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dry copper
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I want to at least believe they aren't clone babies

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I wonder why they went the route of creating a disconnect between the player and crew

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From what I've seen of Baurotrama as a comparison, the crew does their own thing (as best as they are able)

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Often to the detriment of the mission because they're incompetent

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but it adds flavor

silver sparrow
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pretty interesting

shadow tartan
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@silver sparrow the land vehicle one is really cool too

silver sparrow
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i glanced at that one

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weehikl

glass plinth
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Must not play genshin....stupid game running so well on a cellphonegrumbles

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Seriously, I wish more games were as competently done as a mobile extension, that being said its a mobile game brought to pc.

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Welp, its official, 40 best friends in a chat. Ive known them for over 20 years and all of them are on genshin except me, WHYYYYYYY!?

full pivot
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lol im gonna try it out too

winter yew
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Almost finished doom 2016

winter yew
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Getting better at this 🤟

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Nice

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I'm not sure if I would like this game

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Yea it’s not for everyone

glass plinth
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Rocket League?

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Its a blast

winter yew
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It’s pretty fun yeah

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Getting hang of the physics is the difficult part

winter yew
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this is so dumb im not even mad

glass plinth
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EEEEEEEE! A few hours tell genshiiiiin

dry copper
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Not sure if comedy heckling is too much for outside of #archived-old-serious if the joke is about politics

shadow tartan
dry copper
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I really appreciate rainbows.

shadow tartan
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🙂

wild ember
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....Fatalis.

spiral shell
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I seriously had a woman boner for Peter Steele and Type O Negative back in high school.

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Fiona Apple made me feel things!

dry copper
austere lance
dry copper
dry copper
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Creepy af

silver sparrow
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@austere lance how do you not kill anyone, the whole reason i never bought the games is because the trailers looked gratuitously violent

raven frost
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is there an achievement for doing the complete opposite and murdering absolutely every npc in the game

austere lance
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@silver sparrow Not killing anyone is actually how you get the best endings in the games. Killing people causes Chaos, and everything gets fucked in later levels if you're doing a High Chaos playthrough

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Whereas a Low Chaos playthrough where you kill very few or no people gives happy endings to the story

silver sparrow
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i do enjoy a happy ending

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i might re-engage my ps now sub and play through them

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hm...ps plus free games did not drop yet

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disappoint

austere lance
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Just remember to explore everywhere to find the non-lethal ways to eliminate main targets

silver sparrow
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ok

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i assume i don't have a tranquilizer rifle like in deus ex 😛

austere lance
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There's knockout darts for your hand-crossbow, you can only carry 5 at a time tho. Gotta explore or buy some from black market shops if you want more

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Black market shops are only in Dishonored 2, it's harder to get the darts in 1 😆

silver sparrow
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hrm

austere lance
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Gotta play carefully. You can choke out people but then you gotta hide their unconscious body so nobody finds them

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The real fun is combining your badass powers with stealth to non-lethal everyone

silver sparrow
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hm, ghost tranq

austere lance
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Stop time, shoot tranqs at everyone in a room and choke out the target, then resume time and watch everyone collapse 😆

silver sparrow
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sounds intriguing

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slow slow pew pew choky choky

cinder vessel
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Gotta play carefully. You can choke out people but then you gotta hide their unconscious body so nobody finds them
@austere lance i forget, does feeding the bodies to rats still count towards killing & chaos?

austere lance
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Yes, they're still dying by your actions

cinder vessel
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lol, a lesser game would miss that

silver sparrow
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hungry rats oh my

dry copper
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non lethal batman ways

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Like breaking bones in an electrical circuit

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Smashing faces in junction boxes

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Non lethal

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Imagine GTA 5 but the cops never forget you, and even put out an APB if you're involved in crimes and observed too frequently.

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Where NPC will actively fuck your shit up, while trying to be "The Hero"

austere lance
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Non-lethal in Dishonored is quite different than Batman's "non-lethal" where you put people in the friggin hospital, lol. In Dishonored you just do stuff like choke people unconscious or sleep dart them. Tho in 2 you can jump on em like Mario and smack their head on the ground 🤣

glass plinth
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Welp, its official some of my friends in Genshin have the combo sense of a blind deaf dancer with vertigo

silver sparrow
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vampyr for free on ps plus...meh

bronze wind
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It's pretty fun tbh, I need to go back and finish it at some point though

silver sparrow
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so...it wasn't fun enough to finish 😄

bronze wind
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Nah, other games just came out and I got distracted.

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I think I also was moving shortly after I started and that threw me off

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I just left it for too long so I would want to start over and never have the energy lol

silver sparrow
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ah ok

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plus bb

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well it costs me nothing but hard drive space to download

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i will delete genshin impact to make room for it

austere lance
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Everyone on the friggin planet is playing that game, smh

glass plinth
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I guess they figure they will recoup the development costs by end of month

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Which was close to 100 million dollars.

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Not surprising given how the game plays

raven frost
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@full pivot @echo hill SoT?

echo hill
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Oh shit if I wasn't at work I'd be so down

glass plinth
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Sea of theives?

silver sparrow
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sea o' teebz

balmy plaza
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I bloody hate that AJ Tracey song

thorn dawn
acoustic solar
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Rest in Peace Eddie Van Halen.

winter yew
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:(((((

full pivot
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@raven frost sorry i was wandering around in my backyard with my dad

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i left the game running haha

raven frost
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@echo hill did they make briggsy easier or was I just stupid the first time I fought her?

echo hill
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No idea. I haven't fought briggsy in ages

raven frost
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last time I fought her I had to unload a small army's worth of munitions at her, including cannons, just to hurt her a bit

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this time I just rushed her with my sword and she died in like 10 minutes

thorn dawn
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maybe you got gud

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I've heard it can happen

cinder vessel
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impossible

austere lance
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WHY IS EDDIE VAN HALEN DEAD

thorn dawn
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because 2020 fucking sucks

silver sparrow
thorn dawn
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it supposedly predicts Covid

bronze wind
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psychopath Q-anon followers somehow being led to a music video for clues

silver sparrow
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i am literally terrified at the amount of delusional paranoia here

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like physically ill from my discomfort

bronze wind
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My favorites are the people pointing out how this was made two years ago and they're using the "I can't breathe" thing, as if that was something that has only happened within the past 2 years lol

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Like such tangible delusion and reaching

silver sparrow
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but the stuff about extracting chemicals from children

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i just

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silence

bronze wind
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just Q followers, thankfully not a majority or even an intelligent source of info

silver sparrow
cinder vessel
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tl;dr: remember, never read the comments

silver sparrow
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amen

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but sometimes they are super funny, i was just so caught off guard

cinder vessel
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comments sections are basically the risky scroll of the internet, lol

silver sparrow
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like i walked in on my parents having a three-way with my math teacher

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i learned this the hard way today

cinder vessel
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always knock before entering~
wait fuck the door is open, no stop don't look aaahhh

silver sparrow
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my roulette luck ran out

thorn dawn
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learning multiplication

glass plinth
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As I lived in a tall building in the philippines and no one kept there windows closed.

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I saw to much

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WAY to many times.

silver sparrow
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as a filipino who never lived in the PI, you are a braver man than me

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(or lady idk it's the internet)

cinder vessel
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game nails atmosphere pretty well, even if the narrative is pretty 🤷‍♀️

glass plinth
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Im a guy smoosh.

