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lament prairie
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it has some ridicuously heavy gacha elements

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and no not really, compared to similar game ios numbers early on those numbers are atrocious

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its making a lot of the same missteps the previous version did but a lot faster

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and also a lot more severe i guess

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previous blue protocol didnt mess up this much this early

sly ember
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Installed and playing now. How do I get my free Dante or Vergil or whatever

ember roost
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dante is free completing story

sly ember
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I...would

ember roost
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vergil summon on collab banner

sly ember
sly ember
ember roost
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yes

sly ember
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@ember roost is story hard?

ember roost
sly ember
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The wife and I will finish it tonight then

lament prairie
finite kelp
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I liek em Chunky...and plumpy~ Chunky chunky chunky chunky~

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Plumpy~ Plumpy plumpy~

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FYI Hippos are omnivores. Lol (Primarily herbivores though)

finite kelp
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I studied Biology but these ...Xray demonstrations of bodily fuctions always freaked me out...

zealous narwhal
zealous narwhal
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@sly ember This afternoon I went to the doctor because I had a lump on my forehead. The doctor said it was a benign tumor.

zealous narwhal
finite kelp
zealous narwhal
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@sly ember The doctor said it's not a problem as long as it doesn't grow, but I have the option of having the tumor removed surgically, although that will definitely leave a permanent scar on my face.

finite kelp
zealous narwhal
finite kelp
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Well, depends on if your a lady or not. I've had friends with similar situations that did exactly that but...they were dudes.

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Also, unless its an issue cosmetically I wouldn't worry about it. A simple wart is a benign tumor as well.

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The word "Tumor" can be scary. I studied oncology and helped with cancer research labs.

zealous narwhal
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To be honest, this is a dilemma for me.

finite kelp
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Medically or...cosmetically? I completely understand a lump somewhere you don't want one that people would mention or poke fun at.

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But outside that dooon't wooorrrry. The physical apperance is the only thing you need to worry about

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And that changes on your mindset. You can control that~

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Vs Something you cannot.

zealous narwhal
finite kelp
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If you're worried medically you can go to an oncologist/geneticist do more specific testing

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A general doctor will only check for basic metastis symptoms or further growth. I don't think they'd do a full blown genetic test on the tumor itself to see whats specifically causing the tumor

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Lots of things cause tumors. LOOOOOTTS of things.

zealous narwhal
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I really dont know it lol

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but they give me a drugs

finite kelp
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The main things to check for are. 1: If the tumor itself is developing genetic errors in the system that fixes these problems. 2: If that error is continuing or just a random mutation that eventually got taken care of, and 3: If your immune system is recognizing the tumor. (The last one isn't as important as if it did...you'd know.)

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If it's just surface level skin lumps forming then meh. That happens from time to time. We develop genetic errors ALL THE TIME

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Heck even our bodies being healthy and making new copies like it should can create genetic errors. They're called TATA mutations.

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The part of your genetic coding that doesn't code for anything specfically but more as...place holders. Similar to how you have handles to a pot. The handles don't do anything cooking wise but they act as a holder for your hands. TATA boxes act as the handles for genetic coding.

zealous narwhal
finite kelp
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But if your doctor says its fine then chances are your good.

zealous narwhal
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Today was very tiring for me

finite kelp
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Also contact a plastic surgeon to get further advice as what to do.

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They'll be able to actually tell you if they need to do a surgery that will leave a scar.

finite kelp
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And how big.

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Ask your doctor to forward you to a plastic surgeon specialist.

zealous narwhal
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atleast I'm still alive it's good

finite kelp
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Def. A benign lump is fine. Skin lumps happen all the time for people. Nothing to really worry about

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Just eat some cake.

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You'll be as right as...why do people say rain?

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Right as rain?

civic sinew
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Yes but it’s free to play friendly compared to other gachas

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Bokura has decided to release every NDA change to the China content creator server for everyone to see publicly. There are a lot of changes since the April beta and shows lots of promise for a good launch. That said, I will quickly discuss a positive adjustment and provide an update on the gacha situation.

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proud python
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Free to play friendly? Wasn't there huge drama about it being even worse p2w than real blue protocol?

finite kelp
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Your richest F2P gamer (JOKE lol)

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Meanwhile your average P2W gamer

civic sinew
finite kelp
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Well Maplestory for the most part is kinda cosmetic gacha only on their more popular servers. They stayed in business for 20+ years now lol

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So that method must work. Not sure why other companies don't do it?

magic wharf
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yeah, they also caught lying about their gacha rates, soooo fenrirkek

civic sinew
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Well also not a lot of people gonna gamble on cosmetics that won’t affect gameplay they rather pay straight up for it they rather gamble for something that’s gonna affect gameplay

finite kelp
civic sinew
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(Im tempted to take a jab at infinity nikki but im fighting my urges)

finite kelp
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TRUE gamers would rather earn it. Paying to win loses the fun in winning

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Unless your a loser who ONLY cares about winning no matter what you do

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I'd rather pay money for a cosmetic gamble knowing the stronger players are strong because they worked at it

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Not paid for it

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It makes it feel like what's the point of F2P if you can P2W? To play the storyline?

civic sinew
finite kelp
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Well I feel like that's due to not a lot of games going that route

finite kelp
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Dat don't count

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We don't speak of such games...

civic sinew
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I like forbidden knowledge my friend

finite kelp
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I'd say this.

