off-topic

[rapid marsh]

Actually, I might have one in my messages somewhere. Hold up.

[queen vale]

I remember submitting reports about non-existing, invalid portals and just being ignored, people making fake artwork so they cna have a home portal, and other shenanigans

[night plume]

A fountain at my work is a pokestop. It still makes me laugh bc you have to badge in to get to it or look very suspicious walking up to that fence getting close enough....

I often wonder if my work requested it

[queen vale]

Yep, there was some seriously sus portals, and Niantics stance was "As long as it's accessible for at least 1 day, it's legit"
There were portals in secure environments where no-one could access, or ones where access was limited to a few weeks a year, and other tricks

[rapid marsh]

Oh we had plenty of those. There was a person who stacked up a pile of tyres in their back yard, painted them, made it a portal, then got shitty when people came to capture it

[queen vale]

Yeah, and the people who claimed they were being bullied because their home portal kept getting capped with trash tier mods and L1 resonators

[rapid marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/puppet-awkward-looking-what-side-eye-gif-15476992

(I totally “wasn’t” one of those who’d pineapple couch portals with link amps)…..

[small berry]

My 80 year old mom would like to know your secrets

[rapid marsh]

Nah, who the heck am I kidding, yup, id pineapple a couch and flip it to thier colour for good measure

Used to piss people off if there were 2 agents doing it too. 4x link amps, jarvis or ada a portal= bricked.

[queen vale]

I'd sometimes make them random length deployments just to really annoy people

So it looked awful

[small berry]

Ingress probably created some really organized networks ngl

homegrown psyops

[rapid marsh]

Yeah. I tooootally never once did a 3am hike up a mountain to take out a portal….

[small berry]

it was really more complicated than it should and it was really popular

[queen vale]

Oh yeah, we had quite the intelligence groups, local / national player info and other stuff - though only the problem players, and used tricks like "known" players going to locations that were out of the way to dreak out opposition intelligence gathering

[small berry]

it almost felt like the game was there to track other stuff than just you gaming

[queen vale]

I'm, pretty sure they sold the walking data to Google to help with maps

[small berry]

they were the blueprint for sure

[queen vale]

IIRC they were a Google thing before they were independant

[small berry]

but the game itself, it almost felt like it was meant to simulate insurgencies

[rapid marsh]

Ah, the old- get the usual suspects to do a road trip to some location and make the opposite team freak, and have the not so usual suspects actually complete the actual operation 😆

[rapid marsh]

Kinda sorta. You also ended up with cliques. Groups where if you were not founding/ year 1 players, no one gave a shit.

[small berry]

I no joke think there was urban warfare shenanigans being studied

[rapid marsh]

I started mid year three, have year four badge.

[queen vale]

I'd not be suprised if some agencies didn't have a curious eye towards player behaviour

[small berry]

like the first geoloc game wasn't a pokemon go, it was a fringe sci fi militaristic clique shenanigans game

that to me seems sorta out of place

[queen vale]

Well geocaching was a thing before that to be fair

[rapid marsh]

Iirc on my push from lv15 to lv16 first time round, I had a payload of 100 hypercubes, 1500 X8 bursters, 400 ultrastrikes.
Took out 5 suburbs.

[small berry]

was it really?

when ingress launched I think there was none

[queen vale]

Nah, Geocaching was very niche but absolutely a thing well before ingress

[rapid marsh]

Geocaching was around well before ingress

[small berry]

I had never seen anyone play a geocaching game before, honestly, nor heard of it beyond stuff being tested

[queen vale]

Probably because to be fair it was very niche, like you'd only know about it if you were on certain sites or communities

[rapid marsh]

Ingress can be like geocaching if you’ve pissed a player off enough 😆

[queen vale]

I did leave little gifts at portals sometimes for giggles

[small berry]

You mean stuff like the social puzzles and misteries and whatnot?

[rapid marsh]

(They literally try hunting all your captured portals 😆)

[small berry]

Oh I see what you mean

[rapid marsh]

I used to leave either a plastic frog, or scratched the enl symbol somewhere not obvious.

Haven’t been enl since 2022 now though.

[queen vale]

I was always a Res player

[rapid marsh]

Flipped to res, much more fun crowd.

[small berry]

But to be fair, Ingress was the first actual not gamified experience but game that used geolocalization

[queen vale]

Yeah, there were some .. interesting ENL players shall we say

[rapid marsh]

We had “interesting” players on both sides :p

[small berry]

there wasn't any game in the app store or anything like ingress

[queen vale]

True, I always noticed that there seemed to be more .. militant or hardcore players were ENL

[queen vale]

I think Ingress was the first commercially successful one, but I'm pretty sure some geocache apps existed as you'd scan QR codes IIRC

[rapid marsh]

Really depended where in the world you were, each factions cells were pretty much across the spectrum

[small berry]

but those things are not games, those are social things

[sick flame]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1096476182695923772/1253758052067184735/image.png?ex=667704ad&is=6675b32d&hm=8d2fcc08b59a874a367220f1b9cb5e1dd051fac4cd6d4cba4737d9fa089888b0&

[queen vale]

I see what you mean

[queen vale]

In some cases literallt the spectrum

[rapid marsh]

Thing with ingress is you eventually had to be social to progress

[small berry]

for sure, the game is 100% social, but it is a game, it's not a gamified experience

[rapid marsh]

Well, I’m ADHD and OCD 😆

[hearty sonnet]

Me too bro

[small berry]

you can gamify food delivery, but that's not a geoloc game

[queen vale]

Which led to everyone creating Google groups and communities because Niantic took until what, this last year to successfully create a reasonable way for players to communicate with each other via Campfire

[rapid marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/baby-yoda-yoda-the-mandalorian-distracted-easily-i-am-gif-15875445

[queen vale]

Depends how you gamify it, if it's "Hunt the delivery bitch" then maybe? 😄

[rapid marsh]

Campfires shit, we still use discord/ slack/ telegram 😆

[night plume]

ADOS

[small berry]

It's a game by definition but nowadays I consider games stuff that has matches or a game loop, egg hunts are more a social event

[queen vale]

I'm really not surprised

[queen vale]

You ever seen a bunch of 5-10 year olds easter egg hunt? It's like lord of the fucking flies sometimes, not exactly "social" 😄

[rapid marsh]

I think the only things not in use are data scrapers any more, guardians are long gone

[small berry]

"I told you the clue meant LEFT"

[rapid marsh]

Oh trust me, you haven’t played a game of “clue” until you’ve seen multiple high profile ingress agents on an operation

[small berry]

I wish I had followed livestreamers playing it, it seems like the type of stuff I'd follow in some foreign city

[queen vale]

Ah, guardian hunting, the best way to give someone an anurysm, I got some guardian ranks by complete accident, never tried to actually get it proper - people would hunt my oldest and pop it and try taunt me, and I was like 'Huh, I had it how long? Neat'

[rapid marsh]

I went off the edge a bit…… night my grandad passed away, lost my 89 day guardian, took a 3 month break, and then fell in with that crowd….

Let’s just say I still have people who hate my guts.

[small berry]

I freaking wish I had ingress growing up, we'd probably end up in so many fights

[rapid marsh]

Never too late to start 😆

[small berry]

Best way to know thy neighbour, by 0wning them

[rapid marsh]

There was a saying- “one persons guardian was another persons unique capture”.

[queen vale]

Yeah I can see that pushing someone over a threshold - was one of the many reasons I never invested in "holding" an area, my playstyle was "Orbital bombardment and support deployment"

I'd frequently just carpet bomb an area, sometimes not even bothering to deploy

[rapid marsh]

I quit hunting after I achieved 149 days on a portal. Then I switched to annihilation and scorched earth.

[small berry]

I bet many couch players have thrown projectiles off the window to try to stop an assault

[rapid marsh]

That’s not the least of the shit that’s gone down….

There’s been reported instances of agents leaving letters at other agents from opposing factions addresses….

Up to and including actual assault/ bodily harm.

[queen vale]

Yeah, I've heard about assaults, Doxing, arrests and death threats in some groups, people trying to get people fired from jobs, muggings...

