other-games

[shadow tartan]

They don't crunch because they released unfinished games that the community fixes for them

[full pivot]

Yknow what do what you wanna do; be who you wanna be

[shadow tartan]

Usually it's because a lot of people on the team that have worked to create features don't want to see them cut

[cinder vessel]

not mah baby, so to speak

[shadow tartan]

Some people think it's just management but it's not as black and white as that

An example is when a really cool animation had some issues attached to it, when we were looking at burn down that was one of the things that got flagged.
It had to be cut from the main game

I had an animator getting mad at me because he had done a lot of work on it, understandable

[full pivot]

Hey BF2042 got 8s and 9s ans Squadrons got 6s and 7s. Speaks for itself what practices sell and review better 😌

[shadow tartan]

We had to assure them that it would appear in DLC, even though he wanted to work overtime to fix it

Not all features can be pushed though

[full pivot]

DLC 😱

[shadow tartan]

And it can make or break the gameplay experience

A lot of people sign up to a big project knowing full well that it might get shit

But then they cry about it and Kotaku writes a story

I even saw that people were trying to say that people in management don't stay in the office with the team during crunch

That's also bullshit

[full pivot]

Insulting Kotaku!? Time to write an article

[shadow tartan]

One of the last Game Director I worked with did more hours that anyone and I would see him entering bugs in JIRA at 3 am

[full pivot]

For real tho people don't want to know how it actually works

[shadow tartan]

I don't care

[cinder vessel]

Yeah, but as we've mentioned earlier, this is gonna be a case-by-case more than anything

[shadow tartan]

It's kinda offensive to people that actually do it when they see it

[full pivot]

Just trying to save you time

[shadow tartan]

It's pretty bread and butter tbh

Some things are case by case

But a lot of this was blown out of proportion because it's a big AAA game

Not saying things can't improve

But people asking a CEO to step down (unless they're Bobby Kotick) is a bit too much

[cinder vessel]

I mean, lately my bigger thing is that the games industry should probably unionize more so the workers have some actual bargaining power, except with Acti-Blizz, in which case, yeah, Kotick shoulda been out ages ago

[full pivot]

Todd Howard should step up and save us again

[cinder vessel]

and also I think they're trying to unionize anyway in response, so that's a win-win there if that goes anywhere

[shadow tartan]

That's been happening for the last 18 years in my experience and probably for longer

Sometimes it just falls off and people can't get traction

[cinder vessel]

But also in CDPR's case, I do think the management should take a proper hit for their BSing

[shadow tartan]

I think those guys being trounced everywhere was a lot of punishment

[cinder vessel]

I don't know if that means pushing to step down or what, but they really let things go by all accounts

[shadow tartan]

I don't think they let things go at all

[cinder vessel]

???

[austere lance]

The management that made the devs crunch for at least a year?

And had zero communication with them?

[shadow tartan]

They probably had one of the most extensive and brutal post mortems anyone had ever seen

[cinder vessel]

Besides that, they made a poor statement that threw QA under the bus as I recall

[shadow tartan]

I think that's bullshit

For a studio of that size to not have standups and a shit load of communication sounds like complete bullshit

They would be talking about it all the time

[cinder vessel]

Oh, hold up, I think there may be a slight miscomm here, when I say they let things go, I meant management let things go insofar as letting the game get to such a poor state and shove it out in said state

Unless I'm also misunderstanding what you meant by post mortem, and that they did do an internal review on what led to that

[shadow tartan]

@austere lance you probably wouldn't want to hear things about Halo Infinite that I've heard either

[shadow tartan]

You always do a post mortem with supporting data nowadays

[cinder vessel]

Right, the way we were both phrasing it, I wasn't sure if you read me as suggesting the community let it go vs. management or something

[shadow tartan]

They took on more than they can chew which a lot of people have, release was really bad but it gets to a point where you can't keep pushing a release date

It can actually cost millions of dollars sometimes

So you get a shit release or content being cut

[austere lance]

Oh I know it had a shit development, especially in the last year or so 😬

[shadow tartan]

Way before that dude

[austere lance]

Lost a director, producer, and at least two other higher ups in two years

[austere lance]

Enjoy
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-16/cyberpunk-2077-what-caused-the-video-game-s-disastrous-rollout

[shadow tartan]

But apparently one of those guys was really bad

So it was a good thing

[cinder vessel]

From a lot of what I've read/viewed about CP2077, it seems like they'd have been better off cutting & scaling back a lot, but as discussed, I recognize that's no easy decision either

[shadow tartan]

I can agree with that

But experience tells me it's a bitch to do 🤣

[austere lance]

At E3 in June 2019, CD Projekt announced that the game would come out on April 16, 2020. Fans were elated, but internally, some members of the team could only scratch their heads, wondering how they could possibly finish the game by then. One person said they thought the date was a joke. Based on the team’s progress, they expected the game to be ready in 2022. Developers created memes about the game getting delayed, making bets on when it would happen.

[shadow tartan]

So many dependencies

[cinder vessel]

Tbh I think many AAA games would be better if edited (things cut, scaled back) than the convoluted masses they end up being

[shadow tartan]

Literally the kind of thing we would laugh about at work

See posters with release dates all around a city

Make a pouty duck face with your colleagues

[shadow tartan]

There's a few recent ones I've been looking at that I won't touch

Ghost of Tsushima was so well polished though

[cinder vessel]

y'know, FFXV is a great example of a AAA game with a troubled development that somehow didn't get regarded as a trainwreck (if I'm not mistaken anyway), but honestly kinda is

[shadow tartan]

Just as an example

FFXV sets a good foundation for other Square Enix RPGs

[cinder vessel]

Bethesda's a perfect example of a studio that desperately needs a game editor tho imo, as they can't seem to escape the scope creep issues

That fuckin' jank across game after game isn't strictly a tech issue, but a studio issue

[shadow tartan]

And legacy engine issues they never got round to fixing

[cinder vessel]

yeah, those don't help by any means

[shadow tartan]

I've just never seen them release a polished game

[cinder vessel]

which i think is easily related to them trying to do too much with each game

[austere lance]

Anywho, CDPR trash, AAA industry is garbage. Peace out imma watch this weird Witcher anime 😆

[shadow tartan]

Sometimes it feels like the community has better artists than their studios

But that's probably down to them having to optimise

[cinder vessel]

that reminds me, i really need to look into where i can buy art from some artists

besides the random venmo or kofi or whatever, lmao

[shadow tartan]

Time to waste money on NFTs Leon

[cinder vessel]

amusingly that's what led me to thinking about, "hey wait, where can i buy some of the art from these internet artists that DOESN'T burn a forest down"

[shadow tartan]

I was at an exhibition last week

Considered buying some art but the pieces were either too large or they were an installation

[cinder vessel]

genuinely wild how much great art i see from folks online and yet i don't always catch a, "btw u can buy prints/drop me cash here" with each thing

unless i click through to their profile, anyway, which, honestly, how often does one do that

[shadow tartan]

Some people just do it for the love

But they should totally sell prints

I met a girl who is a fantastic artist but she won't sell anything

But that's how artists work I guess

[cinder vessel]

oh yeah, and some are "just" sketches, so i get not hustling with those but also: those sketches, damn!

