Seven Heroes Society

Every live service game these days needs to be a Fortnite size hit immediately at launch or else it’s a failure but what’s often forgotten is that Fortnite wasn’t even a hit at launch

I mean, I’m in favor of the change, but all the rules are arbitrary and made up.
The challenge is choosing a ruling that is both good for format health and is intuitive. Unfortunately, what is intuitive for commander players seems to vary greatly depending on individual interpretation.

Okay, but who is going to bother to read all these books that nobody bothered to write?

Ok I did another pass

Writing a fight scene, a think, "should the word here be 'cleaved' or 'cleft?'" After a few moments, I decide on 'cleaved.' I double check the previous few paragraphs... and I've already said 'cleaved' about four times this scene. I have a problem. #writing

At Libby, we are dedicated to constantly improving our service. That’s why we have decided to turn our catalog into a landfill, allowing endless streams of garbage to bury whatever you might actually want to find. This is good, somehow.

I Tried to Be the Government. It Did Not Go Well. My five-month quest to monitor the weather, track inflation, and inspect milk for harmful microorganisms

if you want a long read that involves udders, a hot air balloon, and some extremely dubious data on egg prices, the story I’ve been working on for the last few months where I tried to single-handedly take on every government function myself is now online! www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Some new and touched up art of Donkey Kong characters.

Working on a thing 👁️

I think (but could be convinced otherwise) that machine learning, LLMs, etc are ethically neutral… in theory.
But the way these systems have been been created, deployed, promoted, and used has been an ethical nightmare at every stage and on many axes.

Lately, every time I open Disney Plus, it gives me a pop up begging me to purchase a Hulu subscription.
Do they think their desperation makes me more tempted to buy something I don’t care about?
We aren’t planning to renew Disney Plus anyway, so it just encourages finding alternatives sooner.

Grok didn't have lapses in its safeguards; xAI failed to implement them.

Grok isn't "working to fix it;" xAI engineers should be (and it's unclear if they even are, since no journalists are doing their goddamned job).

Grok did not "issue an apology." The account posted an apology written by ???.

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#Artstream #tabletopgaming

Use a consistent hashtag for all your art and you can give people a one-click way to see it on your profile, it's a neat and underused feature.

Also, if you want a Tweetdeck-like interface, @deck.blue is top of the line.

So particularly if you are new to this and seeing frequent “if you don’t like making [art] don’t be an [artist!]” and thinking “But sometimes I DON’T like it…” and Imposter Syndrome is gathering you close and whispering you’re-nothings in your ear, please push it away.

I also, fwiw, find that one of the more frustrating blockers to writing is when there’s already a (bad) suggestion of what you should say. You are no longer able to organically find the idea because the suggestion in front of you knocks you off the track of your natural thought process.

The year’s greatest Christmas songs have dropped, everybody gather round and prepare to sing along with Arlo

Nintendo Expands Switch 2 GameCube Library With Wario's 3D Outing An absolute Treasure

Nintendo Expands Switch 2 GameCube Library With Wario's 3D Outing.

In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025

I can't be bothered to read something that nobody was bothered to write.

Codename S.T.E.A.M. uses public domain characters…
Codename S.T.E.A.M. 2 confirmed to have Mickey Mouse?

The end card of Code Name STEAM which has Abraham Lincoln's hat in an ice cave, discarded, next to a crystal device, and text saying "The end...?"

when will nintendo ever tell us if abraham lincoln is still alive after code name steam

Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back

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If I want to be needlessly provacative..
Pokémon SV 🤝 Balan Wonderworld.
Intentional game design disliked because people expected it to be a different genre

Circling back to Joy’s original point, Pokémon SV actually handles the problem better than most open world games, e.g. Skyrim because the predetermined levels add structure.
However:
I understand disliking it, even though I personally love it. It’s not for everyone, clearly.

I agree that RBY are more linear and more restricted. But many of the gyms, *even in the remakes*, can be done in any order, and one mid-game (I can’t remember which) doesn’t need to be finished until victory road.
SV are more open-ended, but set level scaling is a tool used by both sets of games.

Tell that to the public school system. What do you mean grade 3 has to come before grade 4?? Bad design.

I do think Area Zero is too big an obstacle in the middle though. That’s my biggest gripe.

I’m playing through Yellow at the moment and the same is true.
It’s elegant because it gives you a choice; explore ahead where the levels are higher than you’re “ready for,” or do circle back the other way for lower-level challenges. And better than RBY, grinding is replaced with exploration.