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WESTERN markets like paying for cosmetics vs power more

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EASTERN markets like paying for cosmetics AND power

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The mentality is different.

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Why a lot of western gamers feel like cheaters online tend to be "Asian" as the mentality in at least China is "Win at all cost."

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The WIN is what matters more than HOW you got the win

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Or the CLOUT matters more

civic sinew
finite kelp
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As thats kinda the only way to show individualism and prestige above others in that "Everyone does the same thing for community harmony" culture.

proud python
strong quail
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Tera coming back

civic sinew
# proud python It was to the point that you can't play some classes unless you whale on game <:...

Well I was talking about the gacha only but if you are talking about other aspects there’s a lot of pay 2 win aspect but it’s isn’t worse then your typical gacha https://youtu.be/31iHBmEEhSQ?si=9Uy0ygQNgQJd3Ej8

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civic sinew
finite kelp
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...Are worms just living straws?

civic sinew
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No because straws are dry and they snap if you bent it slightly

lament prairie
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and that first few weeks revenue is almost as bad as tarisland's

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did u no i have the one and only 24k gold carat lamomo

civic sinew
lament prairie
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usually first few weeks are nearly all the income for the first few months

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ratio wise

civic sinew
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Also as far as im concerned most what I hear from people who played the game it’s great on release

lament prairie
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i mean, you also heard glowing praise from people about the previous one

civic sinew
lament prairie
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where people also mislead others about the state of it pretending it had no issues

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people have goldfish memory it seems

lament prairie
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huh the flowers are glitching out on my screen

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flashing pink and purple in the rain

civic sinew
lament prairie
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nope, CN is furious

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and people said the previous version was improving based on feedback etc too

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we saw what that amounted to

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content creators can and will lie to your face about this sort of thing

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yet people are still trusting the same ones that misled people about the state of the older blue protocol

civic sinew
lament prairie
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yes, which is why its so surprising they're doing the same thing again but faster

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and worse

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ppl dont learn from history it seems

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for nikki? i havent relaunched my client yet, did it get hotfixed

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idk what to tell you i just ran into it

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ive done the new story stuff

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i dont get why everything is islands

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its not an engine limitation, nte stuff is very high density but rendered perfectly as one chunk etc when driving through

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these my 3 new outfits atm

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i get they're not ue5.5 like nte is

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and that ue5.5 nte mobile stuff is super smooth but

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even with being ue5 (but not ue5.5)

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they dont have to make everything islands

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it seems to be just a stylistic choice

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idk the density is huge

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you're forgetting the nikki stuff doesnt have many interiors etc or npc's around clustered etc

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its more about how much you have to render and swap between around a small radius

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rather than the whole entirety of it

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further off stuff has LoD culling

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yeah, thats what im saying

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nikki has the maps setup like it has unity limitations

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which is odd given its ue5

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its either intentional or its an

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oh other games do it this way we will do

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yeah i guess thats part of it too

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we'll see how they handle later regions i guess

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i have high hopes for the housing patch thats the next one

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although yes ik thats another island

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its not really an issue atm i just wonder if itll limit them later

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hopefully they can update to ue5.5 like nte

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it might be tricky if their code has diverged a lot

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which is might have by now

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but its not the near impossible task it would be for an open world one to go ue4>5 post launch

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well it'd still help the game in general even if they are doing this as a stylistic choice

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i hope we get weirder fashion like this

lament prairie
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doesnt really help the source original wasnt really gameplay footage either

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so its stacking confusion on top of confusion

frigid tulip
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Kirby vs Goku in a fight who would win

lament prairie
ember roost
boreal hedge
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The art Looks like Blue Archive

proud python
river eagle
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kind of no and yes

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not same dev as BA, it's the publisher of BA (in Japan) decided to develop own game with art style reminescent of BA , kinda

zealous narwhal
ember roost
zealous narwhal
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@turbid cargo bruh imagine you forgot to give water to your nuclear reactor

ember roost
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@pulsar mica

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so many games coming this year

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blue protocol,hok world,7ds origins,duet night abyss ,nte

boreal hedge
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I feel tired

ember roost
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ok

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where wind meets also coming

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ok

echo beacon
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hi I'm new and looking for some friends <3

muted bronze
muted bronze
echo beacon
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ty ty

zealous narwhal
sly ember
zealous narwhal
sly ember
zealous narwhal
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yo should

spice shoal
gentle grove
finite kelp
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-Sniff-

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So

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Toby

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Hurred a volcano went off near Australia

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Looked pretty on video. Not gonna lie

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But that what...level 5 red ash alert or something sounds pretty serious

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...But still pretty > x >;;

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Nature went KABOOM but with style and flare~

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For the full kit or just the base?

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If it's just the base that's honestly kinda meh

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For the FULL shabang heck yeah that's a great deal! (Too lazy to just check myself)

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It's the same price in USD

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Your Euro over the Dollar strength has no power here~

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Couldn't really get into it

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Something about the game was just too...distracting

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I couldn't focus

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I dunno what...

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(Also I don't own the console to play lol)

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ANd never bothered to check if its on PC c:

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o 3 o Of this year?

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That's not that long lol

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Wat? Not even a season ago lol

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I got onions growing older than the PC release lol

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YOU CALLIN` MY ONIONS OLD?! HM?!

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They've been growin` for awhile now?! Hm?!

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Am I a bad Onion farmer?!

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Yeah probably

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I mean seeing as they're growing tomatoes something tells me I did something wrong

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Imagine that? Lol A story of an Onion farmer who so badly wishes he could grow onions like the family tradition...

