UlyssesT
@UlyssesT@hexbear.net
- Comment on Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure 7 hours ago:
I still remember when one of the founding developers of the Diablo series quit after too much corporate skullduggery and went somewhere else to make Torchlight instead.
The corpos he left behind, failsons and businessbros that they were, left a Twitter message regarding that founder’s departure:
“FUCK THAT LOSER.”
That’s what pieces of shit were left in Blizzard ever after.
- Comment on Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure 10 hours ago:
When something you love gets slowly corrupted.
I wonder if those “corruption” cliches in Blizzard game storytelling throughout the Kotick regime were a sort of subtle cry for help, the way Origin’s developers cried for help during Ultima VII with EA-logo evil magic devices and the like and the massive dunking on Richard “Lord British” Garriot in the Serpent Isle expansion.
- Comment on Blizzard Co-Founder Reveals True Reason For Departure 10 hours ago:
Kotick was an enjoyer of Little St. James Island, which may come as no surprise to some. epsteingelion
- Comment on ASA bans adverts for Nike and Sky for using ‘dark pattern’ tactics 2 days ago:
- Comment on i need it, soz 3 days ago:
Bosnia can have 12 miles of coastline. As a treat.
- Comment on Weevil time 5 days ago:
That’s an important question if one doesn’t want to become the lesser of the two weevils.
- Comment on Climate change 5 days ago:
Why isn’t Florida submerged here? Sheer boomer spite?
- Comment on Climate change 5 days ago:
- Comment on Academic writing 6 days ago:
- Comment on Platypuses 1 week ago:
Taxidermists in the 1800s saw them as trolling, a bit like jackalopes.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 weeks ago:
At some point start introducing power creep so players want to purchase access to new classes and feats.
4th edition already pulled that grift, making each additional book full of Glowing Eyed Generic Epic People a bit more power-creeped than the last.
- Comment on Launches 2 weeks ago:
Vay Hek threatening to hurl the Lotus into deep space just doesn’t have the same punch, though.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 weeks ago:
Expect a lot of smirking, winking, and excessive use of “squelch” sounds. sus-torment
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 weeks ago:
They’ll probably try the “blind bag” monetization of minis again… or worse, do “blind bags” of subscription model virtual minis. cap-think
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 weeks ago:
Digital art, at the least, didn’t uplift itself at the uncredited expense of the artists themselves, pushing them further into precarity.
- Comment on Hasbro CEO Says AI Will Become Core Part of Dungeons & Dragons 2 weeks ago:
you instead surrender the creativity to someone’s fickle whims
The corpos want entire game groups to surrender their own creativity to the diluted reconstituted slop churned out by the treat printers… and pay for that privilege.
I’m sure some will go for it, and never experience the joy of being creative themselves, or having a creative Dungeon Master for that matter. Just line up for more IP-regurgitating slop that burns down acres of forest amid all the prompt retries! brrrrrrrrrrrr
- Comment on Burning Up 2 weeks ago:
Being 41% of the way to boiling water sounds pretty hot to me, too.
- Comment on Burning Up 2 weeks ago:
IT’S OVER NINE THOUSAND KELVIIIIIIIIIIN!
- Comment on Blood Meal 3 weeks ago:
forbidden nesquik
- Comment on Weevil Wednesday 3 weeks ago:
Looks like this one’s the lesser of the two weevils. kelly
- Comment on Pademelon 3 weeks ago:
is it really that hard to believe an animal could be sad?
People that think emotions are exclusive to human beings either never had pets or never should have had pets.
- Comment on MSc Mansplaining 3 weeks ago:
When he graduates, he gets a fedora.
- Comment on *clap clap* 3 weeks ago:
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- Comment on 😳😳😳 4 weeks ago:
agony face.
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming 4 weeks ago:
but for LD my daughter and I always skip to the nacelle-eating alien (we named him Yum Yums), yell “YUM YUMS!”, and then skip to the end.
That’s adorable!
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
It’s baffling to me too, but considering how much the post-DS9 “NuTrek” showrunners like to trot out Section 31 and give them more power and reach and even respectability among the protagonists each time they seem to show up (such as in Picard where for some reason Worf and Jurati were associated with them and they apparently “had all the best toys” in a way that sounded quirky and cool rather than an unaccountably self interested bunch of murderous criminals as seen in DS9), there’s a fair amount of overlap it seems between the “black ops special forces shadowy adults in the room that make the hard decisions and get shit done” power fantasies of typical right wing entertainment and whatever Kurtzman keeps trying to push on the Trek franchise.
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming 5 weeks ago:
YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! dax-stoked
- Comment on Do you skip Star Trek intros when streaming 5 weeks ago:
I-was-saying I actually started to like that song.