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Also, hrmm interesting concept Leon.

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With the cost of vr going down so much, i may one day actually be able to try it

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though ill wait tell my mid 40s before i get it

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give it time to cook a bit

tidal sphinx
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I love Phasmophobia in VR, definitely enhances the game even though it's already pretty good in it's own right

cinder vessel
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Phasmophobia still seems a tad too jank for me to want to even approach in VR, lol

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Dig the game concept tho, be interesting to see how it improves

silver sparrow
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Vampires vs the Bronx I’m a little interested ngl

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Like they took lost boys and moved it East

tidal sphinx
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Phasmophobia still seems a tad too jank for me to want to even approach in VR, lol
@cinder vessel it has some janky aspects but overall it's much, much more fun than it is janky

tulip coral
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deus ex series is great social commentary game. Idk why the 'sequel' always go bad. like invisible wars and mankind divided.

tidal sphinx
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I mean, I liked it because it was a new deus ex game, I'm notoriously easy to please though

tulip coral
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some... things just feel off with mankind divided

tidal sphinx
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There are a good number of things off about it, but it was probably rushed

tulip coral
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probably by how they try to slip in some microtransactions.. probably cause the story is less impactful? idk

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agree, it is not catastrophe as invisible war

tidal sphinx
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You can tell they wanted to do a lot more than what they ultimately ended up doing

tulip coral
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tho somewhat I can play invisible war to finish, just.. I erase my mind about the story

tidal sphinx
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Most of the game up toward the latter 1/3rd is awesome and super immersive

austere lance
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Honestly I didn't even know it had MTX til I was partway through a second playthrough and saw it on the internet, obviously they didn't push them very hard 😆

tulip coral
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they slip those in, not really yet pushing it hard

tidal sphinx
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Hopefully we get a good helping of that kind of gameplay in Cyberpunk but idk if its gonna have the nuanced choice, thoughtful dialogue that Deus Ex has

tulip coral
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'buy cheat through mtx' I guess: there is the package deal for better headstart and buy praxis with $$

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then there are codes that you can use for umm their other deus ex game? idk I dont check it

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I was waiting more for bloodlines 2 than cyberpunk but then some things happen and fans are kept in the dark. So idk anymore 😄

austere lance
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I coulda gone literally all my life not knowing Mankind Divided had them without the internet saying anything, the fact that the place you get them from is very much not obvious shows that they don't affect much xD

tidal sphinx
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Well, more story elements regarding transhumanism and future politics and stuff anyway would be pretty cool

tulip coral
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yeah I think they are more like 'you wanna legit cheat? buy it'

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oh yeah, human revolution and mankind divided scenario pretty much felt could have happened in the next 100-200 years

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probably less if we solve our current issues

tidal sphinx
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The only game that really hit that bullseye was Deus Ex for sure, but the first few games were like "this happened and this the world as a result of those events" whereas HR and MK are exploring those ramifications as they go whi ch was pretty cool

austere lance
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Every time I look up Cyberpunk there's either in-game controversy, controversy over the devs being forced to crunch, or the devs helpfully saying that there's sex modifications for your body that you can get. Absolutely bizarre game, lol

tulip coral
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haha

tidal sphinx
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They aim to make it so you're not choosing between male or female, you're choosing between body types, which opens the door for a wider range of different types of characters you can play

austere lance
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IGN is dumb as a post but apparently compared the 4 hours of it that they've played to the original Deus Ex, which is interesting imo

tulip coral
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all I 'pray' for devs of any games is that whatever social commentary they wanna brought up / political things / nothing at all... it is something they are confident they are fit to the game design, not just because they feel have to to include more players.

austere lance
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I fully expected people to compare it to the new Deus Ex games, not the 90's ones

tidal sphinx
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I mean, what's wrong with casting a wide net? Theres a bigger market to be served there

tulip coral
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and that they are being transparent about it. Dont want to eat a hamburger to find the meat is actually taco

tidal sphinx
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You can appeal to a smaller base. And probably do pretty well. But the logical thing to do is make as many people want to play it as you can get

tulip coral
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oh its nothing wrong but say..

austere lance
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90's Deus Ex is a wee bit different than new ones, interesting choice to compare Cyberpunk to

tulip coral
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you make a simulation game about middle ages

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then see space is being popular

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a spaceship in middle ages simulation... would be... way too off

tidal sphinx
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Yeah

tulip coral
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so that is my gist

tidal sphinx
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But cyberpunk is about transhumanism

tulip coral
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also about wide / small base.. there actually game design science behind it

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indie devs should always research for small base

tidal sphinx
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Which encompasses the human condition as a whole.

tulip coral
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triple A can go as wide as they can cause well, a lot more time and money but

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even such

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they still need a core base

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wanna make next battlefield game? core base is fps players

tidal sphinx
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I dont think it's a huge stretch that you can surgically replace your arm with a sword

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And also have gender fluidity and such

tulip coral
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trying to say.. make battlefield to also cater to fans of match 3 games will be weird

wraith river
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is blair witch coming to vr

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?

tulip coral
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yeah, I have no problem with the gender thing, it just provide variety

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tho if a game decide to only have one specific char with specific gender, I also wont protest it. whatever fit the grand design 😄

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pink is sus

glass plinth
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Well that and cybernetics, I mean come on, a artifical dingaling isnt hard.

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Err, pun not intended.

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UGH

tulip coral
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hahaha

glass plinth
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Damnit, not im laughing my ass off at that comment

tidal sphinx
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I wonder if theres gonna be almost totally cybernetic humans

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Like almost a full body conversion like Alex Jensen

austere lance
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@tidal sphinx Yes, they've shown some

glass plinth
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Well, we know some come close. The maelstrom approach 70 percent according to the lore.

wraith river
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idk man i think the fact that they don't care about stuff like hurting people feeling (in a way isn't hate) is awesome they are doing what they think is good for the game and not giving a crap

tidal sphinx
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They're a bit barmy though arent they

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The maelstrom

glass plinth
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Frankly, I wouldnt mind going sexless, no parts lol

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Oh yeah

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The maelstrom are insane

wraith river
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I wonder if theres gonna be almost totally cybernetic humans
@tidal sphinx would be sick

tidal sphinx
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I would choose to be almost entirely cybernetic if the medical technology were there.

tulip coral
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sexless and romanceless, I wanna see how it affect things 😛

glass plinth
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To quote a line from Cyberpunk, The only part we cant replace is a brain in its entire. We come close though!

austere lance
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They already showed a person in the trailers who has no human parts whatsoever, looks like a big metal gorilla from hell 😆

wraith river
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i think like maybe there will be an npc that was a person then did so much changes that he is now a robet like chapi the movie like an ai

glass plinth
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Could be

wraith river
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with feelings and stuff

tidal sphinx
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You should check out a manga called BLAME!, talkin bout post-post-post-post-post-humanity

wraith river
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me?

glass plinth
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I mean ideally, I like being human. I like the experiences of being human. The only mods Id want are internals.

wraith river
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or someone else

glass plinth
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Eyes, guts, muscle

austere lance
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Chappie storing human consciousness in a stack of PS4's is still the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen 🤣

tidal sphinx
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Anybody in general

wraith river
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Chappie storing human consciousness in a stack of PS4's is still the funniest fucking thing I've ever seen 🤣
@austere lance LMAO

