#off-topic-discussion
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so I asked him “did you get something good in a gacha game”
and he was like “...yes”
guilty as charged
AHAH ok mood tho
I try to stay away from it because like, that gambling for pngs man
it makes me feel so bad
pls let 9S take 2B shopping
happy trans day of visibility everyone :) 💙 🌺 ⬜ 🌺 💙
perfect day to have my pfp
donkey kong said trans rights!
in other news, this turns up near the top of trans minecraft skins
This audio was clipped from hbomberguy's Donkey Kong 64 Trans charity stream for Mermaids (UK), accompanied by Grant Kirkhope
tempted to buy discord nitro just so I can get that transburger emote
I love Nitro so much. I am a sucker for collecting emotes
finally convinced me to add some custom emotes to my server
any mtg players here?
The new trailer for mtg infinity war war of the spark just deadass used a cover of in the end
https://youtu.be/b5W9t62t10I
We have a fight to finish. Nicol Bolas controls Ravnica. With Liliana Vess under his devious contract, the dragon god’s army of Eternals run free and the gui...
Ah Nicol Bolas
How many times can Wizards make him the big bad before it gets boring?
(not that I don't love him)
(i used to have him as the summon elder dragon legend card back in the day)
this is basically the culmination of all of his schemes since the mending
they Say that
jeepers
33 of which arent even mythic
i suspect a lot of walkers are gonna die
especially gideon
but how are we going to reproach things?
one of the new planeswalkers seems to be monowhite
he can reproach things probably
or maybe ajani can do it
Ajani's Reproach. Summon four 1/1 cat soldiers, they block target attacking creature.
that actually would be pretty awesome
would probably have to be more expensive though
oh yeah
or upshifted in rarity
oh and btw
war of the spark will have a planeswalker card in each pack
and 20 of the planeswalker cards are uncommon
my lifelong goal has been to get Karn Liberated in mtg
I love artifacts and an artifact planeswalker is super appealing, but costing over $100 is not as appealing
theres a much more recent version of karn though
who actually DOES benefit from having lots of artifacts on the board
im fairly certain that gideon is gonna be replaced some new whippersnapper named teyo verada
@sharp grail i’m having a mental breakdown
I GOT TO THE BIT WHERE 2B GOT INFECTED BUT I DIDNT MAKE IT TO THE BRIDGE IN TIME
i need to be held
i love the commander
now i have the situation of: which is harder to sit through emotionally
dragon age inquisition where you’re trudging through the snow
nier automata where you’re infected with a virus going through enemies
or bastion. you all know the scene
Yeah, some characters will definitely die
I hope Jace does
Jace, Teferi, Bolas and uh
Idk, Nissa I guess?
Well, some of the cards were leaked
And looks like the balance in the set may just be slightly off
this is why I was
when you said the one time 2B called him nines you were very happy
im@so upset
the heartbreak gets worse
actually it's like 30x more screwed up when you find all the intel etc and find out more about 9s

i’m so scared
i love 9S so much seeing him like this is so upsetting
how it feels playing this god damn game
oh hey have you been reading the weapon stories
theyre like, that distress but concentrated into 4 paragraphs
so risk of rain 2 came out recently, and I'm having a ton of fun with it
still in Early Access, but for those who played 1, 2 is basically 1 with a z axis
mercenary in particular is so much more fun in 3d
yea im enjoying it as well!
its a little bare bones right now but thats what early access is for after all
i cant wait for them to add acrid, he was my favorite from the first game
I'm waiting for bandit
I'm loving the new levels, items, and enemies they added for 2
i was pretty skeptical at the jump to 3d at first but i think its translating exceptionally so far
yeah it's impressive that it still feels like 1 but plays completely different
i think a good deal of it is the enemy models and the music, they arent like exact copies but still kinda hint back to the original in a really nice way
not too alienated but not too samey
that and the characters that aren't unique are essentially one to one ports
Maybe not of interest to anyone but I got to watch Japan announce the name of the new imperial era live! say goodbye to Heisei, and hello to Reiwa!
the prime minister's gonna talk about the meaning but i'm probably not going to be able to follow it gkdjfgdf
I love huntress so much
Nothing quite as satisfying as tossing a glaive and blowing up 12 wisps
I also like engineer
that is to say that I don't like aiming
Bustling Fungus working with sentries is memey
doing great work out there, discord
@sharp grail i’m waiting to upgrade my weapons before i check the story but woohoo! can’t wait for that
upgrade my@weapons fully*
I have, it looks quite good, I'm looking forward to the kings knight campaign more though
Why would you delete the objectively superior theme tho
And nothing of value was lost
@sharp grail im@sorry for pinging you all the time but i’m sobbing and need to SCREAM
did you pick 9s first?
no
oh well that’s worse
im@so upset
I feel your pain
i was ready to let go of 9S i thought i was gonna put him out of his pain bc of the virus and everything
i don’t know if i can do that again as 9S
i have 4 endings
what level are you?