[shadow tartan]

Dude, zug's sketches

That muthafucka is talented

[cinder vessel]

yee

[shadow tartan]

Only person I met on Discord that I've added on LinkedIn

Legit love that dude

[cinder vessel]

linkedin makes me feel like such a creep, 'cause i honestly use it for checking backgrounds which i get is kinda what it's for, but that still feels so fuckin' creepy

[shadow tartan]

I get a shit load of recruiters on there

I can't stand LinkedIn anymore

It's so shit

But it generates work so it's not all bad

[cinder vessel]

i had a community relations guy from a game community i was involved with try to add me on there, and to this day i'm not sure if that was intentional or not, lmao

[shadow tartan]

Fuck it man, it's LinkedIn

Just accept it

[cinder vessel]

thing is, i'm not on there at all, so it was just an email

[shadow tartan]

I swear it's just about building a massive network so that people get more profile views

[cinder vessel]

still hilarious it outlived google+

[shadow tartan]

Hahahaha

I remember that

Horrendous like a lot of flash in the pan Google products

[cinder vessel]

yet also some small good ideas, also like a lot of those

speaking of flashes in the pan, ya see ol' Dean Hall's latest effort, Icarus?

[shadow tartan]

I download all of them, just had issues with what they did to Play Music because it was big however, YT Music is actually really good

[shadow tartan]

Yooooo

I was looking at that

Looks awesome

[cinder vessel]

oh huh, it's not Early Access, as I thought it might be

[shadow tartan]

I was happy that he sold Day Z to Bohemia

[shadow tartan]

I thought they just announced it this week

Didn't actually look for early access

[cinder vessel]

i'm still iffy on that whole affair, but that's more to do with Early Access i guess than DayZ specifically

I remember seeing talk of this awhile ago, if I'm not mistaken, so I thought it was just another Early Access venture for him like Stationeers

[shadow tartan]

Did Stationeers have pre-order?

[cinder vessel]

I dunno tbh, but it's still in early access 😓

[shadow tartan]

Tencent had a stake in it 🤣

[cinder vessel]

wut

I know this is just my aesthetic preferences speaking, but looking at the screenshots for Icarus, it looks so...Bland

[snow zenith]

It's cuz the rest caught fire and burned.

Get it... because.. Icarus.

[cinder vessel]

aayy

[snow zenith]

I'll go

[shadow tartan]

It's just first chapter so hopefully more things come along that interest you

[shadow tartan]

Did you bring a coat?

[cinder vessel]

Nah, it's an art direction/aesthetics thing, so other chapters won't be switching that up I imagine

[snow zenith]

No

[shadow tartan]

That's a shame

It's cold outside and you're leaving

Or being removed from the establishment

Same thing

[snow zenith]

[shadow tartan]

Pepe can stay

[cinder vessel]

...somehow this second trailer of random actors talking about life on Icarus seems immensely more interesting than the game to me, lol

[shadow tartan]

@cinder vessel I get what you mean about it looking bland but it might be a good thing if they introduce PvP into it

[snow zenith]

https://youtu.be/Ghac-ZEl1yY

Nice

[shadow tartan]

https://hypebeast.com/2021/12/nicolas-cage-dracula-universal-movie-renfield

Finally

[cinder vessel]

Yoo, this is a wicked bundle for a nice cause!
https://itch.io/b/1164/world-land-trust-bundle

[winter yew]

https://youtu.be/d1mkqz422lg

[inland grail]

does anyone wanna play a bit of minecraft?

[fervent fog]

Only if I get spaghetti

[snow zenith]

https://youtu.be/lm0UjVC6i9U

[snow zenith]

@covert flax Hi, welcome. We have rules in place regarding self-advertisement, specifically rule 3 (#server-rules).

[snow zenith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cVHygcEZbjY&ab_channel=WizardsandWarriors

[charred badge]

remember when google tried to force full names on youtube via google+?

[dry copper]

I want a release date on this

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159420/Robin_Hood__Sherwood_Builders/

Steam

Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1823840/Illusion_Lands/https://store.steampowered.com/app/1442450/Monsters_Domain/Robin Hood - Sherwood Builders is an action adventure RPG with city-building elements, where we will take the role of a classic hero, who fights against the tyranny and injustice that haunts Sherwood. As Robin, we’ll fight, hunt, ...

Release Date

TBA

▶ Play video

[fleet moat]

i saw that! what ya think?

[dry copper]

https://tenor.com/view/nicolas-cage-wind-nick-gif-17857076

Hawt

[full pivot]

[silver sparrow]

Wtf

[upper summit]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=o58Tw62G7N8&feature=share

[dry copper]

wai

[dry copper]

You had this coming
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4Ao-iNPPUc

[upper summit]

Back at you 🤣🤣🤣

https://youtu.be/sKZTdkvr4qo

[shadow tartan]

I think Nic Cage is a gem

All his recent films have been really good imo

Color In Space, Mandy, One Night at Willy's

Still not seen Pig

[dry copper]

I swear, Thunderstruck is going to become the next rick roll, but instead of it being the same song in place of a video or something, it's going to be Thunderstruck created in farts or baby noises or some shit out of the blue...everywhere

[silver sparrow]

U Willy

[shadow tartan]

I'll do that tonight

Mandy was awesome though

[shadow tartan]

So it was you looking in through my bedroom window

I knew it smoosh

[fleet moat]

i'm def looking forward to it! i heart most things dracula & vampires

[silver sparrow]

👀

[shadow tartan]

Yeeee

Interview with a Vampire

[silver sparrow]

What you do in the shadows

[fleet moat]

yesss nom nom nom nom

[shadow tartan]

Yessssss

[shadow tartan]

I wonder why

[silver sparrow]

Red hot vampire

[dry copper]

Nic Cage isn't a gem. He's more of a white truffle.

[shadow tartan]

RedNaughtyTrouble

[snow zenith]

[winter yew]

naughty you say?

[shadow tartan]

Like a cheeky young person

[winter yew]

that’s me

[dry copper]

I bought my mom a computer for christmas. She's old and her computer is older.

Well, not older than her, but old

It's slow as molasses

[shadow tartan]

I have to buy my mum a new iPhone

She's 67 now

Definitely older than mobile phones

[dry copper]

I love it when develoeprs respond to this stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSLeJvkOeIg

The surprise they express seeing things

[full pivot]

that's funny tho innit

there's like 4m OOT speedruns that Nintendo is like

https://tenor.com/view/im-angy-angry-no-talk-with-me-sloaney-panda-gif-14286263

[snow zenith]

So cute

https://tenor.com/view/panda-cute-hug-hugging-leg-dont-leave-gif-16772619

[shadow tartan]

The reactions from these guys too
https://youtu.be/A5zsyBiIkDE

[full pivot]

bruh

the only difference is not EVERY game is personalized

Miyamoto win

[shadow tartan]

Shigsy is one of my idols

Getting high as balls and imagining Pikmin

[full pivot]

i mean i feel like i would be surprised too its like you create a complex lore and

[shadow tartan]

Maybe that's how I got the idea for "An Otter-ly Good Game"

[full pivot]

some genius figures it out in 2 minutes

[gaunt dust]

https://tenor.com/view/john-cena-john-xina-xina-halo-get-on-halo-infinite-gif-23907585

[full pivot]

i would think it would be awesome

[ripe frost]

Why do so many Switch game developers make their text so goddamn tiny

[dry copper]

Returnal is beautiful in its own way

[full pivot]

as a writer

[dry copper]

That the world randomizes is cool

[shadow tartan]

I have an appreciation for speedrunners and boundary breakers

[ripe frost]

its like 4 pixels high I can't play almost any of my games in mobile mode because theyre freakin unreadable

[full pivot]

i think its doubly so when you defeat the exploit and they just do it again

[shadow tartan]

It's amazing

They've obviously played the game already and absorbed the story and lore

But then they go do it in 6 mins

Sounds like my love life

[full pivot]

figures

[shadow tartan]

Hahahaha

[full pivot]

my love life is like my lore it takes you 26 days to figure out where it is

[shadow tartan]

Is that better or worse?