Some people took it way, way too fucking seriously

[small berry]

most I was aware of was robbers looking for distracted players to steal from em

[rapid marsh]

That was pogo.

[queen vale]

I heard of players stealing phones from players

In Ingress

[small berry]

This. IRL laughing out loud rite now.

[rapid marsh]

Oh, yeah, good times.
I know of one incident where someone had their phone smashed.

[small berry]

I missed that train bad

[queen vale]

Yeah, when people went off they went off

[rapid marsh]

Also know of an incident where a player took a tyre iron out on another player

[queen vale]

"DOES YOUR SHIELD MOD HELP YOU NOW BITCH???"

[rapid marsh]

Said player with tyre iron, also went cliff face climbing without gear and fell, broke lots of bones.

🤷🏻‍♂️ like we said, people of all types

Including stupid ones

[queen vale]

I personally know a group of people who hired a fucking helicopter to cap a portal on an island for an anchor, and they also had signal boosting kit to be able to get low signal portals, shit like Can-tennas to get wireless at no data locations...

[rapid marsh]

I went hiking up a mountain at 3am in bike gear 😆

[small berry]

Bruh why do humans take games so far

[queen vale]

I found myself on a beach in Wales at 7am, after being picked up at midnight to help some guys with an op

[rapid marsh]

Oooh, I think I heard of that one 😆

[small berry]

WHATFAK

I'm crying right now

[queen vale]

And I wasn't even one of the hardcore players 😄

[rapid marsh]

Loved midnight ops. Usually started at 10pm at a pub and then it was smash time

[queen vale]

Yep, beer up and blast off

[small berry]

Bruh some people must have been doing things playing Ingress, private jets and stuff I bet

[rapid marsh]

Booze up, time to smash VR modded fortress suburbs

[rapid marsh]

You’d be suprised at who played

There were apparently Hollywood celebs in on it

[queen vale]

The giggling like idiots when in a group, "3...2...1... fire fire fire!" to take out hardcore defended shit

Half pissed out of their heads

[small berry]

Mahn and I wondered why my mum was playing it so much

My mum probably had an entire second life

[rapid marsh]

Or the “oh hey, they’re recharging, quick, use ultrastrikes and strip everything of mods.

[queen vale]

As a social game it was incredible and ahead of it's time, but that was purly because of the playerbase and what we made happen, the social networks and communities

[queen vale]

L1 burster pings to wake up the locals >.>

[rough fractal]

I ate a Carolina reaper for fun

[small berry]

I think cities would be better places if we had several of these things going on

[rapid marsh]

Even better when it was an opposing farm cluster. Farm it and ping it.

60 minutes of pure hell

[hearty sonnet]

You're a madman

But I respect the hell outta you

[small berry]

Kids going out to play only to see what other kids are playing and go around the city and whatnot, kinda like a simulation of how it used to be

[queen vale]

Or just virus flip one random one

[rapid marsh]

Or, strip everything of mods, flip em and link amp em.

[queen vale]

If you were feeling spicy 😄

[rough fractal]

Lol I was bored but thank you

[rapid marsh]

Was especially great in clusters, as they’d destroy their own portals trying to strip mods

[rough fractal]

I'm feeling spicy alright

[queen vale]

"I was bored so I decided to threaten my internal organs with fire"

[hearty sonnet]

Carolina Reapers are not a joke haha, they're very hot

One of the hottest in the world

[rough fractal]

It was all pain wasn't even hot

[hearty sonnet]

A world where people keep making new & spicier peppers

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/atg-studiocapa-capa-pandu-fire-gif-24931067

[queen vale]

Sounds like several relationships I've had

[hearty sonnet]

I think the current hottest is something called Pepper X

[rapid marsh]

I was bored and this thing registers on the “extreme mouth burn pain scale” as a defence mechanism. Imma gunna fuggin eat it.

[hearty sonnet]

Which sounds scary

[rough fractal]

Yeah noo won't do that , that can start a car

[rapid marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/fart-rocket-rocket-man-jump-gif-16749917

[queen vale]

Yep, we are an immensely interesting species

[small berry]

we did find god in the shrooms

[rough fractal]

I almost touched my eye

[hearty sonnet]

You almost died

[rough fractal]

That would of been awful

[small berry]

contact user, can't relate

[hearty sonnet]

You would've been out of commission for the whole rest of the day at least

[queen vale]

I've rubbed my eyes with TCP on my hands, with Deep Heat, with Dettol.. Yeah, you learn

[small berry]

I used to poke at my eyes daily

[hearty sonnet]

I have really long eyelashes & they're always getting into my eye lol

[small berry]

if I didn't poke my eyes at night, I might wake up blind so it was a struggle

[queen vale]

Eye drops not any help?

[wicked cove]

Hi guys

[small berry]

I used to use contact lenses is all

[hearty sonnet]

I once had a dental hygienist simp over my eyelashes while I was getting a cleaning

[queen vale]

Oof, I can't do contacts, I struggle way too much with the flinch and blink reflexes

[small berry]

the brain is wise, you really get used to everything

but it do be dependant a lot on how your eye be, so it might move more or less

or unstuck and go to the side randomly and leave you blind trying not to drop your 200 bucks lens

Yeah contact lenses weren't a good experience for me, did a ton of exercise, got so much sweat into em a mold started growing and I had to drop em until I stopped doing so much frigging exercise

[night plume]

When my eyesight begins to go, I hope I can adjust to glasses easily.... I don't want to learn my contact tolerance lol

[rapid marsh]

Don’t touch your bits whatever you do….. don’t….. touch…. Your…… bits…..

[rough fractal]

Why what happens ..
Ya know what nvm

[rapid marsh]

10/10 chilli burns on the bits is worse than menthol….

[small berry]

If you're using contact lenses to exercise, use a headband for the sweat, I know it looks dorky, but it works

I didn't, I paid for it

[night plume]

Reminds me of when my brother told me he was making jalapeño poppers and then went to the bathroom without thinking

[rapid marsh]

Rip your bros peen

[teal iron]

my dad has literally 3 emotions, happy, neutral, and angry

[small berry]

that do be the spectrum

[teal iron]

Hot sauce in the eye is the only time he has probably ever cried in years

or so I'm told I happened to be on the other side of the house wearing headphones so I didn't hear the ordeal

[rough fractal]

I can tolerate onions amazingly

[hearty sonnet]

Onions are great

Someone once dared me to eat a whole onion & I did lol

[teal iron]

onions aren't real

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/eating-onions-gif-27711268

Onión.

[hearty sonnet]

Ungyon

[night plume]

I was chopping up a very potent onion once and it had me in tears. They were streaming down my face. My dad walked into the kitchen, thought it was hilarious, made fun of me, and even grabbed a giant chunk of onion and ate it. Very shortly after he was running out of the kitchen to hide that it was making him cry xD.
I was waving the knife at him yelling that I told him so as he fled out of the kitchen.

[hearty sonnet]

Karma is for real

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/airplane-airport-gif-26317318

[icy pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/tank-fly-gif-26218356

[grand falcon]

I knew it, tanks fly

That's why it spins

[icy pecan]

Exactly

It's just a bonus it can shoot to

But the main purpose of a tank is to fly

[hearty sonnet]

https://imgur.com/a/svVEKuZ
Sorry I had to

[rapid marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/thunderhawk-warhammer40k-deploy-transport-gunship-gif-25117446

[peak folio]

…so uh.. that tank identifies as an attack helicopter, I see.

[teal iron]

what the heck is this space engineers/scrap mechanic knockoff looking nonsense I see

[rough fractal]

Shell do you cook?

[hearty sonnet]

I do, sometimes

[rough fractal]

What donyou like to cook?

[queen vale]

The books

[teal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/spaceship-ship-crash-satisfying-space-engineers-gif-26242165

[rough fractal]

Ha space engineers

[hearty sonnet]

I make awesome burgers, beef stew, homemade mac & cheese & goulash

[rough fractal]

Beef stew let's goooo

[hearty sonnet]

Yeah it's my fav

[rough fractal]

I crashed me ship in space engineers, I'd post it but I'm afraid to post anything haha Xd I'll paint a picture for you 💥🚢 💨💨💨

[teal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/scrap-mechanic-train-crash-explosion-derailment-gif-23991984

[rough fractal]

Train!

