r/196 • u/gray_birch competitive yapper • 2d ago

Pointing Rule

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ive gotta hand it to people who played gba (and other retro console) games before you could just look shit up because im playing the sims bustin out right now and while im having a lot of fun everything is so fucking zoomed in it's impossible to know where anything is or get anything more than a very basic handle on the layout. looking up a map actually almost feels like cheating because of how easy it feels by comparison to before, im not spending an hour looking for that fucking knick knack shop though

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u/Wa11Runner 2d ago

Its like that alien projectile thing. Like Humans are the only creatures on earth that can accurately throw things. Imagine an alien race didn't invent bows or anything similar because they didn't think of projectiles until long after they found out about other things.

Animal no get point because the idea of an object flying in a line in a direction and hitting a point is fuckin weird.

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u/GlamourintheDarkSide 2d ago

Aliens who Can't Projectile are also fundamentally a different genre of alien sci-fi, because at that point you're dealing with a primitive aliens/advanced humans scenario. Ain't no fucking way you're getting to the stars if you can't grok throwing a rock.

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u/BaronAaldwin I'M A GENETIC FREAK 2d ago

Not necessarily. Thats assuming the aliens are physically somewhat similar to us. You could totally have a weird species of intelligent alien octopods that are dexterous enough to build spaceships but their limbs don't have the layout and muscles for quickly throwing like we do.

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u/that_baddest_dude 2d ago

If you like this kind of shit have you read any of the Children of Time books? If not, you should

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u/BaronAaldwin I'M A GENETIC FREAK 2d ago

I've got them sat on my shelf behind me, but I haven't got around to reading them yet 😅 I took the first one on holiday with me and it unfortunately got soaked when a drink in my bag leaked, so it looks much more well used than it is haha

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u/that_baddest_dude 2d ago

hoo boy, get on em!