[full pivot]

its fine

[shadow tartan]

https://youtu.be/WJndaDpohSY

[full pivot]

did i share the music with you ever?

"the music"

[shadow tartan]

Nope

[ripe frost]

Oh my god that speedrunning history video is as long as the actual Hobbit movie

[dry copper]

Looks like a character from Mark Twain claymation

[shadow tartan]

@dry copper this one too, you can hear their pain
https://youtu.be/mC9AOAWalGo

[shadow tartan]

I miss Claymation

[silver sparrow]

[shadow tartan]

That's how I started

[shadow tartan]

I need to watch that

[dry copper]

It is a classic

[shadow tartan]

Looks fucking amazing

[dry copper]

I love the way it explores ideas

It is completely unapologetic

[shadow tartan]

Wallace and Gromit was great too

[shadow tartan]

It's the claymation version of you

Definitely gonna watch

That Kena speedrun though

I watched it twice just to hear the pain

[dry copper]

I've been watching architectural videos from Japanese designs for small space living (not tiny house) and gotta say...some of those designs are pretty claustraphobic

A toilet, sink, shower and bed all within arms reach

[winter yew]

can’t wait to live there in a year or two

[dry copper]

Siiiick. Loving this news
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1d5ExMitBKg

[dry copper]

Hot gum...It's so wrong...why...

Why are you a thing, gum?

Why the hot?

What tha no...

16 MILLION scoville....

[snow zenith]

Hot as in spicy?

Oh

yea

I like some spicy candy

[dry copper]

I hope riders republic goes on sale before christmas.

I'm waiting for a sale to get it.

I heard the game is designed so vehicles take a sort of handling damage such that you can't perform some stunts with the wrong quality bike

Creates an incentive to get those rewards for stunting

[snow zenith]

Bloo

[dry copper]

new rider republic skin?

Can you imagine? Halo in Riders Republic? I think that would sell

Esp rn

[snow zenith]

Can't wait for the 8th

I'm gonna rush the expedition then binge Halo's campaign

[charred badge]

I don't imagine a mjolnir suit would do well in mountain biking, even assuming a bike could support it

[dry copper]

All the more reason to upgrade your bike

[charred badge]

And the terrain?

[dry copper]

That's for crashing into

[charred badge]

More like falling through due to putting the weight of a car on two wheels

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rr8ljRgcJNM

[balmy plaza]

Hyped beyond belief

[balmy plaza]

Mongoose dlc

[dry copper]

Well that was lame. I heard a loud sound in the hunter and then the game crashed

Looks like epic game launcher being a dick. Oh well.

I feel bad for the developers of Century: Age of Ashes

Their game is free, you can fly, you ride a DRAGON and they still can't break the top sellers list on Steam at their launch week.

[charred badge]

I'd be trying it out, but I'm still setting up my desktop

[austere lance]

PvP dragon game with only a couple maps and only like 4 dragons to choose from, iirc

[fervent fog]

But yeah the game's a mess atm, which I personally absolutely expected, knowing the company's experience

[austere lance]

Oof

https://www.reddit.com/r/halo/comments/r87mhk/unyshek_gives_an_update_on_playlists/hn8fyg0/

@balmy plaza @snow zenith

[balmy plaza]

Honestly feel like while there are problems, the halo community is blowing everything way out of proportion

Like usual I guess

Personally looking forward to Swat, FFA and fiesta

@austere lance what's your take on it?

[austere lance]

That it needed another delay cuz the last two years of development basically don't count cuz of covid, and I understand why people are angry. Three playlists that are just mixed bags of modes but a progression system that requires you to do challenges in specific modes is crap and they know it, fortunately they said they're fixing progression in general

And there being quite literally no form of customization if you don't buy the battle pass is insulting

Plus the game isn't even gonna release in a complete state, Forge and co-op got another delay

[thorn dawn]

Halo doesn't really interest me, so I've not been following it much

But reading that response

Are they actually claiming that a fucking menu is a technical challenge?

I thought game devs had that one nailed by now but maybe not

[cinder vessel]

i'm confused they aren't allowing people to set up their own playlists...? Or are they but they don't count towards battle pass stuff?

[austere lance]

Can't do your own playlists, they gave us 3 to choose from and that's it. The three have a few different modes stuck in each of them so each one is an assortment of modes instead of, you know, just letting you choose your own modes

[thorn dawn]

99% sure it would have been more difficult to code a matchmaking system that works like that

[cinder vessel]

really depends on the backend, but it also sounds like a bunch of effort for exactly the sort of thing people aren't going to appreciate

[austere lance]

RIP

[cinder vessel]

"we made spaghetti code and it is really hard to despaghett pls understand"

i don't understand how they got it mixed into playlists...Modes, sure, but the playlists too? how does any of this work, lol

[snow zenith]

Playing Sea of Thieves with @primal loom.
We die because one of our explosive barrels randomly blew up. Lost a good skull, and a Merchant Alliance chest for delivery.
Respawn and get a better skull, two Captain's chest and a normal chest.

I love this game lol

[cinder vessel]

wait, is this all to avoid gaming the system and having a good time at your own pace?

[thorn dawn]

part of it though is clearly people being suprised pikachu face when they keep giving them money for buggy broken games

if it's broken and buggy, don't give them cash

glances over at his copy of CP2077

[cinder vessel]

"randomly blew up" aka one of you brought an arsonist animal aboard

[cinder vessel]

remember when the games industry brought itself back with seals of quality until it had enough momentum to abandon that idea entirely

[austere lance]

Sea of Thieves is stupidly fun, I wanna play it rn and fuck around but my dumbass friend won't get online 😆

[cinder vessel]

hey wtf im online

jk

[austere lance]

WHERE'S YOUR SEA OF THIEVES, FOOL

You severely underestimate how little effort it takes for me to hop onto it, lol. Hell I even play it with dumbass randos I matchmake with and still have fun 🤣

[cinder vessel]

tbh, i haven't been gaming much lately

been researching miscellaneous stuff

[inland grail]

mostly been working a lot for me

not even a lot of time to play on my xbox

[snow zenith]

Play wif us

[austere lance]

YES

Am logging on

[snow zenith]

What's your

[austere lance]

Add me senpai, my Gamertag is A Sound S0ul

[snow zenith]

Xbox thingy

oh

[austere lance]

[inland grail]

that what happen when u drink too much

[austere lance]

My Xbox pfp is um, interesting 🤣

[inland grail]

can i come?

if i stil, have SOT

[austere lance]

Totally isn't Danny Devito Thanos

[inland grail]

on my xbox wait

nope fuck

[snow zenith]

Added

Uh

[thorn dawn]

yeah but tbh was it ever really a thing? I mean the guy from telltale games made a video all about how he conned sega QA in sonic 3D

[snow zenith]

you wanna VC?