[teal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/scrap-mechanic-flying-gif-26790514

[rough fractal]

Sonic?

[small berry]

As long as my financial advisor agrees and it's legal I meaaaaan...

I'm kinda paying him to save me money

[teal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/scrap-mechanic-turret-seat-hay-bot-gif-25139206

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/eate-esteban-shrug-i-mean-gif-19893915

[small berry]

this craftopia?

[rough fractal]

That's amazing

[hearty sonnet]

I wish haha

[small berry]

Mahn watching the Oslo freedom forum is hard

I can imagine 99% of the public constantly shedding tears how can people take this

I feel more people should watch it as righteous self punishment

[sick flame]

@peak folio https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/869597801976328233/1253777634530426880/achievement_2.png?ex=667716ea&is=6675c56a&hm=494ff63a9af7b02fb8829edbd5baf5a4f4f1df616638d5c85412eb0aa3f37fbf&

[rough fractal]

Bucky Is an achievement?

Wait

👀

Oh well guess he is now lol

[hearty sonnet]

Lol is that real?

[sick flame]

@peak folio https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/639839780271554581/1253783650726838397/image.png?ex=66771c84&is=6675cb04&hm=e03a2cbb3e4afd3b91337c64c1c62dd8bcde1aa3aeb9243008749f977a23afa0&

[rough fractal]

Heck yeah pearl abyss

[peak folio]

I’m sure Roberts Space Industries will be there too

[weak depot]

When is that?

[peak folio]

See if SQ42 ever comes out

[small berry]

have they been there before? I thought they liked to do that on their own event or somethin

[weak depot]

When is the event

[peak folio]

They do multiple events including their own.

[small berry]

aha

I still havent seen my promised space bus full of AI passengers and crew enjoying my route to whatever planet

so I'm still not interested beyond the stock market there

[sick flame]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/456206038010429440/1253785273813434408/Gamescom-2024-Termin-Oeffnungszeiten-v1-Web.png?ex=66771e07&is=6675cc87&hm=5d87f5b6001de3079b52a89a41b4770ab1d053361cd9e98c32479817b9365121&

[peak folio]

Shit I still haven’t seen functioning modules on the Retaliator.

They said they were gonna do that, what, 2015?

[small berry]

freaking hell, if server meshing isnt there this year we're gonna be here another decade

three quarters of the game still missing, the tech has been eeeeeexpensive

but allegedly mmorpgs wont be the same if they pull off server meshing

every game will be able to be multiplayer and maybe even run better than a single player environment as they put it

imho, kinda like an all big games become mmorpgs again era

[peak folio]

I think they finally got that to work, or maybe I’m thinking of object container streaming.

[small berry]

If I remember correctly they should have object container streaming running now? server meshing is scheduled for future alphas, I might be wrong

Server meshing is the new thing they think they can bring to the table, object container streaming has been public for a long time

[peak folio]

I think it was object container streaming, yeah.

Around the time they announced SQ42 was feature complete, I don’t think they need server meshing for a single player game.

I just recall a blurb about CR crying when they finally got it to work. 😆

[small berry]

It's surprising they've managed to raise so much money mostly just developing cool tech

it's taken a surprisingly long time too, the standards they're following are Rockstar levels

I think I paid for Star citizen with like my second or third paycheck ever, we growing old watching them work

[boreal falcon]

Quick peek at their roadmap has Server meshing V1 at 4.0 aimed Q3 this year. (I thought they had that done but I misremembered, I was thinking of 3.18's Persistent entity streaming, which was a bit of a mess to put it mildly until a few patch cycles and working with Graph QL devs to fix issues with their software)

[small berry]

if Server meshing was running, we'd know

[boreal falcon]

Its been a hot minitue since I hopped on so I had to de rust some memory there 😅

[small berry]

yeah, same here

[peak folio]

first ever high budget space game is sure an interesting thing.

But not only did it revive a dead genre but it got stagnant industry advancing again.

So it’s not a waste at least.

[small berry]

100% agree, big part of why I never entirely agreed with the label of scam project

[boreal falcon]

Yeah thats more or less why I dont regret backing it waaay back when, I got Rebel Galaxy and House of the Dying sun out of it.

(I wouldnt say first ever high budget space game because thats relative, in fact Wing Commander 4 at one point was the highest budget game ever, though in fairness a lot of that was due to Hollywood actors)

[small berry]

space mmorpg, cause elite dangerous was a thing before

[peak folio]

Wing Commander 4 was like not even $15m

[boreal falcon]

Hence Relative

[peak folio]

Games didn’t get much back then, but when games started getting higher budgets space games were dead dead

[humble parrot]

🤣

[small berry]

there were games like Homeworld or Elite dangerous

there's been big space games

[humble parrot]

X is a thing

[peak folio]

Elite Dangerous came after Star Citizen started.

[humble parrot]

Eve, Freelancer online.

[peak folio]

Old Elite was waaaay old.

But yeah all those are very low budget games.

[small berry]

I thought they came out more or less at the same time, it's been a long time

[humble parrot]

Is a big budget even a good thing

[peak folio]

Not like 200 million for COD or whatever

[humble parrot]

The industry is currently collapsing because of it

[small berry]

for a space game, yeah

[peak folio]

Star Citizen promoted Elite Dangerous’ crowdfunding campaign all like “SUPPORT SPACE GAMES PLEASE!”

[peak folio]

People have been saying that since like the PS2 came out

[humble parrot]

Nope

[peak folio]

A time which then demonstrated that console to become the best selling one in history so far.

[humble parrot]

You're confusing click bait media of the time with literally the state of the industry.

[boreal falcon]

(And IIIRC Descent Underground after Eric Peterson left CIG and Richard Garriot's Shroud of the avatar cause Chris was a former coworker back at Origin)

[peak folio]

Clickbait is a now problem.

I think you got it all backwards.

[humble parrot]

Now?

It has always been there

Always.

[peak folio]

most things were still print back then, lol

[humble parrot]

And that changes things how?

With "click bait" I refer to stuff that just draws attention without any actualy thought put onto it beyond that

[peak folio]

Oblivion came out later like 2006(?) and many publications were saying games were getting too expensive and we’ll never see another elder scrolls.

[humble parrot]

It is a more...current word

I don't recall ever seeing any of those

Or even seeing any actual collapse

If anything, the opposite happened

Thus, you read bait

[peak folio]

You’re also not in the US, probably couldn’t get that information back then because most of it was print.

[humble parrot]

The internet still existed, how about you stop assuming that because I don't live in the US we are caveman

[peak folio]

And they’re saying the same thing now.

[humble parrot]

I still have my collection of magazines from the time

[peak folio]

Which is my point.

[humble parrot]

With an actually observable decline

Not just words thrown around

[peak folio]

If you believe AAA failing and that PS5 is struggling, Sony has released a lot of decisive proof that that’s just as incorrect now as it was back then.

[humble parrot]

PS5?

[peak folio]

Since playstation is doing very well

[humble parrot]

I thought we were talking games, not consoles

Why change the topic

[peak folio]

Almost forgot dealing with the kind of logic here. 😆

[humble parrot]

Uh huh

[peak folio]

So yeas Star Citizen is a thing.

[humble parrot]

The industry is totally fine guys

Nothing bad going, just ignore the hundreds of thousands lay offs and studios closed down

[peak folio]

The sky is falling guys.

[humble parrot]

It's all fine

[peak folio]

Microsoft probably single handedly made this a record year of layoffs.

[humble parrot]

Also, ignore all the major AAA flops happening almost daily now

Everything is good

Rainbows even.

[boreal falcon]

Dumb question what are your referring to here in regards to proof?

Not trying to be a jerk, I'm just curious cause brain is drawing a blank. 😅

[humble parrot]

I wasn't even saying anything bad about SC

[peak folio]

Their Q1

[humble parrot]

SC is fine, a collapse wouldn't affect them

[boreal falcon]

Ty!

