They hired people for it
#avrora-general
stuck copper
ornate mantle
You can bring on as many people as there are stars in the sky.
Unless we start seeing it, it doesn't mean anything.
stuck copper
Yes but remember just hiring people ain't the same as putting it in game
Cause you have to sort out costs and stuff
And all that kind of annoying backend paper work shit
ornate mantle
And until it's in game, I'm gonna keep bitching.
wintry sonnet
on topic of micro, I love how in gfl the 3$ monthly thing is more than I need to get going
ornate mantle
wintry sonnet
esp when almost every month they're doing some kind of double gems payout
ornate mantle
GFL's monthly is cool.
wintry sonnet
also every event from now on will have true core mask and pity shop
stuck copper
With 60 sanity left over to spare
So when you think about it
In 12 months just buying monthly alone
You could easily get 12 6* to E2 90
ornate mantle
I no longer use PO for sanity unless it's something I wanna rush... but I absolutely don't use PO on sanity for EXP/LMD.
stuck copper
It's not that bad if you weren't using it on anything else anyway though
ornate mantle
No?
stuck copper
Oh I did notice one thing btw Ran
warm bluff
stuck copper
Cause if one was to measure the average amount of rolls it would take to pull a 6*
ornate mantle
I know.
ornate mantle
I'm aware of the efficiency to farming up tokens in shop.
But it's whale anyways since aiming for pots is mega whale.
stuck copper
Yeah it is
solar fjord
ornate mantle
She's a cute Hololiver.
stuck copper
I do plan to spend less on AL anyway
AK has more attention more these days
i might stop spending on any gacha
feel like i'm set
warm bluff
ornate mantle
Even if I decided to do monthly $30 to include the monthly HH I can do it.
stuck copper
F2P get only like
1/3 of the amount of AO
As a monthly player does
it's not the individual fee, it's the sum of all fees.
I mean we could say that about taxes or anything else one has to pay over a lifetime
ornate mantle
I can feel ya... but as long as it's $5/mo I don't think much on it.
As in the net sum doesn't bug me.
stuck copper
the point is that this kind of logic gets you from 5 bucks monthly to 25 bucks monthly, because "it's only 5 bucks".
i've subscribed to something i feel is better value, so i'll just shift my investment.
ornate mantle
Sure. If you're doing that in multiple gacha sure.
stuck copper
that is all.
But that only applies if you do it in lots of gachas
We stick to one or two at most
I can't even split my attention for that many games
stuck copper
That's gonna be me too honestly
As much as I like AL
They release too many skins these days
Like remember that one time
Where they had like 3 events back to back
With tons of skins each time
Was just painful
grand dew
That's the only way AL would make any money vs gachas rolls like AK
stuck copper
Oh I know it is
stuck copper
But as a result it makes it painful when so many are unique to certain events
Means you have to wait like
Over a year
i can either spend 4.99 on ak for some resources i can earn just by existing (excluding originite), or i can spend one dollar less on game pass and play a ton of full games on pc.
To get when you miss it
The only issue for me with that Cal
Is most games these days bore the absolute shit out of me
ornate mantle
It makes sense when you play traditional games.
stuck copper
and i have a large set of meta ops at e2, so whatever.
ornate mantle
I don't anymore, so I have that extra resource to get a monthly card.
ornate mantle
I do wanna get Fall Guys fml.
warm bluff
play rhythm games!
ornate mantle
Fuck Rhythm games.
ornate mantle
@warm bluff Project Diva is expensive.
stuck copper
When games had to be good before shipping out
even more reason not to pay full price lol
ornate mantle
It's expensive as fuck.
stuck copper
Instead of this bullshit where it's like
grand dew
I stopped buying hh and monthly 2 months ago
wintry sonnet
but cal
stuck copper
"Let's ship out half a game"
wintry sonnet
60$ isn't full price anyway
it's just the trial version
gotta throw another 60 for the dlc and season pass and preorder bonus
to get the full game
stuck copper
That's what pisses me off Aqu
warm bluff
i already have 210 hrs in diva 
wintry sonnet
stuck copper
i like having a netflix for games. it's cheap af, and if the games suck, i'll be short a bigmac or something.
