Ophioparma

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 8 months ago (5 children)

Yes, but also:

And the journals quickly recognized her expertise.

So no crying historians in that story. She researched, proposed an article and the community said: "Good idea!" The whole "Oh, all those fine scientists laughed about the average joe/jane!" is just a common tale in those stories.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago

So, it's a Butt-Hydra?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

So, add some Romulan blood for that sweet copper.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Be preoared then: https://revolutionarygamesstudio.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1779200/Thrive/

Actually, they working on the microbe stage for years now, but their goal is actually the whole Spore experience.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (1 children)

A maintenance job on a foreign space station with questionable technical standards and used as a slave labor camp just a year ago. I think he expected some challenge but more of the technical kind than just straight up torture.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

the word “yoink,” a coinage of Meyer’s, which characters sometimes utter in the act of snatching something

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2000/03/13/taking-humor-seriously

That implies invention by Meyer, doesn't it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, absolutely right. "X is like a new part of Y" must make sense for being a successor. Nobody will say "Last of Us is just like Uncharted IV"!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

But you would not argue that F:NV is the spiritual "successor" to those movies just because they were referenced.

If I didn't know about Hotline Miami and you told me about like: "It's like somebody made a new Hitman game!" I would be completely lost playing the game. Whole different perspective, style, flow. IMO being a "successor" implies more than just similar elements or references.

That said, wtaching out for examples I do not find so many other, that I think are similiarly weak as the Hitman/Hotline one. So it may be the exception in the list.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

The used definition is sometimes really broad here. I mean, ok, Dead Space to Callisto Protocol or Titan Quest to Grim Dawn is obvious but Hotline Miami is the Spiritual Successor to Hitman because... you are have to kill people and when you fail you go try again? Very weak. Just being influenced or having a vaguely similar theme shouldn't make it a "successor".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That's because our all file systems are god's trash can.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

The part with "menaces with spikes" sounds more like Dwarf Fortress

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It's going to be an indepedent new story with a new protagonist, according to an article on RPS.

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