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it is such a genius movie

glass plinth
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it really was bizzare.

wraith river
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and the work for it was so hard

tidal sphinx
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I mean ideally, I like being human. I like the experiences of being human. The only mods Id want are internals.
@glass plinth personally I'd want it for the purpose of longevity, especially for scientific research regarding space exploration and such

tulip coral
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I dont like being human but Idk what I wanna be

glass plinth
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I like the form. I just want to be more human.

wraith river
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check the process of making chapi the movie with every shot like dude that is insane

tulip coral
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so lets be uhh... purple round astronot thing, some animals, some monsters, and some hoomans in games

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😛

austere lance
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"We're gonna make a temporary supercomputer out of a PC and a stack of PS4's then store a human mind in it"
-The writers of Chappie at some point gandalf

wraith river
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I dont like being human but Idk what I wanna be
@tulip coral be a attack helicopter

tidal sphinx
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Big question of ethics for sure, but it would be neat to have a cyborg or two building things in space

tulip coral
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ah nah, not interested in helis

wraith river
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"We're gonna make a temporary supercomputer out of a PC and a stack of PS4's then store a human mind in it"
-The writers of Chappie at some point :gandalf:
@austere lance lol

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ah nah, not interested in helis
@tulip coral then a HUGE battle mech

tulip coral
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😄

tidal sphinx
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Ah, the good ol helicopter joke lol

tulip coral
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you all and things with metal!

glass plinth
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The whole storyline of seeking immortality is interesting. Your basically at the birth of the storyline from Altered Carbons tech.

wraith river
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then be a blob that consumes light like a flower and can change shape like penny in the amazing world of gumball

tidal sphinx
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Immortality is a bit overrated, if you get to choose when you die or deactivate tho that's a bit more palatable

tulip coral
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isnt storyline of seeking immortality usually the gist of many modern-time horror games/stories?

wraith river
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idk man

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i hate the idea of immortality

tidal sphinx
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I dont think many people would enjoy watching the universe fall into entropy

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I think lengthening lifespans has its merits though

wraith river
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i want to live my life with person i love and be done after knowing i used up every second of my life the way i wanted to

tulip coral
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I remember this horror game that looks like the thing, but the reason of the bad things the bad people do are to reach immortality

tidal sphinx
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Especially if it serves the purpose of figuring out how to prevent entropy

glass plinth
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Yeah, Im different. I cant see much of a issue with immortality.

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Then again my family live past 100 often

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and none of them really wanted to die.

tulip coral
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entrophy is part of the universe's cycle tho

glass plinth
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Maybe its genetic?

tidal sphinx
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Assuming nobody else is immortal, could you really be OK with outliving everyone you've ever met or will meet? Seems like a shit deal, tbh

wraith river
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so not wanting to die makes you not dying everyone give this advice if you want to be a bird be a bird

tulip coral
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idk, I think it sucks to live past productive time. But eh, even now I am a cranky old lady with cranky back and neck

wraith river
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idk, I think it sucks to live past productive time. But eh, even now I am a cranky old lady with cranky back and neck
@tulip coral exactly

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once i cant wipe my own ass by myself im done

glass plinth
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Maybe thats why my great grandpa lived 105. I mean he was working up until he died.

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He loved to work so much.

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Although, at that age, hed done so much and he said he never once felt like there wasnt more to do.

wraith river
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motivation can wake and "keep"up the body so i guess that's why

tidal sphinx
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Ideally extending your lifespan would also help alleviate the issues of aging, I'm sure having a body that doesnt break down quite as quickly would do wonders for your mental health and vice versa

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But theres also a question of how living that long would affect your mind as well since your perception of time tends to change as you get older as well

tulip coral
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well, there is the proven? research that having purposes in life and to not get stressed too much help with longevity

wraith river
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dude I'm having a discussion about immortality with strangers that came from talking about cyber dicks in 3 am

glass plinth
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Lol

tulip coral
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I wonder if people live long, would they become slow and wise like elves or ambitious and hard to forget like vampires

glass plinth
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welcome to the internet.

wraith river
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i have ascended

glass plinth
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Hrmm

wraith river
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to a different realm

glass plinth
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Depends on the person id say rose

tidal sphinx
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The older you are the more quick you tend to perceive times passage, if you lived 1000 years somebody elses life from birth to death would be a blip

tulip coral
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immortal cyber dicks, shafufi

wraith river
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rose looking fresh

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immortal cyber dicks, shafufi
@tulip coral yes

tulip coral
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🤣

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the only thing preserved

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perserved

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arghh

glass plinth
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I guess my GG said time slows down a bit the close death comes along

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You start to have urgency again

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Really for me, times slowed down again from 30 to 40

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I love 40

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40 feels great.

tulip coral
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well, if no one else immortal, it is easy to see them as just numbers or fleeting moment

tidal sphinx
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I'm gonna be 30 next year and if I dont pay attention the days go by like nothing

wraith river
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imagine aliens coming to earth and the only thing left is someones cyperpunk save with a 30 inch laser shooting cyber dick and that's how they view us

tulip coral
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the game crying suns actually do a good way on depicting that kind of person

tidal sphinx
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Not a bad representation in my opinion, I mean who wouldnt want that

glass plinth
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For me, Ive paid attention to every day more. Since i hit 30. I guess it came with experience though

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20s flew by

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I guess when i hit 30, i started to die though

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AS was kicking my ass.

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Every day I had to put all my effort into doing something, to enjoy it, to experience it in a productive way Ironically this lead to me being able to fight back against AS

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Every day feels new...

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Its weird.

wraith river
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dude you deserve a cyber dick fr

tulip coral
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AS?

wraith river
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or boobs idk the gender

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maybe both

tulip coral
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Every day I had to put all my effort into doing something, to enjoy it, to experience it in a productive way
35, felt the same. Eh i end up doing nothing, and wallows about it.

tidal sphinx
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Hey as long as I can be nonbinary in cyberpunk, I'm gucci

austere lance
tulip coral
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🤣

austere lance
tulip coral
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yeah, one thing I 'hate' with dice-based rpg is the save-scum part

austere lance
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This is why Knights of the Old Republic is the furthest I'll go with that funky sub-genre, lol

full pivot
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im ngl

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and this might be a hot take

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but DnD combat is remarkably unsatisfying in general without a good DM

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you can roll like a god but if those descriptions/visuals aren't impactful it feels like rolling dice

tidal sphinx
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...yea, I wouldnt call that a hot take

full pivot
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everything that made my Half-Orc Barbarian exciting was the description of his rage abilities basically making him go kaioken every time

tidal sphinx
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I think we can all agree with that fer sher

full pivot
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combat wasn't satisfying in Baldur's Gate really

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i've played the original ones and it wasn't EXCITING combat

tidal sphinx
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DnD to me is ultimately about the experiences you have with that group more than it is abt DnD itself, DnD is just the sandbox you get to play in

cinder vessel
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collaborative writing

full pivot
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collaborative writing was a concept I was aware of before I even know what that meant

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because my brother and I grew up writing our stories together, pitting our bosses against each other, inspiring each other

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battles for the universe were often fought in the backyard between unimaginably powerful titans 😛

cinder vessel
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yeah, one of my friends & I sorta did that with action figures growing up

full pivot
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we did is as ourselves and I was a more of the athletic type so all the hits and deaths were acted out

