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To this day, I still remember I was at work talking with a co-worker and we were making fun of the Titanic movie (which had just come out) and I made some quip about how the only part of the movie that would be good is when the boat finally sinks. Some lady walks by and 100% seriously goes...

The last segment was kind of braindead in that video tbh As for Wuk Lamat, the moment they announced they planned to make female Hrothgar, it was a given there would be a main role female Hrothgar character that would show up, much like how Erenville showed up in EW after they announced...

It's all power play shit - the reason the Elder wasn't going to help Maximus get out of it is because the rival sects are a bunch of meatheads also and any show of weakness would erode the Elder's position. Besides, Maximus is only useful to the Elder if he is strong and commands respect. Like...

This is the song I keep coming back to from this raid tier - love the 80s hair metal rock ballad vibes

That could be one usage in game. You could also have the AI system design a bunch of radiant quests during the dev process and have devs add some extra touches, so just an increase in the amount of radiant quests as opposed to "hello general, another settlement needs you help. I've marked it...

It wasn't a fusion powered car, it looked like it was just a normal gasoline powered one. If it was a nuclear one, it would have had a much bigger explosion like the one at Novac

We haven’t seen anyone perma freed from the hive yet, but I suspect they won’t remember anything experienced by the hive itself. It will be like a data file split amongst 6 billion people - they each store a small fragment, but the fragment is worthless without the whole. An individual human...

Alternatively, it could be how an alien race "reproduces". I forget the name of the book series, but it was about an alien race that came to Earth and began to seed their genetic material into the human population (which has a much larger impact on babies born from the genetically altered...

Superman also isn't a trained fighter - he has raw strength, but he isn't a warrior

The worst stance to take would be "we don't want to invalidate anyone's ending" because it actually does that exact thing when they have to come up with some convoluted reason why X faction is still around rather than grow a set of balls and just confirm the canon ending

They're not as amazing, but IMO it's still the best "end talent" in any of the trees

The best use of AI in game development is going to be in helping "fill in the blanks" that a human dev team experiences while making the game: Smoothing out animations, fleshing out flavor content, creating more meaningful "fluff" content. Like for example, one complaint about Starfield was...

Sorry, I should have rephrased. Tobacco companies used propaganda to counter claims about health issues caused by using tobacco - ads with "doctors" making claims that tobacco was safe, etc. You can find tons of that shit in the mid 20th century

Thr irony of this post is glossing over that tobacco companies used propaganda to make people smoke

It does, although it's sort of a lame copout that they have such a big aversion to confirming a canon ending on the show. I sort of get it, because it gives Bethesda more time while designing Fallout 5 to pick a canon ending for NV or 4 or whatever if needed themselves when developing the...

I was joking the Commonwealth BOS that show up might be synths before, but that name drop got me thinking there is a real possibility. It would be a hell of a coincidence or outright red herring to use that name otherwise Commonwealth BOS existing narrows down Fallout 4 to 2 possible canon...

The funny part about that old commercial is the actor was Italian They were effective, though. American roads/highways looked like trash dumps before the “keep America clean” push in the 60s/70s

They’re kind of limited in what they can do if they don’t want to stray from the art design philosophy of “retro future 70s/early 80s post-apocalypse”

In other news, looks like Thomas Jane was cast as Bones for the SNW finale. They also cast a Sulu, which seems to imply the final episode will probably involve the Enterprise fully swapping over to Kirk's crew https://blog.trekcore.com/2025/12/star-trek-strange-new-worlds-casting-mccoy-sulu/...

That was one thing I disliked when visiting Japan years ago - I've gotten so used to no smoking in restaurants that it was kind of a shock when I went to a few and half the booths are puffing away at their tables.

Japan mostly started in the aftermath of WW2 - it was viewed as a way to get more food into the country. It’s fallen out of favor with younger generations, much like how dog meat isn’t as acceptable to younger people in places like Korea or China. Norway and Iceland still did it, although...

North America solo queue is usually pretty chill if you get matched with other chill solos. Just don’t attack people first if possible and you’ll eventually get matched more often than not with chill people who are more interested in PvE than PvP

It’s not a big problem tbh - full naked has no shield

Ultimately you need sort of an end game. Only way the current cycle ends is 1) Earth is suddenly incapable of launching missions for some reason or 2) Pandora somehow gets a tactical advantage that negates Earth's technological superiority which in turn allows negotiation

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I don't doubt it was fun, but that fun is also relative. If everyone playing had the same mindset, sure. But they don't, which is why the past 20 years have shown if you take a fundamentally PVE-style game, but add PVP elements to it and the PVP element cannot be opted out of, then eventually...

Garriot himself mentioned that population in UO increases 60% after Trammel came out. Point is that people were more willing to play when you couldn't just get shanked out in the woods and lose all your shit

Huh? You must have done something or said something wrong, because it's pretty easy to get the "we live together in a cabin in the woods" relationship ending. Also I am seeing a recurring theme - people murdering characters then complaining about not getting into the game. You're literally...

Trammel saved UO - the population was on a downward spiral until they released Trammel. Even back then it was clear that when people play games, they don't enjoy the digital experience of walking in the bad part of town at 3am

I saw that - he gets a lot of things wrong about the game, which to me says he didn't have a lot of personal experience with it and he also missed a lot of community complaints. I can tell you what killed the game population just from having played it for hundreds of hours 1) Unsatisfying...

They started to course correct in 7.2 (was too late for 7.1). 7.2 and 7.3 she is there, but not in an oversized role and they tone her down. She gets a heroic moment in 7.3, but it feels more like a team effort heroic moment rather than a "lul kill steal!" moment that 7.0 came across as. 7.4...

PTR notes for the newest update https://duneawakening.com/news/public-test-client-patch-1-3-0-0/

Well we know a few things. Calyx and Sphene were contemporaries and Alexandria suffered the calamity over 400+ years ago. Oblivion was formed after Calyx formed Preservation and they created the means to make endless. If I recall, Endless research was still ongoing when Sphene was originally...

Yes, there are a bunch of quests similar to DMZ

It was a repost of an older post

His dad was in the Vietnam war, but he wasn’t an army brat in the sense of growing up with active military parents

I’ve seen speculation online that the House we see in the bar at the start of the episode is Anthony House, not Robert, because his s personality is more like Anthony and he seems to really like H&H tools Seems plausible

Only 10 years? Pfft, amateurs