[thorn dawn]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9bkKw32dGw

[austere lance]

I hath joined vc

[daring spear]

He be on mic
I might yell random stuff

[austere lance]

[snow zenith]

Oh

idk how to use in game vc lol

[austere lance]

I'm in party chat

[thorn dawn]

tl;dw: he replaced the crash handler with a level select screen so if the game crashed during Sega's QA, it'd still pass

[snow zenith]

i

i said hi

lol

[cinder vessel]

huh, i hadn't heard about that, but i think at least very early on it...Might have been? Like story is that that's what Nintendo used to help bring things back from the '80s clusterfuck

[austere lance]

I don't hear you, smh

[snow zenith]

yea i

[daring spear]

Xbox likes to have this problem where I makes you turn on your mic in the party

[snow zenith]

dk how to make this work :l

do

i have to plug it to the controller or someth

[austere lance]

Yes

[snow zenith]

shit

give me a sec

[austere lance]

Plug mic into controller, do talky talky

[cinder vessel]

code's first xbox mic sesh, aayy

[thorn dawn]

You just have to look at e.g. pokemon, or FF games. FF7, MDEF doesn't work. At all. FF6, evade doesn't work. Pokemon RBY is so full of bugs it's a miracle anyone made it to the end of the game.

[snow zenith]

it no work

[thorn dawn]

May have worked as a gimick for consumers, but whether it actually had a measurable impact on quality is debatable

[austere lance]

How do you normally talk online?

[thorn dawn]

Superman 64 carried the nintendo seal of approval, after all

[cinder vessel]

yeah. i was thinking like original Nintendo Entertainment System early days, but even then, it may have served as gimmick more than anything

[snow zenith]

Discord

[thorn dawn]

never heard of it

[cinder vessel]

Although prior to the NES, was Nintendo even a household name?

[austere lance]

Game chat works by not being in a party when you talk btw @snow zenith

[cinder vessel]

I mean I'm pretty sure they did arcade cabinets pre-NES but even then

[snow zenith]

Can't we just

use Discord

[austere lance]

Yee

[snow zenith]

Hopped in

Gaming

[austere lance]

Wait, when you were in the XBL party did you do the little toggle on top of the party screen that turns your mic on?

[daring spear]

Code what are you doing lmao

[snow zenith]

Ye

Yes?

[snow zenith]

PARTYIN'

[daring spear]

I like your pirate

[dry copper]

Journey to the savage planet is free on Prime Gaming rn

[daring spear]

@snow zenith soul left to play Halo

He's rude and decided not to tell you. Such disrespect

[snow zenith]

Lol

np

[daring spear]

You should. Add me on Xbox tho
Spiritprancer

[snow zenith]

Sent a friend request 😊

[daring spear]

Addeeeed

[dry copper]

CNN reports Chris Cuomo has been fired, effective immediately.

https://www.cnn.com/2021/12/04/media/cnn-fires-chris-cuomo/index.html

[cinder vessel]

kinda silly it didn't happen sooner, conflict of interest was obvious as could be

[dry copper]

On a less serious note: It's time to laugh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MHDDSekvcE

[dry copper]

i see storm

[snow zenith]

I sailed through it

somehow

[cinder vessel]

with the wind

[winter yew]

Just completed the Guardians of the Galaxy game. Pretty wonky story but it was pretty fun overall.

[austere lance]

Jesus
https://twitter.com/GenePark/status/1467373660990279682?t=n5TjRkzTD1eRjrgCyD6lyw&s=19

Gene Park (@GenePark)

Halo subreddit got so toxic mods had to shut it down for the weekend. https://t.co/BgqR1tW5fv

Likes

754

Twitter · Dec 5, 2021, 6:01 AM

[cinder vessel]

wtf

i mean i know halo ppl can get bad, but doxing & death threats? jeez

[austere lance]

That's AAA game communities for ya

[fervent fog]

Good ol' Pyke.

[austere lance]

https://twitter.com/jasonschreier/status/1467251244825817093?t=ejb2wYa1GZ64fPwgQDTbNQ&s=19

Jason Schreier (@jasonschreier)

Looking at The Game Awards nominations and while a lot of them are silly (12 Minutes, really?), the fact that there's a category for Most Anticipated Game is just the funniest thing.

Left: 2021 nominees
Right: 2020 nominees

Retweets

253

Likes

3872

Twitter · Dec 4, 2021, 9:55 PM

[cinder vessel]

my most anticipated games are the games i haven't heard of yet 😎

[austere lance]

Lol

Besides STALKER 2, I'm years off from anything I'm hella anticipating

[cinder vessel]

fr tho i find that sometimes the games i enjoy the most are literally the ones not announced way in advance and just seem to come out of nowhere

[austere lance]

Only thing I can think of is Fable tbh

[cinder vessel]

i think the last game i played that was announced in advance that i did find myself enjoying a fair bit was Death Stranding

[austere lance]

I make fun of Amazon Post Apocalypse Sim but even I'll admit that it's at least unique

Besides the QWOP part 🤣

[fervent fog]

Silksong.

[austere lance]

I uh, have never been able to get into HK tbh

[fervent fog]

criminal

get into it

right now

:(

[austere lance]

I tried twice, just doesn't hook me

[fervent fog]

Try harder >:(

[austere lance]

I think my main mistake on my last attempt was trying it after going on a 50+ hour Dark Souls 3 binge, lol. Their stories are kinda the same (well, the story in their first few hours is at least)

[fervent fog]

HK is arguably a soulslike

[austere lance]

-Dark Souls Hollowing=bug corruption
-Die and you lose your shit to recover
-Map is beeg and branching
Idk, it just felt like I was playing a 2D version of the same thing I just dropped 50+ hours in

[snow zenith]

https://youtu.be/5dov0_sdwVI

[austere lance]

Yeah BOI

You're shitting me
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-12-05-activision-lays-off-a-third-of-raven-softwares-qa-team

[finite hazel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OMnqW1BL6s

[undone lotus]

Dang, Crusader Kings II is depressing... XD

Now wonder I play so much NMS XD

[finite hazel]

lol i've done some fun things in ck2

lol

[undone lotus]

It's the fratricide that got me down in the tutorial XD

That and trying to dispossess my sister led to all-out-war (probably the wrong way to address her out-of-realm heir issues)

Mechanics I think I've got down, but dang i need help learning the strategy. And do I have to kill my relatives?

[snow zenith]

It's okay

Real life was way worse

Ottoman Sultans were decided pretty much by whomever got to the capital first, then kill all your brothers. Fun!

[undone lotus]

Hmm, this is true. Human history is depressing 😉

How do you deal with a vassal with problematic inheritance succession? (I guess google it, but ...)

[snow zenith]

so many ways you can solve it

like

poison

xD

IDK, I solved a lot of things with marriage

[undone lotus]

Can't use poison because that triggers the problematic inheritance immediately.

[snow zenith]

I should play more CK III

[undone lotus]

And my sister was already married. (To another king. I thought about killing him, but didn't see how that would help. Killing her kids? Maybe? But I think that would have just pushed the heirs further into the other camp, not brought it back into my dynasty...)

