Pet peeves: The return (Part 5)

Mine are approved for 6-days consecutively, though I don’t due to force of habit. Sleeping with lenses in for a month is neat though.

Ive recently discovered the joy that is irresistible dance with Split Enchantment.

Now if only there was more spell dc gear available out there… :frowning:

doctor’s appointment booked, lets see if I can get some good painkillers.

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doomed, detected and caught

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Ned Stark never stood a chance.

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warcraft 2 characters if they were in game of thrones

who is bobby b?

Daelin, obvs. They share VA.

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i take back any good will i had for mike ybarra

i was not familiar with his game

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My One Piece reread has reached Enies Lobby. It’s a great section, but it sucks how Usopp doesn’t get to participate.

At least he sent his best friend, Sogeking, to help out :pray:

yo there is an ff14 reference in ff6. this girl paints

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Gundam SEED movie getting discussed as being “Super Robot Wars” and “Cross Ange” in its last third and I’m UNABLE TO WATCH IT because there’s no UK release and no camrips yet.

Pain.

“Please perform cannibal ritual”

performs ritual

follower who wanted it gives me -10 faith because he’s terrified of death

Why did you ask then?!

Dungeon Meshi’s orcs being more piglike (in line with older depictions, instead of more modern greenskins) is cool.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/delicious-in-dungeon/images/e/e3/Orcs.png/revision/latest?cb=20240114214316

Orc children having back stripes like baby boars do is also peak. As is making them a part of their cultural references/language.

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/561287824964452363/1200428977240674457/3gxcx9d7ne191.webp

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what did he do (besides get booted out of blizzard)

Dunno if it’s what Akamito’s referring to but, personally,
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GEwkREJWAAEgTIn?format=jpg&name=medium

His leaving message (“gonna go travel the world”) is pretty tone-deaf in the face of 1900 layoffs that are almost certainly gonna be struggling real hard now.

yeah okay that’s pretty gross desu

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also the “hyper growth” thing is pretty much exactly why all of these places are ending up with huge layoffs.

it’s incredibly tone deaf

it’s okay for him to bounce between companies on his insane salary, but for low level workers that job is their only source of income and barely covers their living expenses

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-25/microsoft-cancels-big-new-blizzard-game-after-six-years-of-development?

Article about the now-cancelled Blizz survival game Odyssey which was apparently good but also years from release still.

Despite the additional resources, the project struggled largely due to technical issues surrounding the engine, or the suite of tools and technology that developers use to construct a game, according to people familiar with the process. Odyssey was originally prototyped on the popular Unreal Engine, from Epic Games Inc., but Blizzard executives decided to switch, in part, because it wouldn’t support their ambitions for vast maps supporting up to 100 players at once.

Blizzard instead directed the Odyssey team to use Synapse, an internal engine that the company had originally developed for mobile games and envisioned as something that would be shared across many of its projects. But that led to significant problems as the technology was slow to coalesce, and Odyssey’s artists instead spent time prototyping content in the Unreal Engine that they knew would have to be discarded later, said the people.

A game hindered by an engine mandate issued by executives? Never heard that before…

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The Anthem approach

— The Unreal engine doesn’t properly scale for the needs of our new desktop game. What should we do?
— Let’s switch to our mobile game engine.
— Brilliant!

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