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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.

It's not for her arms. It's for her legs. The arm straps are the small ones (you see behind). Proper use:

And yet it was half-empty 80% of the time. All the popular locations were easily accessible by everyone. If you needed a third party to get there, only a handful of premade went there, on a scheduled run planned long in advance.

You have to realize that modern WoW design is "every expansion is a standalone game. New systems, new balance, new everything. Ain't nobody need to understand what happened before"

Charasis. Considered by many to be awesome, but hogtied by keying requirements. City of Mist. Extremely good dungeon, too remote to be popular. If you want to maximize your content use - the cost of designing said content vs the number of players who will use it, yes. Those zones are anathema.

Oh, believe me. If it were me, there would be the open-world version AND NOTHING ELSE. But I'm also keenly aware that, based on how players have played in literally every game since, if you put an instanced version where it's loot guaranteed, no competition, the same items, etc... 95% of the...

If I can get the same items in a non-contested instanced version, why should I even bother doing the non-instanced one and find my targets gone? The only reason would be "I want the item to twink", which will not be the primary motivation of players, or "I want the item to sell at the AH", which...

In other words, you have everyone in the instanced dungeon, and the Chinese farmers competing for the outdoor version. Neat.

I remember only a handful of bad decisions. Besides the shitty optimization of the client. Hard factions (on that, I agree wholeheartedly) The stupid "I'll wave to you to show you I have a quest for you" The pick shit on the ground collection system An uninspired, overly complicated class...

Pfff, call me back when they start getting near Plank Time. (EDIT: Preserving my mistake for posterity. Should walk that plank)

Seeds of Destruction. When you start going back in time because Zebruxoruk is going to destroy the universe. Or something.

The previous series from the author (The Outer Sphere) was in the same vein. Unfortunately, he had problems keeping the series alive, so it ended abruptly. You can see comparing the two he got significantly better.

Just don't tell him you're there for that, and you can let him do it while you go set up what's important. https://www.wowhead.com/news=318569/new-way-to-skip-warlords-of-draenor-introductory-quests-in-shadowlands-pre-patch

As I said before. When Lindon says "Gratitude" (2 lines above), the strongest must pale.

While the judgement isn't going to come for a long time, things are happening. TL;DR Apple: "The exclusive store and 30% fees we do is nothing special, everyone does it." Epic: "Yes, but the console market sells at cost, while you already made lots of profit on your iphones!" Judge, looking at...

Yes. Ahhh, old memories.

Speak for yourself. This is the first expansion I'm only barely vaguely interested in maybe, someday in the future, checking. By then, I'll probably have problems finding my authenticator and stuff, so who knows.

Dunno about that software, but anything about the history of mass GPS use always remind me of a few things: 1) That small village in Wales that had to SUE Garmin because their maps led all the local trucks through their village, and notably though a street that was too narrow to turn if you...

Not only that, but they finally nerfed Rextroy: No ilvl scaling in PVP anymore... Every Blizzard game was fucked yesterday. Friend's daughter was complaining about how it was impossible to log-in for Overwatch's Halloween skin farming.

I remember the massive raids down in the basement tunnels to pull and aoe to get nameds for the Shissarbane metal components. Tide-Tunare was among the first guilds to guess how that stuff worked, I think, so none of the competing Asian and US guild had a clue about what we were doing there.

Finished The War Throughout the Dungeon, the sequel to The City and the Dungeon. And it was mildly disappointing. Mind you, it remains heads above 90% of litrpg on Amazon. But it's still a case of "why did we wait 3 years for this?" The author keeps the setting and works out the setting in a...

Zach has always been the least interesting of the two rankers from Iteration 7. This continues to be the case.

The Wandering Inn is also insane compared to any webserials. There's times where you think the entire family of Pirateaba must be writing the series.

Given how tuned stuff is (like Nzoth damage being 3 times higher, relative to health pool, than it was before), they know they should...

Guess who isn't going to get Essences and Awakening Stones while the rest of the family gets full sets?

When your own former cosmonauts tweet this: