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- Comment on The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!) 4 days ago:
There was another actual event at the end of Burning Crusade with similar mechanics to this. Plagued grain barrels spawned in cities, and players who interacted with them would die and spawn as an infected zombie. They were able to attack other players and spread the infection in doing so. My memory is pretty hazy since it happened so long ago, but in Shattrath (a high level neutral city), the zombies weren’t able to be attacked (probably due to pvp flags being forced off within the city limits), but in the faction cities, they were. This led to mobs of zombies roving around in Shattrath, pouncing on any unfortunate player they could find, where players in the faction cities formed subjugation squads and would patrol around, exterminating any zombies in sight.
Something else interesting was zombies gained access to another language (Zombie), and since Shattrath accommodated both player factions, you were able to speak to zombified members of the opposing faction.
- Comment on The Digital Plague: When World of Warcraft Accidentally Simulated a Pandemic (my article!) 4 days ago:
There were other “healers” during the pandemic, like those who would 3d print face shields and such for emergency workers. I also remember seeing shitheads do things like spitting on and licking items in stores for the social media shock.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
Sure, but these same companies will drag you to court and rake you over the coals if you infringe on their copyrights.
- Comment on New study reveals differences between 'Demon Slayer' bamboo muzzle and actual bamboo 2 weeks ago:
Not to mention many science nerds are also nerds in other subjects, as well.
My favorite example of this is still in Silicon Valley, when the group was trying to calculate how long it would take to jerk off 800 men. I believe the study was actually conducted by some folks from Stanford University.
- Comment on the soke is jex 2 weeks ago:
Yeah… in the Pixar animation, it looks like the I gets flattened, rather than going inside the lamp. Homeboy there might be in trouble.
- Comment on That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime Season 4 Previews Eir Aoi Opening Song in New Trailer 2 weeks ago:
So uh… what’s the meme?
- Comment on Star rupture on sale. It's only $20 to begin with, heh 4 weeks ago:
I typically don’t do early access games either, but added to the watch list.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 4 weeks ago:
Check out the Youtube channel Let’s Game It Out. Josh is very creative in finding ways to torment the NPCs of various simulator and tycoon games.
- Comment on A Playthrough Reborn: Rediscovering Final Fantasy XIV 5 weeks ago:
I quit the game more than once during the slog that is the post-ARR questline. I got to the point where I was just skipping all dialogue, then started paying attention again when I noticed new characters being introduced. Getting to Heavensward was great, both storywise and just to be in new areas.
I heard later that they pruned that section of the questline down, and it really needed it.
- Comment on TARIFFS AND TRADE WARS☠️💀 1 month ago:
Yeah, stick it to those Celestians.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
Probably more floundering. An EA exec told them at one point that their demo was crap (and based on word from other devs, he was probably right), so they reintroduced flight, which IMO was one of the best aspects of the game. EA didn’t force a new story or concept on Bioware, though. All that was Bioware’s own fault between lack of leadership and staff burnout.
A long read, but this article goes pretty in-depth on what happened during the development of Anthem: kotaku.com/how-biowares-anthem-went-wrong-1833731…
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 months ago:
Maybe. Maybe not. Some Amazon exec thinks it will, though.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 months ago:
This isn’t for Fallout fans. It’s for people who watch Netflix/Prime and saw the Fallout show. Reality shows are pretty popular on these platforms (Beast Games is #2 on Prime right now) so that’s who they’re going after.
- Comment on Bethesda announces a new Fallout... reality show 2 months ago:
A reality show vault? Not even Vault-Tec had any experiments that were that cruel.
- Comment on Valheim player keeps building Dollar Generals despite friend begging them to stop: 'I do not want to play Valheim with Greg anymore' 2 months ago:
Hashbrowns scattered all the way was my go-to.
- Comment on Dragon Age veteran says scrapped Anthem Next "could have been" up there with No Man's Sky's legendary turnaround 2 months ago:
“Anthem actually had the code for local servers running in a dev environment right up until a few months before launch,” Darrah continued. “I don’t know that they still work, but the code is there to be salvaged and recovered. The reason you do this, it pulls away the costs of maintaining this game. So rather than having dedicated servers that are required for the game to run, you let the server run on one of the machines that’s playing the game.” This, he added, could have worked alongside an additional move to add AI party members to the game, allowing people to play it like a single-player game.
Ok, this is even more heartbreaking now. I loved the concept of Anthem and had a fair bit of fun with the game in its current (prior to shutdown) state and was hopeful that the “Next” project would overhaul it into something great. I still don’t blame EA for their decisions in this case; Bioware fucked around for way too long during development and the overhaul project was most likely seen as too little, too late… or too expensive.
- Comment on They near 2 months ago:
The only time I see Padoru is memes about how common she is this time of year. At least it’s better than that Mariah Carey song.
- Comment on 3 months ago:
It means GW1.
- Comment on Real motivation 3 months ago:
I thought that’s what she said at first.
- Comment on DAE name their characters by their official name? 3 months ago:
My WoW characters had a mix of thoughtful and funny names.
- Comment on Valve's new hardware will NOT be loss leaders 4 months ago:
An item that is sold to you at a loss in hopes that you buy more profitable stuff from them to make up for said loss. Game consoles are usually sold at a loss in order to get people into their ecosystems, so they can buy things like games and subscription services, which are more profitable.
- Comment on You guys should check out Far Far West, they're having a Playtest that ends on the 10th 4 months ago:
Looks cool, Wishlisted.
- Comment on Sliced off the tip of my thumb, what are some good one handed games? 4 months ago:
Might be fine with space bar as-is. I use the side of my thumb for the space bar, not the tip.
- Comment on Dispatch sells 1 million copies in 10 days 4 months ago:
I’ve enjoyed Telltale games in the past (specifically Tales from the Borderlands and Batman), so I’ll likely pick this one up later during a sale.
- Comment on Male Fantasies (by Nhim) 4 months ago:
Replace trains with Gundams and would definitely be one of mine.
- Comment on Relatable. 4 months ago:
I’ve been feeling this way, too. Most shows with dumbass teenage main characters are a pass for me, nowadays. I think it’s mainly because I’m getting older and they aren’t very relatable anymore.
- Comment on Fallout 4: Anniversary Edition - Reveal Trailer 4 months ago:
Considering Skyrim Special Edition is handled like a different version of Skyrim, I would completely expect this version of Fallout 4 to break mods.
- Comment on Final Fantasy Tactics - The Ivalice Chronicles | Review Thread 5 months ago:
FFT is hands-down my favorite Final Fantasy game. I’m busy with other stuff at the moment, but I definitely plan on getting this one eventually.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I’ve been watching through old Gundam shows recently. While some haven’t aged well IMO, others are still really good. Zeta and the 8th MS Team are two examples.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
It doesn’t have to be AI. It’s probably more trend chasing. Anime A becomes super popular, so other series try to emulate it. As far as sound effects, the studios are likely pulling from the same sfx library.