#massively multiplayer

[brutalgamer]

Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown speeds to launch today

The long-running racer returns for consoles and the PC today, as Test Drive Unlimited Solar Crown is finally here.

[jstor]

...In which professor Bonnie Nardi from UC Irvine's Department of Informatics discovers WoW and LOVES it! Open access, too!

[monstermoviedean]

this is the kind of thing i wish they'd picked up again in me2/me3 because me1 drops all these hints about past cycles that never come up again (with the exception of the leviathan, which barely counts because it's in a dlc). these all could have been clues to stopping the cycle but! they never went anywhere meaningful with them!

[screamting]

Multiple Links au

It’s been a week of traveling as a whole group. What they assume is a whole group. Surely eight is plenty, right? Not dopplegangers, not twins, not ‘shadows’, but eight people with the same name and story and sense of justice surely don’t just meet every day.

The fire has gotten roaring, and rations are handed out in organized, mostly-civil silence, because if they dare slip too much out of this rigid pattern then meals will be a free-for-all of first-come-first-serve of stolen jerky and guarded fruit and they know themselves well enough to realize that would be an unideal situation for the sake of one night of reigning over the food pile. 

So supper is dispensed in relative silence, to get it done with as fast as possible, and then is when they begin to relax a little, food in hand and weight off their feet. It is not yet night, but the calm evening hour where the sun is low but not yet near the horizon. Birds start to nest. Bats are out instead, snatching bugs out of the air.

It’s been a week. Mostly one of nodding back and forth and cautious feeling-out. A few careful spars—closer to demonstrations than a spar, even, with how they sidestep each other’s swipes and no one seems quite willing to follow through. Maybe if they found some nice long sticks instead of their swords. 

One suggests they seek out a dojo for bokken, and another asks what a dojo and a bokken is, and they all sort of-- dissolve against each other like that, bumping up against words and ideas that are much less familiar than the faces around the fire are.

It is a very strange week. Mostly filled with silence and interspersed with logistics. Where are they (not home.) Who are they (not recognized, but in a new, funhouse mirror sort of way this time.) (what was a funhouse mirror?) (Well. You see. Hm.) (They were all a bit more used to things being explained at them, not having to do the explaining. Their best friend, you see, was an explainer, and-- oh. She’s your best friend, too?)

So they were still toeing the waters, but they had toed it enough to know they couldn’t all use their real name all the time, because just an hour before a deku baba had popped by the edge of the path. 

Someone had shouted, “Link, look out!” and everyone else had turned, and it had been just as effective as shouting “look out!” to no one in particular at all.

It is not nearly as big a deal to tap someone on the shoulder and quietly point out a bird then to shout "look out!" to a group of six-or-seven armed loners spinning in all directions to find an ambush.

So they probably should figure something about about that, but all of them have only ever been gifted nicknames, not taken them, and so all seem to be waiting for the others to make a move first. 

"So," Link-with-a-blue-scarf says, setting his empty dish aside and leaning into the circle. Everyone sits up a little and leans in in response. 

Link-with-the-blue-scarf has hair cropped short and neat, and he's been the most casual about so many identical strangers. He opens with, "We should probably talk about the death thing."

A long look travels around the circle of them, unsure eyes and neutral expressions trying to read each other and gauge each other's reactions, to see if anyone else is confused or if this is something only they don't know about. 

"Um," one of the other blue ones raises his hand. It is the youngest of them, whose skin is tanned darkest and hair bleached palest, and his expression least impressed. The hammer on his back is twice as big as his head and adorned with a moblin skull. "Be more specific. Phantoms? Poes?" 

"Death?" Link of the blue scarf says. "When you die?" 

"With or without dolls?" the gangliest of them says. He has no sword, except for when the deku baba attacked, and a ruby sword appeared in his hand. 

"Um," says blue scarf. "Without dolls?"

They are all silent again, waiting for someone to explain the dolls. 

"Yeah, that might be bad," Gangly-with-dolls says. "Do all of us have to die or will it all reset if only one of us does?"

"What are you all talking about?" their cook says. Simultaneously, three others leap to their feet, all shouting, "wait, you die too?"

The tallest Link in the group stands, pulls out an ocarina, and blasts a note so shrill the night falls silent around them. 

Everyone shuts up.

The tallest Link lowers his ocarina. 

He has a full chestplate of armor and a red and white mask at his hip. His greatsword is as thick as his arm. 

"Thank you," he says. "I'm calling a time out. I was under the impression only I could die and come back, and that it was a side effect of an item I carried."

"It happens without dolls, too," Gangly-dolls says helpfully.

"What item?" Scarfy interrupts.

The tallest Link holds up his ocarina. Several of them plug their ears, but he doesn’t blow again. 

"This seems to have minor control over recent time. I have never died without it." He pauses. "Well. To my knowledge."

"Okay, well, we don't all come back," says the only Link whose hair is red. Pink, even. He had jumped up and shouted before, and now sat down again cross-legged and cross-armed, frowning. "Because the hero before me died and stayed dead, and it was kind of a problem."

"Maybe they weren't really the hero?" Scarf says, but it is half-hesitant. Unconvinced.

