I still think it’s crazy that the same guy who created Wikipedia also founded Fandom, and I believe is still involved. Considering what Wikipedia is and its utility, it almost seems like an incompatible ideology to have anything to do with both at the same time. I guess he’s got to make money somehow…

Meanwhile, Xbox Series S/X:

This gives off Twitch Plays Pokemon energy. I love it.

I’ve been following this saga since the headlines were prefixed with “Teen that created the Elon private jet tracker…”. I wouldn’t be surprised to find out he’s now been married 50 years and long-retired. I’ve lost track of time.

So…does this mean the cage match is still on?

I still need to get around playing the DLC but I feel like I’d need to watch a video to get caught up on the story. That said, yeah, the gameplay and story is absolutely incredible. Perfectly-executed mystery box.

It’s just a bummer that most tech tutorials are on there…wish we were back in the early 00s when alternatives to Youtube were still viable.

This kind of thing makes me so angry. If the game is so old, how is it hurting anyone to reverse engineer it and keep its tiny group of fans happy. I know the answer. It’s rhetorical.

I can’t believe it’s only 11 years old. It already felt like it had a lot of history when I played it back in 2012.

I just hope they’re done acquiring publishers after ATVI; they have enough studios. I get how unlikely that is.

Google’s infamous graveyard makes it seem like they’re just a bored university student that can’t ever finish its side projects.

This is hilarious. I hope their code is literally something like

if (user.pref == hate("andrew tate") 
{ 
    user.is = "communist";
}

I wouldn’t even be mad.

I use Mastadon as a Twitter replacement, even though it still can see other content. I like how there’s not an apparent algorithm–it’s all chronological and feels less pandering to what it thinks I want to see.

As for Reddit alternatives, I’m happy with Beehaw and Kbin. I hope they both stick around.

Yeah and we can all knock their sports division all we want but it brought in money. With this change and in the possible outcome that they’re not out to be bought, we’ll have to see if the originals side will become a lot more risk-averse and pivot more into the GaaS market than they already were.

I’m interested to see where this goes.

The cynical side of me says they’re doing this to sell one of the halves off to one of the other publishers. The optimist in me hopes this leads to one more publisher in this space; we sorely need less consolidation.

Mine seems to be defending the idea, so I’m looking to move soon just not sure where anymore or when. It’s frustrating because it’s hard to find any actual positions he actually has on this topic when his timeline is just endless boosts giving people props for defending this. indieweb.social if anyone is curious.

Same. Normally I go into huge games with lots of player agency with a walkthrough sitting next to me because I want the ‘perfect ending’. I think with this one I’m just going to get lost in it and whatever happens happens. It looks so good.

It might make sense for me to wait until I get to 50 as well. After I read these awesome suggestions, I went into the game and it looks like it would cost me $26,000 just to respec. I don’t like that the game makes experimentation prohibitive, but then again I don’t know how precious money drops will get heading into end game.

Druids are cool! My buddy plays one but I always feel better when he’s in the party due to the sheer tank. At least I think the bear ability is tanky.

Yeah I need to be less shy about respecs–I’ve stuck with the same one since the start. I really dig that AOE build for Rogue in that link you sent. Looks like I got a couple of experiments I could try tonight.

Oh my god this looks incredible haha. Not that poison isn’t viable (I’ve been struggling), but this actually looks like it would even help me while playing solo. Going to give this a shot, thank you.