Nowadays
You're not even buying a full game
ornate mantle
Crunchyroll is fun.
stuck copper
More like part of one
ornate mantle
Cheap and I have hours of entertainment.
stuck copper
Well that's true
But even then
It's not a game
It's a beta
In most cases
Because they use the shitty reasoning of
"Oh we can just improve it later"
Remember when a game had to be good when it got shipped
and sometimes i will check out a game just because they added it and it's new to me. a lot of games are bad, sure, but there are still ones worth playing for what's essentially pocket change.
Because you couldn't just update it with a patch later
I miss those days
yeah, live services are cancer.
stuck copper
it makes sense for gacha. not so much for traditional games.
Yeah since gacha live off it
But look at CoD for example
Back in the day
You bought it
i just wanna play, not schedule my life around some service.
Maybe some dlc
That was it
Now
It's literally just loot boxes
It's actually fucking dumb
wintry sonnet
that was a design flaw tho raz
they fixed it in the remaster
added in lootboxes and all that shit
even sold the dlc at higher price
grand dew
Ghost of sushi was pretty right out the box
stuck copper
Is a company
That gets all of it's tax credits
From the working man
And doesn't pay a dime of it itself
Remember that
wintry sonnet
it's fine, they can do it
stuck copper
yeah, ghost is good. problem is, games like that are less common nowadays.
wintry sonnet
because they made a tweet saying they think racism is bad
so all sins are forgiven
stuck copper
"Yay! According to public federal tax filings, in 2018, Activision Blizzard didn't just completely avoid paying taxes in the United States of America. The company received massive tax credits totaling $228 million. Given a profit of $447 million, that's an effective tax rate of -51 percent."
This
Like
I don't even know
Which part of this to start on
And then they add more monetization shit
Into their games
wintry sonnet
isn't activision in middle of some shit right now
wintry sonnet
cause employees did like an internal wages polling
and turns out Bobbert's making 40 mil a month
stuck copper
iirc, the ceo alone earns more than their entire staff
wintry sonnet
while some people can barely scrape by
stuck copper
I mean they fired like 300 people I think it was
So one of the higher ups
Could get his bonus
Yes his bonus
Not his wages
His bonus
they laid off hundreds of people even tho they had a very strong year
wintry sonnet
they fired them in the middle of having the highest profit margin ever
and then immediately started rehiring for those same positions
stuck copper
Lol
yeah, the new cfo or whatever came in and got 40 mil just for signing on.
The worst part is
These people
Do nothing in the game development
meanwhile, their employees have to eat oatmeal and shit because they can't afford proper food.
So they're getting paid all this money
For doing jack shit
it's like a third-world country.
While the people that do stuff
Get nothing
warm bluff
worst part is lots of young people want to get into game dev and ignore how shady the industry is
stuck copper
dude, even the investors complained about activision.
warm bluff
it's so much easier and more lucrative to go into a normal programming job
wintry sonnet
fuck knows how much he's making off that position too
stuck copper
You say that Aqua
you know you fucked up when even your own kind is trying to eat you.
But should I remind you
What Star Wars
Battle front
Tried to do
wintry sonnet
star wars is dead
stuck copper
yeah, regular programming is said to pay 2-3 times that of game development.
warm bluff
ya and it's a lot less stressful too, apparently game devs pull 60 hrs weeks or something
wintry sonnet
evolve was a complete special needs case
literally the marketing for that game was
stuck copper
Like companies do this shit to see how far they can push people
wintry sonnet
"Look how much money you can spend on random shit"
stuck copper
Until people push back
ceo smiles into a camera, gets millions. programmer dies of crunch, receives a raise of 50 cents an hour.
They're basically
Drawing themselves a line
And they're seeing how far they can go with it
Till they cross it
wintry sonnet
but hey guys, stop drawing devil horns on Bobbert's pictures
cause he can't get laid cause of it
stuck copper
A good example is loot boxes
wintry sonnet
the poor fuck
stuck copper
The way they go
"Oh but it's only cosmetics it'll be fine"
Is what players say
And anyone with a brain goes
wintry sonnet
all this money in the world and yet having some devil horns is enough to make all women not want to boink him
stuck copper
"It starts at cosmetics but it never ends there"
people who say "it's only cosmetic" don't understand the importance of cosmetics.
wintry sonnet
^
stuck copper
Because the reason they start there
Is so they can gradually brain wash people
"It's just cosmetic it's ok"
when you're shopping for clothes, you don't exactly look for "plain white shirt".
wintry sonnet
if it doesn't affect gameplay, then why do people care about it enough to spend money
stuck copper
As they eventually add more and more of the game into it
you can just order those for a few bucks.
no, you want something that looks nice.
