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""There was no heart and no soul," Heiderose Schmidt, 54, told the AP of the service. "The avatars showed no emotions at all, had no body language and were talking so fast and monotonously that it was very hard for me to concentrate on what they said."" Sounds about right.

I did remember thinking the set designs and special effects on Andor were extremely good. Makes sense that they went hard on the budget to support it. To me the best part was the writing. The big budget scenes seemed like second-tier capstones around the plot in many cases. This scene is a bit...

I've never heard of Empyrion or Everspace 2. They might be cool but at this point I'm definitely going to hold on to whatever desire I have saved up for playing a space combat sim for Starfield.

I bet there will be a pathway to import the ship models from Star Citizen into Starfield. SC has some nice looking ships.

I've sunken thousands of hours into Mount and Blade / Bannerlord and the base gameplay of riding around a horse is still extremely compelling to me. It's that base gameplay that just doesn't draw me into space combat sims that I think is because they are missing the components you cite that...

For me I don't think it needs everything, but a game that has everything, especially with optional components, is ideal. A big budget narrative and world-building makes the trading/base building simulation more enjoyable, but I just haven't been able to get into ED, X4/X4 etc. It's crazy that...

Good. Space flight is one of the gameplay modalities that's ripe for a huge RPG. Getting it right is worth it and harder than shooting / melee / mage mechanics that have a ton of games to draw from for design (including fallout/ES games...) but are in an extremely crowded space. I grew up...

Brother this website is a social media platform and has its own discord. Petulant mods have been around since cavemen have sat around a campfire deciding which hill to go forage berries and roots in the next day. I remember getting banned in IRC channels decades ago for the same shit this...

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.

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

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.

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...

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...

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...

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

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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.

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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.