Yah, CKII is definitely a deep game. I'll just go back to NMS in my Creative save doing the Grand Tour 😉

But now I'm doing Rise Of Industry (trying to nibble away at my extreme backlog of unplayed games XD)

[snow zenith]

I got the Xbox Gamepass so it's been a mix of

Fallout, Fallen Order, Sea of Thieves, F1, and yea

Forza 5 too

Oh and Halo ofc

[undone lotus]

I have Steam and wait for 75% off sales (usually from 3rd party sellers XD)

Loved Fallout 4, skipped Fallout 76 (so far). I'm more single player, less multiplayer.

Love builders of all kinds, though.

NMS base building for example XD

... though building my galactic empire in NMS is problematic 😉

[austere lance]

Sea of Thieves can take up so much time 😭

[snow zenith]

thyme

I enjoy it a lot

Even just doing chill delivery voyages

Hits the Age of Sail sea trucker crave I didn't know I had

[undone lotus]

Hmm, true, I did like sea voyages in Assassin's Creed Odyssey

[austere lance]

Just picking a random direction and fucking off in Sea of Thieves can lead to a 8 hour play session full of stupidity 🤣

[shadow tartan]

@silver sparrow @glass plinth https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=sgoM7veem8o&feature=share

[silver sparrow]

Four tet do good remixes

Clubby

[shadow tartan]

You know it bruv

[sleek cloud]

3d printed

[shadow tartan]

Awesome

@silver sparrow https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ8zlkmYptM&feature=share

[shadow tartan]

@winter yew @finite hazel
https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=D9EKTdoFDzY&feature=share

[dry copper]

This game looks incredibly cute with a solid sound track and very nice artwork.

I hope the story is as compelling

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1580240/Rune_Factory_4_Special/

Steam

Rune Factory 4 Special

Welcome to Selphia, a region ruled by the Native Dragon Ventuswill...and you!After falling from the sky and landing on the back of a friendly dragon, the young hero or heroine is invited to live in the local castle and, as a newly designated ruler, begins their life anew while developing the town, exploring nearby dungeons, and cultivating the s...

Release Date

Dec 7, 2021

▶ Play video

[winter yew]

I started CHORVS. Good game. Ship AI sounds like David Hayter. 🤣

[snow zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/878278378166312960/917147887509586050/20211205145843_1.jpg

Risbeak took the shot.

[stray rock]

yeah I can see why people call god hand a masterpiece after watching this cutscene
https://youtu.be/MRLZQoAnnGE

never thought I'd see an action game with the same sense of humor as spongebob lol

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JImcvtJzIK8

[idle saffron]

How is it

[fallen notch]

CHORVS

[winter yew]

its pretty fun

there's a demo on steam if you want to try it

[idle saffron]

Cool!

[winter yew]

its kinda like Starlink meets Everspace 2

[idle saffron]

That sounds neat, I checked out the trailer

[winter yew]

it's made by devs of the Galaxy on Fire series

[idle saffron]

Never checked that out

But I like the looks and the gameplay looks fun

[winter yew]

yeah the drifting mechanic is pretty tight and makes for some wild maneuvers

[idle saffron]

Sweet, I'm gonna give it a go

[winter yew]

the sentient ship is pretty cool and sounds like David Hayter too lol 😉

[idle saffron]

Niiice

[winter yew]

https://youtu.be/JM-rNsfShE0

[idle saffron]

Hahah, awesome

[winter yew]

yea I cant wait to find out his backstory.

they seemed to take some notes from the game HELLBLADE with the whole 'talking voices in your head' thing.

[idle saffron]

I love hellblade

[winter yew]

you'll pick up on the whispers pretty quickly

[idle saffron]

It seems like it will be very fun and interesting - good combo

[winter yew]

some of them function as early 'tutorial' stuff, but i noticed she was sounding more malicious as I played more of the story

[idle saffron]

Very neat

[shadow tartan]

One of the best parts of that game

[winter yew]

did Hellblade 2 ever come out?

I still remember the trailer for that thing

and the epic band I discovered from it

[idle saffron]

Yeah, loved the difference from what she had seen before also

[idle saffron]

Nope 😦

[winter yew]

oh maaan

[winter yew]

https://youtu.be/kmWTZ3KfnXE

[cinder vessel]

finished the latest season of lost in space, still a fun scifi romp

[shadow tartan]

Felt so sad for her

[idle saffron]

I've played through it several times now - she is one of the few video game characters that made me feel genuine emotion

Stories have definitely improved in the medium but to actually have an emotional response is always nice

Life is Strange hit me too, and I never thought it would

[winter yew]

was there a new season released ??

hhhhholy shit i need to get on that now

[shadow tartan]

Really good way of covering issues in mental health too

[idle saffron]

Oh for sure, they did so much research into schizophrenia and other problems to try and convey the experience to others - they did excellent

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rocCQr1jno

I like this guys theory channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gx_E4SHg-TI

Spoilers

Don't click if you don't want spoilers for Shang Chi

[winter yew]

is this just discount Defunctland

[dry copper]

haha, probably.

[idle saffron]

@ember kestrel no self promotion

[dry copper]

So...Elden Ring is out now, right?

[idle saffron]

End of February

[dry copper]

ah

[austere lance]

Halo Infinite cutscenes are hitting YouTube, be warned

[dry copper]

@heady laurel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOg3ZE3hNQc

Proof that Marvel is merging with DC....Kumall Nanjiani, (One of the eternals, Kingo), featured in Batman

[heady laurel]

HAHA

[shadow tartan]

@thorn dawn you seen these yet?
https://youtu.be/AB8Jxjv5mug

[dry copper]

I was watching youtube videos on famous speeches and monologues that were popular over the years and it got me to wonder why good speeches are so rare these days

Not just in movies, but in reality

speech writing used to be an art form.

What happened?

[thorn dawn]

I have not

[shadow tartan]

https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_leIJUEcfjoy49yY6VbS1G6LGQ4yhgcov0&feature=share

[dry copper]

I want to see a full length featured film based on the ElfQuest comics.

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZzhhleFHxw

[dry copper]

This game looks like a gem it's so weird. I don't know what to think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aTRFtt1SnA

Is Kevin the gem or is game the gem?

"I kissed an onion lady that I met in the sewer. How romantic."

[bright knot]

how romantic

[dry copper]

These are hard licks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVa37f67Hnc

[golden gull]

Ladies and gentlemen, the Gravemind.

[cinder vessel]

hello worm

[winter yew]

This one is machine and nerve, and has its mind concluded. This one is but flesh and faith, and is the more deluded

[winter yew]

https://youtu.be/5vhmts3gQoY

[austere lance]

Nope, not watching it. I'm going in BLIND, lads

[fervent fog]

NA6YHJK3VC36CBGLAAGC
Free dragon skin code for Century, once per user only

[silver sparrow]

Halo: Daredevil Edition

[winter yew]

vocalist's harsh vox sounds like if Muscle Man started a metal band https://open.spotify.com/track/6TVRpWRWUPCE6Os7ci3OHm?si=a085be95d50144a6

[midnight citrus]

Bye now

[silver sparrow]

Dude this bangs

[snow zenith]

The Sea of Thieves experience:

Get a lot of loot, end up at an outpost where another, veteran player is unloading their cargo - they give me a wave & a golden skull and let me go on with my day.
Go to another outpost with just a Castaway's Chest, get attacked by a dude with a vanilla sloop & the Jack Sparrow outfit & his buddy. I was able to sell the chest before they attacked, went to wave at them and they just slashed me. So I killed one of them and sunk their ship

[dry copper]

Sounds like most pvp mmorpg

you find some of the nicest folks...and then on the way to the next nice person you sail through a sea of thieves.

