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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.

Could def use a coop horde slaughter game.

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...

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

"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...

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

confirmed canonical

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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.

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...

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...

Dude is doing a soda self found run irl

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.

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...

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.

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.

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...

Yeah, if Rome was given steam, railroad, metallurgy and other pre/early industrial tech they would subjugate the crap outta everyone for a hundred years. And then what? And what if we give them not only the means to have an industrial revolution, but the information made during the information...

This shit is why I don't read any social media for books. People can't help but spoil book series immediately after introducing someone to it!

A compounding effect is that a rando rogue you give a pity invite to in original EQ is probably too obtuse or ignorant to play a better class, so they aren't the diamond in the rough that makes up for class imbalance with force of will, but a subpar player who chose a subpar class.

I don't know you or Sylas but if someone infantilized me this much I'd be infuriated and massively insulted. He's more than welcome to shitpost and be treated like an adult for doing so.

very surprising. I really enjoyed his work.

How frequently in your personal life are you forced to realize you made a mistake, only to make the same mistake soon after?

In my scenario of hopping back, enacting a change and hopping forward to see how it played out, I think this would be a problem and you'd have to motivate a society to overcome the language/tech barrier to experience the payoff. Jumping forward 10,000 years only to find out that Augustus was...