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whereas my brother was more like the actor that needs a stunt actor to fall down lmao

cinder vessel
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lol

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my friend & his brother would do that sorta thing, but since i wasn't the active sort we stuck to the figures for the most part

full pivot
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we did create a really complicated political narrative (we were trying to emulate shows we were watching at 10yo mind you) with spaceship figures mixing Star Trek, Babylon 5, and Star Wars together

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probably very cringey outside of youth 😛

austere lance
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This looks fuckin ridiculous, lol

cinder vessel
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yeah, that's a bit of why i just never got into the more active side of things. i've never been comfortable in-person acting

full pivot
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i just wanted to be moving physically

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and he wouldn't play sports

cinder vessel
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lol

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i only like being physically active alone, just part of my discomfort thing

full pivot
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delivering lines was also important to me

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which could be done either way

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but the way someone says something is important

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there was a stark contrast in my growing up when my world turned from a happy-go-lucky tale to one defined by this song

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and it entirely reflected that angst of teenage years

shadow tartan
wraith river
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we still on cyber dicks or naw

full pivot
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@wraith river no

silver sparrow
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heh

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back on the lemon

full pivot
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❤️

dry copper
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@austere lance oh my god I read that baldurs gate review on ars technica and if he was as bored playing the game as I was reading about him playing it....christ. I want my 15 minutes back

austere lance
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@dry copper Idk if you played any of the original game but good lord it was impressively boring. That reviewer you read is a fan of the original game and thinks 3 is this bad 😬

cinder vessel
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remember tho it's only eArLy AcCeSs

dry copper
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Wonder if Drake Hollow is any good. Reviews seem positive...but it looks like a bunch of tiny instances

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Which doesn't jive for me

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I'm eager also to see how Werewolf Apocalypse turns out

austere lance
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2K21 running on a PS5

dry copper
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That's not realistic at all

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No way there is going to be an audience.

austere lance
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LMFAOOOOOO

cinder vessel
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aayy

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unless they know something we don't 👀

charred badge
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@austere lance unrealistic. There's a crowd.

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I was joking that the actual NBA was using 2K crowd graphics though

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Have you looked at the "crowd" animations they're adding in now?

austere lance
cinder vessel
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yo game

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my puma

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omg

full pivot
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nou

dry copper
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@austere lance That screenshot just gave me an idea for a game and I'm wondering if the game is actually what my idea is. A side scroller that presents the puzzle elements as rewards for killing certain enemies, the rewards strategy over simple hack and slash, but also has a score effected by your timing....So to optimize your score you would race from one side of the map to the other killing key enemies for letters to solve the word puzzle

austere lance
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Lol, it's just a word search game like the old Bookworm Adeventures games were. Spell words to do damage to enemies, the longer the word the more damage it does. And letters with more than one little orb on them do more damage. Like Q has 3 orbs in that pic

dry copper
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oh wow....I really expanded beyond the focus

austere lance
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😆

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Every once in a while you'll get a gem tile that gives you a bonus if you use it. The E in that pic heals 10% of my health

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Enemies can dick with you by locking tiles, breaking them so they do less damage, poisoning them so they hurt you, etc

dry copper
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Oh god....Baldurs Gate full price $80....Title is "Early Access"....WTF

austere lance
dry copper
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Reviews are not kind

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"Played almost 2hs into the Early Access and I don't know if I'll keep going. I mean, the lack of polish is noticeable but it is in the right direction, so I'll wait for the full release. ..."

austere lance
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I fucking swear my brain kills itself whenever I look for words to spell, LMAO

dry copper
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I just did a test in latin for spelling.

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That was fun.

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I'm sure i got more than 90%

austere lance
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This was a horrible game to get on my phone, it's too addicting 🤣

dry copper
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Word that means enlargement of the liver

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Inflammation of the finger nail

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A condition characterized by eating finger nails

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Hepatomegaly is enlargement of the liver

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Onychitis is finger nail inflammation

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Eating if memory serves is a phagia...sooo

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Onychophagia

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Softening of the nail is Onychomalacia

dry copper
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Johnny Nash has passed away of natural causes at the age of 80.

cinder vessel
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@austere lance game is wot tho?

austere lance
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Letter Quest: Grimm's Journey

dry copper
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Going to buy me Interstellar Rift. I like Genesis Alpha one but the art style is really...ugh

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IR looks almost identical with a more appealing art style

dry copper
grave elbow
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Phasmopbobia is a very damn impressive game

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Especially with only one dev behind the wheel

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Easily the scariest game I've ever played by a long shot

shadow tartan
crimson kelp
charred badge
shadow tartan
austere lance
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PS5 uses a liquid metal cooling system, apparently

silver sparrow
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wat

shadow tartan
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Mercury?

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I saw the teardown, the memes are brilliant

austere lance
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I like the warning label on the PS5 teardown video
Do not try this at home. Risk of exposure to laser radiation, electric shock, or other injury

willow crypt
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risk of releasing tiny witches that will curse you and you're loved ones, as well as explosive gas

shadow tartan
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Dreamcast and original XBOX power inverter boards both gave me a shock

full pivot
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oh and purple is my fav colour

cinder vessel
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I like the warning label on the PS5 teardown video
Do not try this at home. Risk of exposure to laser radiation, electric shock, or other injury
@austere lance that's pretty classic for almost any electronic device with a disc drive not in a metal shell or some covering, that can be activated with exposed laser tbh

austere lance
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Shouldn't they have to warn about the liquid metal? I'm not sure what kind it is tho

shadow tartan
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@full pivot I love purple

cinder vessel
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Shouldn't they have to warn about the liquid metal? I'm not sure what kind it is tho
@austere lance probably, i think it's been such a niche feature that people usually opt into with computers tho that it may not be as common or something

shadow tartan
silver sparrow
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does anyone appreciate less chaotic music?

shadow tartan
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I listen to less chaotic things also @silver sparrow

charred badge
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Anyone else feel like "do not open. Contains liquid metal" is a fantastic anti-repair label?

austere lance
#

I've been on an old Three Days Grace binge lately, lol

silver sparrow
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decent cover

glass plinth
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I really like the Aurora cover of teardrop

shadow tartan
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@charred badge completely, never stops people though. I can imagine all the ambulance calls to the little repair shops where I live

glass plinth
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never listened to aurora before

shadow tartan
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@silver sparrow the original makes me cry

silver sparrow
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oh

shadow tartan
glass plinth
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Huh, seems aurora is sorta a bit like bjork was early on

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lovely

shadow tartan
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I love Agnes

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And Bjork

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Hidden Place ❤️

glass plinth
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Bjork is a dear.

winter yew
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I enjoy UK and Australian Grime, Hip Hop, Drum and Bass, Bass House and Jazz music.

glass plinth
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I was up in seattle back in the oh lets see... 2005 i think, helping a friend move some audio equipment for his crew

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She bought us all fish LOL!

shadow tartan
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@winter yew dun kno fam

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You on drill?

winter yew
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No.

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Drill can suck out.

shadow tartan
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I am big on Drum n Bass though

glass plinth
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Drill bill?

shadow tartan
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And Jungle

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Because I'm old

winter yew
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I'm not in to that murder music. I can't enjoy that. 😕

glass plinth
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Whats jungle?

