Lizzardspawn
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Lizzardspawn
10hr ago
This was a studio whose last quality game was Dragon Age 1. It was in 2009. ME2 and 3 had high production values, but were mostly my little pony friendship is magic simulators with non equestrian characters. And their absolute peak was 26 years ago.
There is nothing left to grief for. So I feel the only thing appropriate in this case - indifference. The same thing I will feel when Martin and Rothfuss die with their opuses unfinished.
Take Mass Effect - the combat there was never enjoyable interesting or challenging. So why having so much of it? In a studio of a thousand people not a single soul dared to say - this bland gears of war lite just doesn't work? (It didn't work in gears of war too, but that is different topic).
Veilguard didn't kill the company. The company was already dead. Bloated budgets, bloated games, bloated teams, bloated production. To make bank they had to abandon their RPG roots and try and chase all kinds of audiences. And they failed. There was no spark in any of their games.
So i will install Baldur's gate 2 again, couple of high res mods, pour a glass of whiskey and drink for and age of gaming gone with the wind.
Lizzardspawn
18hr ago
it suggests that maybe your female characters aren't as fleshed-out and three-dimensional as they could be.
Take a wild guess in a group of women in their 20s how much of the conversations revolve around dating and looks upkeep. My observation is that when it is not about girly stuff - there is very strong preference in women to discuss it with the opposite sex then intersex.
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
Umm... Luke got his friends tortured and lost his arm and Anakin literally fell into evil (and lava)
Lizzardspawn
1d ago
There is a brilliant Soviet joke that ends with Чукча не читатель, чукча писатель.
Same is with the feminist wave that is hell bent on destroying all and everything fun inside mass media. Feminist not reader, feminist writer. While it seems many woman of specific beliefs have very strong opinion on how female characters should be written they seem to forget the other part - the reading. And so far the market has spoken that they just don't want what is pushed on them. This is very similar to the USSR economy - where even the people producing the goods refused to consume them.
Take a recent film i enjoyed - Mortal Kombat II - not that is was some masterpiece, but was relatively free from the woke smell.
Only the men were allowed to lose fights, and the only woman that lost was also beaten up by a woman (and she was from the bad guys' team anyway). Which means that all that involved them was just weaker than the rest - because the plot shield was not from the inside world, but from the outside.
The fact that even romantasy books and chicklit - that are totally dominated by women authors and readers - full with her types of characters tells us a lot.
If Taylor Sheridan's over sexualized one dimensional creatures are more believable and likable than the girl bosses - you have serious issues with audience relatability.
And the answer why something is not written in a specific way - the answer is always because it doesn't sell. You can't force people to consume - and this is why more and more people tune out of the mainstream.
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
Do you think that someone smart in the Pentagon (and Tel Aviv) has spent the last 6 months developing new doctrine about how to break an enemy only from the air and we will see it introduced when the fireworks start again? Do you think that there will be fireworks again too?
Lizzardspawn
2d ago
No chance in hell. He is on Kamala Harris levels of anti charisma. He will lose against a pet rock.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
No. To cheat engine 7. Spiritual successor to ArtMoney
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
That first boss run made me say fuck this shit and open up cheat engine. Not having checkpoint before boss should be capital offense. And the execution should be livestreamed.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
Ugly 40 something year old woman. Her face in game is terrible compared to the real actress. They did better job with Sif. And both compare badly to Athena from the previous games. Let alone the Oracle or the sisters of fate (2 of them).
Freya got worse from 1 to 2 also. And yet they somehow had the resources for Angrboda and Grýla to create higher detail, better animated and more expressive faces.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
The problem is that because often diversity is done in bad faith - especially trans/blacks in historical setting people notice it. And often doesn't bring much to table.
Lizzardspawn
4d ago
If you want hot women in Castlevania there is always Alucard.
The question is for whom are the women uglyfied (somehow they don't do this with the male character that are almost always 10/10) ? Look at god of war ragnarock - Kratos, Heimdall, Ingwie look ok. Freya looks worse than the actress she was based on. How do they even manage this?
Personally I think that the worst offense of Rose's designers is that they break with the anime roots of the series.
Personally for me - I think that women in gaming just can't grok that sex, danger and violence in a female character just go incredibly well. Violence and adrenaline make humans horny.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
My racism is a bit out of date - but isn't watermelon associated with the one of the types of black people Europe actually doesn't have problems with their integration or behavior
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
Based on that, as well as the nature of it, it will probably never be useful outside of demos and stunts.
Safety. A system of thrusters that could provide deceleration, downforce and anti roll over protection could have its place in a modern car.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
There is somewhat of a jump from lean proof is correct to Mistral (sorry couldn't think of shittier model right now) reading and explaining this proof correctly.
Lizzardspawn
5d ago
They could have that status in an instant by reforming into actual democracies
Explain what actual democracy is. Please. Any case recently in the democracies where the vox populi was heard and not implemented in a way that perverted it. Especially in immigration. Brexit being one of the worst offenders.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
But their services are no longer required. If I need someone to explain a mathematical result to me, I will ask an AI.
We are really happy that ai is always right.
What is going on in France? They are burning some really beautiful buildings. And making sure LePen will be elected. Destroying culture is not economic rioting.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
My brother, the Ukrainians have, with a massive majority, chosen to fight.
They are so massively majority willing to fight that TCC needs 5 or 6 people to drag them into the vans.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Half of France's population didn't flee to Germany with no intention of return.
Lizzardspawn
6d ago
Batman quite often shoots the bad guys. Before being gayed up in the 60s or so.
No. It is a basic 1d move. You just can't see the board because ideology and priors.
Ukraine is important for Russia, the foaming at the mouth Brussels and UK elite that have bet a big chunk of their prestige on it, and I guess is also important for the Ukrainians - at least what is left of them.
But it is not important for the USA. After the end of the cold war Russia is so weak that it no longer needs to be contained. Case in point - the war in Ukraine. Actually devastated Ukraine that drains Europe treasure and prevents even the meager chance of Europe getting its shit together and threatening the US economic dominance is even preferrable.
The geopolitical balance won't shift too much no matter who controls that wreck of a country now. And Europe is on declining trajectory. So why bother with it. If the "new Europeans" we are importing start to dominate it will turn into shithole, if they don't - Europe will have enough internal strife to not be able to project much power outside of its border. The only challenge for USA is potentially China. And you can see that US see it that way by the comparatively better way it treats Korea, Japan and Vietnam (and well Russia).
Russia is not providing much military assistance to Iran and in the mind of Trump intelligence sharing is fair game. Trump prefers to trade with Russia than to sanction it. And because Ukraine is local problem, there is no need to get too involved with it. On the other hand Putin has hydrocarbons that are lately in something of a crunch. So aside from public's opinion, there is no real downside of giving some sanctions relief to Russia when it aligns with US interests.
USA is the seed of Albion, and by the time said Albion still played the great game competently it was known as the Perfidious Albion. And the UK had no friends only interests. Same is with USA. Although the British had more class about it.
And lastly - Zelensky thinks of himself as equal to the west, when in fact he is the west's bitch. And while some European leaders prefer the girlfriend experience and the other prefer the dominatrix one, in the case with Trump -as the brass brute that he is - seems he doesn't like his bitches talking back instead of sucking - as Ivana Trump can no longer confirm.
There were settings in the menu to pause on many types of events which turned the combat into turn based one effectively. It even had - show dice rolls in the console.
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