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  1. Cybsled

    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    Ancient game model + new engine != success. FFXI was very close to EQ1 with better graphics. Popular at the time. FFXIV initially was that but prettier. It bombed. They later fixed it and released Eureka, a FFXI/EQ1 style mmo zone within a mmo with slow leveling, groups virtually required...
  2. Cybsled

    Lost Ark Online

    Right, but what were the horse game dev costs? It’s all relative. If Amazon is dumping 100+ million on a game, niche isn’t going to cut it
  3. Cybsled

    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    No, beyond Reddit detectives and their guilt by association bullshit. it seems more likely he got pushed because of how OW2 was progressing
  4. Cybsled

    Lost Ark Online

    Niche is the keyword there. Amazon is probably expecting a decent ROI on this project and PVP heavy MMOs tend to burn out extremely fast, especially when that is really the only thing to do. Ashes of Creation is going to have the same issue if he insists on having dumb shit like "lose half...
  5. Cybsled

    Lost Ark Online

    Maybe, but in the West it is going to basically be seen as Diablo/PoE type game. The isometric MMO like Lineage 1 and GW1 and the like was mostly an Eastern thing
  6. Cybsled

    Lost Ark Online

    LA and NW are pretty different games. LA seems to have more in common with Diablo than WoW/FF14. Numbers from Korea/China are always "take with a grain of salt" since most of that shit comes from PC Cafes/PC Bangs vs. actual personal PC ownership and those audiences are already conditioned for...
  7. Cybsled

    Disney+ Streaming Service

    Yes but will this Rocketeer have Betty Paige?
  8. Cybsled

    What If...?

    Ya this was a good one. Kind of reminded me of The Timelord Victorious concept from Doctor Who if he had actually succeeded
  9. Cybsled

    The Astronomy Thread

    It’s a technical hurdle at the moment to create fusion power generation that produces more than it consumes on a usable scale. The US and Europe have made good progress, but we are many decades out from something potentially game changing for civilization
  10. Cybsled

    Twitch.tv

    Lol that was literally my first thought
  11. Cybsled

    The Astronomy Thread

    The biggest problem with rare earth metals is you have to process a lot of material just to get a tiny bit of the REM and it is very polluting/toxic. If you could process them on the moon, people wont give a shit about pollution (initially anyways). Bringing water into space from Earth is...
  12. Cybsled

    Clickbait

    Unlikable characters are hard to write properly. Context of the story matters a lot…the reader or audience isn’t going to give a shit about the character and their fate unless there is an interesting hook to them or they are interacting with an interesting character you do care about. Common...
  13. Cybsled

    Interesting, Non Political News

    Oh no doubt, they’ve just never publicly confirmed anything
  14. Cybsled

    Twitch.tv

    Ya, maybe it’s a generational thing, but I’m having trouble wrapping my head around how being a emotionally manipulative person = sexual assault? The guy does come across as a shitbag to be sure. But trying to equate this with rape or sexual abuse or whatever seems to be demeaning to actual...
  15. Cybsled

    The Astronomy Thread

    Ship port in space will be limited in use unless it can supply things ships need. LEO has applications, but refueling isn’t one of them.
  16. Cybsled

    Twitch.tv

    Even if they didn’t, I have to imagine most of the regulars are going to be treating him like radioactive waste and staying away
  17. Cybsled

    Twitch.tv

    Bunch of accusations coming out against Arcadum. He's been pretty successful running complex D&D campaigns on Twitch and has had lots of big names playing his games
  18. Cybsled

    Battlefield 2042

    Don't need grappling hooks if you're a 24/7 pilot lol
  19. Cybsled

    Twitch.tv

    100% correct. The platform really has a dogshit way of showing live streams. They get mixed in with all your other recommended/subscribed videos.
  20. Cybsled

    Twitch.tv

    Interesting. I wonder what prompted it. Maybe YouTube is getting more serious about attracting big streamers?
  21. Cybsled

    Weather

    I remember a town in Maine like that decades back. This isn't even a joke, if you were going even 1 mile over the speed limit, they would pull you over and give you a speeding ticket. My elderly grandmother who was the slowest driver I knew even got a ticket and that was one of the first times...
  22. Cybsled

    The Astronomy Thread

    Only way it would ever be a thing is if were rolled into what DARPA already does every now and again with prizes for solving a tech issue.
  23. Cybsled

    The Astronomy Thread

    Right, but the reason to cross that river or mountain or sea was "maybe this will enrich me, or my family or clan" or "we can't stay here any longer, maybe we can survive over there"
  24. Cybsled

    The Astronomy Thread

    Sure, we could. But the feasible part comes into play. Humans usually need a reason to invest in something like that. Basically "how does this benefit me?" Short of stress factors causing it (ie, solar system is going to get rekt / we ran out of resources in the solar system), you aren't...
  25. Cybsled

    The Astronomy Thread

    Interstellar travel beyond "nearby" systems is always going to require FTL to be feasible. Baby steps. We still need good propulsion system for travel within the solar system. Even The Expanse with their physically questionable Epstein Drive takes a long ass time to get anywhere.
  26. Cybsled

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Ya, that will be the one to watch. New skills and existing skill revamps/changes usually get talked about there.
  27. Cybsled

    World of Warcraft: Current Year

    The greatest irony was all these things caused the mass exodus from EQ1 to WoW way back when
  28. Cybsled

    What If...?

    This is why overdosing on “red pills” is bad - rots the brain to the point they can’t even remember who the original Avengers were
  29. Cybsled

    What If...?

    Not sure what gave that impression. It's just an anthology show that lets them play around with multiverse scenarios. Is it possible they might have crossovers? Sure.
  30. Cybsled

    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    He was in the Cosby Suite chat texts. When Furor mentions marrying the women, he responds “you mean fuck”.
  31. Cybsled

    Blizzard dies and Bobby rides

    Tigule + Foror = <redacted> and <redacted>????
  32. Cybsled

    Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)

    My car after a car wash isn’t safe from dinosaurs. Little fucking bastards always shitting on the windshield
  33. Cybsled

    What If...?

    Marvel Zombies is going to be one of them, so I wouldn't be surprised if it were that lol
  34. Cybsled

    Interesting, Non Political News

    At best, some anti-satellite weapon to let China know they can't just use their shit with impunity. US, Russia, etc are still bound by the Outer Space Treaty which prohibits WMD in space or on planetary bodies. Even if they are still doing that, they sure as fuck aren't going to ever publicly...
  35. Cybsled

    What If...?

    The whole point of this is to show different multiverses...having everything in one universe makes no fucking sense. At best, you'd just have crossovers between universes
  36. Cybsled

    Cowboy Bebop

    The English Dub > the JP language one
  37. Cybsled

    Cyberpunk 2077

    Smart clothes with tech augments. Even IRL, wearable tech is a thing
  38. Cybsled

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    Quest dialogue improves post ARR. people become less long winded
  39. Cybsled

    Wildermyth

    The "romance" options in the game are pretty tame. There is some PG rated dialogue that pops up in some of the cut scenes and that's it. Only a couple of the campaigns start with a possible romance thing, usually it lets you pick rival/friend/romance person and that's it - some of the later...
  40. Cybsled

    Final Fantasy XIV (Guide in first post)

    And actually having a reasonable chance of getting a housing plot, while all the other people on the other 2 data centers cry into their body pillows