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Never actually heard of that genre

shadow tartan
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Jungle is massive

silver sparrow
#

ok so neat intersection of d&b and video games...did anyone listen to the soundtrack of machinarium?

shadow tartan
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Let me find you some

silver sparrow
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lots of solid tracks on it tbh

glass plinth
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Ha, its hard to know every genre, considering how many tens of thousands of sub genres and thousands of main ones there are

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I frankly only know maybe 100

shadow tartan
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@winter yew duuuuuude

glass plinth
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Huh, like reggae rock

shadow tartan
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I was just about to post that

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And this

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Yeah in London we have a big Carribbean influence

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Miss carnival though 😭

glass plinth
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Yeah, we call that something else over here on the west coast.

shadow tartan
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And before Pendulum became a shit pop band they used to be wicked Jungle DJs

austere lance
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Lol, Jesse in Breaking Bad is playing Rage on his 360 rn

shadow tartan
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Jungle came back last year too

glass plinth
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Man, carnival is amazing. It differs from country to country too. Over the the philippines they have this festival called Sinulog

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Imagine 2 million people dancing

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at once

shadow tartan
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We have Notting Hill Carnival here

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Lots of music, processions and amazing food

glass plinth
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Hehe

shadow tartan
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Yeah the streets where I grew up are rammed with people

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Dunno if we'll ever see that again...

glass plinth
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I loved how youd see so many photographers come from all over the world to see those events

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Lost as hell.

shadow tartan
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Hahahaha yeah

glass plinth
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Id gone native by that point, so I sorta felt like hey follow meeee!

shadow tartan
glass plinth
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By the end of the day Id usually hooked everyone up with locals to show them the best spots for pictures lol

shadow tartan
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My friends used to come for Carnival and I'd take them to some good spots

glass plinth
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One thing I noticed at any carnival Ive been to is, the street food. ITS AMAZING

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I think I ate enough chicken shrimp kabobs to kill a man

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Of course you could get 3 for 35 cents

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lol

shadow tartan
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Street food....

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Mmmmmmmmmm

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Anything on a stick

glass plinth
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Yup!

silver sparrow
glass plinth
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From thailand, to china, to dubai

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doesnt matter, every place has its street food

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Hrmm, did I remember to send my people on expeditions in genshin...

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Oh yeah I did, lol I couldnt remember, was half asleep

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Im surprised to say, Genshin replaced my entire groups , group game. After years of overwatch every night it feels weird lol

winter yew
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It's bizarre how quick it moved in.
I very nearly ignored it and I'm happy that I give it a chance.

shadow tartan
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Nope

thorn dawn
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does any one remember that episode of TNG where they bought that game aboard?

winter yew
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Hahaha yeah.

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What's TNG?

thorn dawn
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The Next Generation of course

winter yew
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Ohhhhhh, of course it is.

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What's The Next Generation?

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I'll ask Google.

thorn dawn
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-.-

winter yew
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Ohhh Star Trek.

winter yew
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I see Star Trek on Netflix and keep skipping over it. 🤔

thorn dawn
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well, one of the episodes, they bring this game on board, that everyone plays once and gets addicted to

winter yew
#

Is it called Magic The Gathering?

thorn dawn
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more addictive

winter yew
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😩

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Nice, nice.

thorn dawn
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the people playing the game eventually start kidnapping non-players and forcing them to play

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I haven't heard that happening with magic yet

crisp sparrow
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wow somehow I missed all my tags, did discord bork

silver sparrow
crisp sparrow
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@dry copper you probably got your answer already but yeah there's no char customization and its a single player game with co-op (that unlocks after a certain level) and unfortunately needs to be connected to the internet all the time

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aside from that this is some top quality RPG - lots of random hidden puzzles, easter eggs, varied quests that are not always just glorified fetch quests, and a lot of attention to detail in a lot of avenues where they had no need to do for a F2P gacha game

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even as a gacha game most of the world is tailored around the guaranteed free chars you get, any more is just a bonus

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and well you get the in game currency for them, for free in so many ways

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legit feel guilty playing for free, I might buy some coins to show appreciation later on

thorn dawn
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any ads? analytics?

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maybe that's how they make their pennies

austere lance
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Idk about the mobile version but console version doesn't have ads, as far as I'm aware (I don't think console games are allowed to have ads)

crisp sparrow
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They make money from the gacha itself

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They made millions from their previous game

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Which was basically anime Warframe, I think

winter yew
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No ads in console version.

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Or PC version for that matter.

austere lance
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Yeah, people pay a lot for gacha stuff. Some streamer just spent I believe $5k to get a character

crisp sparrow
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No in game ads yeah, analytics could be there since China/Tencent

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Yep whales are always there

austere lance
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Ah, it was $2k

crisp sparrow
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Actually this game is doing awful in china

austere lance
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Fuckin crazy

silver sparrow
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A Sound Sohail

austere lance
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Lol

silver sparrow
#

y'alls names kept flipping back and forth

austere lance
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People with more money than sense baffle me tbh

crisp sparrow
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Apparently the game trailers looked so much like BOTW that the Chinese peeps were super pissed and cancelled the company

winter yew
#

Speaking of Whales. I play(ed) a browser game that has recently gone offline temporarily.
They are allowing transfer of bonus items to another game and the bonus's are in 5 different tiers, first tier is for $20k USD total and tier 5 is $500k USD total spent.
Some people are fucking insane.

austere lance
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Wtf

crisp sparrow
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Wow

silver sparrow
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wut

austere lance
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I'll take their dumbass money to pay student loans and bills, fuck

winter yew
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I spent like $50 so I'm not a big enough spender to get any bonus. 😛

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Yeah when I saw it I was genuinely stunned and horrified.

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People spending a years wage on a stupid browser game.

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Well, and more so.

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Genshin though. Please give it a chance, it's fucking awesome.

austere lance
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My phone would explode if I tried playing it, lol

winter yew
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😔

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I play on PC and my wife stole my PS4 to play.

austere lance
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It's an exclusive so I can't play it, RIP

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I shall continue to do broken af OP things in Dishonored 2 gandalf

winter yew
#

Hahaha

austere lance
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As of right now I'm combining powers to be an evil death god, lol. I can mark three different enemies so whatever fate one suffers the other two also suffer, AKA if I kill one they all keel over. But I also have an ability that makes people I stealth-kill turn to ash after they die, so rn I'm just tagging three people, shooting one in the head with a crossbow, then giggling as all three turn to dust

glass plinth
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Frankly, Ive already got all the characters almost

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Which is exceptional for genshin. The gacha is... odd.

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Ive played maybe 10 gacha games over the years, I really enjoy some of them, however, in genshins case, they did the match incredbly different. For some odd reason.

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Fundamentally a lot of gacha games gate certain necessary abilities behind real life money costs. You mite make it through most of the game, but that last half or quarter you will have to roll with money to get the necessities.

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Genshin sorta went, fuck that. Lets make it so your gated to make it easier. However you get everything you need to get through the whole game just with the basics.

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Although, I may well have just got lucky and got two 5 stars by pure luck haha.

