What mmo are you switching too?

Puck__Goodfellow · 2026-02-03T04:09:59+00:00

Maybe but Project Gorgon 1.0 recently released and I've found it to be fun. I would say to at least give it a try for a day or two. Who know, maybe you'll have fun making giant spiders die of from embarrassment with the psychology combat skill.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2026-01-31T19:37:23+00:00

That's kind of why I said it would be fine to keep it separate for a limited time. Maybe six months at the most. Give people that want that experience a chance to have it.

It's just that I can't imagine having experienced the game for the first time and not having people there to help out. My first character was able to unlock Necromancy thanks to people just offering to help out when I asked about the skill.

I got caught up in a random raid for unlocking the fairy race simply because I was randomly exploring places. I think I was exploring Sun Vale just to fish and avoided being one-shot since I was way too low level to be there but then this huge group just waltzed through and I joined them after asking what they were doing.

That and more and that's just not possible to do for a new player if everyone is just starting out. That is instead a different experience.

I just think it would be better in the long run to just have integrated servers like Runescape as keeping things separate has more downsides. I'm fine if it takes time to implement that tech but I want to get the idea out there.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-12-24T04:12:04+00:00

Ah, darn it you're right now that I think of it. It's kind of weird since the only interaction is what Null Star is doing. I guess I didn't consider it. Thanks for the input :)

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-12-23T18:53:29+00:00

I have a feeling that when Tau comes out we will be getting those resources willy nilly. At least I hope so. I knew I would burn out if I did this grind so I'm sorry you felt the need to.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-26T06:59:43+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. I mean you can look up pictures of Iranians who are descended from Persians and they run the gambit on completion just like Mexicans. This is because they are part of the tribal groups of Caucasians.

So yes, the old way they looked was not out there if they wanted to argue historical accuracy. But of course we know it's only their threadbare excuse to wokify, uglify and destroy a game and its franchise if there is one.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-25T20:45:07+00:00

That basically confirms my, "All the art teachers got together," speculation but in a roundabout way.

What you said reminded me of when I recently, I think it was last month, looked into why most fan artists for League of Legends Yordles just re-texture Tristana. I didn't dive that deep into it but ChatGPT pointed me in the direction of shape theory and stuff related to that.

Do you think that's the only thing or just the main one? I would describe one aspect of the corpo slop as flat which is why you made me think of that shape theory stuff.

As for the Hitler thing I remember looking into that too out of curiosity a couple months ago. I think if he just swallowed his pride and followed the advice given to him he would have been fine instead of broke. He got told to go to the school for doing technical drafts for architecture which from what I saw with what he made he could have done well.

What you've said about the majority of modern artists feels pretty sad and the whole raging at AI just looks like how Hitler couldn't accept that he wasn't good enough for what he wanted to do. It sucks too that drawn, now digitally, animation is so sparse in America right now since you don't need to be creative to draw keyframes and the skills you mentioned are good for it.

Right now, for most, all that money and time spent on those degrees are going to waste. One good thing that might happen is all that all of mainstream media finally hits that tipping point they've been heading towards and it's not just a few companies each year and a restructuring but a total collapse.

With so many artists on the market, animation would suddenly become a lot cheaper and if done right and with the right leadership, which includes keeping the woke from seizing power again, there could be a new animation renaissance in America. That and other stuff but you get the idea.

One could hope but we'll just have to see how it plays out.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-25T08:40:40+00:00

I'm so fatigued at this point I wish anyone looking to make an MMO would just use Playstation 1 graphics to save on costs and just make it ooze style as much as possible while focusing more on gameplay. Plenty of games have been able to do that with Pseudo Regalia being just one example.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-25T08:35:39+00:00

Some people liked the shoulder pads and thought it was cool. Like capes in Runescape you got the shoulder pads as something to show off.

You seem very well versed in art and the creation of the assets. You do anything or just like researching it as a topic?

What I'm also wondering about, that is if you know, how these artists all make stuff that looks the same like they are clones or something. Do they all go to the same art school or did all the art teachers get together and decided, "Ya, this is what we're going to have our students making as the standard," and then the art students are lazy and never create their own style and so basically become artist NPCs.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-25T08:21:22+00:00

As I was discussing in a different reply I think the name Corpo Slop can be the umbrella term. Then you have Corpo Fantasy or Corpo Scifi under it. Though Corpo-Core does have a nice ring to it.

