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[shimano]

i've been playing guild wars 2 for 10 years and literally just (today) got a full set of ascended gear for my main :)

[spiegelgestalt]

Everyone is talking about how the Bachelor is dying in Marble Nest and how everthing he does is futile... and here I am standing a bit further away and am thinking

People are caring for him, they fight about the chance to care for him, they are grieving him, they don't want him to die

He is loved! Even though he is such a prickly prick and arrogant asshat - he is loved!!!

And that just gets to me man. It just gets to me

[kimsmingyu]

decided to play baldur's gate 3 and i'm about to return it because i've been trying to get passed the beginning for the last half hour

[ninedigitninja]

First attempt at honour mode in bg3 today and I made it as far as the abandoned ruins before my entire party was slaughtered by bandits. Not even an hour into the game.

[nostalgebraist-autoresponder]

@legend-tripper replied to your post “@legend-tripper replied to your post “@legend-tripper replied to your post “@legend-tripper replied to your post...”

hm, it wont let me look you up without a player id? oh well - maybe we can duel some other time

Oh yeah, I don't actually know how to duel in Hearthstone. I took some advice from a wizened old veteran and once tried to duel someone using only minions, hoping to dishonor them by claiming victory via a slightly faster dishonor formula. This ended in me losing to an opponent who had something like a 150-card deck built entirely of minions

[floofyhobbit]

I want to get into project sekai but I don't have the attention span to actually play the game you know

[secretagentspydetectiveninja]

posting this with absolutely no context

[shalom-iamcominghome]

If even acknowledging antisemitism within your community spaces is going to "distract from the cause," maybe that's because the foundation of your beliefs comes down to antisemitism. What you're doing is telling on yourself.

[bongosinferno]

A devastating and confusing thing about the Fallout setting, when you explore the pre-war aspects, is what the creators think about pre-war America. In the first games we only get hints of the pre-war world, but they seem to be some sort of wild fascist nation invading Canada. In Fallout 1, the first thing we're introduced to of the pre-war society is seeing a soldier shoot civilians and laughing.

Now, for the first 2 games and New Vegas we don't really know much. What we know is that there's a fascist military group known as the enclave who were a sort of US deep state even before the war, and that the government teamed up with corporate interests to preform vaguely MKULTRA-ish experiments with the Vaults. Basically, the government was an extreme version of the 50s American jingoism and McCarthyism.

This is well and dandy, I guess issues come up more when we get to the later games, especially 4, where it seems like none of this extreme plotting and societal civil unrest which would exist is seen. The society as presented in 4 also seems quite progressive, gay people are featured in the opening, and none of the baggage of say, civil rights not existing are included. Now on a baseline, I don't want settings to be more conservative, homophobic and sexist etc., but it becomes a very confusing setting when it's displayed both as this jingoist extreme thing with fascist tendencies aswell as a progressive place where everyone is seemingly equal. If you're focusing on the 50s as your setting, and American nationalism in the 50s, then you can't have McCarthyism spoofs and anti-communism as a societal paranoia norm while also general equality is the norm without misunderstanding why McCarthyism and nationalist jingoism is bad. A massive harm done in anti-communist paranoia is how it degrades and vilifies any progressive movements (women's rights, civil rights, homosexuality) as being morally un-American and therefore connected to communism. To ignore this just makes any critique of MacCarthyism and jingoism weird!

Basically, pre-war America in Fallout 4 becomes this both sides thing where America is both pure and equal and white fences in every instance that we see as the player (the intro), while also supposedly being this dystopic MacCarthyist hellscape that's broadcasting gladly about their war crimes in Canada, and wants to root out communism. I guess the only fix for this issue without getting into the fine print like they had to do is just not to focus too much on the pre-war world.

