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Yeah in the end Game freak is a AA game developer that made the most popular franchise in the world and they refused to stop being a AA game developer, when their games aren't broken I respect them for it

I can agree that previous issues with frame rate and graphical bugs should have been (and were) criticized, but I think the building thing doesn't belong in that conversation. "Don't ship broken games" is one thing, "don't ship games with shortcuts" is another

What changes to the building models do you think would make them feel acceptable?

Don't forget about QA! Now you'll need QA to walk around the whole game looking at every building from multiple angles to make sure there are no visible seams or other geometry issues. A whole new slew of testing + bugs created just so that you can look at a balcony that you can't walk on

All these extra models are more detailed, which means more verts to render and more textures to load, which means perf + memory concerns! Now you need engineers to make optimizations and you'll probably need to sacrifice quality elsewhere to make it work

On the art side of things, now you need to model out the exteriors of buildings. That means making models and placing them through the whole game, and ensuring that their models + textures align properly so that they look good, since that's the whole point of the "feature"

Unironically, gamers being upset about buildings not being fully modeled is one of the big problems for the games industry. The demand that worlds be fully "realistic", even if it's completely unimportant to the game, and that needlessly inflates budgets and timelines

When politicians make people prove they are poor enough to “deserve” help, it tells ordinary people that we aren’t interested in helping them.

Even when we can qualify, who wants to?

Actually-progressive policies help everyone. Billionaires get to use the library just like the rest of us.

What a bad survey question! If they had split this into "Did you think influencers were more positive or negative about this set?" and "Did influencers affect your perception of the set?" would give them clean data and wouldn't sound like sour grapes to boot

I really wish Ed Markey would find someone younger who shares his ideals to replace him, 80 years old is too old to start a 6 year term. I will, however, vote for him enthusiastically over the trans hating ghoul Seth Moulton

Listening to some old albums again, Arcade Fire's funeral is kind of perfect. 10 tracks with no duds. A lot of my favorite tracks are from their later stuff but as a whole album Funeral is hard to beat.

@friends-table.bsky.social Does your merch provider do baby clothes? I would like to buy a onesie with a flegg on it so I can put a flegg on my baby. If it helps, my partner agrees this is a good idea. Thanks.

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I feel like things have gone the opposite way for me. My career is going well but it eats up any creative energy I have to make my own games. I have no idea how anybody has it all!!!

Agreed, anything that isn't just treating it as something that people Are is going to make it into something weird and probably bad

I feel like I've been seeing this for the past couple of years, my best guess is that for some younger subgroups autism is seen as a virtue instead of a stigma, which is problematic in its own right but maybe better?

"Magic has become a vehicle for someone else's nostalgia" is a devastating but accurate description.

Can't wait for Dragon Age 5: Nobody Is Gay In This One, Also Nobody Was Gay In Any Of The Previous Ones

fellas is it bad for regressive authoritarian regimes to have control of some of the largest entertainment companies in your country

Ed Markey has been a great senator but he should retire. He should also support a real progressive successor instead of this anti-trans bozo

"the guys you think are liberals have some pretty illiberal takes" "oh no not the real people, the ones that I've made up in my mind are liberals"

I can't wait until these guys are forced to have a $100B equivalent of this conversation.

Dungeon Meshi and DanDaDan both got weekly episode releases on Netflix, they seem to have realized anime should not get season drops

Even without that, if you step back and focus on avoiding damage, it does an attack that you can use to one-shot the adds!

Into the Badlands is technically 3 seasons but season 1 is short and the back half of season 3 is eeeh

About 2 and a half weeks in and I've had my first Rough Night as a parent. Our newborn wouldn't sleep all night, then at 6 am she had a big ol throw up. At least she went to sleep after that!!

Charlie Kirk died as he lived: justifying right wing violence with bad faith arguments

Honestly kind of rules to think there's a bunch of voters in New york compromising on free buses because their preferred candidate is more left than them. That literally never happens

Through the Omenpaths has completely blown past my expectations. I was pretty wary of it before it was released, but the art and flavor for the reskins reminded me why I love traditional MTG world building and art, even more so because it's replacing a set that's completely lost me

It's a thin and trim "EXTRAVAGANZA"!!! All thin and trim one dollar off per pound!!