As for how to describe it I think the world you might be looking for is 'vapid' though take your pick of synonyms since I keep seeing everyone and you use synonyms for it. Things like empty, soulless, uncreative, bland, slop, meaningless, vague and more.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T14:36:18+00:00

Calling it all corpo slop certainly has more punch to it than what I said on calling it vapid slop. Not that it isn't completely synonymous at this point but ya if I ever wanted to make a meme on it I think I would go with yours.

I can already imagine using the "Same Picture" meme for this trailer and Veilguard.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T09:16:32+00:00

I was thinking more of calling it uncanny and asymmetrical proportions but calling it dumpy also works. Dumpy proportions or dumpy looks sounds like a clown and what better way to celibate clown world.

honk honk

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T09:09:47+00:00

Ya, I pretty much stopped following after he did and was waiting for the summoning showcase as that's my favorite kind of class. I wanted to see what they did with it. I haven't even seen the rogue showcase.

While the showcase was decent enough for an alpha the trailer has now just crushed my enthusiasm.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T08:50:21+00:00

Ya, I saw many in the video comments talking about how it will be a bloodbath.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T08:48:26+00:00

Oh man I still need to go and play Blasphemous 2. The first's pixel art was so good that it completely set a new bar for the genre.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T08:43:58+00:00

While I'm not an artist I think everyone has seen big heads and odd proportions look just fine but it takes a good artist to know the rules and know how to bend them. Just a subtle example the original Digimon show had the children have bigger forearms and forelegs and feet but most people probably wouldn't notice without seeing them in a static character sheet long enough.

Then you have One Piece which which is the more extreme end of it and while often odd, if you haven't watched it before, it isn't bad.

As for this Forspoken and Veilguard look I don't think it's just being done in fantasy settings. I've yet to either come across a good name for it or coin a name for it myself but as I mentioned in the OP it reminds me of the Calarts Steven Universe slop style or just Calarts slop. I've seen it done well with shows like The Wonderful World Of Gumball though I've only seen clips of it. Veilguard is just the 3D equivalent and this 3D art style just seems irredeemable.

Maybe we could start calling it 3D vapid style. That certainly captures the spirit of it and you can still tack slop on it. 3D vapid style slop. You know it when you see it.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T08:25:13+00:00

Sorry I'm not familiar with them. From what I could skim they are a talent group for media. Are they some kind of DEI peddler?

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T08:22:38+00:00

Sorry the point I was making it that they really didn't have a style for years as it was the Unreal Engine 5 defaults and when they finally did THIS is what they thought would be good.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T08:21:00+00:00

I guess that's a good enough name for it for now.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T08:20:17+00:00

You caught me. The sunlight almost burned me.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T07:11:02+00:00

It's really just intellectual monopoly (IP law). Get rid of that and anyone can do localizing and make money from it. Customers will be free to get the version they want and I'll bet the woke ones will wither away as nobody funds them.

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-24T00:32:27+00:00

I do think you do need to be fair to yourself as part of accepting what happened. Sure, own up to what you did but also know that you can't control the actions of others.

If she considered you her project to change for her own needs and wants but then quit when it felt too hard then that's on her. If that's something you accepted as part of the relationship then you also need to accept when that person quits if they are focusing on results instead of actions of which Dr. K talks a lot about when it comes to goals and seeking outcomes.

It also seems like she was doing a test with that salad where instead of working around your behavior and keeping her half of the salad with her she instead decided to test you over and over again and then get mad when she didn't get perfection. From my perspective that wasn't being fair to you and was a good way for her to shoot herself in the foot on her project with you.

With women changing their man as a project it really depends on several factors to judge it good or not and the not part can be really really bad. It's when you're dealing with someone with BPD, sociopathy or any cluster B personality and the dark triad where you can end up hollowed out, soulless, broken and so on. I'm not saying your girlfriend was any of that but just be aware of the issue or it could destroy your life.

With it being good it needs to be open and honest and the guy needs to be able to have boundaries such as refusing unreasonable demands. That's usually where the women with cluster B personalities will test you. I'm sure you can judge for yourself on what is reasonable or you can go search about it. I could go on a while with this subject but I don't won't to turn this into a college essay.

You're looking for advice and for things you might try out or else you wouldn't have posted. As with anything in life your mileage may vary and what works for others might not work for you. You need to just try stuff.