I wish I had long fingers

I wanna play guitar and piano like fingerly people

What instrument played benefits from having short fingers?

[winter yew]

drums

[snow zenith]

IDK just felt random

like haha we outnumber this guy let's kill him

they get nothing from it, I had no loot to steal lol

[dry copper]

Did you scream at him "I fart in your general direction!"?

[snow zenith]

Well I

sunk their sloop

so

yes?

https://tenor.com/view/pirates-of-the-carribean-jack-sparrow-worst-pirate-gif-11208151

[dry copper]

It is time to ROCK and ROLL!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLlovxa3VJ0

[shadow tartan]

Glad you like it bruv

[silver sparrow]

harmonica

also singing

unless you have trouble holding a microphone

[snow zenith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMxo_3oHULE&ab_channel=EpicMusicMix

[dry copper]

@echo hill Watching a review of Halo Infinite's single player campaign. I think you're going to love this thing.

[echo hill]

Yep I've seen a couple as well. Being reviewed very highly

[snow zenith]

I'm not watching anything related to the campaign

no spoily

[dry copper]

I didn't post it because it looked too spoilish

It looks like someone took Doom Eternal and threw him into Halo

Co-Op planned for may 2022

https://youtu.be/ON4PFiPidOo

[sleek cloud]

Hint for a full game hopefully

[dry copper]

Honestly I enjoyed the matrix mmorpg.

I was sad to see it go

I think unreal engine 5 is really going to change the landscape for both gaming and GPU

Goodbye and good riddance to ray tracing

https://www.theverge.com/2020/5/13/21256079/epic-unreal-engine-5-playstation-5-demo-next-gen-graphics-release-date

Lumen+Nanite are going to revolutionize games

No more light mapping.

Woo, 22mins ago released
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNpvWBuTfrc

Ya know what got me...In The Matrix story, the AI that control the matrix have no concept of reality. They're as much a prisoner as the humans in the matrix. Smith didn't just introduce a propagating virus into the system, but the idea of ID from the perspective of a machine becoming self aware...and I really hope Resurrections explores the emergence of AI in The Matrix

[silver sparrow]

one would hope

[dry copper]

If you pay close attention to that trailer you're going to see one particularly jarring change in the story

Neo's eyes aren't burned out and he's no longer in the possession of the machines.

Remember at the end of the matrix he went to the machines completely blind.

[silver sparrow]

maybe he got in the phone booth and time traveled to a time where he had his eyes

[dry copper]

That explains this scene
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KU0BxXKi6no

[dry copper]

poopiepie is trying to get meta now with his reaction to reaction videos

Philip Defranco will probably do a video covering the reaction to reaction video doing reaction to reaction to reaction videos

[snow zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/878278378166312960/917487962822942740/20211206134254_1.jpg

[shadow tartan]

I had no idea you were an accomplished semen

[snow zenith]

I am indeed

a good semen

[shadow tartan]

Whalecum to my ship

[winter yew]

[glass plinth]

Wtf did I walk in on...

NOPE

turns around and walks out

[dry copper]

...aaaand scene.

[silver sparrow]

https://tenor.com/view/community-donald-glover-pizza-shocked-disaster-gif-4891734

[dry copper]

This is basically the music video for Sweatpants to the antics of Community

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1QUfxizzYM

Only Donald Glover could make a song about the logistics of drug trafficking sound appropriate for Disney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72zKESfVNU8

[wet warren]

I remember playing that game lol

[dry copper]

I used to have an electric unicycle...What a crazy tech that was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fduOUah5nvY

No idea why you're posting pictures

A living downvote

Why

Why internet. Why

I've never had a haircut I regret more than I regret this complete strangers

[dry copper]

Those fish look fake

So does that dog

Wait

Far Cry 6?

Damn water reflections look nice

[idle saffron]

Yeah 6

[cinder vessel]

can you pet the dog

[idle saffron]

You can

[cinder vessel]

good

[sleek mist]

https://youtu.be/BTwtZrtmOCU

https://youtu.be/nCNorJB4PJ8

[silver sparrow]

@shadow tartan am now watching samurai documentary on Netflix

[shadow tartan]

Which one?

[shadow tartan]

Oooooh, I'll find it

[snow zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/878278378166312960/917550346824474664/20211206152115_1.jpg

[idle saffron]

Arrrr

[snow zenith]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/878278378166312960/917536015273578516/20211206132258_1.jpg

[idle saffron]

Do it

[snow zenith]

We did xD

[idle saffron]

Woot

[cinder vessel]

is anyone in need of Love? Perhaps, 3 times the Love? Gotcha covered:
https://twitter.com/thatsmytrunks/status/1468008127136251907

Fred Wood (@thatsmytrunks)

After a year and a half of development, my final game in the LOVE series is available: LOVE 3.

Grab it on Steam or the Epic Games Store, or tomorrow morning on Nintendo Switch.
@Steam: https://t.co/NwfzDkmz5o
@EpicGames Store: https://t.co/58EkgMQNbD
https://t.co/ozGJVVfQjk

Twitter · Dec 7, 2021, 12:03 AM

[dry copper]

Samurai were essentially over the moment guns arrived

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYMq27uygsY

[silver sparrow]

Dunette

[dry copper]

I mean...He's not wrong

Individuals are brilliant. The majority are dumb as a stump.

[silver sparrow]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF-PpygWUAkUKV3?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FF-S3f4WQAAEDp4?format=jpg&name=4096x4096

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PLC_cBJwk4

"How high are you?"
"Hi, how are you?"

[silver sparrow]

wth is that

[snow zenith]

Halo Reach

[silver sparrow]

oh

empty helmet

[cinder vessel]

so, uh, this was more interesting than i thought it might be given the bad channel name:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vuMzGhc1cg

tl;dw: given current public figures provided by SpaceX themselves, the numbers don't add up for Starlink to be a sustainable venture, and this appears to follow a previous Musk company screwup (SolarCity) where the numbers also didn't add up and he ended up turning to the public to bail out his operations via IPO

[charred badge]

trying out Century. First match matchmaking is taking a while.

ok this is fun, hah! I was right that it's basically Star Fox multiplayer but wyverns

very shiny wyverns

[dry copper]

It's hard to believe the game still a week after launch is not on the steam top sellers. It's free....

Steam expects anyone to believe that they're selling more Valve indexs than free games?

I don't believe it.

Not surprising valve disabled reviews for the index

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDxKhiJfgYk

A virtual computer in a computer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP9rcviIev4

[austere lance]

Spent like 6 hours on Sea of Thieves with my dumbass friend and at the very end we had a Reaper Chest but decided to go after a sloop, apparently said sloop was crewed by MLG pros cuz they fucked us in like 5 shots 💀

[cinder vessel]

rip

[sleek cloud]

Pvp in SoT is surprisingly really intense

[austere lance]

It really is, I love it

Hell, even fights against skeleton ships are intense. They did damn good with the AI on those, I've fought plenty of players worse than the AI

[sleek cloud]

even more intense if you already have a fair bit of loot

[fervent fog]

if you plan on playing more, I want you to know that matchmaking and skill disparity is hyper-fucked

it's a big toss of the coin and similarly to league, it'll always be either your team stomping or the enemy stomping yours

and it is very difficult to enjoy because we all know that RNG hates us all

[austere lance]

Activision: Kills Spyro
Spyro fans:

https://youtu.be/299S6E8aOy0

[full pivot]

Project killed by lawsuit

AAA Studio: yeah fuck making anything in that series again
Fans: Look at this cute spiritual successor we made!
AAA Studio: I said not anything in that series again!