[small berry]

big games failing big has always been a thing tho

[humble parrot]

Now it's games have always been failing

[peak folio]

Double standards with the clickbait I see

[peak folio]

Exactly.

It’s really nothing new.

[humble parrot]

😂

[small berry]

I dont really agree with that way of seeing things, if anything there's now a bigger industry than ever farming outrage from failures

[humble parrot]

You can't really help a blind person see

😔

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/ironic-star-wars-chode-gif-5274592

[humble parrot]

Yeah, I know Kyran. It's hard to cope with it.

[small berry]

there's been big budget clusterfucks since videogames were invented

it's really nothing new

[humble parrot]

Of course.

[peak folio]

Same things happening exactly as before and it was proven wrong back then, but now is just so much different.

[humble parrot]

Not even

[peak folio]

Given examples too.

[small berry]

We got bloggers at every site posting about how bad or good a game is

way bigger than before

[peak folio]

But no it was just clickbait then before there was even a youtube

[humble parrot]

You know

[small berry]

there was, but the magnitudes and reach are not comparable

[peak folio]

But for now it’s for realz

[humble parrot]

With people like you too, I prefer to just let time answer

I don't forget. I promise to remind you both.

[peak folio]

I’m sure we’ll have gone our separate ways by then.

[humble parrot]

Maybe yes, maybe not

[small berry]

what are we waiting for again?

[humble parrot]

I will be here

[peak folio]

Azrelus thinks the industry will collapse.

[small berry]

define collapse

define industry

[peak folio]

🤷‍♂️

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/facepalm-really-stressed-mad-angry-gif-16109475

[peak folio]

Same shit that’s been said for 30 years.

[humble parrot]

Uh huh

Because it totally didn't happen before

Are you going to deny that as well?

Or keep the bubble going

[peak folio]

You’ve yet to cite a single example

[humble parrot]

An example of what

I already mentioned the numerous events going on

You just waved it off without any consideration

[peak folio]

Things that are pretty standard across time and industries.

[humble parrot]

A collapse isn't a bad thing

[peak folio]

Nothing of note that makes this so different b

[humble parrot]

I don't know what you're expecting it to be

But last time, we got better games and systems out of it

[humble parrot]

See, just waving it off without consideration

[small berry]

based on how fast new tech is coming out its hard to see a gaming industry collapse

[humble parrot]

There's no point in arguing, if we're just going to wave off each other

[peak folio]

With of substance there is no point being base besides being contrarian.

[humble parrot]

So, time.

[peak folio]

Time won’t tell a point that’s never been made.

[humble parrot]

It will

I made my point even if you ignored it

And I will remind you of it

[frozen bluff]

Good afternoon y'all, hope everyone is doing alright today

[peak folio]

Nerzul asked what your point even is.

[humble parrot]

Afternoon Cynic

[humble parrot]

You answered

So, you're just waving it off based on your own assumptions without considering it. Again, I prefer time to just dictate what happens in this case

[frozen bluff]

O - bad time?

[peak folio]

Either elaborate or stop making accusations

[humble parrot]

Nah

[peak folio]

We’re talking star citizen

[humble parrot]

Kyran wants to keep arguing just so he can keep ignoring arguments to keep his bubble intact

[peak folio]

Accusations

[humble parrot]

Accusations, just like yours

[peak folio]

Like?

[humble parrot]

.

[peak folio]

Is it wrong?

[humble parrot]

Yes.

[peak folio]

You’ll have to elaborate how now is different then.

[humble parrot]

Really

[peak folio]

My point stands then.

[humble parrot]

The sheer number of lay offs and studios closing is not enough

I cannot make a blind person see

I don't make miracles

[peak folio]

Which I have addressed.

[small berry]

bigger industry bigger numbers

[weak mirage]

You guys might want to end this little quarrel before the moderators get involved.

[humble parrot]

Bigger fall

[peak folio]

Nothing new

[humble parrot]

I already offered to end it

[peak folio]

Literally nothing new.

[humble parrot]

Kyran just wants to keep going on his bubble

[small berry]

when things get bigger they don't tend to collapse entirelly but pieces of them fall off

[peak folio]

i’m in a bubble because I have solid points for having a hard disagreement with Azrelus

[humble parrot]

I offered several times now to just let time show what happens

You're in a bubble because you just wave off proof

[weak mirage]

Well, there needs to be a stopping point, or somebody else will stop it for you, and I am sure neither of you want that.

[humble parrot]

Without any consideration

Then say someone doesn't have any arguments

When you just wave off anything they say.

It is simply not possible to argue with someone so closed off

[peak folio]

He can’t defend his stance so he accuses me of being incapable of grasping his superior insight without him offering a proper explanation

[humble parrot]

Again, I offer time to show what happens

[peak folio]

I rest my case.

[humble parrot]

Never said anything about superior insight, putting words in my mouth

• Check

[weak mirage]

Please guys, is a topic like this really worth arguing over? it is starting to get old.

[humble parrot]

Never said anything about grasping it either

So I guess that's another check

[peak folio]

@small berry With SC getting well past halftime a billion, it’s probably safe to say no other space game has gotten a movie tier budget besides maybe the futuristic COD.

[humble parrot]

Thank you. I'll make sure to remember.

[peak folio]

With really no similar project* I’d argue it was subject to a lot of… distractions over the last decade.

https://robertsspaceindustries.com/funding-goals

omg, almost 3/4th a billion

[small berry]

yeh

[boreal falcon]

Yeah I think there were two turning points there

1. The Initial planetside prototype (which was initially going to be postlaunch rather than being one of the man focuses of the game)

2. That one community poll early on that asked about scope expansion (IIRC it was something like an 80-20 split of yes/no)

The rest is history

[peak folio]

A lot of problems happen with an infinite budget

[peak folio]

The procedural planet tech came online a lot sooner than they thought it would and CR wanted to use it in Squadron 42. I absolutely agree this instantly blew up the scope of work to make that meaningful content.

[weak depot]

What happen

Is this about palworld

[boreal falcon]

Yeah that too, I remember when They were expecting FPS done before the MMO when the complete opposite happened lol

Good ol days

[icy pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/peter-griffin-perhaps-family-guy-thinking-gif-13587558

[hearty sonnet]

Nope, I honestly don't know what they're talking about lol

[peak folio]

Star Citizen in off topic

[hearty sonnet]

Oooooooh

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/peter-griffin-gif-11725800145853034187

[hearty sonnet]

Omfg hahahahah

Ded

[peak folio]

I talked about big budgets and got distracted on a dumb side quest, lol

[hearty sonnet]

It's scary when the dragons fight

[peak folio]

Nah

But yeah, the best projects seem to be the ones with almost enough money in my observation. 😂

https://youtu.be/nWm_OhIKms8

[humble parrot]

We both face in the same direction

[peak folio]

Long ass video but it’s certainly got implications of what can be done in games moving forward.

[humble parrot]

It's hard to fight that way

[peak folio]

😆

Be like crabs or something.

[humble parrot]

Dragon carcinization?

[peak folio]

[boreal falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/zoidberg-walking-zoidberg-futurama-walking-funny-gif-13167961

[frozen bluff]

Is the argument over?

[hearty sonnet]

I believe so

Peace has returned to these lands once more

[queen vale]

Argument? I missed the fun?

