A Bad Idea

Absolutely worth uncensoring off-stream, but I don't play chicken with Twitch mods so maybe play it safe when on-stream?

Oh 6E gives elves an *interesting* social problem. Elves are just *expected* to be flawless and perfect and elegant, so elves are under constant pressure to meet this unrealistic expectation; and any elf that can't is treated as less than dirt.

I don't remember where they said that. The last time they were asked about Katarina, they said they were reworking her because she didn't have *enough* sauce. The Katarina we see in this pre-alpha wasn't made with 2v2 in mind, same with the Jinx in this same footage.

In this, Shadowrun frames cyber-enhancement as desperation, the byproduct of a fast-moving world where the old and the useless are quickly discarded and forgotten. In a fight to stay relevant when nepo babies, elves and wizards are drinking all the money, sometimes it's better to just chrome up.

In Shadowrun, you get ahead in life if you were born rich, born a genius, born with magic, or you're an Elf. Of course there's "hard work and effort", but the game's EXP system actually reinforces the idea that hard work and effort take a LOT of time for minimal gains. But you know what's easier?

Mechanically it means you can't have both magic *and* cybers, but I think it creates a unique social dichotomy. There is already socioeconomic tension in Shadowrun where metaraces exist, and the pressure to become a person of value is exacerbated by literally what's in your genes.

Shadowrun 6E actually sidesteps it entirely. Chroming up doesn't make you lose humanity or sanity or whatever; it takes away your capacity for Magic.

YouTube video by SugarPunch Why Is Vi Punching Off Screen?

I was working on this off screen.
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Victorian Gothic Edgepunk Cosmic Horror is a vastly undertapped genre.

TMS's UI is unfairly slept on. The in game menu is made to resemble an album cover and insert pages. Its battle UI resembles the overlay of a broadcast idol show. This UI has such an immaculate vision that more people should experience.

Also they should not have rewritten the gravure plot.

Everything that everyone tells me about this game sounds like I'd really vibe with it. My one petty holdup is that i just dont like Nomura's art in it. Nomura has never Nomura'd harder than TWEWY. It's like peak Nomura.

"I hope you'll take responsibility for me, Trainer-san!"

Proof that excellent animation can make a dab feel like a tetsuzanko.

My brain cursed me with this image so now I'm inflicted it upon all of you.

#umamusume #mouthwashing

I can't think of any game with a bigger misfortune than having to be the followup act to Final Fantasy 7. Inevitably underneath its shadow, FF8 tries to hit all of FF7's high notes WAY too early and without any of its context or buildup.

I'll always admire LBP for being a game about *making games*. Just a sandbox of mechanics and ideas that you're encouraged to just knock together and see what works.

At this point, Pokemon is a foundational wedge of pop culture. Kids who grew up with Pokemon now have kids with their very own Pokemon, who will have kids of their own and Pokemon will be there for them. That is kind of insane to think about.

I'm normally disinterested in space marine-esque designs, but the fact that these assholes are wearing *capes* gives them so much character, and single-handedly captures the game's theme of blind, ironic bravado.

The cooler, wilder Samurai Warriors that Koei Tecmo doesn't want you to know about. I've only played Sengoku Basara 3, but that game is a legitimately good time.

I've never played any of these games but every single character design I've seen from them looks rad as fuck.

A lesson that even a good game can be sabotaged by bafflingly bad visual design.

And a lesson that even a bad game can be lifted to greatness by a dedicated community.

Stealing this from @patstaresat.bsky.social , but hit me with your picks. Just know that I may not have opinions about a lot of things, but I'll try.

Okay FGC Umabros, hit me with your best Goldship combo.

NIKKE has a ticket pity system. It's a lot like Sparks, but your sparks aren't temporary. The tickets from rolling can be stockpiled and spent on ANY current banner unit. It's possible to simply stock a ton of tickets and just buy a new banner unit immediately without any hassle.

[50/50, cont] Unlike sparks, pity carries over between banners, even your locked 50/50. It is possible to lose a 50/50, and then wait for a new banner to roll in, and then guarantee your next banner SSR. Oftentimes these also have "soft pity"; at 10-20 rolls away from pity, the drop rates increase.

Hoyoverse (Genshin, ZZZ) use 50/50 Pity, which is often copied by other games. You are guaranteed an SSR drop at X amount of rolls, but this SSR has a 50/50 chance of being the banner character or a standard SSR. If you lose the 50/50, your next SSR is *guaranteed* to be a banner character.

Cygames (Granblue, Uma) use Spark Pity: each time you roll you accumulate a temporary currency (called Sparks in Granblue). Accrue enough of this currency and you can simply buy a banner character. But once the banner rotates out, the currency converts to a different currency for items.

To answer the question more broadly, "pity" refers to any system in a gacha that is designed to put a hard cap on how many times you roll before the game just gives you what you want. Different games have different ways of providing those guaranteed drops.

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Downtown Skybox #horseracetests