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As for what Sohail said, yeah, I started paying using the 5 dollar sub. Basically just to thank the devs for the game lol.

crisp sparrow
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you got extremely lucky

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5 star is 0.6 percent chance

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I've been told that theirs is more annoying than other gacha games

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but at least you are guaranteed to get a 5 star item in your 90th pull

glass plinth
#

yeah, I did my own math

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Right now, I am at a abberant rate of drop

thorn dawn
glass plinth
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Wow

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One hell of a fan

thorn dawn
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the amount of flex on the panel when he's cracking the case makes me nervous :x

glass plinth
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Actually flex is a good thing in consoles

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Earlier consoles with to much rigidity tended to have heat fractures

thorn dawn
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a few glued bits too :X

glass plinth
#

You need to be incredibly careful obviously.

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Yeah the glue is for thermal reasons

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Frankly a very well built console

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Im gobsmacked at some of the thermal design

thorn dawn
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it is, I can just see it behing very easy to break if you're opening it up

glass plinth
#

yeah

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it was definitely not a case designed for break down

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at least easily

thorn dawn
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both the ps3 and ps4 are built like tanks inside

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but, I'd rather have a cool, quiet console that doesn't break down

glass plinth
#

One things for sure, ps5 is going to be beast with next gen games

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for at least a few years

thorn dawn
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traded my ps4 for a ps4 pro just because it kept spitting disks on the foor in the middle of the night -.-

glass plinth
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hahahahaha

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Im sorry thats funny as hell

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Oh gah, id go nuts

thorn dawn
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scared the utter shit out of me the first time it happened

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I was laid in bed and just heard this clatter coming from the living room

tiny otter
#

traded my ps4 for a ps4 pro just because it kept spitting disks on the foor in the middle of the night -.-
@thorn dawn clay pigeon thrower

thorn dawn
#

apparently it's really common issue, tiniest bit of dust gets in behind the eject button and it's ruined

shadow tartan
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@thorn dawn I bought a Pro for NMS and cleaned out my old PS4. Now I use it for a second account.

glass plinth
#

Man, 100 million invested to make genshin, the more I think about that, it really is scary to think how expensive games are.

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Makes nms all the more impressive

shadow tartan
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A game I worked on spent $50mil on marketing alone @glass plinth

tiny otter
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i'd say no man's sky got a lot of advertising from internet historians video

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it's what reminded me of the game and now I have it

glass plinth
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Yeah

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Im curious how much of the cost was marketing

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I know they had very wide spread advertising in asia.

shadow tartan
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They are also censoring things which are turning people off the game

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But I won't mention here as its political and possibly sensitive

silver sparrow
bronze wind
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probably smart

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idk why i even go there sometimes lol

glass plinth
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hehe

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Considering Im neutral on most everything, its more a chance to dabble in idiocy for me

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Honestly, when you play in native tounge, genshin is very... different

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they have way more inuendo

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That or english doesnt have as much grace

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lol

raven frost
#

most of what I see in serious reminds me of r/iamverysmart content

thorn dawn
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ooh that reminds me

bronze wind
#

I think there are valid conversations but there can be some pretty dominating presences in there lol

thorn dawn
#

someone was being very smart yesterday

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was gonna see how it ended

glass plinth
#

Aric..

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😛

bronze wind
#

Kinda rude to call someone out like that

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also pretty "very smart" to say you go there to "dabble in idiocy"

glass plinth
#

True.

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A lot of rhetoric.

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Unfortunately that seems to be the bread and butter of most serious discussions though.

bronze wind
#

I don't think placing yourself on some higher plane of discussion by labeling other peoples' talking points as rhetoric is any better personally

glass plinth
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Its not really.

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I mean, like i said, I dabble, that labels me

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Im no better.

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Sigh

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ANyways, baxck to game topics

bronze wind
#

I'm really interested in Baldur's Gate 3 but I get a headache playing those isometric point and click games lol

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i'm prone to migraines so trying to read small text and find tiny icons all over the screen gets to me quickly

silver sparrow
#

i waited 2 years to buy dos2 on sale and frankly it wasn't worth it for me personally

bronze wind
#

I really enjoyed it but couldn't spend too much time on it in one sitting

silver sparrow
#

so used to fps and 3ps now, i guess

bronze wind
#

I want a new first person high fantasy RPG 😩

glass plinth
#

Ill be waiting for release

#

Always was a fan of baldurs gate.

bronze wind
#

oh yeah I don't know if I'll even buy it honestly

glass plinth
#

However, seems its pretty unpolished in its current state from what i heard.

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I havet played that style of game in ages.

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Havent really played games like genshin either though, well fantasty rpg of that style.

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Feels weird being in whats essentially a console game.

bronze wind
#

For sure, I think they sorta dug a slight hole for themselves by releasing as early access given how DoS2 went when they did that

glass plinth
#

Yeah

bronze wind
#

It was done well and had a lot of feedback so people probably bought in like "wow it'll be great right away"

glass plinth
#

I mean generally that genre of game isnt one ive seen released in this manner

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Im wondering what cost factor was involved

bronze wind
#

They are pretty genuine with the development cycle in how they do the early access, it's a bit different from some random Steam EA games that are only early access to get funding to work on the rest of the game

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Not that that isn't part of the motivation for them though I'm sure lol, but they are just more interested in feedback

glass plinth
#

Played a few games that turned out well with that model

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That being said, not how id play a game like Baldurs gate

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Im more into testing rpgs mmorpgs and strategy games

#

Hrmm, think Ill be playing NMS tonight. Seems a friend finally found a water world we can build on

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Its deeper then heck.

tiny otter
#

how deep is heck

glass plinth
#

Blast, I wish more worlds were as deep as the ones hes finding, its taking him a long time just to find one

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400 u

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with caves going deeper

austere lance
#

I want a new first person high fantasy RPG 😩
Avowed 👀

tiny otter
#

with caves going deeper
@glass plinth mega pog

raven frost
#

@glass plinth oooooh boy you just gave me an idea.

tiny otter
#

nms diving

glass plinth
#

Yeah, fuck yeah.

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kelp! It has kelp beds and coral up top

raven frost
silver sparrow
#

i don't think i've been on a planet with water deeper than say 50m

glass plinth
#

Im guessing its a generation fluke

raven frost
#

oil rig base

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let's do it

glass plinth
#

They probably have a hard time making seas deep with any regularity

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Either way, im psyched to have a place to build

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Man its out there though

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Its in the celestial north of the galaxy on a filament way outside the normal path

tiny otter
#

an oil rig would be hella cool

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what is the sea floor like on it

glass plinth
#

Functionally it looks like they took a mountain terrain, dropped the generation level 500 down, with the tops coming out of the water

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So good.

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But yeah, i think its a generation error

silver sparrow
#

cool

glass plinth
#

Shame he doesnt share the worlds he finds

#

He hates neighbors lol

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Im sorta the same way.

tiny otter
#

can you send screen shots of it?

glass plinth
#

Once Im home hehe

tiny otter
#

alright

glass plinth
#

Huh, looking through some other deep ocean picks with nms

#

Apparently there are a few of them, mostly related to the visions content

austere lance
#

NMS: Subnautica Edition

glass plinth
#

I wonder if its a subset of world?

