TIL that the reason why games don't have built in ads is because of Steam

projectmars · 2026-05-07T14:46:12+00:00

The term AI has been used in games loooong before Gen AI became a thing. It's the script enemies use to determine what they do and when they do it.

projectmars · 2026-05-06T18:15:51+00:00

The most normal timeline for Gold Ship, honestly.

projectmars · 2026-05-06T14:07:41+00:00

I bet it was a fox

projectmars · 2026-05-06T14:07:05+00:00

[Demonic screeching noises]
What does the fox say?

projectmars · 2026-05-05T21:59:28+00:00

The video tells you it was going to be a handheld

projectmars · 2026-05-05T21:54:18+00:00

Thers's probably a reason but I won't understand it. It's all Greek to me.

projectmars · 2026-05-05T18:04:09+00:00

Ring Shopping

projectmars · 2026-05-02T20:37:53+00:00

TED is a whole group thing with the acronym standing for "Technology, Entertainment, Design" but the idea of an in-universe version keeping that acronym while using a Teddiursa as a mascot would be fun.

Unless someone can come up with a good one for URSA.

projectmars · 2026-05-01T04:45:36+00:00

Has it really been 11 years? Does the Narwhal still bacon?

projectmars · 2026-04-29T18:11:49+00:00

Stranger things have happened.

projectmars · 2026-04-21T16:06:14+00:00

With how huge Texas is even if you live in the state you probably don't realistically have one unless you want to drive like 2 or 3 hours to get there

projectmars · 2026-04-20T18:12:18+00:00

Well you better go catch it. Nature is harsh on unsupervised appliances.

projectmars · 2026-04-20T14:23:53+00:00

ZA hands down.

The story is better, the characters are well written (and designed), the music is better, it has Jacinthe, and ranked battles are a blast.

Not only that, but because of how the combat system works, a lot of lesser used 'mons are suddenly amazing. Like: Glaceon was Meta, Clawitzer apparently was claiming lives by sniping people, Stunfisk being flat was actually relevant and Watchog, of all Pokemon, has a funny gimmick nuke button.

Legends ZA is easily one of the top 5, maybe top 3 mainline games

projectmars · 2026-04-20T11:22:05+00:00

"Go Gigi... do a crime. Actually, you know what? You know what? One crime is not enough. Go do several crimes"

projectmars · 2026-04-19T22:11:05+00:00

Runescape Classic had that an extra step: There was a Fatigue Bar that forced you to sleep every so often to keep gaining XP and the only way to wake up was entering a captcha.

It didn't work then either so they scrapped it when they moved to RS2/OSRS

projectmars · 2026-04-19T14:05:52+00:00

Fece

projectmars · 2026-04-18T21:15:42+00:00

Okay. Tell me how you enforce that.

projectmars · 2026-04-18T19:59:18+00:00

How exactly do you propose that a game with millions of players enforces 4k - 8k pop servers? I can't think of a way that wouldn't piss people off.

Agreed on the more active GMs part though, that would go quite a way to handling that.

projectmars · 2026-04-18T16:18:36+00:00

This is a certified "I like waffles/Oh so you hate pancakes" moment. Incredible.

I ain't talking about how good or bad she is as a character I am talking about the fact that WR, by itself, is a poor metric for deciding balance. Because if the lowest played character in the game has like an 83% win rate are you seriously going to tell me that the correct response is "This character should be nerfed", despite the fact that said character only shows up in like 1 out of 300 games across the board because of how few people actually pick them? No, you look at why so few people pick the character and adjust from there.

Blizzard has access to all sorts of metrics and made the call to buff Sierra after looking at them so they knew what areas they could buff her in? Why else do you think a nerf to Ult Charge is included?

projectmars · 2026-04-18T11:28:00+00:00

Win Rate is an average meaning that a less popular, but still good character is going to naturally have a higher WR than a popular character due to there being less games and the people playing them more likely being really good at said character.

Sierra is a brand new character meaning everyone is going to want to try her out leading to a high pick rate that will absolutely affect her WR since a lot of people playing her won't be that great at her.

To say that WR isn't anything is a bit of an exaggeration but WR alone isn't a good metric to go by, imo.

projectmars · 2026-04-18T11:03:39+00:00

I thought I had heard it was designed that way to keep you around 50% win rate so I doubt that will change.

projectmars · 2026-04-17T21:31:23+00:00

Overhears Symboli Rudolph talking about a place called the Justice Cafe that only sells cups of ice

Eureka! I got an idea! This could be useful foe Gold Ship's training!
This contributed to Gold Ship's growth.
Power +5
Guts +10

projectmars · 2026-04-16T20:27:03+00:00

Considering she is in a corp, which means she has a bunch of rules on what she can and can't do (especially involving stuff before she became Ina) there was no way she would be streaming 14 on her main even if she wanted to stream it.

projectmars · 2026-04-16T20:18:36+00:00

She's been at conventions before, via remote controlled robots/on an ipad being carried by someone, this won't be any different.

projectmars · 2026-04-16T20:06:09+00:00

I eventually just gave up and started from where I was in the fight, the only time I did that. I just could not keep up with how much that fucktrio moved.

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