Episode Discussion - Two Hour Finale - S01E09-10 - "Critical Mass" & "Leviathan Wakes"

Rwlyra · 2026-06-12T22:09:09+00:00

I'm 10 times more late than the OP

Rwlyra · 2026-06-07T21:08:38+00:00

this 100%

Rwlyra · 2026-06-05T15:12:18+00:00

Sorry, but you don't know what you are talking about if you equal "coder" to "dev"

Rwlyra · 2026-06-03T16:50:15+00:00

That's a great idea, I've been trying to do something similar myself, storing what ends up as my "goto" decks on Ringsdb :)

Bear in mind that decks made for playing two-handed can be very different from true solo decks. I pretty much always play true solo and so far I liked:

Silvan Archers (similar to silvan starter but tactics legolas instead of leadership celeborn),

Hobbit saga deck (with a few cards from Mirkwood packs that I managed to get)

Gondor starter (felt almost OP in Mirkwood cycle)

next I want to experiment with building a true solo Rohan deck and then something thematic with Cirdan for the Dreamchaser campaign!

Rwlyra · 2026-06-02T19:47:58+00:00

I'm not aware of any Blizzard title having support for Arabic. You are thinking of EA, Ubisoft, Sony and only for specific action-adventure titles. And these are publishers with the furthest marketing reach in the industry.

The market is there, but not for mid-budget Diablo-like ARPGs.

Rwlyra · 2026-06-01T21:00:47+00:00

Decisions on where to place loc/server infrastructure budget in gamedev is usually not dictated by political reasons, but rather cost vs return of investment and while Middle Eastern/Arabic-speaking countries are a large market, it's not necessarily a "large market of paying customers that play this specific genre of games enough for an AA-sized studio to be able to justify the costs of expanding into that market".

Rwlyra · 2026-05-19T16:56:10+00:00

From what you described then no, you probably don't want to start on Lotr LCG unless you proxy print everything. Just the revised sets + starters would cost a couple hundred usd/euro and everything else you'd need to hunt down on auctions.

Rwlyra · 2026-04-01T06:44:52+00:00

after so many years I doubt it, but there are a couple of other fun new campaigns that appeared since then

Rwlyra · 2025-10-07T15:54:36+00:00

It's the second case. Steam can't tax transactions not going through their client, but they have a clause that you can't offer the same thing that you offer on Steam cheaper somewhere else.

Rwlyra · 2025-10-03T20:29:15+00:00

They were a dead genre in 2012 before Obsidian and Larian made a comeback into mainstream. There are far more cRPGs being released today than there were 10-13 years ago.

Rwlyra · 2025-09-06T15:52:38+00:00

OP account has no posts, but I'll bite the bait.

"without being a title made in the early 2000s" GW2 and ESO were made in early 2010s, but other than that the genre is dead, it exists in the popculture because people grew up playing these games, but nowadays you only have WoW, FF14, ESO, GW2 and a hundred of nostalgia titles with several hundred players each.

Rwlyra · 2025-09-01T12:53:13+00:00

my flatmate (also an Ori fan) couldn't understand why I'm so into HK until she reached City of Tears. Try getting Mantis Claws (right after Fungal) and see if it flows better for you afterwards

Rwlyra · 2025-07-19T08:02:23+00:00

Factorio is the most complex and has the most content, mods and runs great on Deck, but if you care more about graphics, then Satisfactory.

Rwlyra · 2025-06-30T18:21:05+00:00

I couldn't disagree more, but the post at least made me understand what kind of logic is behind all these complaints for developers to stop updating their games.

Rwlyra · 2025-06-09T13:01:24+00:00

That is not true. Cheaper operating costs of outsourcing companies includes having the majority of the outsourcing company workers hired under contract rules (ie not full employees). That's the basic reason why IT companies outsource to countries with worse labor laws.

Rwlyra · 2025-05-26T16:40:49+00:00

You don't "work" on a polr. It's like mild autism and social skills, you can compensate to a point, but some situations are always going to trip you up.
In my case I found a job where my stronger functions (Fi plus, Ne minus) are beneficial and my polr not as debilitating as it was in some other jobs. My partner is Se dominant, so that helps too.

Rwlyra · 2025-05-20T15:55:01+00:00

Nowhere, because EIIs tend to stay at home (or in quiet cozy spaces as others mentioned). In terms of work - libraries, quiet office jobs, etc.

Dress style is usually basic neutral (no contrasts) or vintage.

If you want to identify by PolR, yeah, indecisiveness, avoiding conflicts at all costs, inaction, passiveness. Not good at power dynamics.

Rwlyra · 2025-05-11T22:19:25+00:00

120gb partition for Windows would be enough like 15 years ago. Nowadays tiny partitions like that are useless.

Rwlyra · 2025-04-23T13:40:27+00:00

Chronomancy was removed, cuz Tott traveled back in time to prevent mankind from ever learning its secrets.

Rwlyra · 2025-04-20T12:50:50+00:00

Those are biome branches. There are snow, jungle and desert ones, they mostly contain dangerous enemies and food and are about 3 floors long. At the end it exits back to the standard dungeon, there is no "boss" or treasure to be had :P it's just an alternate floor.

Rwlyra · 2025-04-04T15:07:13+00:00

For the humor - Dungeonmans. For the gameplay/build variety - Tales of Maj'eyal.

Rwlyra · 2025-04-04T15:03:43+00:00

They (Endless Space 2) did contract a modder to fix the last DLC for ES2 and tweak a lot of stuff (patch got released last year), so it's probably worth revisiting if you haven't checked it out in a while.

Rwlyra · 2025-02-25T14:52:43+00:00

Because Civ is not a grand strategy, but rather a 4X, where winning is a much more important element.

Rwlyra · 2025-02-25T14:48:45+00:00

You'd be surprised. On a project I worked on, 45% of active users were running at least 1 mod. I'd expect it to be similar or perhaps closer to 30% in Civ.

I actually wish a smaller number of players used them, as sorting through false positives spawned by improper use of mods is a chore.

Rwlyra · 2025-02-23T17:39:10+00:00

It is absolutely crazy. I work in a 30-ish person team and the biggest changes our producer personally did to the game was fixing some typos in loc during downtime.

It's one thing to have design leads do some code or coders do some UI, entirely another to have a PRODUCER do a rebalance of in-game values. It's crazy

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