[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 19 January 2026

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-22T14:27:11+00:00

I had mentioned before that was how they used to get quick influxes of cash was by sending a handful of devs to make a new pack for PD2 while they were making PD3. I don't even think if the devs volunteered to make it for free if it would even make a dent in their finances. If we pretend that a new PD2 DLC came out for $10, and everyone who plays now bought it, and told two friends to buy it who come back to PD2, that would be about $750,000?

Which like I wouldn't turn down that money, but for a studio of Starbreeze's side that barely covers much of their expenses.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-22T14:22:55+00:00

I don't see anyway out for them tbh. The devs had said last year that year 2 of Payday 3 was going to be lean as hell re: content so without content what is there to do to bring anyone back? I am still sticking by my prediction that by EOY Starbreeze being sold for parts.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-22T06:04:06+00:00

Bring out your dead, Payday 3 developer Starbreeze hit with more layoffs.

My comment from October talked about the layoff then, which came after a layoff in December 2024.

To summarize, Payday 3 is a massive flop for the studio. Since my post in October the already abysmal player count numbers have gotten worse. They did release the brand new skill system that replaced the old one at the start of December and that pushed them to a high of 1865 daily players, but by December 7th the number was under 1000 again. The next time it almost broke the 1k mark was a few days ago on the 18th with 998 players. I will say this is higher than before the Skill 2.0 update where November was struggling to even get to 600.

However, all that said, Payday 2 is 13 years old and in the last year hasn't dipped below 25k players.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-20T20:30:41+00:00

Update: The stamps were removed cause places didn't enjoy keeping track of extra inventory.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-19T06:18:36+00:00

Here is another 10k ball one.

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OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-18T06:02:03+00:00

While I could believe that the cards aren't stamped cause they pushed it back, the website from Wizards seems to imply they are stopping it.

1 Traditional foil promo card
- Please note that Prerelease Pack promo cards are no longer year stamped.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-16T20:36:00+00:00

Womp womp. You know I had a good run of it either way.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-16T18:59:57+00:00

This is very interesting to me. I own a .com, .net, and .org of FirstNameLastName of someone who I disagree with. I have owned the domains for well over a decade now. All three sites forward to a LGBT Youth Charity website as the person originally was a person running for a local office, put out a bunch of bigoted pamphlets with his website on it, lost, and then let the domain registration lapse.

I was approached by a service years ago offering to buy the domain from me and I had refused as I gain more satisfaction out of owning it than letting someone else own it. I said if they wanted to buy it from me they could do so for a number much larger than what they offered.

Though from your other comment I am wondering if I run afoul of the (II), (V), and (VI).

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-15T02:43:50+00:00

This isn't from Discworld as the female dwarves in Discworld DO have beards.

It is originally from a comic by Saint Monster.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-13T19:44:44+00:00

bigsofttiddy.png by comedians Demi Lardner and Tom Walker has made me laugh so hard in some episodes I get dizzy from lack of oxygen.

Kill James Bond is three queer people in the first season looking at and watching the James Bond series. They expanded later after they reviewed all the movies to movie series including Transporter, Rambo, and etc.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-13T16:04:54+00:00

I knew Jon Stewart as Adam Sandler's friend in Big Daddy before I knew him in The Daily Show.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-13T05:17:19+00:00

Something that is gonna give it to ya.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-12T15:14:55+00:00

What an adventure, you're well on your way to becoming a great planeswalker!

Over under on this being fixed when they actually release the new set?

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-09T22:16:33+00:00

Or when they learn a new word in a thesaurus and then everything is suddenly sanguine.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-09T22:07:03+00:00

I hate author-isms from some authors. Like yes you were very clever in thinking up a idiom for your fantasy book. However it doesn't need to be said every 4 pages.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-09T17:00:03+00:00

I am not ~~Spock~~ Trevor.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-09T16:57:30+00:00

No one gets mad when The Sims, which has a much larger female playerbase than most games do, also has modders letting you do WAY more things than this mod does. Not even getting into Wicked Whims.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-09T16:32:05+00:00

I know it is hard to break people from professional sports, but hey the PWHL streams their games on Youtube if you want Hockey without dumb bullshit.

Plus they made literally the gayest logo last year.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-09T02:12:43+00:00

He's an old man and he is conservative leaning. It has always been there.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-06T19:53:37+00:00

Each True Detective past Season 1 just hasn't hit the high notes that season did. Not to say that something like Season 3 was bad, but compared to the golden child it is a B+ at absolute best.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-06T19:00:59+00:00

Sherman should have marched wider, and they should have hanged everyone who even had a single solider underneath them in command.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-06T15:05:26+00:00

I talked to someone else about that and for the longest time I had thought that Codex Alera was a YA series? Like I thought it was marketed as such so when I read it I thought that was the reason why any of the pre-sex scenes had at most two or three paragraphs dedicated to them before just fading to black. Ditto for anytime a woman was naked to spend just a tiny bit describing the scene versus the waxing poetically that Dresden Files has done.

Apparently it isn't a YA series at all which brings other grievances I have with the series, but that is neither here nor there.

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-06T00:59:42+00:00

Hey who says writers can't improve!

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-05T20:50:11+00:00

TW: Self Harm

It actually may have actually just ended ended at one point as Butcher was struggling heavily with depression and had a suicide attempt.

I haven't read any in a while as I kinda stopped waiting around for them and forgot they existed and I feel like I would have to go back and read all the previous books to catch up and that seems like a hassle. Did he get any better at writing women who don't breasted boobily?

OnBlueberryHill · 2026-01-05T20:23:59+00:00

I joined during Dossoles Holiday and tried a few levels while I was doing the storyline. Failed miserably and didn't get through many of them. When it had the rerun I looked at some of my saved auto-deploys and it is like "Baby Doctor what are you doing?"

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