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Tweaked to appease the desires of 50-60 year old CFOs probably

OH HELL YEAH! I hope you’ll have a great time! Best of luck!

Thank you for the explanation!

Hmm good point! Though what about like page indexers from search engines? I feel like combining this with a crawler identifier to selectively target AI crawlers?

Okay but what’s the point if it crashes human browsers too? This is just another browser crashing exploit really, it has essentially nothing to do with AI scrapers from what I can tell…

Yeah that‘s true, but I think they‘re working on that - either way, the core story is still mostly understandable, just the depths of those particular characters not.

Right, yes, there technically are things like some collectors skins that aren‘t available anymore. I moreso meant that all of the core content is always available, unlike say in Destiny where content often gets cut out and resold. You can always play all of core Warframe.

I mean, even the daily login reward is built to account for this - it‘s not a reward for continued logging in, if you miss a day… It‘ll just go to the next one when you return, no matter how much time passed in-between. I took a 1 year break myself, and still only play a few hours a month.

As for time, I fully get that concern, but the nice thing about Warframe is that it never requires your continued attention. It‘s a game you can take breaks from at any time; other than small events, no content is time-limited, all 13 years of stuff are always freely available.

It can feel quite overwhelming at first; but it‘s one of those things where it‘s a lot of small, simple systems interacting - nothing in itself is too complex until you get into advanced buildcrafting which isn‘t required at all for the main story.

Being nice to random strangers on the internet is actually addicting ya‘ll should try it sometime

It‘s also one of the most creative fictional universes I‘ve ever seen in a game (if not any media for that matter), and if you do want to give it a shot, I recommend trying to play at least until the Second Dream quest which is where the core story starts!

In that regard, I think it (and it’s devs, Digital Extremes) are kind of a beacon as to what more of our industry should aspire to be; the fact that they‘ve been able to sustain on it for 13 years and have an extremely good relationship with their community speaks volumes - it‘s a very unique case.

Well, if you haven‘t already (or haven‘t for a few years) - give it a try (preferably on a fresh account). Not only is it genuinely one of the most incredible experiences I have had the pleasure to enjoy, it is also quite possibly the most ethical and sustainable free-to-play title I‘ve ever seen.

Very glad to hear Destiny is doing better buut…

Am I allowed to bring up Warframe? :)

Hello! Your art made me smile. Thank you very much.

Kindly, a stranger (whose life you have improved!)

I tried it a few weeks ago. The programming side was… awkward but fine, I could probably get adjusted to it, but MAN, the workflow and pipeline especially for 3D is ROUGH. And especially if you want a bit more fidelity, it is HARD to get Godot’s rendering to behave… and that’s just on my machine.

Illugen is awesome. Very pricy, but extremely useful… The directional blur is just a cheat code to instant lens flare textures

It is. I think it’s awesome to have an open-source contender in the field with so much steam behind it… I just wish it hadn’t been Godot in particular. It’s very OOP architecture feels like a step back from the modular design that has proven so successful with i.e. Unity for general purpose engines.

Well now I’d love to know what those 11% “Other” are!

Just add more random off-mesh links it’ll be fiiiiineeeeeee

Please keep is updated! Can’t wait until you get to the real meat of the story, Second Dream and beyond :)

My disappointment at the continued enshitification of all products under the Muse Group is immense, especially considering the involvement of @tantacrul.bsky.social as the head of design for these products…

It runs perfectly well on both, but console is somewhat a smoother experience.
I will say, I personally do find it’s controls work better on Keyboard and Mouse, but heaps of people play on console too so it’s probably adaptable.
If you want to give the game a REAL chance, Second Dream is your goal.

Clouds! I can never hear enough about those :)

I think a lot of it is the cause of them essentially distilling the formula of what people enjoy: The dynamics between the players, less than the actual games. But I do think they should bring back more competitiveness since that tends to get more interesting interactions to occur in the first place

I agree on your analysis, but I think the show is ultimately still
enjoyable. The games and twists they come up with are still interesting, and some episodes do still have enough of a competitive edge to be interesting; but I agree, there could be more gameshow in this gameshow.

If we define a wizard as “a person who is believed to have magical powers and who uses them to harm or help other people” (per Cambridge) and magic as “the use of special powers to make things happen that would usually be impossible” then…

You’re a wizard Alan. Put on a hat, you deserve it!

Thanks for your input! I think that‘s the core fallacy me and a lot of people are stuck in - always thinking the current stuff is not good enough and thinking "the next one I‘ll feel confident in for sure", which then never happens.

Any tips on how to overcome the conception that inferior earlier works will stain one‘s reputation forever and diminish better work‘s chances? I‘m sitting on hours of unreleased material (60 or so largely finished tracks…) that I just feel are "barely not good enough", and idk how to overcome that.