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Well, ammo and such. The combination ingredient. Which bottle were you talking about? DM if you don't wanna spoil any mutuals? but I don't know if there's a lot of those 🙈

The, uh, crafting one? Yea, I'm stunned how they managed to get exp / gold into a survival game! Killing zombies is still not the best way forward, but to a degree there's a positive loop. Slick!

Aaah, it'll be adorable!

The money printing machine isn't printing money fast enough, the overlord wants increasing f'(x), not just increasing f(x)! Time to add loot boxes to splatbooks, gacha for classes, serialised legendary item cards only available on eBay, the future is bRiGhT!!
(I'm so tired.)

Train selfie. Mostly empty, I'm pissed or tired, wearing a mask

For context, ich gerade im bisher 54min verspäteten RJX, hoffend, dass wir noch irgendwo 6 Minuten auf ein Gleis warten müssen. COME ON, DADDY NEEDS A NEW PAIR OF VIDEOGAMES

Das wirkliche Wetten ist, davon auszugehen, dass alle Tickets 25% billiger sind! 60 Euro? Haha, ich glaube nicht! ✅

Bahn hat jetzt scheinbar alle Fahrten langsamer gemacht, damit wenigstens ein paar "pünktlich" ankommen. Also einfach die Verspätung als Default gesetzt. lolsob

Ah, I'll give them another year at least! They'll come up with a way to have AI "workers" present AI talks to AI listeners and expect us unemployed fleshies to buy $600 vault access for the whole show. Mmh, delicious progress!

An expo hall booth featuring Rowan Rook & Deckard roleplaying game products.

if you're at GAMA EXPO, come see us at the @rowanrookanddecard.bsky.social booth at 371 🥰 we will sell you extremely high quality and wonderful games from geniuses like @gshowitt.bsky.social and @kierongillen.bsky.social

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Muskulöses Arm-Einklatsch Meme, aber mit 1. Mai auf der einen Seite, Feministischer Kampftag auf der anderen, und darüber: KONSUM.
Weil geht ja nicht, dass wir irgendwas machen, ohne dass UMSATZ generiert wird.

didn't even make it c), chef's kiss

Popup from FFXIV: upon proceeding several cutscenes will play in sequence. It is recommended that you set aside sufficient time to view these scenes in their entirety

Yup, 14 is one of the MMOs. And is memed on for (besides the whole "free trial" thing) more cutscenes than any other FF... probably combined by now, after all expansions:

That said, my favourite numbered entries are 6 and 14, tackling the world literally ending and the fermi paradox's answer being "existence is pain, we're better off dead (but we're too stubborn)" respectively. As bleak as it gets.
So hell if I know, or they know.

I get what you're saying, but I can see the argument that "crystals turning people into giants or birds or whatever and them trying to rule kingdoms full of knights" is still fantasy. The fantasy is still there.
But I agree! I miss some of the whimsy. Not TOO MUCH but if I want BLEAK I read the news

I'm so sorry, Ian! Ziff Davis is a plague on the industry.
I hope you manage to pull the community from EG over to your own platform(32), cutting out the middle man. Worked for two out of four of the all-equally-young folk on that fourth photo so far!

On one hand, yea, absolutely. There's a problem with all game directors being 50+yo dads.
On the other, which young generation can even afford a console, a large TV, a new PC? Anything that needs current gen to run targets people with well-paying jobs. For kids? That's mobile, and old hardware? 😬

13-16 are all dark narratives - damned fates, worlds ending, kingdoms failing.
The series matured with its audience, while Pokémon resets and resets and resets.
Assuming kids are into FF means the author failed to disconnect their experience from others, who are massively younger? 🤷‍♀️

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Haaaah. We once had cats that learned to take a dump whenever we sat down for dinner. Perfect timing, eh?

My assumption: They learned that we'd immediately jump to clean that way. Clearly something they prefer as well! Positive reinforcement 😭

The ethical use of AI…. is to not use AI

Forced to use AI at work, hate it. Usage is monitored so I can't avoid it. I've set up mine to play a Sim City clone. It burns through tokens, making crap cities that quickly go bankrupt. Just been told that I'm getting a bonus for being a top user.

Oooh, you had a boardgameshelf sized hole in your room, what a lucky coincidence! Looks great!

Tariq Ali ® @TariqAli_News con Have heard from an Iranian friend that her partner in Teheran has sent her a message. He is a leftist and is telling her that the US/Israelis are targeting a number of known leftists homes in Teheran and elsewhere in an attempt to make sure there's no opposition to their favoured candidate once they destroy the regime. What this reveals is the degree of penetration by Mossad in Iran. What it also means is that this is not going to be an easy occupation for the US and its Israeli buddies.

Israel is targeting “leftist” leaders to clear the way for whatever puppet US-Israel wants to install.

I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven't lived in blood and bone. That doesn't mean I want my people bombed, maimed, killed, their homes in ruins. If your vision of liberation comes only through the destruction of innocent lives, then it's not freedom you're after. Sahar Delijani, Iranian author

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds.

I support neither imperialism or dictatorship.

Sahar Delijani said it best:

this is your mission. our pedophile president needs you to bomb this elementary school full of kids because he thinks it makes him look cool. also his scheming viziers will be betting money on it for fun. good luck soldier

The Saudi’s and Israelis bought our president and now he’s using our military on their behalf. The most blatantly corrupt presidency in this country’s history…

Oh, you're talking about that weird shared dream all game devs have once a month! Glad someone is finally making that game, intrusive ideas are the woooorrrrrst

Told myself no tattoos unless I got income again, landed a 2 week contract which TECHNICALLY COUNTS, soooooooo

Also there's like another big war brewing or something.

... fuck it, gonna try and book another tattoo appointment tomorrow.

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”