#

We wish

tiny otter
glass plinth
#

hehe

#

nice

tiny otter
#

on images

#

just on google

glass plinth
#

its not like that kind of world cant generation

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Its just it seems to generally be a quirk, rather then a feature

charred badge
#

I wonder how much raid SHADOW LEGENDS has invested

#

I like how AFK arena just dropped a new ad making fun of 140+ hour "raidathons" featuring a large orc character and the player bemoaning the time spent leveling his loincloth

austere lance
cinder vessel
#

ok

winter yew
#

fun fact : I had to show my ID to buy Crash Bandicoot 4 because the game apparently has 'Alcohol Reference' on it's rating....

I'm 35.

austere lance
#

LMFAOOOOOO

shadow tartan
#

HAH

winter yew
#

me when i get home from work after today's BS ^

shadow tartan
#

Glad you got Crash though 🙂

winter yew
#

mmhm

#

I'll break into it this weekend

#

meanwhile 😮

cinder vessel
#

"is this plastic box too big? naaah"

#

i'm increasingly inclined to wait for smaller yet similarly powerful versions of either of the new consoles, lol

charred badge
#

Oof Bethesda is first party, not second?

cinder vessel
#

well they did buy them

shadow tartan
#

No

#

First Party is Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo etc

#

But they are considered first party studios

cinder vessel
#

look at the image shared above tho

shadow tartan
#

Yes I understand

#

I submit games for a living

cinder vessel
#

not that it matters much anyway given how microsoft is throwing games around

shadow tartan
#

First Party is who we submit to and they come under an umbrella

#

It's such good news for Bethesda

austere lance
#

I wouldn't do that under an umbrella but you do you, boo

shadow tartan
#

LOL

#

Hey

#

I live in a rainy ass country

#

Everything happens under umbrellas

austere lance
#

And here I thought the car scene from Titanic was spicy

cinder vessel
#

i read a fun manga once where they got up to some playful times in water that was like snow they could glob together into structures.

they had the "great" idea of making a water igloo to get down in and uhh, were so into it they forgot transparency was a thing.

austere lance
#

I uh, don't think what you were reading was a manga 🤣

#

I think the word for that starts with an H gandalf

cinder vessel
#

eh, castlevania on netflix is a cartoon but they get down too so...

dry copper
#

☝️ poke

#

Damn it. I poked myself.

#

👇 poke

glass plinth
#

You poked yourself hrmmm?

#

Well whatever floats your boat..

#

I am of the opinion Bethesda being bought by microsoft is a good thing as well. Generally the studios they have bought produce better games afterwards. Which is the antithesis of ea

#

Though there is worse then being bought by EA... sooo much worse. Which is sorta scary.

shadow tartan
#

Tencent

winter yew
#

Lol

austere lance
#

Tencent has stakes in Discord, lol

#

They're everywhere

silver sparrow
#

Steaks

#

Are everywhere

shadow tartan
winter yew
#

Bruh

#

I loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooove those videos

#

always refer to them if i need a stupid video to laugh at

shadow tartan
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Yeeeesssss

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Same
A buddy of mine pointed them out to me, absolutely brilliant

dry copper
shadow tartan
dry copper
shadow tartan
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This looks amazing

dry copper
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This is the most hilarious game I've ever seen

cinder vessel
winter yew
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Now compare the fps difference lol

charred badge
raven frost
dry copper
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I spoke to the developers over at Split Polygon today, developing Interstellar Rift...Pretty cool folks. Still lots of improvement ideas for the game

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very open to building on

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Learned a bit about their challenges and hopes for the larger project, which was very assuring

daring spear
cinder vessel
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I know this is probably still very much just a me sorta game in terms of interest, but for anyone looking for a different sorta game to try, The Sealed Ampoule has a demo out now:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1396980/The_Sealed_Ampoule/

The Sealed Ampoule is the "Dungeon agricultuarization rogue-like" game. As the genre shows, the game offers both the rogue-like and the farming.The game is developed by CAVYHOUSE, the developer of Forget Me Not: My Organic Garden and The Midnight Sanctuary.Unlike usual rogue-l...

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crisp sparrow
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https://youtu.be/8jdl9QNSxQ8
@coarse swift well to be fair its still a pretty huge game they crammed into mobile, also check out their more completed game Honkai Impact, that shit came out years ago when smartphones weren't that overkill

coarse swift
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Seen bits and pieces of Honkai, don't think I can do with balancing two games like this at once

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I'm still not done with Genshin, and am very looking forward to update 1.1

crisp sparrow
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Its not my kind of game anyway

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but yeah they're crazy good at making this shit run on phones

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so no doubt they'll optimize Genshin too

coarse swift
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They need to get it optimized on PS4 quick tho

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I'm tired of the freezing at the most inopportune times

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Plus PS4 doesn't get to use promo codes yet

crisp sparrow
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doubt it ever will according to their posts

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something about PSN being too restrictive

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as it cant use mihoyo login

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though I think on the flip side you can play it offline tangerine_think

cinder vessel
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The Sealed Ampoule isn't as weird as I thought it might be, still pretty good if you're into turn-based rogue-likes though

crisp sparrow
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turn based
pokemon and fire emblem have given me ptsd from it

cinder vessel
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Well, turn-based in the rogue-like way, wherein you move, enemy moves...Think like Pokémon Mystery Dungeon

crisp sparrow
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I no longer want horny turn based, I just want to be happy

cinder vessel
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It's not the traditional Pokémon switch to battle screen, select attack style

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Move a tile/attack, enemy moves/attacks

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What's funny is they basically took farming in the game sense & converted it into a more explicit mechanic, so as you farm resources in the dungeon, you can then turn around & use those resources to enhance the dungeon levels, increasing drop rates, to farm more efficiently

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I'm still not sure when/how the resource farming may diverge from enhancing your character & dungeon, but I'm guessing it does at some point since there are more items/tools to find

fading sonnet
crisp sparrow
coarse swift
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Fake

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No computer has zero shortcuts on the main screen

crisp sparrow
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lmao Star

wet warren
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Damn

crisp sparrow
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No computer has zero shortcuts on the main screen
well now you know

coarse swift
crisp sparrow
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what do I even put on the screen anyway

coarse swift
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iunno

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Recycle Bin?

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Come to think of it, I hardly ever use my shortcuts

crisp sparrow
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why

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I hide them immediately

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useless shit

fading sonnet
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i meantheres a way to have no shortcuts on main screen

crisp sparrow
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I might have had shortcuts if I did a lot of things but I kept my work organized by default

fading sonnet
coarse swift
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Just think of how much of my background I could see without all the clutter

crisp sparrow
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btw there's a quick "hide desktop option" if you ever want to just share your wallpaper look on your screen

coarse swift
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o i know

crisp sparrow
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lel

coarse swift
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I did this intentionally

crisp sparrow
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I do have some stuff on my desktop when I'm quickly making some edit like the pic I just shared

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I delete them the moment I'm done

coarse swift
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A lot of this is random files/photos that could probably be put away/deleted by now

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I just uh

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Dont ever bother

crisp sparrow
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I'm very organized

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if anything my least organized folder is my torrents one

fading sonnet
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hehehe

winter yew
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Mine is "temporary" folders that I never get around to sorting or deleting.

coarse swift
crisp sparrow
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I need to find better fonts

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its so bad that the game reviews absolutely bombed in China

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@near junco actually funny enough most chars are modestly dressed and the game hides the character if you try to sneak a peek

dry copper
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@crisp sparrow Oh you're such a lazy pervert 😛

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Just stand on a rock like everyone else.