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But every single time he tries to grow onions he grows crops of other types but in massive sizes lol

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"UGH!!! ANOTHER MEGAMELON AGAIN, MA`!!

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...And...his family gets rich off these incredible produce because they give them to the royal family and nobles. . --- . While the population starves!! The family keeps all of this hidden from the guy as he lives in some remote farm thinking they sell onions and live a humble life. > 3 > -jots notes down-...mhmmm..hmmmm

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And Imma call this boy/guy...xonacatl c: The Nahuatl equivalent word for "onion" lol

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^ Me. In dah zone

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finite kelp
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So far I added a grandma who doesn't agree with the rest of the greedy family.

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She just loves the boys gift and farming. Sticking with family traditions vs modern luxury.

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....And...Uhhh...A pet parrot whose secretly some God of agriculture. > w >

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This God has always blessed this family with the ability to grow amazing onions but for some reason there was a hiccup with this boy. Instead of being able to grow onions he was able to grow incredible other crops!! This was too OP of an ability so he needed to follow the boy around to inspect what went wrong. > 3 >

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This god decided to take the form of a parrot (As parrots live long lives and it wouldn't look weird to stay by the boys side until his natural human death)

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Hmmm...-scribble scribble-...

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Yeah! I mean PFFT I need someone to bounce ideas off of! c:

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finite kelp
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It's just so janky. Lol

boreal hedge
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Screaming cat

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Annoying

boreal hedge
zealous narwhal
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time to hot burn coffe

ember roost
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@sly ember

lapis radish
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You know

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Rewatching overlord

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Now i see that

lapis radish
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Ainz have so much flaw like

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Cant you not be a dk and ruin everyone work

magic wharf
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yeah, latest season is just him being completely clueless about literally everything

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in first seasons he was clueless too, but still tried to do something
it's like they made him dumber on purpose

ember roost
versed kestrel
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Rest In Peace Grass Wonder

civic spoke
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Meow

zealous narwhal
gentle grove
finite kelp
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Okay sure you may like the hair and clothes but I'm looking at the souless eyes and the forced movements lol

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Those soulless...dead eyes...

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Lol

fringe heart
summer pilot
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necomia New Support Card Coming Soon on Uma Musume

finite kelp
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I know it says Austrian and SSR on his tag

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But that face, mang

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That face for me says USSR lol

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Also what does he do? A racer? Looks like one

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Vroom vroom?

finite kelp
finite kelp
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fenrirDerp Are those good?

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Did he get the touchdown?

summer pilot
summer pilot
magic wharf
late atlas
ember roost
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@sly ember ur hanying

finite kelp
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I wonder if gophers and moles are friends...

inner pilot
civic sinew
ember roost
lapis radish
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Im too lazy

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So many work

zealous narwhal
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time to try

magic wharf
zealous narwhal
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happy end

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yatta

civic sinew
# lapis radish Tldr it for me

Basically unless there’s something that harm them FINANCIALLY , reputation risk or anything like it is not an excuse for banks and payment processors to force others to do what they want or the banks and payment processors will threaten to stop their services

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If you know the whole issue with steam and it’s banning for 18+ games it’s basically solves that issue

finite kelp
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-Epic guitar intro- WOOOO~

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Rolling around at the speed of sound, got places to go, got to follow my rainbow!

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Follow me~ Set me free~ Trust me and we will escape from the ciiittty~ Foolloow me~

ember roost
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@sly ember

ember roost
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finite kelp
summer pilot
zealous narwhal
civic sinew
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I rather not

finite kelp
finite kelp
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Beep beep boop boop

spice shoal
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What the ? I don't see Tobby? is this one of the perks of getting married?

dark parrot
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Perk?

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Isn't it a debuff?

magic wharf
magic wharf
lament prairie
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nikki and nte at gamescom in 9 days

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technically endfield might announce a beta (at gamescom i mean) given how long its been but
i would guess giving timing if nte will announce beta 3 or release it'd be at tgs
same for nikki about 2.0 or silver palace beta 1 if we're lucky etc

magic wharf
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hasn't endfield had beta already? miaHmm

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and they changed some stuff after/during it

lament prairie
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yeah i mean another one

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technically the ps5 showcase had some dodge changes that ppl really aggressively did not like and caused a whole fuss

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i think the game would do well even if combat kept having issues though

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sure its not going for the same content variety as nte or whatever but

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arknights has a huge fanbase and they're mostly invested in the story stuff

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gonna play it and see how i feel

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nikki is real btw

magic wharf
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literally just took wuwa dodges and slapped it in

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not sure if it one directional only tho, like in wuwa xiaobao_thinking

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cuz wuwa dodges make me wanna uninstall sometimes, how clunky those are

lament prairie
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i didnt look too much into it tbh just glanced at how worked up ppl were getting and went yikes

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thats the problem with focusing just on combat, very easy to mess up one aspect or have a few boring combat events in a row and put ppl off

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like later pgr going full i-frame spam

magic wharf
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like, why can't they just give us something.... seamless( can i describe it like that? lanHmm )
why animation lock us in one direction, for a long period of time, just for the sake of making it "look good"

lament prairie
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yeah i dont really like it when aesthetics take priority over functionality and smoothness

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like the amount of flashing lights some games add to attacks is just ridiculous

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means you can only play it in 30 minute chunks max

magic wharf
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a lot of people don't even know genshin has fully functional dodges, this is how seamless(?) those are
and this is how it should be done imo

lament prairie
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just run the final boss over with monster truck

magic wharf
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again, i don't mind dodges, i mind poorly implemented ones miaHmm

finite kelp
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CHINA

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Y U MAKE ANIMUS SO SHORT?!?

magic wharf
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what

civic sinew
# magic wharf again, i don't mind dodges, i mind poorly implemented ones <:miaHmm:132232077391...

