🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

2 weeks ago

🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦
2 weeks ago

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes: Call of Fate is a Chinese #audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be #accessible to both #blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/04/30/call-of-fate-a-tour.html

Call of Fate: A Tour De Force in culturally accepted tropes

Call of Fate is a Chinese audiogame released on Android and IOS by Prudence Interactive, intended to be accessible to both blind and sighted players. These are my thoughts after playing for several days.

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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

Okay so, in Chinese and I think Japanese culture, the best rank is S, I should tell you to read some chinese fantasy stuff, read A thousand Li by Tao Wang. I hope I can write names. If not, just write a thousand li and read it. You'll get sense of the Chinese stuff. :)

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James Scholes

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

Haha. The story section reminds me of a BK3 review I read once, which called the story "compelling". And I was like, even with the translation pack, the story just seems like random words and names vomited out and shuffled until they resembled sentences.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to James Scholes 2 weeks ago

@jscholes I'm pretty sure you need eleven golden chess pieces and a heavenly star phoenix level of at least five to unlock vomiting.

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Mike Wassel

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

This game has been getting not great reviews on the AG forum, I'm glad I didn't pick it up.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Mike Wassel 2 weeks ago

@blindndangerous@jscholes I wouldn't call it "bad". Ranger Legend I might, but this one isn't nearly as buggy, doesn't crash, the interface and translation are better, and it overall feels a bit more polished. I've noticed AG is highly xenophobic; I wouldn't trust most of what they say about anything. Warshovel is a better game when it comes to progression, story, and mechanics. But Call of Fate sounds nicer. So take your pick, I guess.

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James Scholes

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I'm not sure I know what sort of thing is likely to get great reviews on there. Probably a web-based game I have to download and unzip, open index.html, and then decide whether to play as a character with 17 vaginas or no sex organs at all. Unless I subscribe to a Patreon and then I get to have a canoe as a penis or something. @fastfinge

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to James Scholes 2 weeks ago

@jscholes@blindndangerous Nah, they like incomprehensible space muds that you can only play with a sound pack and that are based on stolen codebases. I find they actually have pretty good taste in choose your own adventure pornography, oddly enough.

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Mike Wassel

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

Are we still talking about the same place or do I just dig deep enough into the topics themselves. I scroll through general and new releases and if the topic isn't interesting, I skip.

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James Scholes

in reply to Mike Wassel 2 weeks ago

I sometimes dip into the new releases room, find that threads started in 2015 have bubbled up to the top because someone is complaining about an old release or demonstrating poor judgement about when to make a new topic, and then close the tab. @fastfinge

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to James Scholes 2 weeks ago

@jscholes@blindndangerous But without audiogames, where can I post space bang? It's my new release written in BGT that goes "bang!" whenever you press the spacebar! How many times can you press the spacebar? Soon there will be a scoreboard and an online account system that costs $18 and goes down three times a week! Just click this dropbox link!

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Mike Wassel

in reply to James Scholes 2 weeks ago

I wish the admin would come back and set up something like reddit where if a topic doesn't receive replies for x amount of time the topic is locked.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Mike Wassel 2 weeks ago

@blindndangerous@jscholes I wish the admin would just come back, period. Eleven cloudflare challenges per visit seems to be an easier solution than actually updating the forum software.

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Mike Wassel

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

I don't mind the cloudflare challenge though I only see it once on going to the homepage of the forum and usually only if I'm behind my vpn.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Mike Wassel 2 weeks ago

@blindndangerous@jscholes I see it every time I go to the homepage or load any forum or post.

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Mike Wassel

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

Whoa that's weird.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Mike Wassel 2 weeks ago

@blindndangerous@jscholes I hate it.

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Mike Wassel

in reply to James Scholes 2 weeks ago

Um... Alright?

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Mike Wassel 2 weeks ago

@blindndangerous@jscholes Sounds like you've never played Flexible Survival. Or Lessons in Love. Or Endless Summer. Or inheritance. Or corruption of champions. Those are just the ones off the top of my head that have at least some mechanic that could be described like that LOL.

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Mike Wassel

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

You'd be absolutely correct. Didn't catch my attention so scrolled right on by.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Mike Wassel 2 weeks ago

@blindndangerous@jscholes You absolutely should play one of them, at least once. What's living without playing at least one pornographic RPG?

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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

Surprise! I haven't played one of these and I@m still alive! Fine, sex in rl, but that's cringe in games or on TV. Ewww.

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Lynette

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

Wow, that does sound rather interesting. Love the review, btw!

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Lynette 2 weeks ago

@lynessence Thanks! Honestly I was a bit worried I might be revealing a bit too much cultural ignorance/internalized racism LOL

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Lynette

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

I have read some Asian-based fantasy, and the game plot sounds nothing like what I've read. That being said, I've only started intentionally branching out from European-based fantasy over the past few years, and I've tried to diversify my reading experience, so maybe the game is based off of something I have not read.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Lynette 2 weeks ago

@lynessence It could also be that because you’re reading intentionally, you’re only getting the “good” Asian fantasy. If someone asked me to recommend western fantasy, I’d probably give them wheel of time, not xanth or a Minecraft novel.

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Ather Jammoa

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

Funny that you'd give them wheel of time as a western fantasy. Especially because it has so many arabic names and references.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Ather Jammoa 2 weeks ago

@atherjammoa@lynessence Yeah, but it draws a lot from lord of the rings, with a bit less racism and including women.

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Lynette

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

I know some people think that WOT is very misogynistic and that RJ hated women. I disagree.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Lynette 2 weeks ago

@lynessence@atherjammoa At least he recognized women exist. Lord of the rings didn’t.

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Lynette

in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 2 weeks ago

He certainly did, Bosoms and all. lol I also think he had a thing for redheads. Thank goodness Brandon Sanderson didn't carry on the RJ'ISM of describing every woman’s boobs.

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Lynette 2 weeks ago

@lynessence@atherjammoa But how will I know she’s a woman if I don’t know everything about her boobs? Otherwise she’s just another man! This complaint applies to far too many female characters written by male authors.

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Ather Jammoa

in reply to Lynette 2 weeks ago

Wait, wait. Aren't the boobs the most important part of the entire description?

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Lynette

in reply to Ather Jammoa 2 weeks ago

You both just said the same thing. lol

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

in reply to Lynette 2 weeks ago

@lynessence@atherjammoa Uh, sorry. I know your eyes are...well, I was going to say up there...but you're shorter than me haha. So down there, I guess. grin

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