Tldr
warm bluff
i buy plain stuff though 
stuck copper
The reason they do it like the above
warm bluff
since nothing would look good on me anyway
stuck copper
Is used as a way to indoctrinate people
unless you're like me. i wear plain black 90% of the time
ornate mantle
Rookie Numbers.
ornate mantle
95% of the time my shits black and the other 5% it's grey.
wintry sonnet
warm bluff
stuck copper
yeah lol
Like think about it, if you make them think that cosmetics are ok
my shoes are grey
You gradually add more and more of the game into being whaled
gotta have some contrast.
Under the guise it's just cosmetic
wintry sonnet
can you believe that all this shit and cancer
started because of a fucking horse armor
ornate mantle
I used to wear pretty comfy shoes, but then I forewent pure comfort for practicality and durability.
stuck copper
you've always been shit.
ornate mantle
So now I use black combat boots.
stuck copper
And now they steal people's mods
warm bluff
oh that reminds me i need to buy bp boots
wintry sonnet
too bad bethesda's so inept
stuck copper
Who would have thought that is how the modding community turned out
stuck copper
fallout 76 is the best
It's pretty ridiculous
How far gaming has fallen
Now it's nothing but a platform for money grabbing tyrants
Which is pretty sad
let's just use fallout 4, which is broken as shit, and make that our new game. surely nothing will go wrong.
warm bluff
there are some really nice skyrim mods
solar fjord
stuck copper
Well anyway lads
Me sleep now
It's 2:23 in the morning
I'll be dead when I get up
3:23. still got half an hour for anime.
warm bluff
stuck copper
So have a good one lads
it's too hot anyway
Oh I know that feel
I'll be sleeping on top of my covers
Not in them
Too damn hot
stuck copper
Lol
40 bucks tops, and only if i really want it asap.
We just indoctrinated Ran unironically
ornate mantle
Nah it's momentarily.
I'll go back to spending hundreds on skins in about 5 minutes.
stuck copper
Lol
ornate mantle
Just gotta keep scrolling through fanart.
stuck copper
whoever came up with related posts needs to burn in hell. it just never ends.
"oh, this is nice. oh, this is nice. this one's nice, too."
ornate mantle
Like goddamn.
stuck copper
ornate mantle
I intended on ignoring the Hermione skin.
And the Perseus skin.
But now I want them.
wintry sonnet
I'll just wait for the lewds to deliver the important details
warm bluff
ornate mantle
Hermione skin is just so good.
stuck copper
your important details arent even lewd
wintry sonnet
you know nothing, Cal zone
stuck copper
you think that hermione x perseus nurse pic with legs and feet is safe to post?
it's got a bit of perseus ass
wintry sonnet
I know which one you speak of
ornate mantle
I'm looking at it right now.
wintry sonnet
not sure actually
ornate mantle
And yes, I want both.
stuck copper
you know the sacred texts?
ornate mantle
I'll get both, fuck self control.
wintry sonnet
I think the bigger issue is hermione's bumps
ornate mantle
I don't even comprehend was self control is anymore.
stuck copper
possibly
wintry sonnet
iirc fun police doesn't like when there's visible nip outlines
stuck copper
i am so desensitized, i don't really notice them anymore
ornate mantle
Let's get the Howe skin too while we're at it.
wintry sonnet
I only notice them because they force me to pay attention
ornate mantle
stuck copper
it's more like, they poke into the fabric. you can't really see them.
wintry sonnet
wouldn't give a shit otherwise
ornate mantle
Okay bought the skins, LOL.
warm bluff
Lewd! Bad!
ornate mantle
This talk reaffirmed why I don't buy games, LUL
wintry sonnet
you know, I didnt think I'd ever be happy to see a time gate on 2nd part
means I'm free to not give a shit for the next 18 hours 
back to ryza
somber halo
hey there fellow azur laners
wintry sonnet
1
ornate mantle
solar fjord
ornate mantle
Okay I uninstalled FGO and PAD again.
warm bluff
pad 
ornate mantle
Yeah.
