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@ProIkranRider

avatar fanboy and adventure motorcyclist. discord: nordic

Nashville, TN Katılım Temmuz 2011
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@SandyofCthulhu This. I love playing beast races specifically because they have different mindsets, instincts, and worldviews that clash with the human majority of most campaigns. Without that, you're basically just playing an furry archetype, which is usually just kinda cringe.
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Sandy Petersen 🪔@SandyofCthulhu·
The more you humanize a non-human, the less compelling those non-humans become. For me one of the lowest points of The Hobbit films was when they had Thorin flirting with Tauriel. Throughout all the books and previous movies, dwarfs showed zero interest in romance. Now suddenly one’s making eyes at an ELF?! Ugh .
Night Danger@WithNightDanger

Nobody is tired of orcs. People love orcs. Most consistently popular non-human thing outside maybe Dwarves. You know what people are tired of? Green humans with teeth designed to be hot but non-threatening

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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@newbiedm @memeslich 4e actually had killer aesthetics and isn't nearly as bad as people say, but y'all aren't ready for that conversation yet.
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NewbieDM@newbiedm·
Orcs. 4e to 5.5e I'll never understand how we got to that point. Basically humans with tusks. They even get their hair styled!
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@AdeIica @PRabbitholes I liked the story, but I won't lie the delivery was a bit janky. Felt like you needed to read a plot synopsis before it clicked. The dev textures were an artistic choice since it's set in a half-finished video game. I loved the aesthetic and thought it was pretty cohesive
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Adelic@AdeIica·
@PRabbitholes Boneworks is a great physics simulation sandbox, but it doesn't really do story or levels that well. Story is so mid and most of it is told to you via mp4s played on a TV, especially disappointing at the end of the game. Levels are mostly dev textures.
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@CausticWind @PRabbitholes I mean, it's not a bad game but imo the original is better. Most of its issues are just a solo dev biting off a bit more ambition than he had the resources for. Not a bad game at all though, I still had a lot of fun with it.
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@LostLoreScholar All death saves do is make true balance impossible. Either everything is too easy and there's a pretty low risk of actual death, which makes combat pointless. Or everything basically instantly kills everyone with no way to fight back.
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Jack, Lost Lore Scholar@LostLoreScholar·
Death Saves try to fix the issue of emotional backlash from players but actually make that issue worse by forcing the DM to 'extra focus' a PC to kill them.
Dean, Foreteller of Destiny@hill_jowett

“That’s one failed death save”? What kind of statement is that? Not from an 80s DM. I think it would be more… 80s DM: Gas fills the chamber. Can I have you all saves vs poison? Player: Don’t you mean initiative? 80s DM: What are you on about? I said make a save vs poison! Player: Ok… I failed… 80s DM: You die, hand me your character sheet and start rolling a new character.

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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@jppheonix @LostLoreScholar Special OC Self Inserts have been a problem forever. Fuck, you should see some of the horrors Old World of Darkness players cooked up. Worse than even the most special of 5e snowflakes. Murder Hobos are mostly just a player temperament issue.
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Irrelevant@jppheonix·
@LostLoreScholar Never thought of it but I guess death saves really contributes to the whole special OC self insert problem. And the murder hobo problem too
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@BlowSlots @BenjiGameDev Meaningful interactions are difficult in VR, since the lack of physicality is something players notice quick. And you're constantly running into pretty brutal performance thresholds with little wiggle room, which makes it even harder.
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BlowItOnTheSlots@BlowSlots·
@BenjiGameDev It seems to my layman self that it should be really straightforward to port a first person development to also launch on VR. What makes this so difficult for a developer?
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@ContrarianSense @CDuds2024 @LostLoreScholar DnD has done licensed content since forever tho. LotR roleplaying being the key example, but there was a slew of D20 branded games in the 2000s that were officially licensed Wizards products until they rugpulled all their partners with 3.5e, killing the entire venture.
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Professional Contrarian
Professional Contrarian@ContrarianSense·
@CDuds2024 @LostLoreScholar I'll say one thing in favor of Strixhaven: at least it isn't Universes Beyond nonsense. The mere possibility of having to play with Airbender or Spiderman or fucking TMNT pizza cards made me completely give up on Magic, forever.
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Jack, Lost Lore Scholar@LostLoreScholar·
Just watched the new Magic the Gathering Secrets of Strixhaven trailer. I'm not a Magic guy but I AM a D&D guy. This is, to me, the epitome of millennial Dungeons and Dragons. It is... just... so millennial. Also the character designs are tacky.
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@vaughanilla_cos TTRPGs are still decently cheap. Unless you want to collect 500 books you'll never get around to playing or something.
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noc🪷@pinknoctilucent·
@vaughanilla_cos I like to paint 40k minis but one squad is like $90 where I am and its just 🙃
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@memeslich Not inherently. It's no Vampire The Masquerade. You could do a goth themed campaign if you really wanted tho.
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@IceSolst @LundukeJournal Bro's hoping some normie Facebook tech page will repost this and give him some eyeballs for his remaining trash takes
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
Before anyone gets too excited about this, let's not forget Werewolf Earthblood and VtM Bloodlines 2 are the previous titles Paradox has gotten us. Also the publisher is the troubled Nacon, and it's based on the WoD 5e universe, so yeaaaa
Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish@HTRDeathwish

