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Irish Princess versus the Unmatched Power of the Sun

For personal context, before I went to the '98 Burning Man festival, one of the things I'd read from a couple different journalists was that "everybody" runs around naked. Which, fine by me, I'd already spent a lot of time in clothing-optional spaces, I'm not fanatic about it but it's nice.

So I got there early and set up a public shade structure on one of Black Rock City's main roads and spent most of each afternoon just watching the crowds go by. I don't remember seeing more than one actually naked person the whole week. I think a topless woman passed by my intersection maybe every half an hour, sometimes once an hour. So why in the hell were people, normally pretty smart and observant writers, coming away with the impression that everybody was naked?

Then I remembered an unrelated passage from Joel Garreau's great book about the history of the outer-ring suburbs, Edge City. Mall developers told him flat-out that they tried to keep the crowds in their malls less than 5% black. Not because they themselves were racist, but because they had determined, experimentally, that if more than 5% of the people in the mall are black, the median white shopper will wrongly describe the mall as at least half black, as mostly black. And not a few of them would describe it, at 6% black, as a mall where "only black people go." Why?

Because, emotionally, they were still upset over the last one when the next one came into view.

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we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Originally called “Saints Row Cinco”, Would’ve been a sequel to Saints Row The Third

The Original Saints members were all going to return as major characters

SR4 would’ve been retconned as well as Johnny Gat’s death in SR3, continuing from there, The Boss and crew would leave Steelport to take over Santo Ileso

There would’ve been a secret mission where you confront and kill Dex

Designed to appease old fans and check off all their requests

The tone was going to follow a 20/80 rule, 20% SR3, 80% SR2 style

Pierce’s voice actor even recorded lines for the original version of this game

After THQ Nordic acquired Deep Silver, They outright rejected the story and FORCED Volition to re-write the story

THQ Nordic and Deep Silver put heavy restrictions on what the characters can say including swear words (in an M rated game fyi)

Another version of the story got written that was a full reboot but kept all the original saints, no student loans storyline. This was also rejected by THQ Nordic

Ultor would’ve returned instead of the Marshals

Skill Tree was split into Wealth/Fame/Muscle

Body Shields were going to return but removed due to Deep Silver calling it “too violent.”

Criminal Ventures originally were going to allow you to customize the city itself, with choosing businesses to place into the open world rather than being an activities screen like in the final game

“Proclamation” system allowed you to put laws into your controlled districts, such as forcing a dress code or inacting stand-offs as a way to resolve arguments

Full Cribs and customization to them all returned and got cut

You could customize all cribs and the church that lets you place items anywhere you want

Buying furniture from furniture stores would’ve been a feature

NG+ was cut

Cheats would’ve been an endgame feature unlocked by discovering and unlocking a secret massive genki pyramid and then useable in NG+, Final game shipped without cheats at launch.

The larping mission originally was just one mission where you’d use real guns against them, the dev team was somehow convinced that the game could popularize larping and shipped the terrible larping missions in the final game

All info comes from MrSaintGodzilla21 who was invited to Volition to see all of this in 2020

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