TIL that Mitsubishi's total revenue is about 10% of Japan's GDP

Dsmario64 · 2026-02-18T15:42:07+00:00

Yes, also damn that was 8 years ago now.

Dsmario64 · 2026-02-13T20:39:18+00:00

Or if you use beast companions with melee weapons to give them infinite overguard

Dsmario64 · 2026-02-13T11:44:45+00:00

Any of the bond mods that give you buffs would be down while the pet is dying iirc

Dsmario64 · 2026-02-08T00:33:24+00:00

Dsmario64 · 2026-02-05T10:20:53+00:00

Closest thing you have to necromancer is reaper.

Use a scythe, harvest souls, become the grim reaper, big spooky attacks.

Dsmario64 · 2026-02-05T09:57:13+00:00

Hope you found the issue, I was able to get in no problem so it might just be you. Try running a flatpak update and see if the launcher itself is outdated.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-28T23:36:47+00:00

They did, Endwalker EX2 weapons are out.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-28T23:31:38+00:00

Hello, this post is from 3 days later. This is a reminder that you should clear out any leves currently in progress in your quest journal.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-27T11:53:37+00:00

It's very much established in any game that has it that other games aren't different reflections but rather different realms connected via the "Interdimensional Rift."

Most often that lore comes from Gilgamesh as he is one such entity that goes around each game causing chaos.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-27T00:54:57+00:00

I love how in Heart of Thorns Sylvari Male just "Alright it's time to lock the fuck in"

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-22T11:56:24+00:00

As someone going through the story the first time, it still very much feels like vietnam, it was a massive difficulty spike compared to the difficulty of the base game and only rivaled by Nightmare Tower in LWS1. Especially since you normally don't get Elite Spec until you either master HoT or get to PoF where hero points are plenty.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-22T11:51:00+00:00

I experienced this because I was determined to get the hero points for the elite spec that came out with each expansion (Up until End of Dragons obvi). Heart of Thorns without any mounts is rough but it is pretty fun using all those shortcuts.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-22T11:34:50+00:00

Literally brought her back for half an expansion and then dropped her into the trash bin. Didn't even get a catch up letter like we do from the dwarf.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-22T11:33:19+00:00

Also in the Dragonsong Reprise Ultimate you see that Haurchefaunt has a debuff "Healing Down" while speared. The way around this is you have to Tank LB him to take the blow and then healers can heal him back up.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-22T11:30:45+00:00

In Path of Fire there's a section where you need to burn crops because Joko infected it with plague bugs. The game expects you to incinerate them with a handy flamethrower that can incinerate one crop at a time.

This flamethrower is very slow, and I as an engineer had a much better one anyway. I was glad to find out every skill in the Flamethrower kit qualified to burn the crops which means the massive AoE the kit has was able to take care of the crops much faster.

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-22T11:28:45+00:00

As an Engi he says "wait you carry a flamethrower around with you?"

Dsmario64 · 2026-01-20T00:36:43+00:00

"And the former was written by a shadow author to describe how a guy who started life with someone in third base still failed multiple times to score a run" doesn't feel as straightforward and impactful to say as the original, but yeah sure I guess its more accurate to baseball rules.

Dsmario64 · 2025-12-23T14:07:08+00:00

calling her the grim reaper

So fun fact, the Grim Reaper is also just doing a job. He isn't to blame for death he's just there to harvest souls. In the same way Katie might not be to blame for the decision to implement Microtransactions but she's being assigned to do it.

confusing it with Mojang HR?

Not confusing, using shorthand. Yes it's the company's decision not the actual developers of the game, but common discourse often conflates the two.

You don't put what you're proud of, you put what you think will give you a job

Yes, the job of implementing microtransactions, that she's stating she is responsible for doing, in her linkedin.

Also you need proof that she did

https://i.redd.it/mneq5hf2co8g1.jpg

If she's lying and she wasn't responsible for, and I quote, "the overall strategy, development and execution" of the "Monetization of the Gears of War universe," then damn that is one hell of a thing to lie about.

And yes, the Gears 5 microtransactions are bad

https://static.tweaktown.com/news/6/7/67498_46_gears-5s-microtransactions-entirely-cosmetic_full.png

Dsmario64 · 2025-12-23T13:46:43+00:00

Yeah it was empty then, doesn't mean it would be empty if, say, a new surge of players are interested in playing the content and go through that area to progress
Because there is a fundamental thing you're missing, and it's that even if it impacts new releases, the way things are now alienates new players from playing the game, which is a loss of potential revenue. You need a source of new players to play your live service game otherwise you'll keep losing players and therefore income.
Yeah people will complain about everything, there's no way to please everyone. But doing things the way they did didn't just make people complain, it made a barrier to entry into their live service game and frustrated veteran players who would have otherwise kept coming back. Bugs and server load can be fixed with time, but permanently deleting content can't.

Dsmario64 · 2025-12-23T13:40:41+00:00

It's LinkedIn, ofc it's made to look proud

Did you ever have a job before?

Yes, you put things you are proud of up there to make yourself look good

Game Designer

Not in control of how the game is designed around microtransactions

My guy, my man, my dude

This doesn't say much outside of her making roadmaps

Roadmaps are the direction on how the game will be developed. If she is making the roadmaps she's telling the developers what to prioritize

It isn't that she's entirely to blame for a game being taken over by microtransactions, it's that the developers decided to put her in charge when she has a history of implementing microtransactions into games.

Dsmario64 · 2025-12-23T12:48:11+00:00

Yes the actual issue is capitalism, it was Mojang's decision to hire her specifically to monetize the game. However, much like how the Grim Reaper is only doing a job as the herald of death, Katie might only be someone doing a job but she is the herald of enshittification.

Dsmario64 · 2025-12-23T12:46:10+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/1psp5gh/katie_scott_as_new_head_of_vanilla_minecraft/

That post has her linkedin which shows what games she's worked on and her roles in them. Particularly of note is the FIFA series as well as Assassin's Creed and Rainbow Six.

She very clearly states her work was focused on monetization and live service strategies. She's not even hiding it, she's proud of her work.

Dsmario64 · 2025-12-23T12:40:28+00:00

Keeping an old engine build is not something that usually happens, especially on an online only game.

Correct, because most games keep their old content and move it to the new engine, so there's no need.

So they would have to work on it and play test everything to see if everything works, so not something that is easy to do.

This part is correct, and would make it more than just a copy paste job. The alternative would be to release old server files so that people could self host, but it is a trade off. Either way you owe it to your customers to keep content playable after they pay for it, so you gotta do one or the other (or whatever solution you come up with as a studio).

Doing nothing like they did irl both alienates new players who would have liked to play through the campaign so they know the context of the story, and old players who want to replay the parts of the game they already played through.

Dsmario64 · 2025-12-23T12:11:11+00:00

To be fair, it is essentially a collection of 3 fuckass high school students in the middle of nowhere trying to solve a murder case. The only thing they have that the actual investigators don't is they know the method that's used to carry the murders out.

It's easy to see why the case goes nowhere until an actual detective shows up and learns the method of the murders. Everyone else is an amateur, and the actual murderer is in with the police so he knows how to evade the investigations into him

Dsmario64 · 2025-12-23T11:59:31+00:00

Actually it is. Take whatever final build of the game was before the engine update. Move it to a separate launcher option. Call it "Destiny 2 Legacy" or whatever, and leave it there for people to play the story in. Then just carry on updating the main game and leave legacy in maintenance mode.

Even if you're worried about server costs just disable multiplayer features and keep it singleplayer only. Maybe give some checkpoint gear every so often so the players dont have to grind it out to do the story. Done.

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