Apparently DAL was also installed on my phone.
But it got installed to a page I don't look at often.
Uninstalled that.
All that's left is AK, AL, and E7
I don't whale on E7 by principle and don't feel that urge to spend.
So I should be good to just keep it there without any temptations.
I can handle AL and AK no problems though.
warm bluff
i got tempted to redownload bang dream but then i remember the score system was garbage
ornate mantle
Ohhhh
Man, I love these skins
I donโt spend often on AL now, but when I do it feels like a great purchase
solar fjord
ornate mantle
verbal obsidian
after that horrendous last event of 548 cubes
ornate mantle
@ripe mantle did you ever end up reading the other world resteraunt LN
verbal obsidian
i was blessed this one with only spending 80
ornate mantle
Iโm rewatching the anime and feel the urge to start the LN again, LOL
Dragon girl strikes my heart once again.
ripe mantle
@ornate mantle i read v1
Was good
No reason i didn't read onward
Just haven't yet
solar fjord
flat palm
i cant remember if this comm is good or not
flat palm
if i get shit im blaming you luna
ripe mantle
Gets explained in depth
flat palm
and i'll hate you forever for it
ripe mantle
And alot of it makes more sense
warm bluff
flat palm
Synd, whats in 21 days
ripe mantle
Ffccremaster release
somber halo
i too die on the 27th
somber halo
havent bought cubes since mogami
whichever event she was from
im always swimming around 100 cubes, so im fine for the most part
ripe mantle
I got howe skin since its nic3
And pers skin cause waifus get skins even if I don't like em
ornate mantle
Yeah the Howe skin is super nice.
It doesn't look like a huge difference.
But man.
Waifus get the skins.
ripe mantle
Eh
Howe skin is just nice
Not sure on waifu level
But pers is really cute
Ive successfully seduced a saint and a priestess
icy plume
@flat palm did soul forming scam you?
icy plume
lame
icy plume
Algerie be teasing me again.
warm bluff
somber halo
i tried again just in case but i guess it do be like dat
flat palm
sometimes it do be like that
solar fjord
what could the collab be 
warm bluff
there's a leak, it's obviously vocaloid
ornate mantle
What
Oh
I really hope not.
That'd be the most generic shit of a collab possible.
warm bluff
warm bluff
ya the art style doesn't really look like vocaloid, that leek just reminded me of the old meme
maybe it's a pokemon collab with only farfetch'd
solar fjord
frayya on a 30 minute delay irl
warm bluff
vocaloid collab would be really cool though
solar fjord
ripe mantle
seems borderline political 
flat palm
Doesn't it mean it could target gacha games eventually too though 
ripe mantle
i highly doubt any sort of order to
ahem
ban yostar games
is going to come through
flat palm
Hope so 
solar fjord
ripe mantle
anyways since i highly doubt yostar is data mining us,
i dont really see a problem relevant at all
SHE IS
HER EX LINES TOO
warm bluff
oh no
flat palm
lmao
warm bluff
time to scrap
flat palm
rinky simping
ripe mantle
i mean her entire shtick is that she uses phrases to get her point acorss
ripe mantle
100% would simp
flat palm
ask her for her patreon
ripe mantle
The early bird gets the worm, Commander, you have to work hard to not be a starving bird alright?
ornate mantle
Damn, I was thinking it was finally time for my life as a whale to end.