61
ah well. There’s an Easter egg in the other fight but I’m p sure you can only see it below level 60 djdbfj
aw :(
there’s a wet patch on my shirt bc of sobbing into it and i think That’s the Nier Experience
it’s still cool to see a video of it, this whole game is mindblowing
LMAO OH NO
I told you to get tissues this is a game that makes u cry a lot!!
also i pressed start game and i kept my level? owo
trust me im@connected to the damn network those bodies on the floor have blocked me from one too many cutscenes
yeah the save always keeps the level unless you overwrite it I think
gl with the second fight
don’t give up 💪
i have to go through the damn opening again before i can go back uuuuug
you can exit out of the game
you finished everything?
i cant do the
credits thing
i rlly relied on auto chips for the hacking bits pls don’t do this to me
WOW
THEIR POWER
special thanks for OldManYelling if you’re out there thanks for being a real one
I DONT WANNA LOSE MY SAVE DATA
you can say no! you dont have to
you can also go back and do it later if you want to at some point
wow
this game
so,,, the dlc?
is that extra game content or
oh! it was the colosseums
yeah, those doors
oh you did them?
i forgot it just. comes with the goty now dkfjghdk
ur right and u should say it 
Oh NieR? Good content
i rlly relied on auto chips for the hacking bits pls don’t do this to me smh
me: doesn't write anything for like four months
also me: churns out 2000 words in one hour about the conflict between celeste's gentle, encouraging attitude towards deaths and difficulty in the game, and its really weird passive-aggressive attitude towards using assist mode
well, it's good to be writing again, lol
Why do games have to be sassy about assist mode
The player knows their ability better than the game does
you know what gets me
celeste acknowledges that there's a point when you should Stop and Get Help
like IN THE GAME
the entirety of celestial hotel is like
"sometimes there are problems you can't and shouldn't try to overcome"
and then when i've died 80 times on a frame perfect maneuver i can't nail, the game sasses me for turning on assist mode for 3 seconds
Most of the message in the game is great, but gamer brain kicks in when devs are implementing easier modes apparently
Simpsons gif "gamers, they ruined gaming"
i'm convinced it doesn't actually exist, and if it does, it's no skin off the devs' noses
but every time there's any easy mode in anything it's like there's this kneejerk assumption that if there's an easier option, everyone's going to take it and it's ruining the point of the game, weh
"They just want to be able to say they beat dark souls without having done the hard parts" yeah so what
exactly!
who cares!
like if people want to challenge themselves they will find ways to do so
generally when people are playing games it's because they want to, you know
play the game
they're not dropping $60 on something so they can skip 80% of it
A movie doesn't stop you from finishing it if you're not paying attention
and if they are, again, who cares
like, it's not making anybody else's life worse
and if they don't "get" the game at the end of the day because they, like, didn't experience the difficulty at the level you wanted them to........so?
i think they still understand it's supposed to be a hard game
There's this one video essay about playing games wrong that really freed me as a dev
I think I've seen that one actually
You can't make sure the player plays correctly
As in, seen the thumbnail, didn't watch
And to some extent it's not worth trying to get the player to play correctly
Right? Yeah, the two points i was making here were like "there are no lazy players; if there are, it doesn't matter anyways; and besides, either players will 'get it' or they won't and while you can nudge them, you can't make them do or interpret as you want"
2.5 points
No I think you deserve at least 5 points for this opinion
hahaha 5 cents
I can see why it's a little hairy in celeste because they consider the difficulty part of the game's message, and it's important to them that that message is conveyed
but that doesn't change the fact that the player knows better what their limits are and what they'll get the most out of
It's a step forward that the option is there at least
and honestly i thought this was a little bit weird in the game's themes as well - for madeline, her journey isn't ultimately deadly, since canonically she makes it to the summit. but for the player - we see her die like, hundreds, thousands of times
and it's like
yikes! maybe you really shouldn't be doing this!
Is respawning just mountain magic?
they never address it
so i'd just taken the deaths as being non-canonical
non-diegetic
Yeah if she had died 100 times she might have mentioned it
Not to mention the bird that goes
🐦 "↗ dash"
lol
Sometimes game is not like real life hmm
Anyway saying that dark souls would be a better game if it had easy mode is cool because
- It's true
- It makes people so mad omg
I actually was underwhelmed by dark souls' difficulty, i thought it would be way more unfair
but yes it is a frustrating experience nonetheless
ppl talk abt it like it's brutal and i'm sitting here like "i died but i still have all my stuff??? this is baby hour"
Dark souls roguelike...
like y'all have not experienced unfair game design lmao
Yeah dark souls isn't the hardest game by far
Something about platformers can make them harder than any fps
Or like, entertainingly harder?
The big bad in dark souls could've had a billion billion health and that would probably be hardest game, but not any good
Yeah for sure
I was just like...the aura around dark souls is such that i was expecting something cruel
Something like, idk, LISA, lol
Just mean game design
Dark souls isn't out there to piss you off
I ended up liking it more because it was actually relatively more forgiving than expected haha
But ultimately it does become a drag so I haven't finished it
I stopped somewhere in fortress of sen, i think
Right! It's not there to piss you off, AND it encourages people to work together, which is why I think it's so funny that it's become the like, pinnacle of hard games
"Prepare to die edition"
god
They play it up, and gamers love it when games stroke their ego
Gonna make game that's called "only real gamers can beat this game"
"Because this game is very hard, too hard for fake gamers"
Recipe:
Tomato in microwave 30 seconds
Take a big bite out of it
∑( ̄□ ̄;)
gkjdfgfd it's ok i'm making pasta
As far as the “lazy player” fallacy goes, XCOM2 actually had the opposite problem. The game made some changes to encourage aggressive moves, and in doing so, drastically increased the difficulty from EU/W. Many players where complaining that the game was “too rng based” which is the XCOM equivalent of “its too hard and I can’t adapt”. The one of the lead devs said that his biggest regret was not creating one or 2 “fake” difficulty levels below easy, because they found that many people refused to chose the lowest setting out of pride, even if they would have had more fun and still been challenged
oh wow....its so interesting how the point of "playing a game" has shifted from being something thats fun to engage with for so many people 😔
What do you mean by that?