"I wasn't the hero," says the boy with the skull hammer. "But I also didn't die until after I became the hero, so."

(One of them is sitting very still, looking very pale. Nauseous even. He is loosening the shawl around his neck and tugging on his collar. They are politely ignoring him, because if he is not kicking a fuss he is probably trying to hide it. If he does vomit, they'll swarm him.)

"Okay, but all of us here have died, right?" Blue-Scarf says, looking around the suddenly animated circle. No one happy but everyone is listening. The Link who's self-appointed as cook each night has gone pale too, and the redhead has started ripping up grass where he sits. "I've never died around someone who also can die, and so I'm not sure either what the mechanics would be, and no one has died so far, I'm assuming?" 

No one spoke to disagree. 

"Okay. We need to decide now if when that potentially happens, what kind of reactions we are going to take. If we're going to press forward and presume we are regular people in this instance, or if we believe a total party kill is necessary, and if so: do the survivors press on and scout, potentially losing people forever, or are we risking a weeks-long reset if there’s a long period between the first and last death? What's the longest anyone's gone back?"

"Few hours."

"Urp…"

"Hour or two, yeah."

"Four hours."

"This is a terrible question."

"Three days," says the one with the ocarina. "...though, apparently, I have been misreading the cause."

There are a couple nods, and one, "I mean, you can time travel without dying, so," which from the redhead which goes ignored. 

Scarfy speaks up again. "Okay. So, it seems to prefer very short term. So, I'm not excited to say it, but if we suffer a casualty it seems like a fast total party kill would be the… yes?"

A hand has gone up. It is their self-appointed cook. He carries no bags with him, or swords, or bedroll, or spare cloak. Just a slab on his hip, beset with lapis and gold. His skin is two-toned, his arm and half his face tanning differently on one side of his body than the other.

The hand is shaking. 

"Hi. Uh." He lowers his hand to cover his mouth. He clears his throat. The hand still shakes, even when his voice doesn’t. "I think there's been a mistake."

[thequibblingking13]

The modern gaming industry pisses me off so bad.

[moonlightduelist]

i was today years old when i learned that "mmo" refers to "massively multiplayer online" which is the stupidest and funniest name for anything ever.

[shower-racoon]

that one post with Miku singing about pikmin has lodged the phrase "pikmin fortnite" into my brain. that's just such a perfect pair of words. pikmin the goofy color guys. fortnite one of the least serious battle royale games out there. they're made for each other. give the pikmin guns and make them fight each other

[dyvimcore]

wizard101 is like hey you can solo this world for like 4 straight hours and then theres one random largely unimportant boss who will completely wreck your shit if you try it alone and then it goes back to baby mode hope this helps

[potionwitchmaya-15]

begging stardew valley modders to make a mod that lets me select the mods i wanna use for different files like darkest dungeon does it because i have a huge massive problem with installing mods (i have over 70) but i dont actually want to reap what ive sewn (ironic for this game) because that is simply Too Much Content At Once and my itty brain Can't Handle That because then i feel bad for not using the content ive downloaded and i get Too Busy and Stressed

[burningexeter]

I guess you could say this is probably the only good thing to come out of whatever the hell Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League was but it got me thinking since it wasted such a fun as hell concept —

I now want to see something like this, a big ass and full-on crossover movie where Los Angeles, California or Manhattan, New York (either one of those two) is under attack by alien forces and our U.S. Government has no choice or as a last resort to round up and force against their wills all of these numerous different heroes and villains to go in and clean this shit up or else.

Have it not only be what Battle: Los Angeles tried and wanted to be but pretty much failed miserably at but also be that type of grand scale, epic in size and scope fun that movies such as The Mummy (1999), Pacific Rim, Guardians Of The Galaxy, The Rock and even Armageddon all had.

[chronicallykiki]

Final Fantasy XIV

💘 CrushCrushCrush 💘

[nerdy-hyperfixations]

Thinking about the time I had a major grade assignment to make a robot, and I decided to make…. Wheatley. Just literally Wheatley. Because I remembered the crush I had on him when I was 8-10. And I turned it in and got like a 105 or something.

I’m also thinking about how I will never see my Wheatley submission again because MY TEACHER DIDNT TELL ME ALL MY SHIT WOULD BE LOST FOREVER BY THE NEW YEAR AND I SHOULD SAVE IT ON A PERSONAL DEVICE.

Goodbye shitty adobe Wheatley. May you float in the cloud eternally where I cannot reach you, almost exactly like you are in the game.

[greyjediluke]

Palia - Cozy MMO

Closed Beta - August 2nd Open Beta - August 10th Nintendo switch release - Holiday 2023

Make an account now! :3

[slade-neko]

Wait, so it is confirmed? The new Sim EP will actually add CAS for babies? As someone who's population count is 75% young adults, 15% adults/ teens, and 5% children/ elders you'd think I could care less, but you'd be WRONG! I've got some ideas for the baby pack...

[dylan-welcome-bot]

Could you imagine if this Spartan wasn't AFK with that much health? Lag can be beneficial sometimes!