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  1. Tuco

    Starfield - Fallout fallout that isn't ES6

    lol @ anyone who is mad at Bethesda copying games to make No Man's Skyrim. If any dev outfit has the standing to copy good open world game implementations it's Bethesda.
  2. Tuco

    Mad Max: The Wasteland

    I just bought the "Witness me" edition of the preorder. Comes with a custom Pursuit Special Falcon GT.
  3. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I'm kinda curious how many people are leveling alts on Oakwynd compared to other servers. Whether to try and build up a base for that legacy XP bonus or to run multiple chars through raids.
  4. Tuco

    Unreal Engine 4 (free!)

    I haven't done any in-depth research but I don't think games like Dyson Sphere Program (Unity) Chorus (Unreal) Would exist if they chose to roll their own game engine on OpenGL/Vulcan/DirectX or whatever, unless they also had a massive developer team to support them. The question of why...
  5. Tuco

    Chat GPT AI

    Another example of a sigmoid curve is battery density. This is more tractable because there are chemical limitations, where new chemical reactions may be developed to replace Li-on or someone makes an arc reactor or something, but otherwise there's only so much you can do...
  6. Tuco

    Chat GPT AI

    Tech doesn't really follow a hockey stick. It's more like two hockey sticks where the top one is inverted. Or more specifically, a sigmoid curve. This curve naturally occurs due to physical limitations. Sometimes a new approach or material is discovered that allows the creation of an another...
  7. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I call Ozprey and Kamur to the stand to testify. And the three navy seals if they are out of the hospital.
  8. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Yeah @Zaide or others have brought that up so many times that I am compelled to hold an immediate oversight hearing. Zaide, please present evidence to the Court of Shitposters that such a boast took place and the details there in, with original sourcing of such an event.
  9. Tuco

    Warhammer 40k Space Marine 2

    Could def use a coop horde slaughter game.
  10. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I'm with Atabishi here on gear checks, with the addendum that often gear is sort of one of the base levels of a hierarchy of player lethality. Where when you have an elite force with high morale, a concentration of high-level play in your team and celebrate performance, stuff like gear mostly...
  11. Tuco

    Writers Guild Strike 2023

  12. Tuco

    AI Image Generation

    If anyone uses this I'd be interested to hear their experiences.
  13. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    "the others can lead to self sustaining declines in the populations" has that been accomplished in a way that lowers overall mosquito population? The article you linked is from 2016, but I don't know how much the tech has moved in the last decade. From the CDC link: Genetically Modified...
  14. Tuco

    Warhammer 40K: Rogue Trader (CRPG)

    sandbox games can be fun to fuck with in alpha stage. Narrative and class-driven crpgs? Wait for it to be done.
  15. Tuco

    Lord of the Rings: Gollum

    confirmed canonical
  16. Tuco

    Lord of the Rings: Gollum

    Ackchyually *5 paragraphs of Lord of the Rings guild drama nobody cares about*.
  17. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Based on the positive responses on Oakwynd I think the EQ population that likes FTE would be ok with it. Anything that makes EQ easier and less risky is positive. Just pay your sub, buy a bag and get your gerbil pellet of fun in a safe, non-triggering way. I hope next year they release another...
  18. Tuco

    Foundation

    Dunno but it's a super racist trope and I'm astonished by the bigotry
  19. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    I'm no expert but I imagine it'd be similar to the vaccine industry. A constant arms race of creating new armies of genetically modified mosquito bombs. They enter a mosquito population, wipe out some species within a certain area, die out and that space is filled by another species of...
  20. Tuco

    Science!! Fucking magnets, how do they work?

    One area of science that I find fascinating is the creation of mosquito gene bombs https://www.selectscience.net/editorial-articles/genetically-modified-mosquitoes-could-crispr-gene-editing-end-malaria/?artID=58435 tldr: release a genetic disease into a mosquito population that results in...
  21. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Yeah but it's not the prize, it's the victory over competition. On a server designed to block that competition you gotta enjoy those small prizes. Oakwynd is a server where you and your buddies form a soccer team and then shoot goals at an empty net with no opposing players. Oakwynd raiding is...
  22. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    I hold everyone who votes for this by being active on Oakwynd accountable for this dumbification of this great game.
  23. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    With how the last two years have been I could definitely see them try to come out with a real banger for next year. Or not. Oakwynd could be hitting all the marks they want and that'll be the model they want. Only thing I really want from a TLP is harder rules, so the FTE turning the entire game...
  24. Tuco

    Chat GPT AI

  25. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Yeah I was wondering how much the heirloom / character lockouts are diluting the gear pool. Seems like initially it'll be pretty bad, but might clear up when the server matures and anyone who actually plays their 5 alts will be able to rotate gear as they keep them leveled. Joining a luclin...
  26. Tuco

    Ted Lasso

    An interesting point that this show didn't stress but I'm glad they made is that literally the only main chracter with a reliably happy personal life was the family man, Higgins, and his modest family wife. Two mediocre people living in absolute bliss and comfort. Literally every other character...
  27. Tuco

    Ted Lasso

    Just finished season 3. So many shows start out with an interesting premise and devolve into the same tired tropes we've seen many times before. This is a particularly egregious case of it. Of the fans who loved season 1 I wonder how many people wanted them to cut out as much football as...
  28. Tuco

    Torrents

    Thanks. I've been trying refreshing my music library since I got tired of Pandora, Spotify et all giving me the same regurgitated slice of songs. It feels like the best music browsing experience I ever had was some twenty years ago when I was using Direct Connect ++. I could find an album from...
  29. Tuco

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    bad. As bad as my mental clarity for giving up on that sentence before fi
  30. Tuco

    General Gaming News and Discussion

    I know you're kidding but the foot pedals for fighting games would be tremendously bad. The only games I ever used them was on Guild Wars 2 and Chorus, both of which are button heavy but also rhythmic where a the foot presses are predictable. I use a standing desk so I rarely use the foot pedals.
  31. Tuco

    AI music

    Interesting quick interview with John Williams on how long it takes him to write small little melodies that form the bedrock of his musical scores. AI music being able to do voice changing or style transfer or generate really complex musical scores seems kinda in line with what we expect, but...
  32. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    So a week after release how grungy is endgame farming with FTE? How much of a nuisance or exploitable is it for a single group playing on their own? How does conflict between two aggressive groups get managed? Have any exploits come out that allow for near-guaranteed tagging for anyone who...
  33. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    Dude is doing a soda self found run irl
  34. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    That's how I perceive it too. If all they did was lower respawn timers of specific expansions it'd be massively popular. 25% respawn times (so, 10 minutes becomes 2.5 minutes) for classic would be great for some zones. 50% would be safer generally.
  35. Tuco

    Time Travel: What would you do?

    Would be interesting to introduce massive genetic treatment on a widespread scale, and then jump forward 100 years in the future to see the effect. Ex: something that regulates or even broadly increases genetics for empathy like OXTR ( Oxytocin receptor - Wikipedia ), then seeing what that does...
  36. Tuco

    AI Image Generation

    Interesting reversal there, AI generated art using a painter as manual labor. I wonder how good the robotic painters are. From a cursory search they are trash tier, but I wonder if there's something like a "3d" printer for painting coming out.
  37. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    But seriously, I love the cacophony of garbage that is EQ in 2023. I box six characters on live and it's a totally unique experience.
  38. Tuco

    EQ TLP - Oakwynd (Evolving Ruleset Progression Server)

    It's easy. First, you look up a guide on how to play your class, to find what abilities to use, then because that guide is 5+ years old you have to research what the latest spell names are and what the abilities currently are since they got renamed. Then you use a combination of a few EQ...