I feel like people overblown the whole dodge thing acting like the game doesn’t have any unique mechanics like yah it has now just a copy paste wuwa dodge but it also has unique mechanics like it’s not just a switch game the other characters fight with you ai and a normal attack combo that actually is important to complete it fully to fill up a bar that allows you to perform abilities and a those abilities have slow motion the makes you question “am I sure I want to use it now?” Or have you wandering where to place the ability because yes you can designate the spot where you want the ability to be activated on certain abilities giving you some tactical feel

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Like yah sure I don’t want it to be just a genshin/wuwa copy but yah I think that was overblown

lament prairie
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games lacking content variety and unique mechanics are really going to struggle when theres the bunch of new next gen gachas next few years to compete with

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ofc some of these have huge existing fanbases only ones you need to worry about are the ones burning through advertising money or making dodgy changes etc

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because if you're that reliant on ads a bunch of new competitors also putting them out kinda scuppers that

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and as time goes on games launch with improved engines and better tech etc

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so you really cant waste the first year, or few, doing just the same thing over and over

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pretty excited to try endfield still, not going to judge the changes too harshly til i actually get to test it

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path of exile 2 0.3 is also a week later i think

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its kinda why p5x and bp are struggling atm too

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they just dont offer enough of a leap up

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if they'd launched 5 years ago, sure, but the market moves on

civic sinew
lament prairie
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yeah if a game doesnt innovate enough from the start its an issue, more so when its a few years and and still not doing much ofc

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arknights is really big though

civic sinew
lament prairie
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i think endfield will do ok, but id need to play it to get a better scope of it

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its one of those things where if its at least half way decent id play it a few months but not spend til im confident in it

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as unless a game makes big leaps in beta and is doing a lot of different content it can expand on

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combat is harder to gauge where it'll go

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for gachas at least

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the ai system makes it kind of tricky to balance

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does this new dodge system help/harm on top, idk

civic sinew
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I think I would play as well especially if they improved on the base building and strategy aspect

civic sinew
lament prairie
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huge backlash over it isn't great though, regardless of personal thoughts on it

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i dont know if thats normal or not for arknights community as i didnt really interact with it at all all the years i played arknights

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at most i looked up ''is this character good'' stuff briefly

civic sinew
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There was a backlash for the dodge system not existing in the betas that’s why this new dodge was implemented to appease those who wanted it was more of a fight between those who wanted the dodge system and those who didn’t with the ones that didn’t get what they wanted screaming the loudest

lament prairie
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at least there isnt really much similar coming out like it

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theres not that many new gachas making much progress at all really outside of endfield and nte atm

magic wharf
lament prairie
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the dodge changes are pretty late for something so important

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and they took a whole year gap in beta

magic wharf
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btw sometimes it really faster to eat the damage than do dodge

lament prairie
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they can take longer if they want to, but i do kinda worry about people's tolerance for that

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then again on the other hand like i said its not like much else is coming out

magic wharf
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the "dodges" before changes was better, imo miaHmm

lament prairie
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for me wuwa's combat was ok, nothing special but no big issues either

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it was the rest of the content variety and especially story that was the issue for me

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ill forgive a lot of stuff for a game with a good story

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but the opposite is also true, im not playing a game i have to skip cutscenes on

magic wharf
lament prairie
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i mean its basically how umi was setup

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and umi wasnt exactly popular

magic wharf
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5 second fight can stretch up to 15 sec just because if you don't do full rotation your damage is just suck ass

lament prairie
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the main issue with all the build up stuff is it pushes them to make characters that are very dependant on other ones

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so its a lot more spending

magic wharf
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and if you don't - it can become 20 sec fight fenrirkek

lament prairie
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plus ofc, the 50 system and weapon banner still

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despite what pgr had and what new games are doing

civic sinew
lament prairie
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eh pgr got really bad with i-frame abuse later on

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damage nullification can easily go to far when its used to sell characters

lament prairie
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pgr pulls way too much from dmc and other games and somehow misses the point on top

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when it stops being about player skill and more about ignoring all the damage with broken i-frame abuse from gacha swiping

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it didnt start out that way ofc, it was only when it hit gen 2 that it went off the rails

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combat is an easy thing to mess up, and so many games are competing on that front

magic wharf
lament prairie
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yeah its like how i-frames arent inheriently bad

magic wharf
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and i don't like how kuro implemented it in wuwa, that's all

lament prairie
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its how you use them and how frequent etc actions that cause them are

civic sinew
lament prairie
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...you get that was me saying about how they are taking too many design elements from dmc and other games right

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going ok but what about when they actually had a dmc collab with a dmc char is unrelated

magic wharf
lament prairie
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the point is they keep retreading the same stuff but worse

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its like there was no really good reason to have 3 vera expy's in one year

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it made more sense back when they were small

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but for tof it took them 3 years to even do 1 expy

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if you're going to use an old design you cant use it super frequently and you have to add stuff to make it really stand out

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special, unique features to it

lament prairie
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that was back when there wasnt as much track record for how well gachas can do