[hearty sonnet]

It was very mild & tame

[queen vale]

Aww, so like a baby fight

[hearty sonnet]

🫥

Lmao

[quartz magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/boop-wolf-furry-wolf-boop-cute-gif-24709083

[queen vale]

Boop this snoot motherfucker

[hearty sonnet]

Get booped IDIOT

[peak folio]

[frozen bluff]

Oh goodie

[humble parrot]

All over

[quartz magnet]

[frozen bluff]

Anyway, my sister won grand champion cake decoration for the fair

[humble parrot]

Nice

[boreal falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/i-bestow-upon-you-a-boop-ollie-boop-ollie-and-lauren-boop-boop-exchange-gif-22807860

[frozen bluff]

Proud of her tbh. The thing she made looked straight up professional

[peak folio]

I’m surprised I haven’t seen that one earlier

[quartz magnet]

dont see much 'boop' talks around here

[peak folio]

Equally surprising

[frozen bluff]

You'd think there would be more given the game and how many of the pals are adorable

[small berry]

boop deez nuts

[humble parrot]

🤔

Boop Katress

[sick flame]

https://tenor.com/view/oompa-goomba-chopincat-gif-21938997

[frozen bluff]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/355713391656042496/1250883766168064131/image.png?ex=66771bca&is=6675ca4a&hm=5161946a876769bee7f697d7930968e1caed0bd583f8d061747a77c833517897&

[queen vale]

Honestly we should probably be glad there's not too much booping, things get .. heated when people boop too much

[humble parrot]

💀

[frozen bluff]

It ain't that hot

Go for maintenance 🛠️

[queen vale]

No, but then people start uwuing everywhere, and before you realise it what's this and piles of people everywhere

[hearty sonnet]

Yeah I'd rather avoid boops and uwu's TBH

[frozen bluff]

That ambient temperature gotta be at least 90 degrees

[hearty sonnet]

Things get real cringe real fast

[humble parrot]

I'm drawing very thicc thighs

[queen vale]

Well it's 26c in my house right now so...

[frozen bluff]

Bruh I fuckin wish it was that cool

That'd be so nice lol

[frozen bluff]

Oh, having fun?

[queen vale]

For the UK that's pretty warm to be honest, and I don't want it warmer as I need to keep my insulin at non-boiling temps 😄

[humble parrot]

Dragostrophe 😂

[frozen bluff]

That's like, pleasant temperature here

[frozen bluff]

Translated to the other scale, it's 33.33C outside. While where I was working, the ambient temp was at least 43-49C

[peak folio]

49c 💀

[queen vale]

Yeeeah that's a hard nope from me thank you ta

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/kaboom-boom-nuke-nuclear-bomb-gif-20734003

[frozen bluff]

That was the "cooler" part away from the furnaces

[peak folio]

you said 43 to 49

[frozen bluff]

Outside was cool in comparison. Actually felt pleasant stepping outside

[frozen bluff]

I did. We were next to one of the feed systems for the reverb furnace earlier this morning. Believe it or not - around 50, even when it was off. We had to wear protective gloves to remove the part we were changing

[peak folio]

I’d hope so

[frozen bluff]

It definitely gets hot in the summer

I find myself drinking twice the recommended daily intake of water 😅

[frozen bluff]

That being said, make sure you keep up on your hydration and whatnot

[rough fractal]

Shell?

[hearty sonnet]

Ahoy matey

[rough fractal]

Arrr, what be ye doin' today? 'Tis almost time fer me to set sail fer home!

Savvy

[hearty sonnet]

[frozen bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/skeleton-burning-hell-pain-gif-17379863

https://tenor.com/view/sons-of-the-forest-the-forest-kelvin-kelvin-thumbs-up-kelvin-on-fire-gif-27633644

[peak folio]

🔥

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/today-is-friday-in-california-gif-25066545

[humble parrot]

This is how picture Cynic when he exits the tank after working in it during a 45C day

[hearty sonnet]

I need to know what this is from lol

Those two doctors at the end are my spirit animal

[queen vale]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WaYCdQ8FOQ

live-action Super Sentai series Ninja Sentai Kakuranger.

[hearty sonnet]

Okay hahaha

Now I know

[queen vale]

The scene originated from the 46th episode of the live-action Super Sentai series Ninja Sentai Kakuranger titled "The New Year's Manga Hell."[

https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/today-is-friday-in-california

[frozen bluff]

Hahaha, no tank work today. It would be a lot worse with humidity stacked on top of it tho

Metal tank + little place for moisture to escape unless the cap was removed.

[peak folio]

“Shoot!” bang bang

[hearty sonnet]

Lmao SHOOT!

That's so funny

Like when Hellboy punches someone & yells BOOM

[queen vale]

It's just something else, even with the video and context it's just like wat

[humble parrot]

I have to deal with stupidly high humidity, it can get hard to breathe sometimes

And it just condenses on your forehead

And this is without being in a little space...

[frozen bluff]

Humidity plus heat is always the worst

That being said, I have the day off tomorrow. Is naptime

[humble parrot]

Nice

[humble parrot]

It's been raining a lot here, so I get what I mentioned just walking to the super and back

[peak folio]

Dehumidifier ftw

or just plain ol AC

[humble parrot]

AC is on all day

I only turn it off at night, because my cat sleeps with me

[hearty sonnet]

God bless AC

An ancestor of mine invented the AC, 100% truth

[humble parrot]

🤔

AC as in Alternate Current, the year thing, air conditioning...

[hearty sonnet]

Air Conditioning lol

[small berry]

Ass curing

[hearty sonnet]

Ass is cured

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/spank-tomandjerry-tom-puppy-gif-17440974692614857284

[weak mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/calor-warm-hot-ventilador-dogs-gif-14715654

[hearty sonnet]

Don't threaten me with a good time heh heh heh

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/happy-smile-alex-jones-gif-4365489965314851795

[hearty sonnet]

🤣

[brazen storm]

ARE YOU TRYING TO HAVE SEX WITH ME⁉️ 🤨... 😈

[small berry]

R.I.P Alex Jones, he will forever be in our memes

[brazen storm]

Those reactions were lightning fast

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/alex-jones-karate-karate-kid-gif-22592831

[brazen storm]

Oh don't tell me that mf dead!

[hearty sonnet]

Lol he's not actually dead is he?

[small berry]

he's buried in like a billion dollars in debt, he do be kinda dead

[hearty sonnet]

Oh DAMN

[brazen storm]

💀

[hearty sonnet]

Why he in so much debt?

[small berry]

He said some bad things about Sandy hook

Families and whatnot got the billion or so dollars

[hearty sonnet]

Wooooooow

[small berry]

Justice wanted to make an example of him so, it is what it is

he did say pretty messed up stuff

[hearty sonnet]

Jeeperz

He did lmao

Crazy man

[small berry]

He got a couple things surprisingly right before anyone else tho, the guy somehow got access to a trove of secret stuff at some point

"at some point"

he taught us what the bohemian grove was

[brazen storm]

Lol is that the place with the owl

[small berry]

druidic weird rituals of the super rich and influential

100% stuff from movies

REDACTED||apparently he predicted 9/11 before it happened||

[lucid coral]

If I recall there was an oracle who predicted the fall of twin brothers though people tried to attribute it to that tragedy.

[small berry]

Twin brothers...I see...

[hearty sonnet]

Predictions like that are always so vague haha, they can fit into a lot of things

The brothers shall fall.....
9/11

[small berry]

afaik the important thing is that he said the US government was preparing to invade some place in the middle east and he said it would be a false flag

the false flag thing is speculation but the US did invade somewhere in the middle east

he apparently was indeed onto something somehow

being onto something as in a 10% of the information he was being fed might have truth to it

[queen vale]

USA invasion of the middle east is like predicting wet when it rains to be fair

[small berry]

fair fair

[queen vale]

It's one of those tough things where is it they are throwing enough shit to see what sticks or just lucky one in a few dozen times

Also as you said if he is being fed info to 'leak' for spin purposes for his target audience

[small berry]

For sure, I mean that's part of his job as a speculator, he gets snippets of info that he doesn't quite know how they fit together and just slaps it there to something else

just keep repeating various iterations and something will eventually be true

but it is weird that there was indeed a huge push to think 9/11 was an inside job

I guess he's a pioneer of those claims, before they even happened

[queen vale]

Conspiracy, cult of personality, and feeling part of a big secret is a powerful driver to the disengaged a d disenfranchised

[small berry]

sadly something I've experienced up close one too many times

[icy pecan]

what are we talking about

[small berry]

Alex Jones and Conspiracy theories

Now, on History Channel

[icy pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/conspiracy-theory-gif-10587157

I loved the history channel... When it showed stuff related to history

[humble parrot]

Same

[queen vale]

Gonna go sleep, stay safe all, don't let the brain bugs bite

[icy pecan]

They can’t bite if you don’t have one

https://tenor.com/view/big-brain-gif-27108854

[small berry]

JFK junior seething

people that had brain worms feeling offended now

TIL Kamen Rider is the wildest Japanese stuff ever

Don't google a certain starfish villain from it

[rough fractal]

Have a great weekend you guys..after some surprises and stressful back and forth banter I finally learned how to animate better then ever

And make Buffalo chicken dip

[hearty sonnet]

Awesome

Double win

[rough fractal]

Yessss!!! Hru now shell

[hearty sonnet]

Just walked my dog for the fourth time today & now I'm gonna be lazy

[rough fractal]

I can't wait to get lazy

[hearty sonnet]

Pajama time

[rough fractal]

Ja!