[finite hazel]

https://itch.io/b/1164/world-land-trust-bundle

just became aware of this bundle, there's still 3d left

[charred badge]

Are we destroying dimensions now?

[charred badge]

Eh, as expected of online pvp

[fervent fog]

and new, to top it off

[balmy plaza]

Halo tomorrow

Halo tomorrow

[silver sparrow]

Hello today

[sleek cloud]

ye and it's had some really positive reviews

[snow zenith]

Yes

I'm doing the Expedition first then

uh I'll be back when I finish the campaign

[balmy plaza]

Yeah I heard the campaign is really good

Halo needs it so I'm happy

[sleek cloud]

i tink we all need a game that just works and is good this year 😄

[balmy plaza]

Yeah haha

Late night gaming really likes it apparently, so that's a good sign

He's always liked classic halo

[snow zenith]

I've been really into Sea of Thieves lately

[sleek cloud]

i was playing quite a bit of that at the start of the year and it's a lot of fun

[snow zenith]

Yes

[balmy plaza]

It looks pretty cool, might try it after halo

[snow zenith]

I still want my parrot

hope support gets back to me soon smh

[sleek cloud]

big ol download for it, nearly 70gb

[balmy plaza]

Chunky af

[sleek cloud]

a game i've just got back into is a bit of Minecraft

[snow zenith]

I wish I could get into Minecraft

I like the game for what it is but strangely was never drawn to it

[sleek cloud]

it also gave me the opportunity to learn some linux by setting a server up for it

using a dell r720 server

[balmy plaza]

Minecraft is really nice

[sleek cloud]

the new update that come out drawn me to it

and they've added a lot since i last played which was several years ago

[snow zenith]

Like every time I'm like

okay let's give Minecraft a shot

I just think

about the other survival games I already have

and eh lose interest

And I know it's not strictly a survival game but

y'know

IDK I can't get into it

Maybe if I had friends that played Mine

[balmy plaza]

I feel like it comes into its own the more you progress

[sleek cloud]

just started a survival game

[balmy plaza]

Nice

[snow zenith]

I tried Forza 5 the other day

Really cool introduction & it's a beautiful game

Was a weird shift swapping from F1 to Forza tho lmao

no pun intended

[winter yew]

also Ris

[sleek cloud]

love forza, i just wonder if the crashes have stopped when trying to customize the car

[snow zenith]

Oh I C

Time to regret life by doing a multiplayer F1 Grand Prix

and inadvertently get barrelled on the side by a guy who doesn't know what breaks are

[sleek cloud]

full 50 laps or whatever it is?

[snow zenith]

I think it's half the real thing

like 25 or something

Might depend on the event

[sleek cloud]

ah not too bad then

did an endurance race on a previous forza and the race went on for 1 hour 30 😄

[snow zenith]

Jeez

Damn it

This one has simulation settings

which means safety car

oh how I hate the safety car

[sleek cloud]

probably means pit stops n that too i'm guessing

[dry copper]

I used to play minecraft when it first came out. I felt motivated to beat it. I don't know that it would still feels like it has a purpose. Survival is not enough.

If I wanted to just survive, I'd play life.

It's a game you make your own magic in

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1138850/Heavenly_Bodies/

Steam

Heavenly Bodies

Heavenly Bodies is a game about cosmonauts, the body, and the absence of gravity.Discover the ever-changing nuances of weightless motion in this challenging physics game. Wrangle control of your cosmonaut’s arms with the left and right thumbsticks to push, pull, and clamber through fully physically simulated scenarios aboard a scientific researc...

Price

$17.99

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[snow zenith]

so i have an awesome start

2nd place

guy barrels into my behind 6 laps in

F1 multiplayer folks

[sleek cloud]

so frustrating

[snow zenith]

it is

you can't do anything about it

i prefer doing just the one race thing at least it ends there

[sleek cloud]

should be a penalty like getting kicked or something

[snow zenith]

when it's a full grand prix it's a lot of wasted time after that lol

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMabBGydC0

Good morning Tuesday

[snow zenith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOchWLQeXWg&ab_channel=GianniMatragrano

@austere lance @echo hill @balmy plaza Y'all best be ready for tomorrow

[dry copper]

Is that the day the thing happens?

[snow zenith]

Halo Infinite campaign release boiii

[dry copper]

They shouldn't be holding bois captive.

[echo hill]

How could I not be

[daring spear]

Hahahahahaha soul also has a dentist appointment tomorrow muahahaa

[echo hill]

Hahahahaha sucker!!!

I'm conveniently sick this week

[charred badge]

MHW is so damned pretty with the settings turned up

[dry copper]

wtf is MHW?

I'm like..."Marvel Hymninatic Wuniverse?"

[daring spear]

Monster hunter world

[dry copper]

A week after the end of Arcane, I'm still playing "What could have been" on repeat

The show plays like a haunted memory

Fucking LOL in the worst way

I've completely dissected the song like a superfan trying to dig into its undertones to find some hidden story...and quite frankly, it's fucked up...but it speaks to a state of mind tha....FUCKING LOL IN THE WORST WAY

...The craziest thing. The song like some drug addiction has infected my own state of mind

❤️ Sting

https://tenor.com/view/dune-sting-gif-9658946

[austere lance]

LMFAOOOO
https://twitter.com/Ubisoft/status/1468264199876923394?s=20

Ubisoft (@Ubisoft)

Introducing Ubisoft Quartz 💎
We're bringing the first energy efficient NFTs playable in a AAA game to Ghost Recon: Breakpoint!

Try it in the beta from December 9 with three free cosmetic drops and learn more here: https://t.co/ysEoYUI4HY

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Twitter · Dec 7, 2021, 5:00 PM

[snow zenith]

Oh for god's sake

[austere lance]

Tunic's new demo is in this
https://twitter.com/XboxWire/status/1468268737677516806?t=yGcrqYOPNEcMn3k9ruLBVA&s=19

Xbox Wire (@XboxWire)

The ID@Xbox Winter Game Fest Demo Event is now live! Check out the full list of playable @ID_Xbox games here: https://t.co/MWWgSVOgzj

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Twitter · Dec 7, 2021, 5:18 PM

[dry copper]

and here I wanted to play breakpoint until this moment

Fuck ubisoft. Fuck NFTs

[austere lance]

Fml, Halo campaign won't have a pre-load so we'll all have to download it when it goes live

Breakpoint is trash anyway, I tried the demo and was bored to death within an hour

[dry copper]

Any company that pushes NFT I'm just going to stop using their shit. NFT in video games is next level exploitation just waiting to happen

It starts with individual ownership and migrates to corporate ownership, where players become pawns and their games become factories to mine crypto

Outsourcing processing power to the players

NFT is just another way of turning currencies for marketing crypto

and I'm unconvinced crypto currencies are not backing huge money laundering schemes

[charred badge]

Monster Hunter World!

[dry copper]

Anyone that thinks that the ledger can't be fucked with has swallowed the pill.