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and sony can be weird about crossplay etc stuff without these kinda deals

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sometimes its for free marketing too

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kinda surprised tof got what seemed to be a pretty large exclusive cosmetic etc deal setup

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when they were small

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ofc we'll never know the full details but wouldnt surprise me if they did something similar for nte

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and it was decent for it to have been (presumeably negotiated) kept to 1 year exclusive cosmetics

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not dumb stuff like the spiderman avengers thing

civic sinew
magic wharf
lament prairie
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idk i still think the switch or anime is more of a sore spot for fans

lament prairie
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i can see them really pushing games like this if they can get some kind of exclusive deal

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honestly surprised how badly the home territory stuff was handled

lament prairie
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id have expected this kinda mess up from microsoft, which has largely abandoned ip's now even

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but i thought a few years back sony had their head on a bit more straight

civic sinew
lament prairie
civic sinew
lament prairie
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yeah i wouldnt be surprised if the reason a few tencent projects havent been showing on certain sony stuff is moves like that

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like sometimes these kinda claims are silly but that one was a pretty 1:1 pull

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like ppl can argue oh mecha dinosaurs are generic etc but

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when its projects close to the platform provider's chest

magic wharf
lament prairie
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they ofc take it quite a bit personally

civic sinew
lament prairie
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horizon is one of sony's top brands atm

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at least in terms of... branding

magic wharf
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all you need to know fenrirkek

lament prairie
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actual sales dont quite matter as much as it pushing forward the platform

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kinda like how halo keeps getting a free pass despite being a big mess to develop

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regardless about how you personally think of the games its pretty clear its important to sony

civic sinew
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I just hope they don’t get to shut it down because im interested in the tencent attempt at with the gameplay looking more centric on base building and survival then hunting robots

lament prairie
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i dont think they would but it might put any tencent projects in a bit of trouble with sony when reaching out for bonus deals, support, marketing etc

civic sinew
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Made by a woman necomia

finite kelp
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Feel free to explain this then

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This was also made by a woman

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Who fought very hard to keep her this way

lament prairie
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wouldnt be surprised if it was photoshopped given who's posting it but at the same time idc

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ppl make characters im not a fan of all the design elements on all the time after all

magic wharf
lament prairie
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and the kinda person that will pester devs for years on end demanding it be exactly the way they personally want characters to look is just insufferable

finite kelp
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Realistically it was most likely a new art team who wasn't very good. This is SONY we're talking about. SOOOONNNY JAPAN realistically Japan doesn't care about aaannnyy of that stuff lol

lament prairie
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every character would just look hyper generic if they had their way etc

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if char doesnt kiss mc within 1 second of meeting them scrap the game kinda type

magic wharf
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best Aloy, if we talk about looks only miaHmm

finite kelp
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Def. They're not going to market OH NEW ART TEAM AS WELL HUEHUEHUE DAS WHY SHE LOOKS FUGLY or some thing lol

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They're gonna be hush hush on that unless people noticed in the credits of the game.

lament prairie
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makes games a lot worse because instead of ppl talking about mechanics they just go oh characters arent hot enough fix it fix it fix it

civic sinew
lament prairie
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harrassing va's etc

finite kelp
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Just look at what EA did to AC. Clearly it's not just the ladies that get the downgrade treatment lol

finite kelp
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I mean for fcks sake look at what they did to Cow Boy Beepbop...

lament prairie
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im fine with criticizing stuff, just when someone makes it their whole personality to care about char hotness etc

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gg crowd with last of us and the like etc

finite kelp
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SEE That's why I play female characters more often if I have the choice

civic sinew
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NOOOOOOO

lament prairie
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its been half a decade, and ppl wont let it go as they use it to promote obnoxious behaviours

civic sinew
#

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

finite kelp
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If I'm going to be staring at a character all the time in 3rd person I wanna at least look at a lady lol

civic sinew
#

I ALMOST FORGOT WHY REMINDING ME ?!

finite kelp
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JESUS DELETE THIS THERE ARE CHILDREN IN THE CHAT

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Lol

lament prairie
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as i said opinions about this kinda stuff is fine, but there's certain stuff like this people glomp onto and make their whole personality

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and just spam it any time any game discussion comes up to drown stuff out

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meaning mechanics etc get ignored

finite kelp
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Oh geez

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Lol

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Admin gonna get mad with that one

lament prairie
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usually meaning the surface level stuff that doesnt matter gets fixed

finite kelp
#

CAN'T MAKE FUN OF REAL PPLZ

lament prairie
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and the actual issues with mechanics etc go unaddressed

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leading to a lot of generic games etc

magic wharf
#

i heard first season was good

finite kelp
magic wharf
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it's tlou curse, first game was good too

finite kelp
#

Resources

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Really it's that simple. Triple A games have the resources to make pretty games but tend to focus so hard on that to make their money back on release. Independent studios tend to have worse graphics but MUCH BETTER GAMES

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And if you want BOTH

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You're gonna be looking at open beta hell for at least several years

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Well...realistically we should start selling games similar to how nintendo does it with the switch

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Via a card as that holds more memory than a disk.

magic wharf
finite kelp
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People keep trying to do the hyper realism thing but keep failing

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Why? Hyper realism is kinda boring

lament prairie
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main benefit of ue5.5 is density and amount of technical things you can do outside of graphics

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its all about how you use this kinda stuff

finite kelp
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You play a game to get away from realism lol not to be given more of it