like.... a game (in general) is generally understood to be an entertainment but its become Serious Business among videogames
Yea I get what you mean
There is a lot of gate keeping especially in the community’s for “hard” games
ahhhh thats unfortunate 😔
A good recent example of this is sekiro
It’s an amazing game that makes a few pore game design choices early on
It’s one of those games that doesn’t hold your hand (which I’m all for) but sometimes you basically need specific items to progress and the game doesn’t really lead you to them at all
And because it is meant to be a hard game, people will defend this choice by saying that if you want a game to hold your hand, play something else
When In reality, it’s the games fault for allowing a player to miss a critical item
So, a mashup artist (who I have nothing but immense respect for, in terms of this one specifically and the genre in general) uploaded an April Fool's video. It's 11 minutes long, worth every second, and has easily over 20 songs in it. It had me wheezing with laughter in the first 4 minutes. WARNING: it does contain cussing, and has some harsh noise in it at the beginning, end, and some transitional moments in the middle.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUG19hD_ZiU
Thanks for everything, guys ^_^ I'll do your mashup request (for a small fee): https://s.surveyplanet.com/VPRmEB9vX Twitter: https://twitter.com/Inanimash Fa...
oh man, i see i missed the convo about gatekeeping in gaming communities
yeah, unfortunately that sort of behavior is common. :(
the second a developer introduces any sort of accessible difficulty options, people lose it
i've seen people complain even about the granular difficulty options in celeste, which is wild
it even affects how i play games on a subconcious level tbh. like i'll find myself picking normal over easy just because of that stigma--which definitely is worse when you're a gamer from an underrepresented gender in gaming in my experience
really i just think everyone should be allowed to enjoy games thanks for coming to my ted talk
youre right!!
I play games on easy if I don’t think I’ll be good at them and like, when I tell people if they respond with “ew git gud” it’s kinda... discouraging? Like I’m not playing to get frustrated by my inability to progress, I’m playing to have fun and for the story
YEP
100% this
i wish people would consider that their easy might be someone else's hard too. suggesting someone's not allowed to enjoy a game because they don't play on the hardest difficulty is problematic.
man zagreus really let himself go https://i.imgur.com/rY8jnqX.jpg
(from the borderlands 3 teaser)
What do you mean "let himself go"
Are you seeing those abs
You could grind meat on those
by that i meant he's all scarred and all
thats so sad orpheus play deathpacito
siren zagreus.....
GOD THIS USERPIC UGH
i activated my own fight or flight response.
jkgjkgkgk
:3
I have, I think, finished writing my celeste essay 
I'm failing so hard at doing things
General announcement: @sharp grail is pretty awesome.
That is all.
I just need to say: I'm so tired of people losing their mind over timed exclusivity as if it's some new concept that we have never had to deal with before. Just. Gawd. It's so frustrating.
Okay 🙂
Thanks for understanding. :)
pretty sure people are less mad about timed exclusivity and more mad about it being epic games timed exclusivity
Well... Epic store looks for me like early acces of platform... Like there is almost nothing polished...
in all fairness, steam was like that too when it first released
Yup
Well... I thing, Epic store need time to improve platform, fix problems (i heard about data leakages, but Steam also had problem with that) and add forum, option to Mark games, forum etc.
Please don't add forums. I'm happy if it stays just a store front forever.
Maybe it's just me but I don't tend to use the community features on steam
steam forum communities are...interesting
i've found them to be pretty toxic at times
steam forums are useful for finding bug fixes and guides and stuff
other than that ur right i don't care for the community
Gotta choose:
Better community service, more features and a bloody SEARCH BAR
Or, smaller publication cut, and an assured publicity for the devs
When in early access, it makes more sense for SG to go for the Epic Launcher. Games cost cash.
ok but I’m pretty sure epic has a search bar
because I am pretty sure I have used it
Well... I'll wait for full version anyway, because now i have barelly time for eating in home (job + iniversity)
And probably Will choose gog version if it Will be avaible
Meh, the reason people are outraged isnt that its epic
Its that its not steam
The fact that so much misinformation flows around doesnt help though
I’ve heard some spiky stuff about the epic launcher
Stuff like how it sells your data to china’s government and all that jazz
Yeah, that stuff is nonsense
Its basically "A chinese company owns 40% of their stocks, so they must work for the chinese"
Funny enough, this never comes up with Riot or Spotify
I don’t really believe that stuff but if it’s true they won’t find anything other than my rather...questionable homework
There is also rumours about "it has poor security"
Yet if you try to search for anything, the only story you get is a Fortnite exploit we heard about in January
That was already long fixed by that point
That also only worked if you fell for a phishing link
If people are really that scared of that stuff isn’t it just easier to just get an anti virus subscription?
That ... would not have any bearing on security
Security issues are stuff they can do with the store itself, not your PC
Ah
I mean what your PC has is also security, and I guess some Anti-virus software has anti-phishing measures?
But no, this is mostly about stuff thats on their end
To our knowledge, there isnt anything problematic there though
Welp. The more you learn ig
As far as actual problems are concerned, the EGS is rather lacking in features
But Id argue most features arent terribly relevant
Cloud saves are, and offline mode are, and I believe those are coming?
yeah the chinese spyware thing was confirmed false
but people still believe it
for some reason
Same reason they believe the "it has poor security thing"
It feeds into their bias
Its just a huge circlejerk
yay logical fallacies
Honestly Im just glad the EGS isnt as huge of a resourcehog as Steam is
I actually really like how EGS represent their download and update streamed data with the storage chunks lol
I'm not at all bothered by the EGS client itself
but their business practices are really, really, anti consumer.
