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That's a lobby, except in 3D environment. The interactions there are barely above the level of lobby chat. That isn't a MMORPG. That's a MORPG.

The one problem with instancing is that it removes any form of spontaneous interaction with people in favor of curated ones. In an instance, you only interact with the very specific team you've brought in, no one else (well, except for the /1 for those who haven't disabled it). The only...

Rofl. Without scaling exploits, Rextroy is now relegated to brawls: https://www.wowhead.com/news=318937/rextroy-battlegrounds-40-death-knights-vs-40-hunters

It's mostly like all hardware. It will either fail fast, or fail late - rarely in the middle. Given that the idea is to make lotsa cheap satellites, if you have a failure rate of 1 or 2 per launch of 60, you're good. Most of the first batch has already been de-orbited, but I assume that's what...

The St. Etienne area was a hotbed of the Resistance during WW2 (the main underground newspaper for the Resistance in the southern France was printed there). Lotsa badasses there in the Maquis those days. Regarding names - that happens a lot. If you have throw-away characters, and pick a random...

Love how the article aged: ... and we all know how that turned out for those three :) But, as usual, Bartle's points stand out as mostly true.

What everyone wants to see NOW: 1) Farrah freed (probably going to happen Soon™) 2) Mini-Jason (Emi) getting magic (not going to happen for years) 3) Taika Iron ranked! (whenever Shirtaloon wants) and then, you can have Jason finding the secret operations of the Builder Cult (who might or...

Some data on the beta vs their competition: https://www.pcmag.com/news/tested-spacexs-starlink-satellite-internet-service-is-fast-but-itll-cost

Also, the Starlink satellite constellation acts as a kind of Internet itself. Classic satellite internet is Ground Station->Satellite->You, which requires a high altitude satellite which can see both the ground station and you, which gives you high latency (round trip to GEO at 36000 km...

Apparently... after a while only. Also, LOL at the "you can't use a mount in the Maw".

Thanks a lot for re-assuring me I am certainly never going to come back, as this was the only part that interested me, essentially, and it seems even that is fucked.

Investors are starting to pour out money whenever SpaceX does a funding round, because it is starting to look like they have a potential second major product (beyond, you know, cheap launches).

That warrants a double worf reaction. Because the James Webb is next to "Delays" and "Overbudget" at the same time in the dictionnary. I'll believe in the launch maybe a week or two before it happens...

Not that many. Shirtaloon is an outlier. But you still have a significant number doing in the 5k range, which is extremely good. Heck, even some of the best known serials draw 2k or less.

"Kunark is Norrath's Australia" :)

There's still a strong possibility they're what remains of a broken-up Builder cult, but as magical underdogs, they seem to work out.

You were not the hero in Everquest. Heck, Everquest barely had quests for a very long time. Sure, 50% of the player base want a single-player RPG where they can play with people at times, but that's not what MMOs were supposed to be. What EQ had was backstory, not story. One of the advantages...

/worf

Procedural generation "works". You can feed it rules, like, say "an inn is based with a large common room with bar+stools, plus storage, plus cooking room, then optionally..." and you get functional inns. But once the procedural generator explores the space of "functional Inns", it WILL stumble...

That's why I said "advanced" procedural generation. We can actually generate stuff that feels different - the problem is that the generators at one point make weird/surreal stuff that screams "random generator" because it stops making sense to the human mind. You need to couple procedural...

Defiance of the Fall is slow as fuck as well. As one comment on the latest update says: "One chapter for dragon materials. One for viewing the reward. One for choosing the reward. One for the vision. One for the starting town perspective during all this. One for viewing gains. One for the fight...

That's weaksauce cliffhanger. More of a boathanger...

Yea. One of my old dreams designs for MMO would be the "single server non instanced MMO". Use next-gen procedural generation to create a continent with 50 times the size of current WoW, and like 8000 static dungeons. You use a GW2-style event system rather than an on-rail story-driven quest...

The problem is that most of the recent MMOs were short-term ones. It's all asian cash grabs that look completely copy-pasted: action combat, flashy effects, knockdowns (seriously, every game I see features the characters being knocked on the ground as soon as they don't dodge the attack), with...

Some new video devoted to the sad state of MMOs. (the only real MMO launched in 2020 is... a 10-year old game now released internationally)

Best part from an article I've seen: "we're not technically in breach of contract. It's still ongoing. Forever" :trollface:

It is good, but the pacing has been slow at times, and now, he's sprinkling cliffhangers to artificially feel like the pacing is faster.

Youtube as well is now full of ads. During most of the year, you had maybe one when starting a video. Now, it's two, unskippable, almost every time, and then you get a pair somewhere if the video is longer than 10mn. Looks like advertisers have money again.

NASA is old-tech. SpaceX streams at 1080p, but when they make joint streams with NASA for astronaut launches, the SpaceX stream goes down to 720p max to match NASA's.

Koreans hate Japanese, Mongolians, Chinese... pretty much all of Asia. But you have the choice between K-Pop and this: What would you take (well, what? walking on popcorn? Maybe the koreans are right).

What could possibly go wrong? :smart:

Should check that one at one point. But I'm at a stage where I'm probably following too many serials simultaneously. The Infinite Realm: Monsters & Legends added a nice little bit of cosmology, and Ryun is back to the stage at least for a while. I wonder if Zach is going to show up at the...

Also, 100th SpaceX successful launch.

It's not gacha. It's specific, targeted drop. Random? Sure. Rare? Sure. But it is something that requires a very specific, narrow, targeted ability - while every single other activity rewards completely different things. You know what is a gacha lootbox? The WoW weekly M+ chest. Contains...

Ah, SurrealBelief. Love most of his CK3 videos, but I did skip the BG3 (mostly because I don't want to even hear about EA BG3, period)

"You will play exactly how we intend it, the way we intend it, on the rails we laid on. And nothing else is allowable."

Aaand, for our weekly cliffhanger of He Who Fights with Monsters... See you next week, same bat-time, same bat-channel!

Facebook decided, out of the blue, that they needed a picture ID of me to let me keep the account I used once every five years. Until I send them one, my account is locked and unusable. I am never ever going to send my ID to Facebook. Nope.