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Yeah at this point I think it will be, at minimum, extremely awkward if Arcane doesn't sweep the Emmy Awards for anything even vaguely related to animation, visual effects and sound. I wouldn't be shocked if it becomes the first animated anything to win the best show category. It will be nigh...

Outstanding ending. My only disappointment now is logging into LoL to get my next fix. Shame they couldn't get an ARPG or MMO set in Piltover/Zaun out in time. I've already had a few friends saying they wanna try league after seeing the show and I've had to wave them all off because it's...

So last Saturday I waited till around 7PM to catch the stream since the first act didn't drop till 7PM on release. But then I started seeing tweets and posts about the second act way before then. What time did the 2nd act become available last Saturday then? Just midnight?

Yeah but they all spend 5-10 grand a year on cosmetics and boosts.

I suspect it's more because Netflix is far more mainstream in NA than other markets. The broader Netflix's penetration into a given broadcast market is, the lower Arcane performs. So in the US shit like Red Notice and Love Hard dominate the rankings because grandma and uncle bob the...

The show's success globally isn't well-reflected in the US Netflix top-10, but it's been moving the needle for Netflix's ratings so well that folks who watch the streaming market have noticed. Forbes had a pretty good assessment on why it's #1 in 50+ markets but the neanderthal...

It would be the best-animated scissoring in history, that's for damned sure.

Yeah I think they're gonna slow-roll the expanding world over the last three episodes but we've already been shown the mage and the runestones in Jayce's intro so that's technically already been set on the table. One thing they're introducing for sure is Noxus. They've been mentioned a couple...

He'd just unionize the robots.

We see the mage's hands in that video when he catches the expended runestone. It's definitely tatted up but his skin isn't blue. I'm not convinced it's Ryze either, tbh, but I think the tophat guy's physique is closer to Ryze's than Graves' and the Arcane mage's leggings and lower kit is...

I was looking for high-res screens of the possible Ryze/mage on that episode I ran into some 4k shots of the show.... goddamn every frame really IS artwork. If they had managed to release gameplay pre-alpha screens of their MMO and it looked like I could jump into this world I would happily pay...

Looks a bit lanky to be Graves though. The mutton chops on him looks like Ryze's beard and the mage who rescued Jayce has the same physique as Ryze and that tophat guy. Folks speculate that mage is Ryze because his kit and leggings look like Ryze's base skin and if the timeframe is from...

On that note people have been saying that the whole show has been more or less complete since this teaser was released more than two years ago at their 10th year anniversary (October 2019). Since there's footage in it from the two acts that have been released so far, that sounds plausible. But...

If Morhaime could or wanted to save it, he could've when he was chief executive. I suppose they could bring the band back together for some kinda FFXIV rebuild thing, but neither the rest of the market nor the gamers themselves will wait for them. Dropping the ball while there are people like...

You joke but I bet the blizzard.com and battle.net domains will be all that's left of Blizz in a few years. Activision will repurpose the domains for some other use and people will barely recall what they used to be for. Kinda like how EA reduced origin.com to their online DLC whorehouse and...

I think getting their brand promoted inside other colossal platforms like PUBG, Fornite and Among Us is a way, way bigger flex than getting it projected onto the Burj Khalifa in Dubai. That was just a gimmick, this gets it into millions of eyeballs. Prolly cost an order of magnitude more too.

I get the feeling Act III will be a setup for a broader conflict that will rope in Noxus and Demacia at the very least. Heimerdinger has mentioned how magic has destroyed "nations" several times now and we haven't seen the fallout from his removal. He's already declared that he would have the...

Yeah I guess they're making House Medarda either originate from Noxus or have some roots from there since Mel's large painting was the Immortal Bastion in Noxus with some Noxian warships in the foreground. I love how this screencap looks like a painting within a painting. Every frame in this...

New sneak peak has the first shots of Vi with her gauntlets and Mel's mom. She's not Camille or any other champion, though.

Could just be used to make for more efficient hypersonic engines. Scramjets usually need to be at mach 3-5 to start so they're normally bootstrapped by a rocket or a plane, which means they're at very thin atmospheres. If they could just yeet it to mach 1 or 2 within one atmosphere of...

I must've been lucky enough to have worked in places that can tell the difference between necessary dead weight and cancerous drama queens.

How many of those full stack developers look like this, though?

I kinda get why they'd go quiet after announcing it a couple years ago: the whole game is based on the Ruination event that wouldn't start until early this year---almost a year after the game was announced. Viego and his queen are actually in some of the promo footage. They were careful not to...

Honestly, Blizzard's downfall is probably deeply validating for Kotick. He doesn't have to play ugly duckling next to Blizzard and the folks at Irvine won't be around to snicker at his decisions to bet most of the company on buying King and ditch Bungie to focus on turning CoD into a...

It was too late by the time it was "Overwatch". Whatever ultimately broke Blizzard happened when it was still Titan.

Bunch of ppl streaming it now if you wanna take a look first. I kinda want to say that they released them all to coincide with the buzz around Arcane but the one or all of the devs got hit with COVID delays so they were late, but that particular game was obviously designed to coincide with...

They released like four games today, but this one has been announced for a couple years, they just went radio silent since then. I think the others are meant to be mobile games, which is Tencent's primary market, but this one isn't on android or ios at all. It's on nintendo switch so I'm sure...

I like that song but I really dig the cover of "Rise" they made for their new turn-based RPG that came out on Steam early access (like, today): The original version was for the 2018 world championships cinematics performed by Glitch Mob:

I mean, it's not like Riot couldn't wipe the floor using a traditional cel-shaded anime style. They're owned by an Asian media megacorp worth over half a Trillion dollars that earned every single penny of it by building gaming franchises; it would be weird if they couldn't rock a legit anime...

Only 6 episodes out of the 9 total. The last three come out on Saturday the 20th and riot is doing some series finale kinda event across all their games (and even other games that aren't theirs like Fortnite and Among Us). But you only really need the first minute or so of the first episode to...

How much do you hate Imagine Dragons?

Yeah the saddest thing about Blizzard now is knowing that they couldn't make an animated series or even a single movie at this level now even if they wanted to. The Warcraft movie was such a squandered opportunity. Not even Denis Villeneuve or Ridley Scott could've improved on a movie made...

I don't play Runeterra but apparently there are tons of voice-acted banter in the game, including a lot of stuff between the Zaun kids:

Wellp, that's that.

I dunno if it's because I've been binging Arcane recently but the CGI in this is really....dated.

I don't see how anyone could think the Firelight Leader is not Ekko. His outfit is basically Ekko's ingame base outfit plus the mask and the hoverboard. Hell, his mask is basically his ingame kneepad: Not only does he fixate on his pocketwatch every time he's on screen, which would become...

Yeah the purple stuff is Chemtech in the game, it's a zaun thing that was found at the bottom of the sump. In the game it came from Urgot who was a spider-god thing down in the sump but in the show it's an invention by Singe I guess. The runestones kinda look like the icon for their RMT...

The voice actor is some guy in Arrow, but I've never watched the show so I dunno.

Considering the last time anyone heard anything from Ghostcrawler, they could still go that route. Aside from the few seconds of footage shown earlier even the fighting game is mostly vaporware. Seth Killian left Riot (after selling his own fighting game to them as the core of Project L) and...