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Weird. I could have sworn the guy showed probability dropping. Or maybe he swapped the pictures? Anyway, good to know.

There's a video I've seen with a guy who did a speedrun for flying mounts and tested on starting pals, no combat (apparently, you can hold your pal sphere on a target to see your current chance, something I never did). Once he consumed his lifmunk statues, the capture chance displayed dropped by...

Six (or is it seven?) ore nodes. Plus an extremely defensive position. The author also uses it to cheese the lvl 12 mini boss by aggroing and running into the base so that all his pals pile up on him, and get an easy kill/capture.

I may have restartitis, but that starting base location does look awesome. All you lose is the traveling merchant who can't find a way to your base once you establish it. (and I can confirm that the miniboss does, in fact, like to come around and suntan on the hill where he builds his house...

There is probably a minus sign instead of a plus somewhere. Or vice-versa. Right now, the effigies are sitting in my inventory, and I'm not touching them.

There are probably big meetings about "why haven't we done an openworld survival Pokemon game yet?". If you skim a lot over the Pokemon lore, you could certainly make one. As the now-censored mod attest, strip the "with guns" for the "kiddies" aspect, rename sanity into something less...

Apparently, a real cash farm is a Mau ranch: (it's at 19:15, if the timer doesn't work)

They were looking to sell "that tabletop stuff" since 2020. COVID delayed things, then their cashflow problems came around.

I've seen enough "urban utopias" to know they usually fail rather badly, because the designers never understand people. Last one I watched a doc about was the Amsterdam "utopian quarter", which turned into a crime-infested hellhole, attracted only immigrants and became a ghetto.

It least it's to sell skins. A lot of games are there to sell power.

Since Tencent needs some more money after being hit by Chinese Regulations, they probably got marching instructions. That's also why Legends of Runeterra isn't surprising, since China doesn't want lootboxes.

Nevsky? That or the obvious Peter "The Great".

So did I. But after I left the theater.

She's right. When you're watching a blockbuster, you stop thinking of the world, because your brain disengages. That's the ultimate immersion.

"You will own nothing and be happy"

They had evacuated the town for the previous eruption a few weeks ago, but it had quieted, so half a dozen people had come back. Well, they've left quickly.

For all the good that it did them, since WoW got dropped by China (not finding a replacement distributor after the previous contract ended means China didn't want them to be around anymore).

"We are offering the first closed beta for free". Also, "the first closed beta is entirely covered in NDA, but wait until the next beta and you'll see!!!". "In other words, we have previously released an MMORPG game". Also, "we launched an open beta of Kayra Online, before we shut it down...

Asset flip. Definitely.

Yes. The video above does a good summary of the sheer amount of assets that were used to make the trailer. It's all Unreal assets and animations, no sign of an actual game.

It's actually a google translate of Turkish (that's where they are). It's supposed to be "Middle Ages", not Middle Earth. Somehow. They started five years ago as a one-man turkish guy making a MMO. Then the "business" side went in, the original EQ-style MMO got cancelled, and you had Quinfall...

<--- this.

The Asian steppe has always been the source of raiders for times immemorial. West, South... North, they went, raiding.

Can't find the clip of the toddler asleep trying to scroll down a (non-existent) screen in his dreams. That's simultaneously funny as hell, and horrifying as hell...

Since the Chinese are going to ban all of the addictive stuff (dailies, etc), I expect great things to come out of that market in the future.

Just got a notification, apparently, there is an extra EPUB for the Kickstarter. Haven't looked at what it is yet.

True. There were a few weirdos at the time, almost all published by Del Rey (I'm looking at you, Jack Chalker)...

Wrong. They're going to AI morph themselves into Alinity. *EDIT* Drat, sniped.

The very idea of Minecraft porn still boggles one's mind. Let alone 3rd most searched...

There are a few proto-LitRPG around that came out in the 20th century. People often call Larry Niven's Dream Park (1981) as the first LitRPG, as it revolves entirely around people playing a LARP in the eponymous park, in a future where augmented reality LARP is a big thing. You often see Joel...

It's quite different. LitRPG is a subset of Progression Fantasy, where the focus is about the pursuit and growth of personal power (or proxy personal power) within a setting. LitRPG achieves this progression through RPG rulesets, whether they work in a game ("old style LitRPG" or "VRMMO"...

"fired in February 1974, accused of being drunk on stage" And that's a firing offense for a rock band?

I am deeply convinced that Twitch did that to make sure the scandal of The Day Before is quickly forgotten!

It's a reminder that, in the age of digital feudal corporations lords, you will own nothing and rent everything.

Ahh, the era of Carta Mundi...

One of the most recent series that's probably very young-friendly is the System School series, but it's probably a bit above 12 (it's high school, not 12s). Dan Sugralinov advertised a series made for his 12-year-old kid called The Crafter. Then, you have the bizarre and fun shit, like All The...

Launched, in orbit, with only a RUD for the first stage.

Although modern historians seem to have debunked the myth of slave armies building the pyramids. It was mostly peasants (like almost all of them) mobilized while the Nile was overflowing, their fields were being fertilized, and they had little else to do. Mind you, that's almost the same thing...