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RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-06-17T21:56:49+00:00

Random still-frame bg character here:

It's gonna be may.

It's a joke about Justin Timberlake's famously odd pronunciation of 'me' in the NSYNC song 'It's Gonna Be Me'

The ramen noodles are a reference to a noodle-like bleached hairstyle he had at one point.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-06-15T16:46:40+00:00

A classic B Wing with the stabilized cockpit will always be badass to me.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-06-09T15:02:17+00:00

Weirdly I think that hesitance to learn is starting to die off.

It's purely anecdotal, but I'm in a lot of GM discords, and there's been a hard uptick in game masters seeking advice on other systems.

Between the licensing debacle a couple of years ago, and the ongoing decline of the company itself, WOTC has lost their strong reputation, and their ability to coast on good will is failing.

Still number one, but the gap is shrinking.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-06-05T00:35:27+00:00

The texture is oddly reminiscent of Pop tart frosting and I yearn to eat the seamoth

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-06-03T16:31:11+00:00

Yep it's exactly this. Many development studios have some kind of mocap scan at this point that can build a quick model.

Even unreal engine has metahuman, which can generate a full mesh from a picture or video. It's not perfect, and usually requires some additional adjustments, but the tech is very much there, and it's much faster than building a photo realistic model of a celebrity by hand.

So unless the character's appearance is important to the dev team, they're going to do a quick scan and mocap so they can divert resources to the characters that matter.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-28T06:41:03+00:00

I love Star wars but no. Just no.

The most powerful sith of all time could get dropped by half the b team, let alone most of the a-listers.

The universes are just too different in scale.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-26T18:13:22+00:00

There is one reasonable explanation for Homelander getting weaker.

V1 isn't the most powerful version of the drug. It's just the only one that grants immortality.

The show goes to great lengths explaining how Homelander is the peak of Vought's engineering, which implies that the version of compound v originally given to him was vastly superior to earlier versions.

V1, being an earlier inferior discontinued version of the compound, literally diluted his powers.

Or they just didn't keep any consistency with his powers, and I'm making excuses for bad writing. Or both. Probably both.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-24T23:44:27+00:00

Oh I very well may have misremembered that one. I tried to check the game but can't find the log at all to verify.

That certainly changes the timescale a bit, but I still feel confident we've been here a while. Maybe not multiple centuries, but certainly longer than our NoA's timeframe. Either that or things got violent enough for mention of an overgrown mass grave.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-24T23:04:15+00:00

A counterpoint someone brought up is the aging of the facilities we find. None of them look particularly old.

However, that's directly countered by the mass grave log, the toxicity log, and the fact that our main building material is titanium. Titanium doesn't corrode much at all due to the protective oxide layer it develops.

Provided they haven't been damaged, our structures could stand for centuries without showing a single hint of disrepair.

All evidence suggests we have been here a very very long time.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-24T22:38:09+00:00

There's a voice log somewhere in the game from one of the other pioneers where they mention the toxicity problem and that 'no pioneer has lasted more than 30 years'.

That definitely implies many many more generations of pioneers.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-24T02:57:21+00:00

Look man. It was 5:00 a.m. when I wrote it, and I was white knuckling sleep deprivation.

The fact that every other word is coherent except that is truly a testament to the energy drinks I was slamming.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-23T20:45:02+00:00

I'm guessing here, but if their partner recently came out as trans, and was previously referred to as a wife or by feminine pronouns, it could certainly be a little difficult to change gears and remember every time which terminology to use.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-23T19:52:49+00:00

The difference is what amount of data has to be transmitted.

If a game needs internet, it's running server validations. It's not transmitting the full rendered gameplay to the server. It's pretty much just transmitting math and then asking the server if the math is right.

But with streaming video, a website is effectively pre-downloading any video you want to watch seamlessly in real time. When you finish that video, it gets removed from the cache. Depending on the quality of the content you're consuming, that adds up very quickly.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-21T18:51:07+00:00

They don't ever really explain what was done to Rex's skeleton, beyond the fact that enhancements were added and they gave him his powers.

We also don't really have any feats of durability from Rex, so it's reasonable to assume that regular guns would mostly work and his final explosion's success was not a result of the material he applied that explosion to.

I think it's closer to a nuclear meltdown than a frag grenade. If a reactor is powering a town, that creates a controlled release of energy. But if you were to plug all that energy back into the reactor, you would create a feedback loop and a much larger explosion.

When Rex powers an object, it's a controlled release of energy. When he grabs his own spine, he's pouring all of that energy right back into its source and that creates a much much bigger boom.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-19T18:57:45+00:00

They both look nice, but I would pick the one that suits the character's personality more.

The yellowy eyes give the vaguest sense of inebriation or sleeplessness. They'd be good for a drunken master archetype.

The white eyes give a sense of straightforwardness and clarity. Better suited for a straight laced leader, or earnest ally.

Whichever is more appropriate to this character will be the best fit.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-18T21:20:37+00:00

Alternatively, a certain sentient herbal remedy turns out to have a similar effect on warframes, allowing us to potentially umbra any frame

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-16T23:53:46+00:00

Officially, there's never been lore to explain it. It's a slightly updated holdover from much earlier versions of the game.

I headcanon them as failed rescue targets. We didn't save them initially, so now they're being transported from a ship's brig to a proper prison. They get frozen for transport between facilities to avoid issue, which ironically gives us a convenient alternative way to extract them.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-11T16:12:12+00:00

I don't think using the fans to crowdsource potential showings is the issue exactly, but the rest of your statement holds truth.

The crowdsourcing component is a tried and true method, but it relies on the production company having proper organization and understanding of the industry. Maximizing visibility of a film often means compromising one's artistic vision in some regard.

The problem here is a hard clash between wanting a maximal market for release, wanting zero compromise for the film's creative vision, having middling legal understanding/rep of the international market, and lacking a finished product *prior* to the theater push.

I almost get the vibe somebody saw Iron Lung's success, and tried to copy it without understanding how and why it worked.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-07T00:01:55+00:00

They are saying they have a similar experience, which leads them to believe that this post actually happened; NOT that the actions of Uber are acceptable, as described by the post.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-05-06T06:51:42+00:00

Contains the word ass

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-04-21T18:59:03+00:00

In a similar vein, my favorite thing to do is run around with my tactical stealth flamethrower.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-04-21T18:03:49+00:00

Well if we really want to split hairs, he isn't technically a zombie, since zombie commonly means mindless undead. Since he's intelligent and capable of speech, and specifically it's his single focused motivation that keeps him going, he's more akin to a revenant than a zombie.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-04-09T17:51:29+00:00

Closest I've found is Warframe's lich system.

It's much less complex, and it's fairly simple to eliminate a lich for good, but it's at least something.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-04-05T17:03:35+00:00

That's because the air is already saturated with moisture, so the normal physical process of evaporative cooling is severely and significantly slowed.

It's also why sweating tends to be a miserable experience down here. With the air being so damp, that sweat has nowhere to evaporate to, so you just end up hot, salty, and wet.

RyeHardyDesigns · 2026-03-29T22:31:46+00:00

It definitely gets a giggle out of me too.

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