😄

[grand falcon]

Your always lazy

[hearty sonnet]

Definitely not lmao

[grand falcon]

I saw your smart watch

You had only 100 steps in the past 2 years!!!

[hearty sonnet]

I've touched so much grass today

I think at one point I may have smelled a wild flower

[hearty sonnet]

Lol imagine hahaha

[grand falcon]

Sounds like a lie

Sounds like something a discord mod would say

[hearty sonnet]

Oh absolutely

[grand falcon]

Oh wait......you are a mod....

And you did say it

I am NOT ready for this training school to start on Tuesday

Although, I am ready for that government money I'll be getting

[hearty sonnet]

Salary rocks

[small berry]

Rock salary

[hearty sonnet]

We're ROCKS!

[grand falcon]

I should be getting like $1400 or so each month

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/yabadabadoo-fredflinstone-flinstones-going-hone-end-of-work-gif-13150892

[grand falcon]

The money is supposed to technically be used to help pay for the schooling, but the training school I'll be going to is completely free

So it's free money

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/port-of-dandong-advchina-china-show-ccp-serpentza-gif-27644946

[frozen bluff]

Naptime complete. Good evening y'all

[quartz magnet]

ello Cynic

[humble parrot]

Evening Cynic

[frozen bluff]

Evening, Azzy. Evening Caos

How are y'all doing?

Going on a short walk before settling in for the night

[tough comet]

does this count as a doing?

[humble parrot]

Playing with some irl friends

[icy pecan]

What are friends

[humble parrot]

You

[icy pecan]

Me

[humble parrot]

Yes

[icy pecan]

I was told it was supposed to be a strawberry moon tonight but I looked out side and all I see is a big cheese wheel

[weak mirage]

All I see during the night is STARLINK satellites.

[frozen bluff]

Me, I'm friend

(To most)

[weak mirage]

I can be anyone's friend. I just need to know you a little.

[frozen bluff]

This, lmao

[icy pecan]

[frozen bluff]

I hope y'all are doing alright this evening. I just returned from a walk

[weak mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/shrek-its-quiet-quiet-gif-22160130

[frozen bluff]

I kinda like it this way tbh

[tranquil obsidian]

appreciate the quiet times, they're special

[tough comet]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cool-story-cool-story-gif-24016804

[frozen bluff]

Yeee

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-ears-cat-eyes-cat-hiding-hiding-cat-gif-8389763803474549606

[weak mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/drinking-funny-cat-gif-827782266375240246

[quartz magnet]

https://imgur.com/lydR04L

[frozen bluff]

Rat posting!

[quartz magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/post-this-rat-rat-post-dancing-bounce-gif-16643947

[weak mirage]

Move over "Letting the cat out of the bag"! there is a new term on the block!

[quartz magnet]

[humble parrot]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-wake-up-gif-8334433784235566704

[weak mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rats-rat-cute-rat-lol-running-rat-gif-579985741003245962

[frozen bluff]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-attack-rat-attack-have-at-thee-gif-11648161592664583090

[quartz magnet]

https://tenor.com/view/you-died-rat-jump-gif-27076577

[weak mirage]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-flying-gif-11698170

[quartz magnet]

https://fxtwitter.com/venuslovesrats/status/1796251569115251035

ferocious beast

[frozen bluff]

greedy lil boi

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-shower-bath-soap-gif-16388990

Laa ta deee~

[icy pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/rip-chat-chat-dead-dead-chat-inactive-gif-18754855

[sick flame]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-bed-deflate-gif-4485064855593108883

[sick flame]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/639839780271554581/1253922305692799006/image.png?ex=66779da6&is=66764c26&hm=fe0469d9f867ca19bf4e93f5d955a426b74253c8b1b733c4098d281c9940db9d&

[tough comet]

silence is music to my ears

[quartz magnet]

[clever citrus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1022350984225239090/1253950886342824086/image.png?ex=6677b844&is=667666c4&hm=ac072fa4379d1ab37a4061045db60270c03410e239aa1bdcdeab23ee02530d3a&
uh

[frozen bluff]

What is this all about?

[clever citrus]

i have no idea 💀

[frozen bluff]

What game tho?

[brazen storm]

I need a bandaid cuz that hoe is edgy as shit!

I think I cut myself!

[frozen bluff]

Edgy enough to give anyone a paper cut. Razor blades envy em

[brazen storm]

I will be put in the ground before I ever pay a cent for spotify premium

[frozen bluff]

Soundcloud is better anyway

(I've used both)

[brazen storm]

||MediaHuman is the 🐐||

[frozen bluff]

Don't think I've ever heard of that one tbh

[brazen storm]

It's a YTMP3 downloader that won't give your computer superduperquadrooper Mega AIDS

I found it on a Reddit post

[frozen bluff]

The only genuine use for Reddit is for oddball stuff like that tbh

It's a cesspit literally everywhere else on that godforsaken site

I can smell the cheetos just looking at the link to open it

Smells like...

Artificial cheese dust

[clever citrus]

Roblox phantom forces

[brazen storm]

I got banned off Reddit because I told someone I was gonna kill them with a rock for not finding a beetle cute

[frozen bluff]

What's with Roblox people and being 'that way'

[frozen bluff]

Least powertripping reddit mods be like

[brazen storm]

Like, that's clearly a joke dawg I'm not actually gonna Cain and Abel someone for disagreeing with me

[frozen bluff]

Man is on his Cain arc fr 😔

[clever citrus]

i don't know man 😭
people are just that toxic in roblox

[brazen storm]

Funny story, someone apparently reported me to the suicide hotline because I said I was gonna "sacrifice myself" after saying something extremely Reddit-y (I was on r/WizardPosting)

[frozen bluff]

I'm sorry you had to experience it for yourself, brotha 😔

[frozen bluff]

Bruh 💀

[brazen storm]

Of course it's fucking Phantom Forces dawg

[brazen storm]

I know I wasn't the most Wholesome 100 epic win Keanu Chungus as a Redditor but people got mad at me over the dumbest shit. I'm so glad I got off there, though I do miss finding absolutely ridiculous memes on there

[frozen bluff]

The memes really aren't worth a frequent visit to that site. Redditor bubbles are much more fragile than actual bubbles, it's insanity

Those people live in such a detached state from reality you'd SWEAR you were talking to a skyrim NPC or something

That or you gain 5 pounds from reading what they have to say

I've worked HARD to lose some of the belly fat that I've had, I'd be pissed!

[brazen storm]

I managed to stay away from most of the freaks by avoiding all the popular subs, but maybe that's because I didn't check any profiles

This is basically the only social media I really use anymore. Haven't even posted on my DA in a while

[frozen bluff]

Ahh dang. I feel you there. I won't touch other platforms all that much 😂

Discord, and this server, have been plenty reliable and homey to me

I like it here, simple as

[brazen storm]

Fr

[frozen bluff]

This quite literally is one of the tamer, more friendly communities I've been a part of. For such a huge discord it sure doesn't behave like one.

[frozen bluff]

Goodnight y'all

[faint night]

Based

[sick flame]

https://tenor.com/view/rat-rats-brimstone-brawlers-brimstone-brawlers-gif-21746928

[lucid coral]

What the islands wiill look like on the 27th

[amber pollen]

just wanted to say hello before i crash

https://tenor.com/view/cat-sleeping-gif-2908984038114568984

[humble parrot]

Morning

[icy pecan]

Oh no someone let loose the plague

[small berry]

7 days left?

oh his birthday lmao

his her it they helicopter cat

[sick flame]

[small berry]

heeeeelikopter heeeelikopter

[brazen storm]

https://youtu.be/bpCXTqKw9nw?si=Ajt4jjO-9Nqso2UM

[humble parrot]

Hello Nerzul

[small berry]

heya

https://tenor.com/view/dancing-dance-weekend-vibe-gif-22782121

So apparently stuff like the Banana game earning the devs around 2-3k a month on steam transactions is completely legal and accepted?

