Sadly nobody under the age of probably 30-ish will get that joke. I remember offhand talking to my son once years ago and mentioning this archaic analog device (atlas) for navigation and getting a complete look of condescension/confusion in return.
Unfortunately, you can also die due to navigation. One guy drove his car into a lake and drowned. The navigation told him to turn, so he just turned.Sadly nobody under the age of probably 30-ish will get that joke. I remember offhand talking to my son once years ago and mentioning this archaic analog device (atlas) for navigation and getting a complete look of condescension/confusion in return.
Nowadays if the cellphone generation ends up with a vehicle navigation system off-line at the same time as their phones are out of range or dead, I worry that they might actually just lay down in the road and expire for lack of knowing what to do.
I loved my Key Map back in the day - of course, those were for just one city, but I never lived in more than one at any given time, so...Sadly nobody under the age of probably 30-ish will get that joke. I remember offhand talking to my son once years ago and mentioning this archaic analog device (atlas) for navigation and getting a complete look of condescension/confusion in return.
Nowadays if the cellphone generation ends up with a vehicle navigation system off-line at the same time as their phones are out of range or dead, I worry that they might actually just lay down in the road and expire for lack of knowing what to do.
Darwinistic tech. If someone can't pay enough attention too look up from their screens and out their windows before plunging in to a lake, maybe the world is better off. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I keep my old local maps collection in the back of my car in the seat pocket. A few years ago I was driving my god-kids to see a movie and the younger one grabbed one and decided to find where we were going on the map. Found the location three times on our way there (and no, it wasn't the right map ^_^).Sadly nobody under the age of probably 30-ish will get that joke. I remember offhand talking to my son once years ago and mentioning this archaic analog device (atlas) for navigation and getting a complete look of condescension/confusion in return.
Nowadays if the cellphone generation ends up with a vehicle navigation system off-line at the same time as their phones are out of range or dead, I worry that they might actually just lay down in the road and expire for lack of knowing what to do.
I mean, you still have to make a save, but between releasing "Season 2" and "Season 3" they figured out how to get the season 3 game to auto-recognize the season two save as long as it was "within range" of the end of that version of the game, so there's no need for a singular save screen.
Alright, that clears it up. Thank you. I didn't really mind that S2 ended where it did. Just confused by the change in transition method I suppose. By doing it some way at the end of S1 they created the expectation that that's what an end-of-season looks like. It might clear things up if instead of "This is the end of the update" it were to say "This is the end of Season 2" or something like that. After all, End-of-Update screens are very common in VNs and most of the time don't indicate End-of-Season releases.
Since I wasn't 100% sure the change between Season 2 (0.20) and Season 3 (0.21) would go smoothly with the new system, I didn't want to announce the Season finale in-game until everything was ready, in case I needed to add 0.21 to Season 2 through a bigger compression. Once all was ironed out, it was too late to add a new End of Season screen.
Pretty sure "they" did not. A one-time event (how S1 transitioned to S2 in this AVN) is never the basis for an "expectation." Even the most simple line requires 2 data points, and even then no statistician would take 2 points and automatically assume that a third point would fall perfectly in line with the previous 2. Expectations arise from false assumptions made by users. The progression of AVNs is probably much closer to being a chaotic system (maybe even stochasitic) than a deterministic one, so if one sees something happen once in an AVN update it is only going to cause frustration to expect every update in the future to be exactly the same.
Around 5,000 players downloaded it and few of them had any problem, and most of the problems where user-produced.
Very diplomatic!
The image name not showing (upper left corner, in red) starts with c18, c19, or anything below c20?
They're probably the source of it for a few devs at least.
Whilst I'm not arguing with your statements about statistics, there are way more than just 1 datapoint. After all, this isn't the only VN around. And whilst the process is far form uniform, explicitly stating the end of a Season is quite common and not at all an unreasonable assumption from a game which has itself done so in the past.Pretty sure "they" did not. A one-time event (how S1 transitioned to S2 in this AVN) is never the basis for an "expectation." Even the most simple line requires 2 data points, and even then no statistician would take 2 points and automatically assume that a third point would fall perfectly in line with the previous 2. Expectations arise from false assumptions made by users. The progression of AVNs is probably much closer to being a chaotic system (maybe even stochasitic) than a deterministic one, so if one sees something happen once in an AVN update it is only going to cause frustration to expect every update in the future to be exactly the same.
Considering that "Learning from Experience" is a de facto use of assumptions and extrapolation, neither of you is wrong. Or both are.Whilst I'm not arguing with your statements about statistics, there are way more than just 1 datapoint. After all, this isn't the only VN around. And whilst the process is far form uniform, explicitly stating the end of a Season is quite common and not at all an unreasonable assumption from a game which has itself done so in the past.
While it's true that a single line requires two data points, and statisticians are cautious with limited data, the statement 'expectations arise from false assumptions' is overly simplistic and axiomatically false. Expectations can be based on accurate information and well-founded assumptions. It's essential to consider the context and underlying data quality before making such broad generalizations.
In any case, it's no big deal. It was unclear, I asked, it got clarified. Fun talk, have a nice wank.
Oh absolutely. It's very understandable from a developer's perspective and it wasn't a problem for me at all. I'm fairly laid back about life in general. That's why my interaction started with inquisition. There was some conflicting information. On the one hand the message at the end of the season, on the other hand the very existence of a third season. So rather than make assumptions, I just asked. And was answered in short order.Considering that "Learning from Experience" is a de facto use of assumptions and extrapolation, neither of you is wrong. Or both are.
The thing is, the method used in going from Season 1 to Season 2, proved itself unreliable and needed too much user caution. We all know that relying on people doing what they're told, is a recipe for trouble. So, the process was simplified and removed a LOT of user caution. Not all of it, unfortunately.
Expecting it to work on the second interaction as it did on the first, is a reasonable assumption.
BUT.
Expecting no evolution or improvement is not. The only Universal Constant is Change. Adaptation and Learning from Experience, the basis of Humanity overwhelming success, are not in conflict, they are concurrent methods.
Expect Change. Assume Change. Adapt, Learn, Overcome.
:: Steps down from the Soap Box ::
Thank you for coming to my Fat Talk.
Peace
