Anton

New Year, new habits. I'm off feed-based social media for personal use. Off here, Bsky, Reddit, Insta, etc.

If you need me, I can be reached through email and discord, and my Youtube channel.

This account will now only post release announcements for H3 and future projects.

Done with work for the year, which means I'm also done with feeds of all kind. Cya folks next year (if I decide to come back). If I don't, you can catch me on my YT channel, Discord channel for the game, etc.

Happy Holidays!

My issue is that, despite a lot of the individual eps being good, other than the Doctor and Seven, the longitudinal character writing is mostly bad. If you compare the series-arc for the main cast compared to DS9, it's pretty fucking sad.

Yo I think one look at her log of those 7 years and they chained her to a desk lol.

Also the Voyager writers were bad, but I like my headcanon explanation more than that.

Only to then realize that the change Janeway makes is to get home faster, and thus no longer be Captain of that ship faster, which means fewer opportunities to fuck with the timeline in ways that need cleaning up.

Temporal Integrity Commission just practicing harm minimization.

Just rewatched ST: Voyager. Had been thinking about the last ep, how Janeway is allowed to just fuck with the timeline in a MASSIVE way, in a show where it's established there's a future Temporal Org specifically in place to prevent that sort of shit...

if the japanese artists come over here that’s a genuine tipping point

I'd be more crushed that we're only getting 1 episode with him in it if the show hadn't nosedived into weirdly regressive horseshit for its 3rd season.

merry christmas

Let the people you love know that you love them, even if they already know. In this age of atomization, it's more important than ever to cherish the human connections we do have, and share the compassion we can.

Merry Christmas, take care of yourself, and happy holidays.

clarification: 1 mil its first year. 5 mil eventually. Most of the hits from that release year did much MUCH better in the long run.

It sold like a mil copies, on a 2.5 yr development cycle (plus several years of pre-writing/design).

Data from that time is hard to find collated but it was probably somewhere between the 20th and 30th highest selling game released that year.

This is the part people miss. It didn't light the sales charts on fire, even in its era. It's a niche game.

I think a lot about this. I'd never played Deus Ex before until recently, and it's in some ways depressing as hell to see this masterwork that's functionally never going to be replicated? Mostly because nobody is able to work at the fidelity necessary for it who can still get the necessary funding?

No, the story is also awful lol.

Yeah honestly I find F3 unbearable.

"Over on Twitter they're all.."

No nitwit. The small cross section of people you follow do..., or the screenshots people you follow on here have been curated to tell a story.

There's tens of millions of people on these platforms. Your intuitive distillation is actually nonsense.

It's weird seeing people on all social platforms summarizing how people are on other social platforms, as though they aren't getting an algorithmic reflection of -themselves- on each. Like if you're seeing lots of 'X and Y' where you are, it's literally because of what you're clicking on, dimwit.

I mean Fallout 3 is just bad. New Vegas I've played too many times, have it practically memorized. Only playing F4 once, at launch.

You know even though I kind of hate the game, I was thinking of playing Fallout 4 again over the holiday, just because there's no other game like it. Maybe on Survival Mode or something.

In my case, it's not even expensive because I don't end up actually inputting the question.

My CHATGPT programming hack is pulling open the window and typing out what I need from it in regular language but as specifically as possible and usually by the time I've written those several sentences I've figured out what I need to do and I just close the window.

Get the one you see in my shot. Strong recommend.

Honestly nothing at this point. I'd sooner stop doing this than retrain on a new engine at this point. Too tired

Holy shit I got one of these hand massager things and this is the best thing ever. My only problem will be not using it all the time.

every day it was one deeper. by the end of the week you could barely see the video in the distance down the hall. by the end of the month the audio was the muttered commentary and counter reply, the original a single dot, the light at the top of the long well we were still falling down.

oh no. Another Tribes that'll be fun to play for 2-3 weeks before everyone abandons it.

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.