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That's why I try not to be too critical of EQ devs.

I'd be proud of Bethesda if Starfisld had the character depth to have awkward lqbtq interactions. Typically the characters are too shallow for that and only have enough depth to move the plot forward.

I think there's just an immense cost to photorealistic humans that the industry hasn't commoditized yet. You see these really impressive demos Then you see an Unreal game where the human looks like, well, the default model in a sports game. Humans are really good at perceiving issues...

The annoying thing is that EQ is ripe for a huge overall in their guide system, which should be the purview of a community manager. I don't think they have any interest in that though.

I literally don't know what the role is for the CMs in DPG. As far as I can tell their scope is to put out tone-deaf messages once a month, post patch notes and blithely respond to reports. Maybe they're active in a lot of games but it feels like about ~4 hours of work a week.

I want to be mean and call you a negative nancy trying to rain my hype parade but tbh Gamebryo is broke and old and Bethesda should've done something with the 50 years since Skyrim's release to put it out to pasture finally. Imagine a world where Bethesda ditched Gamebryo, built a new Creation...

What's the motivation to have OW earning slower than DZs? Seems like it shoudl be the inverse, no?

Gotta imagine the number of people willing to wake up at 3AM to kill OW content on an ez-mode casual server is pretty low.

As an aside, I would support a forum feature that would integrate the literacy test results from the PIAAC into the forum and show a badge (or armband) in a poster's profile. https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/piaac/measure.asp?section=1&sub_section=3 I'd wager that a good chunk of the morons that...

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Loved the book. Didn't read the martian. I think creating a great movie from the book is a pretty easy alley oop, will probably watch it.

""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...