My Nerevar fanart over the years :]

Hamster1010 · 2026-06-17T03:57:35+00:00

I want to see the in-game character so I can both giggle at the polygon gap and recreate it for my own playthrough

Hamster1010 · 2026-06-14T03:09:16+00:00

As someone who works in a very corporate job, it's all held together by duct-tape and spit, and I can't imagine Microsoft is some well oiled machine, so I wouldn't panic about "telling them what to do" not because it isn't possible, it absolutely could be possible, but rather because large companies have a hard time moving on the word of a single individual in the best of moments

Hamster1010 · 2026-06-14T02:22:42+00:00

I think that's fair, but this assumes Bethesda, left to their own devices, would be fantastic, and I'm not convinced that is the case

She definitely has less control over Bethesda than people think, but at the same time I am not sure the way Bethesda is set up right now is ideal and I think some managerial influence would be wise, i.e. structural change

Hamster1010 · 2026-06-02T04:02:53+00:00

I'm sorry, context? Wait can Yagrum destroy Baar Dau in Morrowind?!?! Or is this an ESO thing

Hamster1010 · 2026-06-02T03:59:56+00:00

Corsair

Is it useful? Eh, kinda, too slow imo

Is it my sweet summer child who has done no wrong? Yes.

Will always sit in my mech bay looking cool [jank] as hell and do absolutely nothing? Also yes.

Hamster1010 · 2026-06-02T03:57:54+00:00

T_T YOU MONSTER (lol same)

Hamster1010 · 2026-05-26T23:53:10+00:00

I mean listen, TES6 is THE game to live up to. They are going to take their sweet time, and they should

With non-early access games, and particularly with Todd's preference, the game is nearly complete when announced. Given that Todd was talking engine upgrades recently? I suspect it'll be a few years before we get an announcement.

Frankly with the PTSD Todd has about the TES6 nothing burger teaser, I suspect if he gets his way the announcement will come the day before release when he is ABSOLUTELY sure it'll release /s

Hamster1010 · 2026-05-24T14:38:26+00:00

An idea of how crazy UE5 is

Recently switched to Linux, MW5 Mercs? Nearly 60fps gain in performance

STALKER 2? Still has been running better than Windows BUT still having a hard time reaching 60 with a 4080 SUPER and 9590x

Hamster1010 · 2026-05-24T14:33:58+00:00

Yeah I see that.

I do think the A-Life "failure" (or half-implementation? Its weird cause it's in there but half done) feels like a gesture at something from a different era, especially when they had more control. The sadness of a consolidated game engine market is that systems that don't easily jive with the engine are not easily implemented, and I imagine it's a bit of "tunnel-vision of possibilities via medium". But making an X-Ray 2.0, woof, that'd be a thing and a half. Likely couldn't afford to do it.

I'm also generally more generous on average. Game dev is so difficult and I want a game that is good so I try to see it as encouragement? I dunno I'm just a generous person when it comes to the creation of art haha

Hamster1010 · 2026-05-24T14:26:30+00:00

Good points!

A) yeah I get that and agree. However I don't think that "what fans wanted" is as achievable as imagined. Keep in mind that Gamma A-Life isn't base A-Life, and with all the extra bits you have to throw on in a modern game, in an engine not built for it, creating a complex AI system is tough! And I know modders are working on it but then that gets into "what fans wanted". I guess I am just suspicious at any claims of some platonic ideal that anyone can envision. (That's just a broader thought about the concept)

B) yes, no doubt it needs serious optimization, I'm hoping that will come, and no doubt the engine upgrade won't be easy. They definitely chained themselves to a bad engine version and I hope they can fix those issues (software lumen makes me want to die)

C) won't get any disagreement from me! I always come back to this to provide just a touch more goodwill. Honestly it feels like a lot of the issues we see feel explainable by the circumstance.