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Also one thing about hyper realistic games is...OMG THE CODING nope

lament prairie
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yes, a lot of this stuff you could do before, but not on mobile

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and mobile caps the maximum of pc on gachas

finite kelp
#

Imagine trying to shove all of a Biology, Physics, and mathematical PH.D into a game

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Then trying to fix any bugs that occur. Where would you even start in all that line of interconnecting code?

finite kelp
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Isn't that just dating any Tik Tok girl ever?

lament prairie
#

main thing i remember about that game is the code being nonsense

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well that and there was a bunch of imitators which also didnt manage to get it done

finite kelp
#

It's funny how we might get WW3 before HL3

lament prairie
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its basically like trying to combine hitman with romance visual novel

finite kelp
#

What is valve even doing? lol

lament prairie
#

ah

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and theres a reason you dont see many games like hitman

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having everything work on a schedule and then constantly adding stuff on top is a pain

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especially when you need stuff to rag doll and in a rube gholberg machine kinda way or whatever its clled

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its not the kinda concept that screams indie

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then again, stuff like noita exists

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(roguelike fully simulated powder game)

finite kelp
lament prairie
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like those old flash games but on steroids

lament prairie
finite kelp
#

Anyways, Timmy. That all explains how I met your mother~

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Why are Chinese animes always talking about QI REFIENING FOR x,y,z YEARS!! all the time?

lament prairie
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some of that stuff is way too tropey, especially the power fantasy stuff where only the mc does anything important and the plot would fall apart without them

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but there are decent wuxia/xianxia things too

lament prairie
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its like any genre really, you take some elements to their extreme and it can go wrong fast

finite kelp
#

Yeah that's another thing

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Instead of a regular run-time of a show

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Say 30 minutes or so with commericals 24 without give or take

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They're usually AT MOST....20 minutes?

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Usually 10?

lament prairie
#

rise of izekai manga messed up a lot of writing

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same thing kinda happened with the western stuff trying to imitate avengers type writing

finite kelp
#

Cinderella Chef was a good one

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Dis rite hur

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Dis es a good one

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Herbivore Dragon of 5000 years is also a good one

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Never heard of it

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The Richest man in game is also a fun one lol

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About a guy who through some cosmic system is able to start a video game company but here's the catch...

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He needs to spend all of the money he's given per period and if he MAKES a profit he LOSES money

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LOSING money generates a HUGE profit for him. lol

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So he does EVERYTHING you'd imagine a game developer NOT doing...but somehow still makes BANK.

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Such as a car driving simulator that takes 5+ hours to finish. It only goes one direction and the same layout goes on the entire time. Cost? In USD $1

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Oh and if you mess up you start all over from the beginning. Your prize for finishing? "Congratulations. You wasted X number of hours playing this game. The end."

finite kelp
lament prairie
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idk but ppl stream it all the time 15h straight for charity

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apparently it never came out because their publisher went bankrupt from something else just before

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review copies kinda leaked and it got shared

civic sinew
finite kelp
#

I wonder which fruit is the most successful at being a fruit

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A fruit is just a special way trees get some smelly animal such as ourselves to take it's seeds away somewhere else o:

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So which one does that job the best in the wild....hmmm...

finite kelp
#

Smelly fruit only attracts certain smelly animals lol

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These ai baby deity gifs are freaking me out . - .

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Ai can sure draw but its drawn without a soul thus the image has no soul

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It wants a soul

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Your soul . - .

zealous narwhal
#

no hot burn coffee at morning

gentle grove
finite kelp
#

Hot burn coffee? Lol

warm spire
#

Are ppl still playing this game?

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Seems like deserted

runic tulip
#

You only need to be at a specific time to see this.

finite kelp
#

What's your fav type of Curry and which region?

cerulean grail
#

Hey Have they added in cross progression yet? Like play my mobile/pc account on ps5?

cerulean grail
ember roost
cerulean grail
warm spire
# runic tulip Yes.

Thats how TOA looks like right now? Damn it looks like a game i played back in 2010. Ragnarok/Tera

runic tulip
#

HSR banner ended...tomorrow is the update...

...and yet, I haven't even played the collab event.

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Which is expected, since I'll only login on day 1 of the patch, then offline for the rest of the patch duration...

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Don't have time to play + not enough storage.

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2TB SSDs are quite expensive here, so not gonna buy them anytime soon...

magic wharf
runic tulip
#

Still, gonna miss the collab banner anyways...

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Dunno when I'll play back...

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Genshin also...I haven't played for almost a year.

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I logged in once every 6 weeks.

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Just to collect maintenance compensation, and redeem codes, then offline for 6 weeks.

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The cycle continues.

#

And yes, summer event on Genshin...gonna miss that too...

magic wharf
#

why even login then fenrirkek

runic tulip
#

Free stuff is free...

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I prioritise tof above anything else.

magic wharf
#

i mean, what's the point if you not gonna play it anyway
i'd just uninstall at this point

magic wharf
lapis radish
#

fake tofer indeed

magic wharf
#

the moment i stop playing.... i stop playing

lapis radish
#

very blackbruh

runic tulip
#

I installed then uninstalled HSR every patch update.

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I need to reserve 100GB of free space.

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I'll only uninstall Genshin once it reaches 100GB.