There are a lot of problems with steam as a platform, but as a whole I think it has been a net positive to the gaming community; I cant say the same for the EGS.
i’m curious—what about their business practices in particular do you feel are anti-consumer?
that’s not exactly an unheard of concept
no one’s mad that blizzard has its own launcher
it happens on console all the time too, except in this case you don’t have to buy a new console to play the game
Battle.NET usually only hosts blizzards own games. I'm OK with that
but I'm not OK with having to run the EGS to play borderlands 3
if you want to compete with steam, make a better platform
dont try to choke it out by buying exclusivity
what I want is for someone to come in and make a superior alternative to Steam, so the industry moves forward
Steam has a LOT of issues, and part of the problem is that until recently, they had no competitor to keep them honest
this is exactly the kind of behaviour that stagnates industries, and I expected better from Epic.
what i really want is for itch to get better, tbh
it's the most promising contender imo
but it needs moderation and a working block button
I mean the funniest part is that the PC platform with the most exclusives is, well
Steam
But its not a problem when its Steam,. apparently
And the problem is easy, it doesnt matter if your launcher is better than steam, consumers wont switch
Because whatever improvement you can make is insignificant, and laziness is big
platforms dont die easy, but they can die
The main way to combat steam as a result isnt to target the consumers
Its to target the Devs
Which, yknow, makes sense
Thats who the platform has to be sold to
Consumers are gonna use whatever platform they have to use
I use steam even though its slow and eats up resources like mad
But yeah, exclusives are hardly "anti-consumer" unless it requires you to buy new Hardware
problem is that devs go for the biggest platform unless they have other incentives
thats not really a problem as much as it is "how it works"
itch has the best cut, and you dont see AAA games on there...
there's a lot at play
Well yeah, because the whole focus of the site is indies
I imagine there is some behind the scenes explanation to further solidify that
part of it is probably that itch doesnt have drm
Meh, DRM is hardly relevant for AAAs I imagine
if DRM wasnt a big deal, then all game companies would release games as direct downloads on their website
the reason why big devs go on big platforms is mostly DRM
what do you mean by distribution concerns?
Mostly handling the download ... load
the value of being on steam is a big server??
One of the big ones? Yeah, kinda
I mean, GoG is DRM-Free, and youll find plenty of AAA games there
hmm, i guess
I feel like hating the EGS is kind of the new edgy kid meme, but that's just me. Epic isn't forcing anyone to put their games on their store. Point blame at developers first. As long as they give enough of an advanced notice as to where they intend to place their product, there's little to object to.
Unlike that one dev who switched their game to being EGS exclusive at the last second.
The Metro thing was maybe not great
That was messed up and that was solely their fault.
I think they were honoring any sold stream copies though.
So it was like .. Pretty bad optics, but other than that I shrug
Granted, I'm a little biased, because I love that EGS isn't a terrible resource hog like Steam is. And the UI doesn't make me want to scream like Origin's does.
If this is exodus, they're honouring all steam pre orders
Thanks yeah that's what we were talking about
The epic store sells me video games. Good enough.
Is it annoying to have to install another launcher and have another account? Yes. But like... Meh?
Right? For me, I see it as the difference between going to Rite Aid or CVS to get a drink.
The exclusvity ultimately hurts consumers
It doesn't
I have to carry two discount cards with me now. Gee whiz.
Forcing people to use a service some don't want to use
From a business standpoint, competition between vendors more often than not is a boon to the consumer.
That argument would be stronger if physical copies still existed
And people haaaaaaaaaaaaaated it
Or there was a direct way to download the game
Why do i have to install this program to play games
I mean, I'd argue that Steam is still a bad client. It's just no longer AS bad.
Or youre out of luck
Etc etc
Epic store is freely available, and sells you games
Stream is freely available and sells you games
Origin, battle net, gog, uplay
Freely available, sells you games.
Right, and they dont do much beyond that
Its slightly annoying that you have to have them open to play games
Just because you the consumer feels that you don't want to install another program does not make it anti consumer
Seriously til I got more ram a couple years back, I had to close Steam to play League because otherwise it would seriously stutter
Granted my PC wasnt great but you get the idea
Making 3rd party games exlusive to one specific platform does though
Nope
Again, almost all 3rd party games are exclusive to one platform either way
Except in epics case, they are at best timed exclusives
Not Exclusive, full stop
And ultimately, you still can play it regardless hardware (within the sys reqs, obviously)
This isnt like Console exclusivity where you have to actually buy and have the space for a whole new system
Are console exclusives anti consumer?
Just to play the game
That's why I used shopping at Rite Aid versus CVS as an example. Just because CVS is the only place I can get... let's say Graze granola bars, and Rite Aid is more abundant in my area and easier to get to with more products I buy more regularly... That doesn't magically make CVS, as a whole, anti-consumer.
That logic just doesn't check out.
It's a unique problem that's attuned to my preferences.
Plus, its about the only way Steam is gonna lower their rates, which is good for the consumer as well
Not how the company performs to the consumer as a whole.
Means Indies have a bit more breathing room to scrape by
Related: I feel really bad for gearbox right now
It has to be a million times worse than what Hades and SGG are dealing with.
Eh, it mostly wont have an impact
Most people just dont care, as evident by Exodus doing well
ultimately I agree
Plus tbh the CEO of Gearbox is a uh
I just mean the "feedback"
Mmh
Oh yeah Randy can go away
Yknow, I dont know a PG way of putting it
I hate Gearbox so I'm kind of amused by it. But my dislike of Memerlands and anything Randy Pitchford touches aside, I know the game will still do well.
But let's not condemn the staff
Yeah thats fair
Yeah, put more accurately, I have an issue with their CEO and I'm not a huge fan of the franchise anymore. Not the people who put out the products.