Monster Hunter World....That movie on netflix

I kid

Though I wonder what fans of the game think of the movie

[charred badge]

not as negative as you may think, but mostly because everyone knows what to expect from the director by now.
They made the monsters look and sound nice, at least.

[dry copper]

So better than most game based movies

[austere lance]

https://www.ign.com/articles/stolen-gun-kalashnikov-oceanic-mp-155-ultima-ward-b

[dry copper]

Milla Jovovich...She was Leeloo...She was Alice...She was Alice again. She was Alice again. Now see her in her most titular role as that person who hunts Monsters in Monster Hunter. See the struggle of a woman married to a man who won't stop making movies and trying to save a buck by making her star in them.

Starring: Milla Jovovich
Co-starring: A bunch of no-names who are probably not even SAG

[echo hill]

24 hours

[silver sparrow]

Doont

[austere lance]

Lol, Bungie posted their 30th Anniversary Destiny 2 event pics

I see some familiar guns

[dry copper]

The ones with the swords on them?

[echo hill]

LMFAO the br

[austere lance]

And the two energy sword halves 🤣

[snow zenith]

@austere lance Are you having issues with gamepass rn?

or the xbox app

[charred badge]

The Amazon webpage had a heart attack, so I imagine other services will have issues

[snow zenith]

Yep

Welp gg

I'll wait ig

[austere lance]

Haven't logged on yet so idk

[dry copper]

I was talking shit about mukbang yesterday and now it's a featured video on poopiepie.

Now I have to watch it.

[charred badge]

Every time someone mentions PewDiePie, I wonder how bananapielord is doing.
Small time Minecraft tuber back in the day

[austere lance]

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2021-12-05-stalker-2-will-take-up-180gb-on-xbox

[silver sparrow]

gg

[glass plinth]

Years and years away from Minecraft and finally got back

Man, the game is a whole new beast

[silver sparrow]

do they still use voxels

[glass plinth]

Of course lol

[silver sparrow]

pass

😄

[glass plinth]

Its the terrain definition that blew my mind

I was down in a cave and there was this slight gap, I slipped into it and found this geological fracture

Ended up running along that into a absolutely mind blowing lava cave

[silver sparrow]

oh like terraria

[dry copper]

Was your mind blown?

[glass plinth]

More like melted

but same diff

[dry copper]

I look at the lava in minecraft and am not impressed

Liquids in minecraft are garbage

[glass plinth]

The fact the pools arent forced into one single altitude is a huge imrpovement

pools flowed into pools bellow

then down a sink hole

Into a deeper cave

the way it all was meshed was a much more pleasing result then the old systems

Not to mention the way they can mix multiple cave biomes

thats newish

[dry copper]

Except pools spawn water. They aren't water. You can not drain a lake.

You can certainly make an infinite waterfall

[glass plinth]

Sure you can...

[dry copper]

No. You have to literally destroy the waterblock

Sponge or create another block in the space and delete it

[glass plinth]

I popped a hole in the bottom and it emptied

Maybe thats new?

or somehow specific to that cave type

i dont know enough about this recent release

it definitely wasnt behaving the way it did 4 years ago

[echo hill]

Oh dude I want sonuts

Donuts

I think imma get donuts

[glass plinth]

Doughnuts?

Sounds lovely

[echo hill]

Donuts

[dry copper]

Damn you and your donut ways. Now I want donuts.

[glass plinth]

I cant eat them

[echo hill]

https://c.tenor.com/TRjZAIXAxL8AAAAM/donut-simpson.gif

[dry copper]

Just plain ole donuts. Nothing fancy

[glass plinth]

Doughnuts tend to give me a stomach ache

due to the fat they fry them in

[silver sparrow]

peanut oil

[echo hill]

I havent had donuts in a while

[glass plinth]

Cream cheese strawberry donut sounds good...

[silver sparrow]

strawberry filling with cream cheese frosting maybe

yeasted, not cake

[glass plinth]

Precisely

The ones im talking about are more like a beignets

Very french

[shadow tartan]

@echo hill https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.LDRLY.budfarmidletycoon

[echo hill]

omfg haha

[daring spear]

Lmao

[dry copper]

I ordered donuts...but then I needed bread...and hotdogs...and onions and sandwich meat...so now I'm ordering groceries and hiding my donuts in them

[daring spear]

I hide my groceries in donuts

[silver sparrow]

so like Trojan Groceries

[dry copper]

Hotdog flavored donut

[daring spear]

Ewwwwwwwwe

[dry copper]

You say eww, but think about it

Hotdogs are salty

Donuts are sweet

A part of you knows it wouldn't be as gross as you think

[silver sparrow]

do you know what else is salty

[dry copper]

Salt

I know lots of things that are salty.

[daring spear]

Bacon on donuts is good so maybe

[dry copper]

Torturing Moist for money

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIs0Wnm34JM

Charity stream

[daring spear]

RIP Charlie I guess

[dry copper]

The table gets covered with more and more weird shit as the scovilles go up

[daring spear]

I bet

Us he wearing a bear onesie lol

Is

[dry copper]

Reindeer

[daring spear]

Ah

Somehow that makes more sense

[dry copper]

Claims to be spoiler free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJay_HJUULc

I was thinking the entire time..."Do you hate fun? Don't buy this if you hate fun"

[cinder vessel]

ppl have different takes on what's fun tho tbh

halo is almost interchangeable with any other quality scifi shooter imo

[snow zenith]

ship go bonk

[dry copper]

Damn it Leia learn to drive

Getting a little annoyed with Epic games launcher being so shit

[cinder vessel]

amazing what they put the money towards

like more fortnite or buying up other games

[dry copper]

Last time I was gaming, the game crashed and the launcher stopped working and now it's stuck in a preparing loop

[cinder vessel]

although there is also unreal engine

it's a little weird they can make an engine that devs generally enjoy but can't figure out a client

[dry copper]

I wonder if I reinstall the launcher, will I need to reinstall the games

Interesting

Error trying to start the launcher indicates a server error

500 Internal Server error

nm that's the website that's supposed to tell me what the error was with the launcher...

and that has the internal error

Looks like an update error

ah there it is. Only just now decided to recognize my computer

Didn't recognize the device

Epic Online Services update.

fucking epic. They were like..."You should reinstall your epic launcher"

Note: That uninstalls all of your epic games

[cinder vessel]

I wouldn't imagine uninstalling the launcher would require reinstalling the games...But it is the Epic Launcher 🤷

[dry copper]

So...Hope you have a good internet to redownload em

[cinder vessel]

lmao what

does it keep non-Epic games installed?

[dry copper]

Yes

[cinder vessel]

that is, those not developed by them

[dry copper]

No

Any game that is launched by the launcher, uninstalled

[cinder vessel]

wat

that is...really bad

[dry copper]

Going to try one more thing

Got into the website fine

[idle saffron]

Messing with the filters, that is their "tropical" filter

[snow zenith]

What is game

[idle saffron]

Farcry 6

[snow zenith]

[dry copper]

Remember this gem?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CG7cQkQ6Oc

[idle saffron]

Yeah, terrific for the time

[dry copper]

Sunset Riders...I remember that game with friends

[idle saffron]

Another classic

[dry copper]

We used to play that in the arcade

[idle saffron]

Sweet, good fun

[dry copper]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zwNZJbM-Gw