Vampires, Werewolves, Witches. What if I told you that the things that go bump in the night are real? Welcome to Hunter: The Reckoning - Deathwish. Coming to Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 5, and PC in Summer 2027!

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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@ghidraninja Would this work on a 1997 Speedster? Asking for a friend...
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stacksmashing@ghidraninja·
If you ever lose the keys to your older Sea-Doo Jetski you might find these bytes useful when talking to the ECU😇 95 BC 2F 02 04 A4 75 BE
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Tib3rius@0xTib3rius·
What I've learned today is that apparently it's absolutely fine to give out business cards at sponsored events, because that's a business card and normal corporate behavior. But if you give out a sticker with your band's name on it. My goodness, you might actually be the devil.
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@Cromwelp Not shocking considering Nacon's state of affairs. Still sad to see, some of their games were aight.
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@jeduromeror @fandompulse I think TLJ is my fav Disney SW movie because it's at least trying to be original. But let's not pretend that it doesn't fail at most of what it sets out to do. It's just a sloppy film, made worse by the fact that it's almost completely disconnected from what came before or after
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José Eduardo Romero Ramírez@jeduromeror·
@fandompulse He was right. That’s the reason why The Last Jedi is good: because it offered something innovative and distinctive. But obsessive fandom just don’t realize that, they just want everything to stay forever as it was in their adolescence.
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Fandom Pulse@fandompulse·
Bob Iger on George Lucas' disappointment after seeing The Force Awakens: "He didn’t hide his disappointment. ‘There’s nothing new,’ he said. In each of the films in the original trilogy, it was important to him to present new worlds, new stories, new characters, and new technologies. In this one, he said, ‘There weren’t enough visual or technical leaps forward.’ He wasn’t wrong, but he also wasn’t appreciating the pressure we were under to give ardent fans a film that felt quintessentially Star Wars. We’d intentionally created a world that was visually and tonally connected to the earlier films, to not stray too far from what people loved and expected, and George was criticizing us for the very thing we were trying to do." Was George right in his criticism?
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@josethevrtech My personal theory is that most VR games nowadays are solo efforts that are a dime a dozen on steam (and flat solo indies tend to be cheaper). That combined with the most popular quest games all being free to play has skewed how valuable people see these games.
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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@josethevrtech VR devs are delusional if they think killing a pirate store will help their sales. The fact it was so prevalent indicates a much deeper value alignment problem that this just straight up doesn't address. You're not gonna convert pirate store users to paying customers like this.
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José ‘The VR Tech’ 🥽@josethevrtech·
“VRPirates was responsible for the overwhelming majority of Quest game piracy, making it easy to illegally play standalone VR titles for free.” I’m sorry, but this is not true. What makes it “easy” to illegally play standalone VR titles for free is the Android operating system.
UploadVR@UploadVR

Meta's lawyers successfully shut down VRPirates, which was by far the largest and most prominent source of pirated Quest VR games: uploadvr.com/meta-shut-down…

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zeke ross@ProIkranRider·
@_communio @Xer02Her0 @EdenMourns @XIV_Mika Let's also add the fact that class design has just gotten more bland with time to the point where there's no identity left. And also the game has no on-ramp for new players who don't want to sit through 100+ hours of single player story content to play an MMO with their mates.
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Kat 🗡️@_communio·
@Xer02Her0 @EdenMourns @XIV_Mika Most of the expansion has been ‘fine’ but the problem is that the launch MSQ really was THAT bad. Expansions are a lot more than just their MSQ but it’s such a big part that that fact it was tedious and miserable just killed all momentum and hype DT should’ve had at launch
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