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The monopoly in the minds (media.piefed.zip)
submitted 3 days ago by to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
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imagine if skyrim was the most popular game of all time by an orderof magnitude and people caleld video games ‘skyrims’. and it cost ninety dollars and took up half the average computers hard drive. and then peoel would be on nexus being like ‘hi guys check out my farming sim skyrim mod’ and it just had you kiling draugr but on a farm. and people were like ‘yeah i think that you just cant do farm simulation in video games’ and if anyone brought up stardew valley theyd be like ‘okay well first of all its presumptuous to assume i can afford a second video game or have space for it on my hard drive. and Second of all when i play skyrim i just run back and forth around the towns picking up all the cabbages for seven hours on end so i don’t see why i’d need a whole game programmed to be about farming. i can play skyrim the way i want to. stop gatekeeping gaming.’ anyway thats what its like to like ttrpgs other than dungeons and dragons.
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[–] 11 points 2 days ago* (3 children)

I mean, people have different paths of entry into programming, lots of them started by making mods for their favorite game. And Lua is a great lightning-fast language with minimal footprint, excellent for interactive use-cases, that folks keep dismissing for no good reason.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

    It was more that he just wanted something easy. He didn’t want to work for it. He thought that making Roblox mods would mean he didn’t need to learn to program.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    I wonder if there's some kinda visual environment, maybe in the vein of Scratch, that would trick him into learning programming while not feeling that way. That's often the approach that one must take not only with children, but even in adulthood when the full-blown subject feels too much for one's bandwidth.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 days ago*

    That's so sad. I feel like (perhaps pre-Microslop) Minecraft modding or Gmod scripting would teach people to code too, but Roblox is just so damn predatory.

    It runs off the free labor of children hoping to make money. I feel like few people are going to learn to code and enjoy it with that kinda motive.

    I noticed people would build skills so fast when it was about doing fun stuff to share with friends or a community because they thought it would be cool.

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