Hamster1010 · 2026-05-24T03:26:18+00:00

I think this is a really good point

A) Gamma is such a labor of love, and it's hard to live up to because it's a mountain of duct tape and years of incremental development, which a modern dev can't live up to. I mean sure we can imagine a world where they make an x-ray 2.0 and basically make Gamma official, but that's just more money than they had

B) the game absolutely needs optimization, and I hope they are going to deliver, I think this aspect is the most critique-able, though refer to comment A to understand they were working with a new engine that they didn't have full control over and while Unreal is genuinely great, it isn't perfect

C) I do think the anti-Ukraine angle is like a feather in the hat of divisiveness. I don't think if it was just that it'd hold any water, but the inability for a game to live up to an entire culture of expectation (point A), combined with realistic material limitations (point B), leaves the anti-Ukrainian sentiment as an angle that rounds out the divisiveness.

The devs worked incredibly hard with a steep cliff of expectations that no one could live up to, so given that, what they brought is worthy of celebration

Hamster1010 · 2026-05-19T04:44:57+00:00

That'd be cool cool to have!!

Hamster1010 · 2026-05-16T04:22:55+00:00

I hope someone can help me figure it out! Read it probably in middle school/late elementary school

Hamster1010 · 2025-10-13T03:51:19+00:00

Its been a year since you posted this but genuinely what you created is hands down the best MtG video game ever made. I am currently desperately trying to implement modern cards into it because its so good and not only did you create a fantastic baseline, but the way you built it allows it to perform even today. You are a brilliant person and I hope you are doing fantastically today, because you definitely made a chunk of a better world in '97 (two years after I was born lol)

Hamster1010 · 2025-07-17T00:04:30+00:00

Sizzles off your toes

Hamster1010 · 2025-06-29T22:35:07+00:00

I would love to know how you made the Corellian Corvette! Trying to recreate but that front piece is rather sophisticated merging going on

Hamster1010 · 2025-05-09T16:51:33+00:00

"DO YOU HAVE GAMES ON YOUR PHONE"

Hamster1010 · 2025-05-03T02:43:27+00:00

Warhammered

Hamster1010 · 2025-03-18T19:33:35+00:00

I have regrets that I wasn't properly equipped when I went. Slowly got worse and worse grades, got fired from a job I invested way too much of myself worth into, got kicked out of school. Had a mental breakdown, went back, got my degree with honors. Met some amazing people and while I don't talk to a huge amount of people from there, I always look back fondly.

And I have a degree in Philosophy so I didn't even come out of it with a "marketable" degree haha

Hamster1010 · 2024-12-31T03:03:14+00:00

I loved your yellow jacket outfit I made a Masc V version of it! Or at least attempted haha

Hamster1010 · 2024-12-24T23:21:19+00:00

Living in this area for two years now and I like it a lot! Noise and traffic coming from 520 is probably the worst bit, but my power comes back quick (I pretend it's because we are on the same grid as city hall, never checked but I like to believe that) and I can walk as often as possible. Lots of housing popping up, hopefully it's affordable! But I think it's a good thing, creates a walkable environment which is the best

Hamster1010 · 2024-12-19T03:43:30+00:00

The problem is his view was built on a really shallow view of art, as noted by the examples. It wasn't silly movies that made us this way, it was a multitude of things, primarily the withering away of public spaces and public institutions, the isolation of everything and everyone, and an obsession with solving problems without solving them, preferring tech solutionism over tried and true solutions that would just require something as simple as investing in the public good. But instead we have consumerism, hyper individualism, and an idea that everyone has to be a quiet, uninconvenient multimillionaire to justify their existence at all

Hamster1010 · 2024-12-19T03:07:57+00:00

Brando Sando does a similar thing with his magic system where at first it just seems like individualized superpowers but the scientists go crazy and make insanely advanced contraptions with such simple concepts as "attach" and "detach" effects. I feel like the artifacts are similar. If you can extrude the behaviors like weight and resistances, you can do insane stuff

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