#

I still play wuwa, but idk for how long .

magic wharf
ember roost
#

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后续产品进度欢迎漂泊者持续关注,也请期待今后更多情报解锁。
#APEXTOYS #鸣潮 #鳴潮 #WutheringWaves

runic tulip
ashen obsidian
#

The new oval track for INDYcar looking good so far

lament prairie
lament prairie
civic sinew
silent comet
#

652 players ?

lament prairie
#

the steam client had specific issues when it launched, and some of the big mmo's like guild wars 2 dont exactly have many people playing on steam

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but vodka doesn't play the game and are here to troll so they know how to be misleading

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i mean as huge as guild wars 2 is even, it took guild wars 2 10 years to make what tof did in 2

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they've already made enough to fund a decade of development

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(if guild wars 2 can last that long with that whole amount, tof making even more than that in just over 2 years is more than sufficient)

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tof initial team was tiny after all

waxen basalt
#

you can search on activeplayer.io, it has different numbers (probably mobile only tho) 😄

civic sinew
# silent comet 652 players ?

Well like luna said not everyone uses steam but what she forgets to mention is it’s a good metric to measure players count because almost everyone uses steam I always use it as a metric of sort to guess the actual numbers what I usually do is I take steam numbers and multiply it by the numbers of platforms including separate launcher then steam

waxen basalt
lament prairie
#

and as i said, tof made as much as gw2 did in 10 years in 2

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there abouts

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even not factoring in the tof team being way smaller and budget a lot lower

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ofc, nte is 400 staff and aaa budget but thats still a crazy amount of money to work with

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else you wouldnt be able to sustain and develop new content for a big mmo like gw2 a decade with it

civic sinew
lament prairie
civic sinew
lament prairie
civic sinew
#

And here you go again switching the topic necomia

lament prairie
#

im kind of surprised you're bringing it up given how atrociously you've acted there

civic sinew
#

Im atrocious? That’s Weird im not banned and even the admins at the server didn’t care about your complaints

lament prairie
#

the fact you're aware of the official revenue reports and still trying to pretend the game did badly is also blatently obvious

lament prairie
#

so rules being selectively enforced is unsurprising

civic sinew
#

Then you wouldn’t mind pointing it out where it says they get to keep that 600million

lament prairie
civic sinew
lament prairie
civic sinew
lament prairie
civic sinew
#

I didn’t say that here necomia

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Did I ?

lament prairie
civic sinew
#

Again did I do it here ? necomia

lament prairie
#

you're doing the same kind of behaviour, and have admitted to deliberately trolling as per the link i gave

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nothing more really needs to be said

civic sinew
#

When did I admit I was trolling

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Oh you mean the other server

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Well that’s pegs the question is did I do any of that here ? So far I asked you legit questions and you keep dodging and calling mods

lament prairie
#

doing it in a subtler way then sealioning doesnt mean people can't see what you're doing

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sometimes i wonder why i even call it out, with how blatently you're doing it on other socials you're potentially just accidentally promoting the games while damaging the ones you actually play

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but id rather those other games dont get backlash due to a group of trolls going around either

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especially when you keep directly admitting it like the link given

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if you go round the place going i smash windows but i havent smashed any in this particular house yet, how would you expect to be treated

civic sinew
#

But for real don’t lie lying isn’t good for the soul , you don’t know anything about me and what I do in other servers also don’t act like a saint I keep trying to have a conversation with you but you kept dodging questions and legit arguments and act like they aren’t real arguments and they are trolls you even got called out here if you had any decency to read any screen shot I send you don’t act surprised when people don’t treat you nicely

#

Hopefully you eventually learn to be more empathetic and listen to people and maybe people won’t treat you badly but I doubt it and I will leave it at thst

obtuse narwhal
proud python
obtuse narwhal
#

Nobody cares about numbers or whatever, everyone just wants to play.

civic sinew
proud python
#

its up to mods to decide if drama farming is allowed or not

obtuse narwhal
#

Just sit and cry like him

gentle grove
boreal hedge
#

Yoo

civic sinew
lapis radish
civic sinew
#

If you want to understand my point of view let me explain it

obtuse narwhal
#

Nobody cares about points here, probably nobody here is invested in playing game analyst

boreal hedge
#

Enough discussion

boreal hedge
#

To each their own

obtuse narwhal
lapis radish
#

vera not banned yet and you still a fake tofer

boreal hedge
lapis radish
#

le avocado still ruin the pizza

boreal hedge
civic sinew
boreal hedge
#

Everyone is welcome, but what is not welcome is discord and fighting over something “irrelevant.”

#

Well, be warned, no fighting

gentle grove
#

dw

gentle grove
obtuse narwhal
#

They are not here to play or talk like normal people, just to troll, kicking or banning will not change anything.

lapis radish
#

any second now

#

blackbruh will said first word

magic wharf
# lament prairie but vodka doesn't play the game and are here to troll so they know how to be mis...

i mean, while it is somewhat true, good games tend to have more players on the platform in which they released later
guild wars 2 was released on steam 10 years after initial release, and sitting with 86% positive reviews and 5.1k players in game
tof on the other hand, released on steam ~2 months after initial release, and numbers never once gone up from day one

it is safe to assume tof doesn't grow at all
you can cope all you want, but it's just true what numbers say

#

and accusing everyone of trolling isn't gonna make game better

lament prairie
obtuse narwhal
obtuse narwhal
#

Like I said

magic wharf
#

but why so defensive about it

magic wharf
#

i mean... "crying" changed more games than being unhealthy positive about it

#

for good or worse

#

just look at dodges in endfield

lament prairie
#

its always the same people that ignore the mods asking for discussion to stop when a conversation hasnt gone their way, too

magic wharf
#

people were crying that dodges are shit, and it got changed

#

(

obtuse narwhal
#

Yes, but it's true, optimization is an acceptable criticism, that's not a lie.