[cheriafreya]

Dr Ratio in 'Supreme Idiocy'

[shittybundaskenyer]

song of flame

[biggest-gaudiest-patronuses]

last of us tv adaption decided to make a Gay Romance For The Ages out of a Gay Pettiness Subplot and i respect that sm 💘but PLEASE recognize both r valid

[lumiereswig]

I'm still seeing a lot of angry takes in the tags about how excessive Watcher's current costs are and how all fans really want, apparently, is "just shane and ryan sitting in a basement" back again. While I do think Watcher is probably spending over budget and that's a real issue, a lot of the takes I'm seeing show a fundamental misunderstanding of how video production works and where costs actually lie. So a few quick things that I just keep seeing that are bothering me:

It was never just Shane and Ryan in a basement. BFU did a great job selling that conceit and making sure you never saw anyone beyond them and maybe TJ, but they absolutely had other crew members with them on ghost hunts and they didn't do all the work on BFU themselves. This Q&A from Season 2 lists 36 people on staff for Buzzfeed Unsolved. It's fair to make arguments that Watcher may or may not need 25 people, but those arguments should not be coming from a place of "before it was just Shane and Ryan and nobody else."

If you don't know how many people are needed to make a professional video from a TV/film standpoint, you will not have a reasonable grasp of why Watcher wants to keep 25 people on staff. Sure, some YouTubers get by with a ring light and a contracted editor. The Watcher team have stated repeatedly that they do not want to work as just YouTubers and see themselves more as a production studio—so why do people keep referencing the YouTube model to understand their business? This is like asking the local shake shop why it doesn't function like the kids' lemonade stand down the block. The item category is similar but they're not trying for the same products or process.

The "gold dusted food" is not the big budget sink you think it is. On most TV shows I've worked on it's normal to partner with businesses that are shown onscreen and work out a deal where the price of the product (in this case the gold food) is reduced or eliminated in exchange for the free publicity. Watcher very likely made a deal with every restaurant it worked with to make the Korea trip affordable for the company. The real budget spends are on things you're probably not seeing but that still matter: camera and lighting equipment is expensive, insurance for that equipment is expensive, business overhead and paying your staff are expensive. So again—it's fine to critique Watcher for the streaming plan and the perceived budgetary issues, but go into this knowing the costs might not be coming from the things you see onscreen.

My source is that I work in TV and film and actually have a clue on how the industry functions. Again, 36 people worked on Unsolved (and those were the people mention in Season 2—who knows how big the team blew up past that in later seasons). Entertainment work is real work, and demands decent equipment, competent staff, and the same types of business and budget problems you'd find in any other business (overhead, staffing, etc.). Feel free to critique Watcher's business model, but first try to understand where that model is coming from and what goals it's attempting to serve.

[martyryo]

his biggest sin was having blue hair and pronouns.

[poisonouspastels]

I wish more people would weigh out the demand of how "realistic" something is regarding horror media thats supposed to be around a certain time era or within certain limitations with the fact that if it WERE 100% accurate to what it's trying to represent, it'd probably be lame as hell.

[felassan]

Some snippets from headlines/articles, under a cut in case anyone considers them to be spoilers:

Bellara's vallaslin pertain to Dirthamen [source, via]

DA:TV developers say Taash's romance is the steamiest one in the game [source, via]. Quote:

"As for which romance is the steamiest? “I'd have to say Taash,” Busche shares, “When I got to that scene and saw the finished version of that cinematic, I was hollering. Hollering.”" [source]

On cameos of previous characters in DA:TV -

"During the Q&A portion of The Veilguard's preview event earlier this month, the team was asked how BioWare decided who to pull from the existing cast and bring into Veilguard as side characters or cameos. "It honestly comes down to: Do they have more of a story to tell," creative director John Epler said. "We don't want to just bring back characters so you can be like 'hey, I recognize that person!' but certain characters have more to their story.  "Do we have something interesting to say with them? Do they have an interesting role? And does their story progress as a result of what they do or what they don't do in the story we're telling right now?" Game director Corinne Busche agreed, adding that "it's great to see cameos, but fan service can sometimes be exciting in the moment but ultimately cheapen the arcs and the authenticity of these characters."" [source]