you have a more mature strategy where people have an eye to balance for all the classes and so on.
it's like how some people think it's fun to cheat if they can get away with it.
some people like to play with overpowered modifications.
i don't mean experimenting in sandbox mode in order to learn things or whatever (that is playing a different game).
i mean some people prefer to play games then they are significantly overpowered compared to others.
it is interesting to me. the psychology behind all that.
and the idea of sort of mass effect games vs more individual vs individual. there's a sense of balance of power for the mass effect games that is playing a bit differently.
well... no different to how you factor in certain classes pets or minions or whatever i suppose.
but yeah.
it does come back to something cognitive.
and it is something that can be assessed.
but it isn't.
or maybe it is.
twas an evil little man who told me i interviewed badly. he never should have disclosed my score - and what makes me think he did so honestly? he was playing the role of evil little man, i mean. he who is sent by the university council to inform me i don't have the authority to bring a matter before the attention of the council. he has been employed by them to say 'nonononono that will not go before the council' to anyone trying to bring a matter before them.
that's a good job, aye?
because they are far too busy. on the money they earn. the number of board meetings they have. it's so f*ck*ng hard for them to calculate their next pay raise...
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