Fair. I haven't played a Borderlands since 2 came out.
And I could use a game with so so writing and silly guns
I played 1 and 2 and I kind of felt like I didn't get anything out of 2 that I didn't already experience in 1, so it's just not for me.
Nothing wrong with that.
I tried Pre-sequel, it was kinda fun but god the heartbeat sound effect in the vacuum was bloody annoying
That does sound pretty bad
yo razer better fix their damn launcher
i can't login or even open synapse
heck even the installer won't work
Razer has been going downhill lately.
Which Sims, current gen? :3c
yep! sims 4
lost my sims 3 disk and my quality of life has significantly decreased ever since
sims 3 was fun when i ignored the pudding faces and the intense lag whenever i tried to do anything ever
Sora feels like... Good, Outgoing, and Loves the Outdoors. The last one is less direct and more like... I mean look at him, he definitely loves the outdoors.
OH i should take some pictures of the sims i made of red and boxer!!
riku should have the gloomy trait
Riku.... okay I was TOTALLY considering Gloomy. I also feel strongly about Self-Assured, Ambitious, and Family-Oriented for him. 🤔
Kairi... Neat, Romantic, Cheerful? Oh man the urge to play Sims rises by the second.
for namine i got art lover, clumsy and gloomy? im still a bit ehh on that one
goofy............
Goofy... Evil 
his name is foygoox now, he got norted too
Foygoox is the funniest possible name, Foygoox the Norted One
wait
Foygoox, the Norted Hound
Also a Bloodborne 2 boss
oh my god
foygoox?????
Goofy + X, the Organization XIII naming convention. 😄
I guess technically it'd have to be Foygox maybe.
aw yeah
xion traits,,, help
I never played the game she's in 😔

But I like the idea of the various aspects of these kids sharing a trait or two, if any of them work? 🤔
hey speaking of making game characters in the sims
guess who
i knew i still had these two saved somewhere
ur sims pics are always so neat

powered couple
HOLY
I figured it out!
Cloudbank is the sims
And the process is that glitch where the censor blur spreads across the screen!
Your right i got it mixed up with the glitch where the pixilation doesn't end when they put the clothes back on
Idk I don't even play the game just heard about it
Dakimakuras are just adult teddy bears
remember, kids, take your anti-oxidants or your bones will rust
Rusty bones is how u get squeaky joints
Rusty bones are the leading cause of corroldsion
The japanese season of drinking and staring pensively at cherry trees is in full swing, and happened to coincide with lovely weather so guess who's been ~hanami~
Cool I just drink and stare aimlessly at nothing.
Same, Dino... Same
I'm drinking and staring aimlessly at my computer monitors
I am drinking something that contains water
technically it's probably even mostly water by volume!
Truth!
In a large number of democratic societies that's good enough to just straight up be called water if you were voting for it
Looks tasty!
Yum
You earned it!
I want dat renkon
NICE
theyve shown a good understanding of combat 
K I D A S G U E S T C H A R A C T E R
smash clones don't really count but yeah that would be cool
supergiant's new game, Bicycle, a rhythm based fighting game romance visual novel
...Now I want someone to make that.
I'd play that, but only if there's a unicycle I get to date
I assume from the name it's a dating sim where the romance options are wheeled forms of transportarion
When is bouldy getting their smash invitation letter
bouldy and isabelle pull up to the smash arena together
don’t mess with them they’ll mess you up the most
isabelle can pick up bouldy
Bouldy’s side b would simply be sisyphus rolling him like that indiana jones boulder
I love this babey
https://twitter.com/CagleCats/status/1115278313616965632
i'd die for them
the face of concern
https://twitter.com/CagleCats/status/1113988450502488064
• x •
this is gunna make me CRY I love it thank you
😊 ♥
babieeeeee
The Cagle cats are a blessing... (and the human who oversees them runs a webcomic so u should defs look her up)
would die for all of these cats
ฅ'ω'ฅ
Seren what is happening to your avatar
wait thats so cute
How 2 get Seren avatar:
Step 1: open Snapchat
Step 2: open Jen Zee Art
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
HANDSOMEST BOY
the boye thanks you for the compliment
pat him for me and tell him i love him
Such a good boy!!!!
okie
High quality birb
I came here for sgg and I'm getting animal pics and I couldn't be happier
pats son and gives him S E E D for extra content
Thank you so much
no problem
HES A HANDSOME BOY
in the old narrator's voice: "the small bird appreciates the compliment and gives out a loud tweet as a sign of content"
there is nothing that can describe my emotion towards this Good Bird
PUPPER
Here is my derp
OH MY GO D D IBMLO VE
I thank thee for your kind gift of birb
VDBJDBDBVJSDH CAN YOU PAT HIM FOR ME
👍
ME TOO PELASE PAT
shower him with love and treats
ye s sss
Vigea games 😛
mine are drawing, playing video games (obviously), building and painting gundam models
like these
straight up died for a couple minutes but those are hella
thanks
i'm planning on making a hades themed build one day but i don't know what mobile suit to use as the base design
I just draw and play video games 😔
there's nothing bad in that lol
I am interested in modelling and coding though, so hopefully I find time soon to try it out
i've been wanting to get into coding for some time but never got the time to do so
I tried a while ago w unity and a tutorial but I haven't picked it back up since then
oof
Source for the following info is: https://archive.fo/fH0CN
I've also personally verified this behavior on my end using Process Monitor. It is 100% truthful information.
I hope that SuperGiant games strongly reconsiders doing business with the Epic Games Store until this malware-like activity concern is properly solved.
