Joy meter - change "gaming" to gameplay

Started by Injured Muffalo, May 27, 2018, 11:01:01 PM

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Injured Muffalo

May 27, 2018, 11:01:01 PM
There are a few types of game related joy specified in the joy tooltip if a colonist has experienced such joy like gluttonous or meditative. Then there's this "gaming" nonsense broken into categories like dexterity or cerebral. Here's the thing...

Playing chess is not "gaming."
Throwing horseshoes is not "gaming."
Poker might be gaming, technically, but that's a strange and eccentric way to say that. No one playing poker says "I'm gaming" when you ask them what they are doing. No, they are "playing poker."

The solution here is simple, as I mean for it to be. This category is gameplay.

5 minutes to fix this travesty.  :D
A muffalo encountered a vimp near a patch of sweet vegetables. A struggle ensued. The muffalo gored the vimp with its horns. The vimp bit the muffalo with its beak. Finally, the vimp was bested, sending large chunks of its flesh in every direction. But the muffalo was injured. It shed a single tear.

jamaicancastle

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May 28, 2018, 10:03:33 AM
All of the joy types are in adjective form: gluttonous, not gluttony; meditative, not meditation. Therefore, the games-related joy type is also in adjective form: gaming, not gameplay. (Technically this is a participle: a verb form used as an adjective. Close enough.) Quite why they're adjectives and not nouns, I couldn't tell you; I assume it was in anticipation of the form "[type] joy" coming up a lot, which it currently doesn't but there you have it.

tmo97

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May 28, 2018, 01:02:25 PM
yknow it's possible that you don't like it when your mother equates every game to gaming, but it doesnt mean that you should change the game, it means that you should stop thinking about it. :P  ;D

Injured Muffalo

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June 03, 2018, 08:45:18 PM
Quote from: jamaicancastle on May 28, 2018, 10:03:33 AM
All of the joy types are in adjective form: gluttonous, not gluttony; meditative, not meditation. Therefore, the games-related joy type is also in adjective form: gaming, not gameplay. (Technically this is a participle: a verb form used as an adjective. Close enough.) Quite why they're adjectives and not nouns, I couldn't tell you; I assume it was in anticipation of the form "[type] joy" coming up a lot, which it currently doesn't but there you have it.

"I has the solution."

Call it "playing."

You are playing chess.
You are playing horseshoes.
You are playing poker.

What is happening here is play, not "game."
A muffalo encountered a vimp near a patch of sweet vegetables. A struggle ensued. The muffalo gored the vimp with its horns. The vimp bit the muffalo with its beak. Finally, the vimp was bested, sending large chunks of its flesh in every direction. But the muffalo was injured. It shed a single tear.

cultist

#4
June 06, 2018, 07:30:06 PM
Gameplay still refers to video games. You don't talk about the gameplay of horseshoes either. If you really want to fix this, it should be something like recreational, dexterity or relaxing, cerebral etc.

But honestly, it never bothered me. It's just a tooltip buried in a menu so you don't see it unless you want to.
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