Hire a couple bot farms, create a dumb game and have it blow up on steam?

Noone's gonna investigate if the dev has done nefarious stuff even if those nefarious things are not just in their reach but literally has been proven they can make thousands of dollars from it?

[humble parrot]

It has already been investigated, just not by steam.

[small berry]

German orgs have looked into it?

I'm guessing you're talking community efforts, nothing official

[humble parrot]

Yeah

Officials don't seem to care

[small berry]

This can become a pretty sizeable ponzi if the devs just decide to, idk how they don't care

[prime heart]

I am very noob in this game but I love it

[small berry]

Here we have crypto shitcoins doing all sorts of transparency with token issuance, distribution, rewards and you can make a videogame and just skip every transparency or indicator

and people will love it

How many bananas have been issued, nobody knows, is the reward ratio gonna remain the same? nobody knows, how many bananas are the devs holding, nobody knows

who owns the bananas? nobody knows

[grand falcon]

https://tenor.com/view/ooop-gif-19019517

[queen vale]

I mean "Morbidly Obese" is still nicer than some of the things some of them deserve to be called, gone/out being a nicer one too.

[small berry]

"You have been banned for an attempt against the harmony of the subreddit, see you loser"

[queen vale]

Jokes on you, I purged the account I had a long while ago, and nothing of value was lost

[small berry]

Noooo we hate authoritarianismmmmmm

"Joins the online world and tightens its armband as much as possible"

[queen vale]

"Here, this authoritarism symbol is a good one.. it's a necklace!"
Proceeds to tighten it constantly

[sick flame]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/639839780271554581/1254060511163580446/image.png?ex=66781e5d&is=6676ccdd&hm=b15b2366108d014ad4520963e56141c858c1a48111fe8471eadd60d9a5bedbd6&

[queen vale]

Running out of IP's to necromance and milk dry I see

[humble parrot]

Pretty much

[hearty sonnet]

Lmfao iconic brands, I barely remember what Gex is & have never heard of that first one 😂

[queen vale]

I double-dog dare them to bring back the iconic Leisure Suit Larry

[hearty sonnet]

Hahahahaha

[night plume]

I have a floppy disk with leisure suit larry

[dire merlin]

When will we have the [Patch Notice] with all the updates that will come on the 27th?

[teal iron]

My guess?
The 27th

[trim zealot]

I captrued a human irl. Palworld teached me greatness

[small berry]

https://tenor.com/view/traffic-fbi-open-up-raid-gif-13450966

[queen vale]

That's called kidnapping and may be a crime

[trim zealot]

I will just throw them out of my pal ball and make them fight the fbi

[queen vale]

Unless an agreement was come to before hand, at which point it's a kink

[trim zealot]

I also got a buzztwat thingy

with the minigun

buzzlightyear? is that his name

buzzwalt buzzor

the lightning snorlax that one

grizzbolt

so he just gonna pull out the minigun and spray them losers

[small berry]

PSA Take your meds

[queen vale]

A buzztwat thingy is a very different thing depending on context

[small berry]

Like, there's Hitachi Global, a Japanese engineering and electronics company and there's also Hitachi Magic

Amazon games App

Are you freaking kidding me

Another one? I thought prime gaming just gave away codes, has it always forced you to install their dumb platform?

[quartz magnet]

[humble parrot]

Morning Caos

[clever citrus]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1180755591392677968/1254090471760990260/MedalTVRoblox20240622230507-tr-edit.mp4?ex=66783a44&is=6676e8c4&hm=b9dcd5032c04e6dce795cf77dbaa581567532fbce5f3004af4b4d74ba5983246&
I FUCKING CAN'T AHGRWHAGAERG

[night plume]

Ty for the reminder

[frozen bluff]

Morning y'all, hope you guys are doing alright today

[humble parrot]

Morning Cynic

[frozen bluff]

Morning Azzy

Thinking about doing some DRG for a little while

[humble parrot]

Hmm

[hearty sonnet]

We're ROCKS!

[humble parrot]

Might join you

[frozen bluff]

We're RICH

[night plume]

I am trying out manor lords o.o

[grand falcon]

Rocks don't exist, only tiny boulders

[hearty sonnet]

Right, I forgot about TB's

[frozen bluff]

We're RICH

[grand falcon]

And medium pebbles

[humble parrot]

We're rich!

[frozen bluff]

We're RICH!

[humble parrot]

We're rich!

[quartz magnet]

We're RICH!

[humble parrot]

We're rich!

[grand falcon]

I wish I had a game to try out

I'm so damn bored

[frozen bluff]

We're RICH!

[night plume]

Can always check what is free on Steam

[grand falcon]

Already did that, couldn't find anything that caught my eye

[hearty sonnet]

Has anyone here played Palia?
it looks really good, I might try it

[frozen bluff]

I still gotta do an update on the art thing later

[hearty sonnet]

And it's free

[grand falcon]

I can't wait for the venom game to come out

[hearty sonnet]

Oooho Venom is cool

[grand falcon]

It's called "venom: the lethal protector" or something like that

It's supposed to come out in like 2025 or 2026 or something like that

[hearty sonnet]

Nice

[night plume]

I've heard really good and really bad about Palia. I forgot why I decided nit to play

[hearty sonnet]

I'm playing it right now haha

Gonna give it the ol' college try

Oh jesus it's like an MMO game haha

Some other dude just ran by me

[quartz magnet]

i heard good things about palia too. specially f ya like plushies

[hearty sonnet]

Lol I just started & already have two of them

[quartz magnet]

[hearty sonnet]

Lol I've already found a click manipulation trick to work faster

[hearty sonnet]

Apparently the game has negative press because it doesn't have any accessibility settings

[grand falcon]

That is such a dumb reason to dislike a game

[hearty sonnet]

Lol yeah, I was thinking it had predatory microtransactions or something, but it apparently doesn't

[grand falcon]

That's like me saying

I hate Hogwarts legacy because they have an option to disable spiders, for people scared of spiders

(Side note, I love Hogwarts legacy, it's such a neat game)

[hearty sonnet]

Yeah I watched my ex play that, she loves HP and that game is very good

[grand falcon]

I will say though

That is such a dumb thing to include in a game

Im willing to bet they included that setting, because one of the devs were scared of spiders, and couldn't continue to work on the game because they were scared

LMAO

[hearty sonnet]

Yeah hahahaha

The ex was also terrified of spiders lmao

[teal iron]

I don't think there's anything wrong with an arachnophobia setting

[small berry]

Spiders have been one of the nemesis of humans to the point we've erradicated most of the dangerous ones in Europe and other places, spiders deserve a spot in our most feared foes

[hearty sonnet]

I like spiders haha

[quartz magnet]

i hate spiders..

[small berry]

we don't like things that kill our babies for their curiousity tho

[teal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/so-ima-spider-so-what-anime-cute-insect-spider-gif-19879961

They're so cute tho!

[small berry]

just as a general rule if it will kill your kid we burn it with fire

[teal iron]

But sometimes people go out of their way to make their video game spiders hideous and terrifying and kinda gross

[grand falcon]

Because

1. It's a waste of time and resources

And

2. Where does it end? Aquaphobia? Acrophobia? Photophobia? Agrostophobia?

[quartz magnet]

[teal iron]

And as a spider fan I can testify that even a little effort in that regard can have rather extreme results

[small berry]

I mean, it's the venomous thingy that should make them scary enough, coiling in the ground of pain is fearful enough

and ofc even death

[teal iron]

The only reason I don't use the arachnophobia setting in Satisfactory is because it turns the spiders into kittens and I would feel bad throwing thermonuclear bombs at holographic kittens, you know?

But the spiders are oooohlghksgjldsfoaslfnsaodg (not in a good way)

[queen vale]

You prefer real kittens for your nuking?