Don't get me excited like that.
ripe mantle
also since I VPN anyways
even if a yostar ban came i could just
buy shit anyways
ripe mantle
its also not a law
so really in the end
its up to google and apple
to decide how they want to interpret that
icy plume
@flat palm Most game companies have to deal with Tencent to do business in china anyways.
ripe mantle
and for games that hit high ranking
think google/apple will really let go
of that delicious whale money?
solar fjord
cant wait for the new artbook 
flat palm
whatd i do wtf
somber halo
all those games look like crap
solar fjord
also i'd like a juusatgram book
ripe mantle
reminding me of this shit
flat palm
somber halo
games with western influenced graphics suck
flat palm
lol
ripe mantle
flat palm
please don't eat your fairies
flat palm
she really does talk like a londoner lol
icy plume
Maybe I should oath Howe
ripe mantle
too much reference for 1 dorm set
doctor rhodes
YOU THINK YOU ARE CLEVER DO YOU AL
flat palm
4k/8k on hermione 
somber halo
warm bluff
i'm guessing that tencent ban only bans american companies from selling shares to tencent
flat palm
it seems mostly targetted at tiktok
somber halo
what is there even to buy on tiktok
warm bluff
also it looks like lots of other people also thought of vocaloid when they saw the leek, i really hope we do get vocaloid collab 
ripe mantle
dont over think it
its a community who associates links with intern
who used to leak content
so leak = content leak
warm bluff
solar fjord
yep 
warm bluff
most likely you'll still be able to use it, straight up banning it would run into 1st amendment issues
same lol
even if i used it i cant read/write chinese
although i wish i could since lots of japanese stuff is translated to chinese but not english
warm bluff
somber halo
somber halo
what about the other ones
grizzled crag
owo
warm bluff
grizzled crag
flat palm
cute drake
somber halo
flat palm
@grizzled crag
somber halo
flat palm
I'm a scatoman
warm bluff
somber halo
fuck you guys
warm bluff
my cube stash hasn't recovered yet
somber halo
flat palm
i saved up 170k coins for this event thinking itd be more than enough
somber halo
my cube stash has never recovered
flat palm
and id have coins leftover for awakening and pr comms
then getting howe took me all the way down to 3k coins
flat palm
no help for you here
warm bluff
fax is deprecated please use email
flat palm
๐
somber halo
you darn whippersnappers
warm bluff
somber halo
word on the street: yostar cant collab with anyone associated with kadokawa
flat palm
wai not
flat palm
sometimes it do be like that
somber halo
hot
warm bluff
wholesome cute art?
grizzled crag
yes
warm bluff
flat palm
i love perseus
somber halo
being angry is a defense mechanism of the human instinct
somber halo
icarus?
ornate mantle
Yeah I guess I'm missing her.
First I heard of her.
AH
Yes, I'm missing Icarus
Well now
somber halo
yeah
somber halo
i normally dont like blondes
but im probably gonna marry howe asap
istg, its her eyes im attracted to
wdym
magic moon
another MAO fan, huh
flat palm
howe also has narmaya VA
somber halo
i mean ya kno
i dont have her yet
tomorrow is another day
which is in two hours
well
in that case
tell me my future
gentle quail
im guessing like the harry potter girl
gentle quail
something like that ye
flat palm
Wtf with the howe hate
"if she wasnt t0, none of you would suck up to her"
Yes i would sir
somber halo
her-myn-nii
flat palm
lol
watching DL stream
this guy just cursing at him in korean
so toxic lmao
kinda?
tsm is shared #1 in lcs now i think
tsm swapped support
so their duoing on stream all the time
yea hes always been like that tho
in TL he had coreJJ to carry him
his map awareness is kinda bad
but treatz is doing well i think
goldenglue joined evil geniuses
so the swole bros are back
their one of the better lcs teams atm
after benching jiizuke and ryoma
but tbh bang is just stealing paychecks in NA
ornate mantle
Her-mine-E
flat palm
Today i learned, Shibal means fuck you in korean
Nah bang is so bad compared to other NA lcs adcs lol
one of the worst stats
ornate mantle
Shibal Aki
flat palm
no jiizuke was hard inting every game LOL
he was legit running it down in enemy base
and throwing games as 5-0 leblanc
jiizuke had an ekko game where he died like 10 times, 8 times in enemy base at 15-20mins
and he got instantly benched
TL, tsm and c9 best teams in order atm
c9 is on a massive lose streak
they got so bad suddently
zven is still playing well, rest of the team just inting
Blaber diving 1v5
licorice losing every lane
ornate mantle
Is it Hatsune Miku?
acoustic crag
i mean the leek in the teaser image is a dead giveaway
ornate mantle
Would like something a little more conclusive than the leak though... I get what you mean.
ripe mantle
Nice
ornate mantle
Man howe is so cute.
flat palm
yes she is
flat palm
pekora's laugh is literally a tekken combo
ornate mantle
PEKO โฌ๏ธ PEKO โฌ ๏ธ PEKO โ๏ธ PEKO โฌ๏ธ
flat palm
ornate mantle
Very nice.