#

Now will crying over numbers change anything?

magic wharf
obtuse narwhal
#

For me this is a troll, and it doesn't change anything. If you want to make a real constructive criticism, there's the chat #1220745020735492106

magic wharf
obtuse narwhal
magic wharf
#

not everything is a troll, ya'll need to accept that people can have different opinion

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and it's normal

magic wharf
#

that doesn't change anything

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"for me this is just a troll" is just a way to hide yourself from harsh reality of people having different opinion

obtuse narwhal
#

Ok bard, see you in 5.4

magic wharf
#

you can't just label someone "insert a buzzword" and expect to have good conversation or even convince the opposite side that they are wrong doing that

obtuse narwhal
#

Nobody wanted to know anyone's opinion

#

it was a yes or no question

#

Just need to say, yes it is active and they are already testing 5.3 which is the next version global

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with 5.4 arriving at CN

magic wharf
#

it's not healthy

obtuse narwhal
#

If that's not an opinion, I don't know what is.

#

For a yes or no answer, it seems pretty specific.

magic wharf
obtuse narwhal
#

Well, goodbye and see you in 5.4 and 5.5 who have things ready

civic sinew
obtuse narwhal
magic wharf
#

i won't won't play tof in 5.4 and up probably
maybe i'll change my mind after 6.0 news, depends on what they are planning

obtuse narwhal
magic wharf
magic wharf
#

or is it better if everyone will say "game is kicking ass, millions of players, download and play"? Pog Pog Pog
how is it any better than google play with fake reviews on every fake mobile game ever?

civic sinew
obtuse narwhal
obtuse narwhal
#

Simple and direct answer

magic wharf
#

although there's nothing wrong and "not normal" about it

obtuse narwhal
#

Nobody cares about numbers, they care about fun.

magic wharf
#

even slightest derivative from your perception of reality lead to you attacking/slandering/belittling your opponent
that is what happening every time someone talk "not normal" about game you love so much
if that what you call normal, then no, i'll choose to stay "not normal" by any means

#

cheers

ember roost
obtuse narwhal
#

Well, goodbye since you're leaving the TOF

magic wharf
obtuse narwhal
#

Kekbye

magic wharf
#

you want to be "on the right side of hisoty" even if it means alienate everyone around

magic quartz
#

@near anvil

magic wharf
#

and the best part, pnw wasn't even my point back then, it just mentioned once, but you do you fenrirkek

obtuse narwhal
#

@sterile trail

#

use both I think

#

@magic quartz

lapis radish
#

why are you there

#

shoooo go away , my secret cave

agile schooner
#

she’s amazing

magic wharf
#

yep, horse

zealous narwhal
#

d

magic wharf
#

d

zealous narwhal
#

hae haeee

#

did anyone here play reverse 1999

#

@sly ember bro where are you

versed kestrel
warm spire
agile schooner
warm spire
obtuse narwhal
# warm spire Ah shit ToF

The games' proposals are very different, one is solo player with co-op, and the other is looking for a MMORPG casual with gacha, with the tryhard MMORPG server without gacha probably coming out this month in China.

#

This is the news, it is not yet confirmed for global, but first they want to see the reception of the CN

#

And yes, a lot changes between the two servers.

magic wharf
spice shoal
#

D*mn, How many days have passed? And no sign of the Sun.

finite kelp
#

Lol wth

#

I saw an article where a bunch of hand soaps were recalled...for bacterial contimination causing sepsis. Lol

#

Think about that. How badly you had to have MESSED UP at your job to contiminate HAND SOAP with massive amounts of bacteria capable of eating your flesh away if used on an open wound

#

You know the thing people would sometimes use hand soap to clean

#

Enough bacteria that it made the alcohols and antibiotics usually introduced into those things go "Nope. Nah. This is just unfair. We give up."

#

(Pretend those are bacterias and not viruses lol)

civic sinew
#

long story Short soap doesn’t kill bacteria it soap basically sticks to both water and germs oils etc and when you wash the soap off your hands the soap basically rips the germs off your skin

#

Meaning it’s worse then you think it’s so contaminated that I wouldn’t be surprised if 75% of the soap was just germs

#

Its basically too much how did a screw up this badly happen?

finite kelp
#

Right now most HAND soaps meaning the liquid stuff is made with some sort of alcohol and or a antibiotic of somesort.

#

Why? Dunno. Regular soap works fine so not sure why people added those things in haha

finite kelp
#

Upside to working for a school. Paid summer vacation. What the students have off you have off.

#

Downside for working for a school. YOUR OFF THE ENTIRE SUMMER. x - x Everyone else is doing stuff and being productive meanwhile you're just dorking around waiting for September to begin.

fringe heart
lapis radish
versed kestrel
#

@agile schooner
I heard you like GoldShi

#

Why does this lad has so much zekeConfused

sly ember
#

@magic wharf

#

What is the meaning of this

dark parrot
#

@sly ember TOBY CHAN

magic wharf
#

what

sly ember
sly ember
zealous narwhal
#

man only have 2 side, live and married

sly ember
ember roost
dark parrot
#

yesterday i was so in love with my crush

sly ember
dark parrot
#

Now she's nth'

#

how do I feel like this?