😄

[teal iron]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/807809192537882647/1023374595320971325/caption-33.gif

[queen vale]

Don't threaten me with a good time

[teal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/susie-susie-kirby-susie-meme-susie-haltmann-haltmann-gif-25023315

This is the only good result of typing "Satisfactory nuke" into tenor

[quartz magnet]

cute robot

[hearty sonnet]

Beep boop I'm cute

[grand falcon]

Imagine Hogwarts legacy had a setting called

"Rhabdophobia" which is the fear of magic lmao

[teal iron]

Now you're just strawmanning

[queen vale]

Change all spells to gun

[grand falcon]

No, it's called a joke

[queen vale]

AVARA KEDAVARA Brrrrrrrrrrt

[grand falcon]

Lmao

[teal iron]

the only game where I seriously disagree with the arachnophobia setting is the game webbed like

the entire premise of that game is spiders, and you want to turn off the spiders???

seems quite silly

at that point you maybe should've bought one of the other $5 indie titles on steam

[hearty sonnet]

Spider Bite Simulator 2024

[grand falcon]

Wiccphobia, the fear of witches

Turns all the female characters into male characters

[queen vale]

To be fair the game is adorable, people might want the cute of the game, not the many legs

[teal iron]

I dunno
Seems a bit weird

[queen vale]

Don't let JK Rowling hear about that

[grand falcon]

Why?

[queen vale]

It was a joke about the whole drama with Hogwarts legacy and the gender issues she's championing

[teal iron]

she's really full of herself isn't she

didn't she say something like "obviously the game selling well is because people agree with my social views"

[queen vale]

It wouldn't suprise me to be honest

[grand falcon]

Ok, I don't wanna get to far into this, because well ya

But if you actually go look at the things she said/says, isn't hateful at all

For example, one of the "main things" people are/were mad at, was that she said men can't have periods

[teal iron]

oh boy

Not this again

[grand falcon]

If a man is having a "period" then he should rush to the ER right away......

[teal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/halo-political-gif-21438301

[queen vale]

I've looked into them, and some of the things she's said are very blunt takes on less straightforward topics, such as "safe spaces" and the unclear legal stance on gender ID

[grand falcon]

And what she said, makes perfect sense......would you want your 8 year old daughter sharing a bathroom, with someone that claims to be a girl?

[queen vale]

She's welcome to her opinion on these matters, but if she's going to champion a specific stance without nuance, then she's going to get heat

[quartz magnet]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1178712222910918726/1229253340458913892/9A788463-4547-4556-96C7-A4520DD4DFC5.png

[queen vale]

If I had a child, I'd be looking for their safety - if I suspected they were going into an unsafe bathroom I'd stop them, bearing in mind that offenders can be of any gender

[teal iron]

Ok I made the bad takes disappear from my screen

The universe is balanced once more

[grand falcon]

You are correct, "offenders" can be any gender, but it's mostly biological males that are

[quartz magnet]

i will keep goin for a bit, Prima

[teal iron]

You're fine caos

[quartz magnet]

Im okayish. life being hard
how about ya?

[queen vale]

And that argument falls down to suddenly flagging all males as offenders being around a kid.
It's takes like that, that make me paranoid of the public when I'm around my godchildren

[grand falcon]

Not all men are, no one is saying that

[teal iron]

Nvm I shouldn't say that

[rough fractal]

Boop

[teal iron]

I'm doing pretty well

wondering if I should poke around my friends list for someone to play SE with

[queen vale]

By implying that a child is unsafe in an environment such as a bathroom with a biologically equipped man, regardless of how they identify, you are.

[rough fractal]

I identify as a paperclip 📎

[quartz magnet]

whats SE?

[queen vale]

You don't get adoped parents having the same scrutiny in taking their adopted child into a bathroom, so don't claim biological connection making a parent figure immune either

[grand falcon]

A child being in a bathroom with a biological man, is more at risk then with a biological female

When people say "most offenders are male" they are saying out of all the offenders, most of them are male

[teal iron]

https://tenor.com/view/spaceship-ship-crash-satisfying-space-engineers-gif-26242165

[queen vale]

Space engineers, a great game in theory 😄

[grand falcon]

They aren't saying that most of men are offenders

[teal iron]

@hearty sonnet I don't think this discussion is like...allowed...

[grand falcon]

I heard it's pretty crummy

[teal iron]

[quartz magnet]

it shouldnt be

[teal iron]

You mean a great game

[queen vale]

That's fair, it is skirting the edges thinking about it, I'll drop it

[hearty sonnet]

Let's kill the topic

[queen vale]

And when I've tried to play Space engineers it's been frustrating, the building and such feels so clunky

[teal iron]

pretty obviously breaking rule 8 imo
Like, it very clearly conveys a political statement without explicitly writing it out, so as to fly under the radar

[teal iron]

It takes getting used to

[humble parrot]

I've had it almost since it released back in 2013

[queen vale]

It just feels .. crude somehow I guess? When I compare it to other construction themed games

[teal iron]

Eh, I don't find it crude

[humble parrot]

At the time, it was ground breaking

[queen vale]

I feel like I'm fighting against the system when trying to put things together*

[teal iron]

Weird

[humble parrot]

I only build stuff in it, not often

[teal iron]

I mean I've never really found or heard of a game with as good a mix of building, combat, and exploration

[queen vale]

It's also probably better when playing multiplayer too I guess

[teal iron]

Yeah

I just finished building like a hovering platform that I'm going to drop into a gas giant where it'll kinda float like the sky city in Star Wars Episode 5

Was thinking I'd like to make the drop with a friend, rather than alone

[queen vale]

Don't forget to drop it at night so it's not as bright

[tawdry halo]

Anybody at boston pizza festival this weekend?

[teal iron]

Palworld/Craftopia community field trip to boston for pizza festival

[queen vale]

That'd be a longass flight for a pizza

[quartz magnet]

mmmmm chillet pizza

[queen vale]

That'd just be cold hotdog, surely? 😄*

[grand falcon]

No

[quartz magnet]

colddog

[teal iron]

um yeah but there's pizza

[queen vale]

I'm not sure 18+ hours of flying and a few thousand pounds is worth a pizza, no matter how good 😄

[teal iron]

there are multiple pizzas

at least 3, I'd reckon

[queen vale]

So.. about £750+ a pizza? Bargain!

[grand falcon]

If there's no pineapple, then it ain't worth it

[queen vale]

I didn't know you liked warcrimes so much

[grand falcon]

...... pineapple pizza tastes amazing

Actually..... talking about pineapple pizza......I might order some tonight

[queen vale]

Never been a fan of it

[brazen storm]

The devil shudders when he hears your name

[grand falcon]

I slay all demons

https://tenor.com/view/shotgun-crusader-door-enter-gif-17792300

[sick flame]

https://tenor.com/view/chicken-army-running-chasing-funny-gif-14988083

[grand falcon]

Ngl, looking at this

I'm tempted to play diablo 3 and do a chicken build

[queen vale]

Cluckromancy?

[grand falcon]

Pretty much 😂

[queen vale]

LOAD THE KFC CANNONS

[sick flame]

Chikipi KFC palworld mod when?

[grand falcon]

Wouldn't be surprised if it already exists

Actually I might do a necromancer build

I haven't played with necromancer in awhile 🤔

[peak folio]

https://tenor.com/view/kfc-anime-gif-19483953

[peak folio]

https://x.com/rainmaker1973/status/1804536160124817550

Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) on X

Sushi etiquette

Twitter · Jun 22, 2024, 3:25 PM

[hearty sonnet]

Damn, I always mix Wasabi & Soy Sauce for Sushi 😭

[grand falcon]

I shall do all of those things

[peak folio]

Yeah I’m like “uh… oops?”

[hearty sonnet]

I love the angry dark green sludge

I love getting Wasaburn in my face

[grand falcon]

Wtf 💀

[brazen storm]

I'm supposed to dip my sushi upside down?? 😭

[grand falcon]

No your supposed to put it in a cup, with the dips you like

And then mix it, to make a shake

And then you drink it