Epic Games Launcher has proven to commit malware-like activity and illegally obtain confidential Steam info without disclosure/consent of the end-user. This happens once the Epic Games Launcher is installed and BEFORE any attempt to 'link Steam Friends' via the GUI itself. Even after doing the link, the file itself is NOT accessed again. They grab all the info they want the first time.
Specifically, the file is 'localconfig.vdf' in the Steam directory. You can open this file up in a text editor. It contains your Steam friends, games owned/played, and other highly-personal data that isn't usually disclosed to 3rd-party companies.
I do feel that Epic Games is being owned/run by Tencent (let's be real with how much influence they have in China; got the Epic CEO by the short-hairs) and this is only one of many malware-like activities that the launcher has done and I believe Tencent may attempt to do even worse in the future (based on their stained history with online gaming and numerous Steam reviews/complaints by Chinese players).
I do not feel it is in the best interest of SuperGiant games to associate themselves with a company and games store/launcher that feels this violation of consumer/user privacy is acceptable (not to mention a violation of GDPR and dozens of USA laws regarding malware activity). I strongly urge SuperGiant games to consider revoking their Early Access on the Epic Games Store and instead do it on Steam/GoG/Humble/etc. There are many opportunities to do things in a way that doesn't treat users like garbage. The customers are the reason SuperGiant Games still exists. No amount of money/bribery should take that trust away. Be better than the other devs who have sold their soul to the devil in Tencent; after all a company based in China doesn't need to care about following laws in other countries if they exploit a company like Epic Games to do it instead.
That is an attempt to hide what they did and also grab it before Steam realizes the data breach.
I'm not sure Epic even knew what they wanted to do with that file yet, but they knew that they wanted to grab it while it was available in clear text.
Why bother making a copy of that file??? (which contains all your friends, every game you own, when you last played, etc) I suspect they didn't want access it more than once for fear of getting caught which they now are.
Also, hopefully Steam will properly encrypt this file to keep other nefarious companies from accessing this data.
Further info: The timestamp of the stolen copy of localconfig.vdf ( C:\ProgramData\Epic\SocialBackup\ *.bak ) is 1 minute after the timestamp of C:\Program Files (x86)\Epic Games\ so this information is taken right at launch, possibly even during install.```
Even those who aren't tech-saavy can go check the timestamps of the relevant files in their respective directories and confirm this information for themselves.
Regarding 'friends import' PR response by Epic Games:
I just went through the whole procedure of linking Steam to Epic via the Epic launcher so it can add friends and guess what, it didn't access that file once.
Their entire justification of copying the file in their press response is for the friends functionality.
And yet it isn't used during linking to Friends.
I use Procmon a lot, I set a filter for that file and confirmed when I accessed the file through command prompt that the access showed up, so I know it didn't miss the access.```
Procmon = Process Monitor, an official Microsoft-approved utility for analyzing processes in Windows and other programs to determine file/network access.
Official Microsoft Link/Info: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/procmon
God this again
This has been thoroughly debunked multiple times
Long story short, the guy writing it didnt know how electron-style browsers work
Almost all of that list is how they work
And the only reason it looks for that steamfile is for the friendslist to give you the option of importing it
If you check what they do, that is the only part of that file it retains
is it rlly supergiant off topic chat if we don’t have this conversation at least once a month
oh speaking of epic game store did you hear about how it steals your social security number and sells it to the martians?
epic game store grinds your bones to make its bread
omg not my bones
bone hurtin juice
nooo my bones are DRM free
steam: i heard you were using epic games as a launcher for your new title.
supergiant: st-steam it’s not what it looks like!
steam: I WONT HESITATE 🔫
hgjbjkhgvjkhkhgvjkgjk
Wait Litvac is a mod now?
mhm!! give her a warm welcome 
!!! congrats
me either
Whats the ETA on the next update again?
congwat
May 7th
Also man Gungeon is hard
I dont even finish it without any of the challenge things most of the time
Hades made me complacent
hello!! is me!! am mod!!
👋
thank you for the congrats ✨
🎉
🎊
Can @somber ferry even be a mod if she doesn't have a name with the theme?
uh oh 👀 💦
i feel like i had a good name before and just FORGOT IT fgjhgdfklgfd
to be fair a lot of the other mods changed back to normal names so
D:
Litvacation-from-themes
next patch we can get in formation again i guess hjfvhjfhj
venlysium? elysiven
OcAlectoctopus, there, can I be a mod now? 😛
Is that a Hyper Light Drifter icon I see? 👀
Yes!
🙌 NICE
K I T T E R
baby!!!!!!
oh i feel you
im baby
same
I write.
It's a hobby, and I'm writing for a small VN that may or may not ever be published.
This past week, I was working on a storyboard for a story I wanted to challenge myself with.
Just a storyboard, I thought, no way in hell could I actually write this.
Now i'm looking at it, in all its glory, amazed that this has become something I have the ability to plot and write....
I just wanted to say this somewhere, to get it off my chest.
That’s awesome!
🎉 👏 👏 👏 🎉
@earnest bay p sick
my dog got back from the vet an hour ago and he hasnt moved off of the sofa and hes grumbling at everyone
ive never seen him so grumpy its kinda funny
someone recommended to me a korean drama called W
watching the first episode right now
jumps from lighthearted to grim really fast
love this metafiction stuff
pwas are the future comrades
as long as the future isnt electron...
i guess ill keep an eye out
js is the future 🤓
(jk I hate js but at least you can edit literally anything that extends webkit / chrome lul)
being able to target web assembly is pretty exciting for platform agnostic development though, with languages starting to support it
like rust
aaaaah bleaching my hair and oh babpy! it hurts
what colour you going?
id say pink but
its kinda like,, peach maybe
im redoing my roots
bc its loooong overdue
im also playing ffxiv again and i missed it so much 
i've never bleached my hair, i'm always anxious i'd mess it up >>;
thats my worry every time i do it
the only time i messed my hair up was when my sister did it
yeah,, my sister has black hair
her hair cant grow past her shoulders any more
but she also did A lot to her hair
i wish i had money for it :(
they have 7 days free for old accounts
i missed my miqo’te
hm
my hair is a little
jacked up
actually it’s okay just kinda patchy i think my colour dye will fix it
hope it shows up well 🙏 !!
it's so much brighter than i expected it to look!!