crisp sparrow
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lel

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apparently there's a rumour that 1.1 will add an option to disable it if you confirm your age

dry copper
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I uninstalled the game. I think it's beautiful. I like the music. I hate the combat. The story is kind of shit.

crisp sparrow
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story sucks agreed

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but hmm I really like the combat

dry copper
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I shouldn't say I hate it....

crisp sparrow
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if anything that's what keeps me going

dry copper
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I don't hate it completely. It's repetitive to me

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In a not fun way

crisp sparrow
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opposite for me

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I trying out different shit to mess with small fries

dry copper
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I tend to hyper focus on best methods

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When I stopped the method I was using to optimize combat was mixing elements

crisp sparrow
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yeah that's how you go about it

dry copper
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It reminded me the elementalist in Guild Wars

crisp sparrow
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depending on the enemy you mix the elements

dry copper
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You could switch up elements on the fly

crisp sparrow
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hm never played that

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my fav so far was using the witch woman's main burst and then when the enemies got knocked back (really hate that shit) I switched to the mc and the tornado would be electrified

dry copper
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In Guild Wars 2, the elementalist has four elements from the start. Fire, Earth, Water, Air....Fire=DPS buff, Earth=DEF buff, Water=HEAL buff, Air=Speed buff. So by cycling the elements you could do extreme damage, raise a shield and heal at the same time.

crisp sparrow
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ah this is pretty similar too

dry copper
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The trick was cycling in the proper order and timing

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I basically turned a cloth magick user into an AOE monster with elemental rock shielding and a storm of lightning fire

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Switch to air to get some distance and rapidly hit water to heal up, then back to rock for defense while healing and switch to DPS and re-apply AOEs

crisp sparrow
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yeah then it really is similar, neat

dry copper
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You'd probably dig Guild Wars 2 if that's your combat style.

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At least for the elementalist.

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The elementalist is the only class that can take on world bosses without breaking a sweat

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Most require groups. The elementalist moves around so fast and has so much defense, it's a tank healing dpser with the range break of an archer

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Not to mention it can have permanent speed buffs that give you an unfair advantage in the world events that include racing

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This became disgustingly obvious when they added the mount system racing

crisp sparrow
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oh its an mmo

knotty turtle
balmy plaza
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Finally found a song I want to learn on bass

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The cantina song!

shadow tartan
silver sparrow
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nate or others, you got any artist reccs for chill/low bpm? i'm feeling exploratory

silver sparrow
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will check thx

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i just like to hear what others go to in similar genres

shadow tartan
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I have a pretty eclectic taste so I don't know useful my suggestions may be

charred badge
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Wait, Genshin's reviews bombed in China because it's similar to BoTW?

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I thought china loves shameless copies

crisp sparrow
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they dont love it

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its a complicated affair

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copying is seen as an art but only for physical objects

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not for software, especially the chinese gamers

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so when genshin was teased for PS4 there was big outrage

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the trailer definitely made it look like a botw clone

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but when the game released then there were other problems - namely the hate for Mihoyo (their gacha system is horrible compared to most other games with better rates), and them pandering to the foreigners

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well not pandering per se, they just hate it got popular here

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oh also vtubers are playing the game, and vtubers are hated because youtube counts taiwan as a country

shadow tartan
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Mmmm that censorship

austere lance
willow crypt
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New single player Hulk game when?

winter yew
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Huh

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Can’t even have remotes now 🤣

austere lance
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It's almost like people woulda preferred a singleplayer Marvel RPG instead of a stupid looter one, lol

bronze wind
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To be fair you can play it entirely single player lol, can just play with CPUs. the multiplayer aspect doesn't really have anything to do with why it didn't do well.

raven frost
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oh cool I have one of those

silver sparrow
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and we can hear everything in your living room

raven frost
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fun!

austere lance
raven frost
willow crypt
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I'm fine with the Avengers existing

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I simply want a current or next gen Hulk-focused single player game

raven frost
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I'm not expecting anything to happen from this but god I'm hoping they come down on it

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that being said though facebook's managed to get away with a lot of shit

willow crypt
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The Social Dilemma on Netflix, i recommend

cinder vessel
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To be fair you can play it entirely single player lol, can just play with CPUs. the multiplayer aspect doesn't really have anything to do with why it didn't do well.
@bronze wind it doesn't really help though, especially considering there are objectives which require team coordination which the AI is too bad to help complete, e.g. stand on multiple points for period of time

It's also definitely been promoted as more of a coop game than single-player, so folks going off promotional materials and skimming some reviews will likely think, "glitchy coop game, okay skip"

bronze wind
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Eh the game is too easy for the "AI bad" argument, and when I played it the AI was better than I expected it to be (other than having some trouble pathing when i'd climb random platforms lol)

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But either way I wasn't expecting it to really take off, just don't think it's because of the multiplayer aspect at all

cinder vessel
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I think it's definitely a contributor, personally. Not the whole problem, but not helping amidst technical issues and bad business model

bronze wind
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I think the sole killer was the business model. Other issues are just things that can be issues with any other game but can be redeemed if it's fun and feels worth playing. The game is actually fun but doesn't feel worth playing at all lol. Especially when half of the model is "pay money so you then feel obligated to play the game more to justify the money you spent"

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though you can spend 0 dollars, but it requires you to play it A LOT lol

glass plinth
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I guess after doing some reviews, Genshin isnt doing terrible in china play time wise except on the pc.

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Apparently the chinese didnt dig the fact china was pandering to Western playstyles. Yet a large group of younger chinese with cellphones did.

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Starting to see a age divide you see a lot where the younger gen shift things.

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As for storyline. I actually liked it alot. It reminds me a great deal of earlier games I played as a kid, so the nostalgia is strong. Strong enough Id say its one of the better pc ports of a console style game that I actually want to play.

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Been a few I loathed sadly.

crisp sparrow
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I lost the original png

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so instead of looking up the internet for the actual one

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I replaced it with a better one

glass plinth
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hehe

crisp sparrow
glass plinth
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Hrmm, this is in relation to?

crisp sparrow
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check your ping by me

cinder vessel
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Genshin Impact proves one thing very clearly. Nintendo should port Breath of the Wild to PC & mobile seanbomination

glass plinth
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Yes..

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I dont deny that leon, it would make a fortune.

crisp sparrow
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totally would

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I liked windbound though it was too rogue-like for me

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even on adventure mode (they fixed that now)

glass plinth
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Frankly Im trying to understand why my luck in gacha games is so absurdly good.

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My friends arent doing as well as I am, i have all the heros already save jean

crisp sparrow
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I havent pulled that much and honestly dont care

cinder vessel
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I really enjoy Windbound's atmosphere, but yeah, the roguelike stuff is what makes me hesitate hopping in

crisp sparrow
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adventure mode wont make your boat disappear now so that's great

glass plinth
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Frankly , I didnt mind having whatever heros I got

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I just happened to get them all.

cinder vessel
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Tbh I still haven't gotten around to the boatbuilding side of Windbound, lol

crisp sparrow
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yep and I tried to mess with just the original free heroes you get, and they're great setups

glass plinth
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Yeah, I never played windbound.

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Looked funish

crisp sparrow
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except maybe Amber, her skills are frankly too sub par

glass plinth
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Hrmm

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unless you figure out how to gear her to be knock down amber

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wahahaha