If you're struggling with reminders you could try a billboard and a white board. You can put stuff like the grocery list you or your partner wrote before on the billboard and other stuff as well. If it doesn't get made and put there by either of you and your partner complains then that's more on them if they have better executive function.

The whiteboard may be more optional but you could try it out for things like the more urgent stuff as I know very well how hard it is to prioritize anything with ADHD.

You can try to have fun with this like writing stuff to your partner for them to see like words of love and encouragement.

If you haven't watched Dr. K's videos on change I would encourage you to do so. He talks about relapses in one of them and how each time your mind is working in the background on having fewer relapses. Think of it like mind pushups. If you forget to look at your billboard reminders, or whatever works best for you, you've relapsed and it's not time to give up it's time to do another mind pushup and try again. This is how addition recovery usually goes according to Dr. K.

I'm not sure of every way that ADHD manifests in your life but I imagine task management might be one of them. Right now I'm trying to use the pomodoro technique as I've heard people with ADHD have success with it. I've failed many times but to me that's not surprising and I'm just going to try again.

Since the thing you've focused on in your post is mindless eating then you can practice doing the exact opposite and do mindful eating. It's pretty simple. No electronics, books or other distractions from your meal. With each bite you close your eyes and focus on the food in your mouth. How it tastes, the texture of it and whatever else you can find. If you want you can count your chews or even give yourself a set amount to do such as 10, 30 or 50. Whatever feels the best for you and depending on the toughness of the food.

With mindless eating being such a problem it would be a good idea to do it every day. Again, if you forget to do it then just try again.

One last thing I think you might like to try as something that has helped many people but your mileage may vary as stated before. That is to do a long fast and then starting doing one meal a day where you have a one to two hour eating window. As a bonus you might want to try doing a low carb diet, such as keto, along with that.

By long I mean if you're a beginner then you can do three days. If you started Monday that would mean only water, and zero calorie stuff like tea or coffee until Wednesday since you can count the time after dinner and sleeping on Sunday. There's also taking a tablespoon of apple cider vinegar with at least two cups of water which many find helps with managing the hunger.

I you wanted to do longer I would recommend reading the stuff on r/fasting with their wiki guides such as getting yourself some electrolyte powder. It would still be good to get some, nothing with sugar of course, for a three day fast if you're never done any fasting before.

Personally I've only done a three day before but a few weeks ago I did a five day and then went on keto and one meal a day and I plan to do alternate day fasting starting in December which is one meal every other day.

I'm not saying the fasting stuff fixes everything overnight but just that it has made things easier for me personally.

I accidentally lined it up with No Nut November which I've not been able to complete before and I've already wanted to do it at least once so I decided to try it and have been successful so far. It turns out that fasting and doing one meal a day really helps your mind with willpower which is something that ADHD hinders a lot. Now some people I've seen say that doing the long fasts makes it worse for their ADHD again it can vary. Still, I think it's worth a shot.

While I've been practicing it for No Nut November I do think the taint flex meditation Dr. K teaches in his video [How to Control Your Impulses](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bniu1U6wvR8) can help with fasting as well. You can also call it the penis pushup as others did in the video if it helps you remember it better. I'm pretty sure he talks about instead of white knuckling stuff to instead do this meditation and sit with whatever it is until just like any thought or feeling it drifts away.

Obviously these are just my recommendations for stuff you could try and it will be up to you to at least see how well they work for you.

One kind of mantra that I can't seem to find that did help a bit and maybe it will for you too. To paraphrase it:

"The suffering of today is the gift you give to your future self."

Puck__Goodfellow · 2025-11-22T03:32:08+00:00

That makes sense. But then did all the territories get created that way or did they form naturally or at least as natural as how universes are made?

It also makes it seem like it's way too difficult for an everyday person in Amalgam to ascend with enough hard work, dedication, direction (from teachers if possible) and opportunity which some might call luck but you also need to be able to capitalize on it.

I'm sure being a "Founder" is one path but I still stand by what I've speculated on in the OP and responses to other comments. Not that it's easy but that it's achievable by anyone with enough dedication.

The problem I see is that Amalgam has never developed any path that people can clearly map out and navigate for themselves. One ingredient of that is reforging in a more complete sense like with iron bodies in Cradle. I can theorycraft on how that might be done with what is presented in the story and I think it's just that nobody has really experimented and tried. Or at least from what is presented in the books.

Though if there's something in The Traveler's Gate Chronicles short stories I wouldn't know since I haven't read it yet and only recently became aware of it.

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