I'd like a Cdom.
Also would like an Alots
I also found a really cool Burn team for HYufine.
But I'm missing 75% of the team, KEKW
HYufine (only one I have), Angelica, Ruele, and ML Crozet.
icy plume
solar fjord
flat palm
fucked up
ornate mantle
Hands up mother fucker
gentle quail
acoustic crag
stuck copper
Rolled a single
@solar fjord @flat palm
I don't even know what words to say at this point
violet perch
night oriole
carmine coyote
@stuck copper welcome to what I did
carmine coyote
I'm not into that stuff either
stuck copper
Yeah it's because big banners are usually given gaps so people get rolls
Standards are just standards after all
I want her myself
gentle quail
that #server-news update
lmao im guessing people were dropping the blue archive cbt stuff everywhere
knotty echo
flat palm
knotty echo
flat palm
people are rly bad at keeping ndr? or whatever its called
flat palm
ya that thing
knotty echo
some of em are purposeful
either way, if it's not leaked in public servers, there's always those private servers and they just keep it o themselves
also @warm bluff lewd
violet perch
It can't be fully stopped sadly. But atleast we can prevent it here 
stuck copper
I think it's sad that people do it anyway
knotty echo
oh well
flat palm
warm bluff
gentle quail
the idea of it is gross yeah
but man can the artists draw
idk why like all the amazing artists want to draw stuff associated with ntr but oh well
flat palm
Horny
gentle quail
gentle quail
ima just wait for d maps
warm bluff
flat palm
He can stay away from mine lol
one of my female friends plays AL and shes a bigger degenerate than me, and it always scares me
shes like super horny for belfast to the point its unhealthy
knotty echo
verbal obsidian
only tag Aki likes is ugly bastard
flat palm
yeah because then i get to see you hitagi
flat palm
apparently this
sea hornet in shop is the best dps fighter in the game now
guess i gotta farm it
flat palm
i'll AA you
knotty echo
knotty echo
wrong caht
flat palm
you tried for hellagur? lol
stuck copper
I tried for more Nian
flat palm
lol
flat palm
i dont have hellagay either
stuck copper
i rolled for hellagur, and all i got was this lousy angelina dupe.
flat palm
monkaS
flat palm
looks like howe is warspite retrofit levels of strong
flat palm
aran u need to oath howe
shes t0
what no
shes rly good lol
how can her barrage be rng when its consistently going off every 15s
stuck copper
He means the aiming of it
stuck copper
But considering it basically fires a BB salvo without MGM +1
That has 50% chance to burn
flat palm
Yeah that thing is nuts lol
stuck copper
Because the modifiers of it
Is exactly like any other HE BB gun
So it's basically free damage
flat palm
she looks so broken lol
stuck copper
And the whole
Needing another BB
Only applies if you go the KGV bonus stat route
You can still use full HMS with a BB
And get the same result
flat palm
perseus having worst aircraft efficiency in the game is abit sad
but her skills are kinda op
so i guess its fair
shes basicly
a CVL by name but plays like a repair ship
tbh
if you auto which most people do, she wastes the first 2 airstrikes on like nothing
and her dmg is rly bad compared to uni and ryuuhou
but she heals like crazy
stuck copper
using her wrong doesnt make her bad
flat palm
not saying shes bad
stuck copper
just tossing it out there
flat palm
shes just, well.. more like akashi/vestal than uni and ryuuhou lol
stuck copper
Keep in mind
She has a barrage every like 15-20 seconds
To help even out her bad efficiencies
flat palm
Yeah i do think shes really good
just not for damage purposes rly
since uni and ryuuhou do alot of dmg
flat palm
so its kinda harsh to compare her to them since she works differently
stuck copper
I imagine she'll still do a fair amount of damage via barrages
flat palm
potentially
stuck copper
and she heals backliners
flat palm
ya which is why im saying shes like a better akashi