It's SO COOL!
Verified Cool Dude™
can someone contextualize that for me?
the thing i sent?
i finished a dungeon in an mmo, played healer for the first time and 3 people gave me a commendation
3 people being,, everyone else in the party
thanatwos
Oh yeah, apparently the FF guys are working on another MMO
Hopefully this time with good combat
phew ok
Not that it matters much
Its not like a new MMO would mean FFXIV goes unsupported
FFXI still gets updated regularly
For some reason
I've been enjoying my time in FF14-- kinda. I have issues with it... I've hated the combat since 1.0 because I'm unfortunately a Legacy player who was spoiled by games like PSU and Tera. It's questing system obviously pales in comparison to TSW's (because EVERY MMORPG's questing system pales in comparison to TSW's). And the story, while better than others, still has a handful of annoying characters and contrived nonsense.
But I enjoy the world and the overall style of the game. That and I'm a roleplayer, so I get a lot more out of my time/experience than someome who just grinds their gear, raids, and flutters elsewhere.
My guild's main game of choice used to be GW2, but the content trickles in so slowly and/or inconsistently that it's just not sustainable for us.
Some of us still play the new updates when they launch, but those are quickly completed and then there's nothing else to do, so we leave.
Eh, I found that there is a lot to do in GW2 even past the content
But its all so free-form that its hard to keep a whole guild motivated on it
GW2, for better or for worse, is a game you can take a break from, and pick up and play later without losing out on anything
But yeah, FFXIV is beautiful, has a nice world and the character models are nice to look at
Its just not great as a game
Well, for me, I've completed every map/jumping puzzle/dungeon... I've done all story content... Made the legendaries I care to make... Have every class leveled and geared (except Guardian because I hate it)... Made my ascended sets... Got all my crafting classes done...
im weak for ff 
Well, that is a lot
I got the griffon and the roller beetle. Not the warclaw because WvW bores me to tears... Raiding in GW2 has always been something I've been against the concept of and hate the implementation of... Then PvP is just not for me...
Idk, I enjoy raiding and fractals, but fair
So for me, there's nothing else. Unless I forced myself to run Fractals.
Though there is the side story stuff
Which I've done in the past, but they offer no rewards I care for.
But yeah, I guess you just burned out on GW2
Though, does FFXIV really have much more to do?
It doesn't. From a gameplay perspective, I've exhausted both games. But like I said, I roleplay, so I kind of get to "extend" the use of my time in a game by running tabletop-esque storytelling sessions.
Ah, makes sense
I suppose FFXIV is a nicer world to roleplay in
Since its not on continuous brink of destruction
It's why TSW's quest design was so highly lauded to me, because I'm a strong advocate for narrative content in my games, and that was the only MMO to capitalize on that focus... Too bad the rest of the game was... Yikes. An unoptimized mini-disaster.
Even though GW2 has the Asura
And FFXIV does not
Ergo GW2 is scientifically proven to be superior
How so
My only exposure to them is Shantotto in Dissidia
And she was great
No wait, she was a Tarutaru which is apparently different?
I'll die on the hill of arguing the Tarutaru are separate enough from Lalafell to have their own identity.
But that's besides the point -- I'm not a fan of childlike animations/voices being given to a race meant to be taken seriously. Asura act like the adult braniacs they are. They're delightfully weird and neurotic.
Meanwhile Lalafell are over here rocking from side to side, waddling, and squealing like toddlers and whatnot... And for a period of time, we had two as major villains. It's like... This looks like a potato child with a moustache... Even if I think of it from the perspective of an in-universe character, it's not intimidating.
Oh I suppose they make for poor villains
Though it feels a bit like DnDs rock gnomes?
A small, very friendly race that have an almost childlike joy in everything they do
I just find it to be... creative dissonance when a developer obviously wants something to be taken seriously, but then they give it qualities and characteristics that promote the opposite intention.
I mean it can work
It'd be like if Hades was sitting up on his throne giggling and twiddling his thumbs, or skipping around the House while humming.
That dissonance can amplify the creepiness though off the top of my head I cant think of many examples
If written well, especially if you're going for a psychopath, I understand how that can work. But it's painfully obviously that's not Square Enix's goal with Lalafell.
I like Asura, I have 4 alts that are Asura. I wish that some of the people who played them weren't, uh... Doing things that give them (or any short race in an MMO) such a bad rep.
But they're neat.
If you mean what I think you mean
Then Asura of all of them shouldnt really be a problem
Theyre not like Elin
God I hated Elins
And 2 very fun classes were restricted to them
That's one part of what I meant. I dunno what it is, but trolls and "creepy people" tend to be attracted to short races since they see them as meme fodder. Doesn't mean everyone who plays them is like that, obviously, but it's kind of annoying to see. lol
Ah
That makes more sense
I just like Asura a lot, and most Asura players Ive met were nice
Which, given how arrogant and self-centered Asura are is rather ironic
I stopped playing Tera before they released new classes. Glad I stopped playing it when I did... But I appreciate it for showing me a battle system I loved.
