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Exploratory Testing for Massively Multiplayer Online Games | EuroSTAR Conference Discover how exploratory testing is used in the gaming industry to uncover risks and improve game quality. Learn through real MMO examples how curiosity and critical thinking uncover hidden bugs.

First time I've seen game testers lined up to speak at a tester conference, more!!!! conference.eurostarsoftwaretesting.com/event/2026/e...

time to clock in for my shift at the worrying factory

Started lvling on NA :(

c☆nty cats ☆

Front-page kode24.no reads"gigantic attack: Shai-Hulud steals your secrets" with a picture from Dune: Awakening

Didn't expect to see this image for the npm attack but it sure did fire neurons www.kode24.no/artikkel/dig...

a steam update for dune: awakening, scheduled 6.9 GB download. nice.

nice

Artwork depicting a fantasy town with a pair of orc guards with glowing scars looking at a group of heroes, a white-maned lion man, a young woman with blonde flowing curls, a half-giant bard, a vampire-esq noble woman and a handsome humanoid dragon man running through the streets. A stylised logo reads ALTHEYA the Dragon Empire.

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A High Fantasy Campaign Setting, with Dragon Nobility, Magical Dimensional Dungeons, & so much more! #dnd #ttrpg #dnd5e @highrollersdnd.bsky.social

a creature based on a dimetrodon(my fave prehistoric creature)

a ceramic sculpture based on a stegosaurus

a ceramic sculpture based on an ankylosaurus

These three, based on prehistoric creatures have sold, but I love them anyway. They are all ceramic with underglazes.

"a friend who keeps secrets" (the stegosaurus adjacent one)
"a friend to forage with" (dimetrodon adjacent)
"a friend that is small" (sort of ankylosaurus-ish)

Slack reminders conveniently cutting the word message after mess: "You asked me to remind you about this mess..." x2

Mondayposting

oh fuck. thank you for all the laughs, shenanigans and hard work over so many many years and games. youll be very missed, and I hope the future is kind on you

Ok I'm safe it seems

Wouldn't it be a hilarious life proc to get laid off tomorrow, after finally taking up a mortgage and moving

:(

An orange lounge chair, apparently called a caterpillar couch? Wörm...

cant stop thinking about the worm lounge chair

Since many of us are cancelling streaming services, now might also be a good time to support writers and artists. Times are extremely tough for creatives, so why not buy a book, commission an art piece, sign up for a Patreon, tip your favorite creators. Everything helps.

Reminder that some people (me) will completely lose focus on any talks/presentations the moment genAI pictures show up

And using just _some_ is worse because now I'm using my small brain to decide if this, too, is AI-generated

Dune: Awakening is free to play on Steam! 🏜️

• Play for free from now until September 15
• Your progress is saved when you buy the game
• No restrictions, full base game is available
• Receive the Arrakis Rising mural after the Free Weekend

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a viera in ffxiv wearing a large hat. the latest patch (7.3) finally let viera and hrothgar wear a lot of headpieces that did not show previously

yippeee bnuy wear hat

Found a used chair with oddly scrambled Latin on it (cropped for the poster's sake) and in searching similar/text refs, learned of pillows and tapestries over at @carolawrence.bsky.social's 2009 blog post flavias.blogspot.com/2009/05/myst...

Rare case of search results working in current year 🥲

Screenshot of status "critical" on a granite building tile - it's about to destroy an entire base with the next sandstorm.

Someone(seems to be offline) is about to have a very painful lesson in the deep desert

One player(red/long) is asking if someone would buy their stillsuit full of water, to expected replies. Some hard passes, some agreements and some value-setting. the usual

deep desert global chat was a mistake

Landsraad board that is currently 12 - 12 where the Atreides delivered spice melange just to bring it to even/not let Harks win a diagonal bingo. The remaining bottom left tile is killing deserters in the deep desert. There's under 3 hours left so nobody is completing that.

oh my. now this is a landsraad board alright (under 3 hrs left, Wydras is DD Deserters)

If you go on holiday and you don't add a cute lil related emoji status on slack, are you really even gone?
(victim of checking outlook thrice this week)

"who parked the buggy like that??" is a common question and the answer is always the worm

[literally anything happens]
Norwegian experts when interviewed: yea housing prices are going to continue going up

honorable mention of fucking around and finding out by waiting for jas buggy to do a second run only for a storm to ambush

11pm
"cobalt buggy run and then fix the DD dropbase layout to fit carrier then restock deathstills. sleep."
"sure ill taxi jas buggy back"
"oh right oops water, more bodies"
"right, dropbase cook"
🌪️oh heck (alt text)
"yea sure lets tax- oops 150ml of water left deathstill refill"
3am:🧍restock sleep

Screenshot from inside a Dune:Awakening forward base with a (noninteractable) bird flying through the building. Don't look at the full stillsuit, or the reversed walls. (The change is bringing people out of the woodwork/Hagga Basin and into the region-spanning Deep Desert-chat)

SHOCKING INTERVIEW: SECTOR E-3 BIRD ALSO HAS OPINION ABOUT KANLY - LIMITED WARFARE [PvE] THIS FAR INTO THE DEEP DESERT

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🥲dd tile died primetime last night, so alarmclocked extracting at 4am only for it to die again 15 mins to eu weekly reset im tired boss (only borg cube materials left, luckily)