I played it pretty much only because of its combat
But when Reaper and Ninja were Elin only
Yeah no
Everything about Elin is just creepy
And the excuse of "theyre actually totally very old" really doesnt work when everything about them goes against that
I actually played an Elin, but I was a Berserker, so she was covered in armor at all times.
Even the voice just bothered me
On the other hand I liked the Castanics
Because at least early on
They were equal in terms of how shirtless they were
I even made sure that my Castanic Dude did not wear any armor that would cover his beautiful abs
I had a Castanic Priest, but looking back, I wasn't a huge fan of how they were... Uh... Very not family friendly, is the terminology I'll use.
My favorite race in that game were the Amani. I thought their design was neat.
Those ugly Hrothgar? XD
No those are fine
They are budget Charrs, but theyre at least respectable
No, the other race
Viera? Au Ra?
Viera, thats the one
The weird bunny girls that look like theyre straight out of TERA
Didnt help that the reveal trailer thingie had them prouncing around in lingerie
In all fairness, FF12 predates Tera, and that's the game they're from.
Yeah I meant more style-wise
And their outfits are the costume of the major Viera character from that game
So it was a pure marketing move
I don't LIKE it
But I get why they did it
I honestly wish they didn't add a new race at all for this next expac.
I feel like they should've done one or the other, made them completely polished with both genders, then release them one at a time.
They could've just brought the other one in for 6.0 or 7.0.
On one hand Im glad GW2 never added another race
On the other hand Im sad we cant play Largos or Dredge
I know a lot of people want either Tengu or Largos. I'd be interested in seeing either of those... but I doubt they'd make another race.
At this point almost certainly not
Im not big on Tengu
But Largos are interesting enough and have a very cool aesthetic
And Dredge because the Dredge are awesome
I like the idea of Dredge being tiny little Russian mole people who weaponize sound, but I hate fighting them. Annoying little buggers.
Theyre also the second-most technologically advanced race
After Asura, obviously
Though even the Asura respect their tech
Really? I always considered Charr number two because of what the Iron Legion makes.
That's why the Pact was so effective. Asuran ingenuity and Charr industrialization.
Charr tech is pretty good, but its mostly in line with Dredge tech
The difference is that Dredges soundtech is both unparalleled in its ingenuity, and in its effectiveness
Or in other words, given the resources the Dredge could build anything the charr can, but not vice versa
That was more about the Charr having the resources and available tech
Honestly they never seemed all that annoying to me
Biggest thing was their daze, but even Raptors are worse in that regard
I'm the opposite. I don't mind Raptors because they don't stun me or knock me down like Dredge tech does.
Wait, Dredge can stun?
And it's never just a few Dredge. It's always a Dredge area. And you have to go through the whole thing to do... whatever it is you must do.
Stun, daze, etc. It stops me from doing actions.
I've never noticed. Maybe I kill them too quickly.
Yeah they do this like screech attack
Which dazes you for a couple of seconds
... oh my god I just got a Dredge pun
Dostoev Sky Peak
Dostoevsky
As in the author
I never got that
Hah. Sneaky ANet.
I mean most of the Dredge puns are obvious
Moletariat
Molenin
But that one was so subtle I really never got it
On a GW2-related sidenote
There is a hummingbird mount now
Video showcasing the Magnificent Hummingbird Skimmer skin available in the gemstore for 2000 gems.
Its so frikkin adorable
need... gil
It's freakin Pig time, babey!
🐷 ⏰
OINK
That seems like a good card
God card more like
love it!!!!
wow that card looks so broken lol
wait, does the card go back to your hand even if it dies when you attack
@upbeat scroll I would assume it does.
unless its removed from the game
er, exiled
Nah
If it dies, it doesnt go back
Also, its the red standin for Hazoret since she aint eternalized
Also its funny that the forerunners are stronger than the actual razeboar
it doesn't say anything about the card being in play
return to hand could mean from graveyard
Doesnt have to
Its probably one of the subrules in the rule document, though I cant be bothered to look it up
If the raze-boar dies do you still return the creature to your hand?
are there other cards that have had the same effect which would have had a ruling?
ok
exiled 
still, ambiguously worded 😛
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Yes because the actual base rules cover it
Magic is jank in a lot of ways, but this makes sense
sorry for leading you astray, thecakeflavor
Also, Ilharg actually does work very well with his Forerunners which is nice
The Razorhoof Boarhemoths have a purpose, yay
Mono-red Aggro is magic at its purest
Well not really but its close
On the other hand, that 5 mana planeswalker who shall not be named was a mistake
Jace the Mind Sculptor has a CMC of 4
Jace hasnt been in standard for years tho
yeah, I'm old.
JTMS was also a mistake tho
Youre right on that
He was way worse than the current one too
But its still bad
Folks.... I've never built a non-green deck in my life, but Ilharg calls to me
I JUST SAW PEOPLE TALKIN ABOUT CAGLE AND IM JUST thinking about how many times i've requested red on a patreon stream and i.... want my baybey girl.... drawn
that not only made you discard your hand and large chunks of your deck
i wonder if she's even played ityet
but also stole a bunch of your stuff
and... I feel like the amount of joy I had playing that deck says something about me as a person
but I'm not sure I like what it says....
Nothing wrong with a little evil
So long as you dont splash white mana for the planeswalker that shall not be named
@copper lark i missed my miqo’te
What a mood
i just love her


Home sick atm and I decides to get a ez mcdonalds meal, they forgot to put the chicken in the McChicken... I have a sad bun now lmao
its just a mc... 😔
not only were they just as confused, they were confused as
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