Looks INCREDIBLE, what kind is it?

• NetEase isn’t the one who’d care, it’s Disney/Marvel.

• I have no idea why you think that changes anything. And I have no idea what you’re saying with the second sentence

Hey man, you can’t do this to me on a Sunday morning. I’ve been a pie>cake guy my whole life and now you have me questioning everything.

Neck and it’s not even close

Not doubting it but is there a source besides Bluesky? I know he’s a game journalist but I can’t link a quote

Banning custom models is pretty standard for competitive games…and for good reason. Anyone else remember the Counter Strike models with giant spikes sticking out of them that would clip through walls?

Add to that the recent Nexus Mods “controversey,” can you blame them for not wanting to be seen as the game where Trump can punch Obama in the face?

Then why say it’s sad that people were outraged

Did you read the article…?

Did anyone upvoting this even read the article?!

Surprise, confusion, and excitement are not outrage.

This is the actual woke mind virus. Turns out it wasn’t a virus making people woke, it was a virus making Republicans obsessed with a word they don’t understand

If you like ITB, check out their other game FTL…and while you’re at it, check out Cobalt Core which was one of my favorite games of last year (even though it’s from 2023)

I’ll recommend Frostpunk and Frostpunk 2, too, but they’re a different kind of strategy to what you’ve posted.

Have you ever heard of a joke or are those banned on .ml too?

It IS a logical fallacy and it predates the US…

What’s the name for the logical fallacy when you attribute a type of logical fallacy to the country that happened to name it?

Sure, but then I’m still using discord’s servers. And it’s very unlikely I’d be convincing anyone until Discord screws up bad on something that affects them

No, it’s not because life without Instagram is sad. Read the other reply for a real reason. People stay on platforms to keep in touch with others and those others do the same.

It’s only “generational” because half the world didn’t grow up with the Internet as their primary form of communication. But I’m against that label because it’s true for anyone who uses a service a lot.

I would LOVE to stop using Discord but there’s no way I’m convincing all my friends to run two chat programs (Matrix for me, Discord for their other friends)

I’m with you there on AAA games but I think there’s been another shift happening you didn’t mention, too - people realizing that indie games with “bad” graphics can be extremely fun which cuts into the AAA sales.

Don’t kill me but I think the next huge breakthrough in gaming is going to involve AI, not graphics…but it’s not going to come from a major studio. Some dedicated group of developers are going to figure out how to use advanced LLMs in an RPG to allow players to go beyond the main storyline.

With all due respect, I feel like you’re only thinking of Marvel films if you think CGI has become noticeably worse since Avatar. I’m very confident you’ve watched movies with fully CG characters in scenes and didn’t notice they weren’t real - something not possible a decade earlier

Which is why I put “peak” in quotes. They’re more like spikes in capability. The techniques developed for Avatar (virtual cinematography for one) are widely used today, they’re just not the focus like in a movie about giant blue humanoids on an alien planet.

The next major innovation will become the standard and we’ll think the same thing. “Man, nothing has blown me away like [movie that invented something]”

If it’s stationary, the temperature doesn’t matter. Well…it probably does at SOME temperature but the issue I’m referring to is flexing the cable when it’s brittle.

I moved to the pre-install engineering side of things so I don’t have to run it anymore but it was a dream to work with over CAT6A

The original film used tons of technology and techniques that had never been tried before. It was a truly innovative film for special effects.

No shade to the prequels, their graphics just weren’t a huge leap. Not to say they’re bad or that there was no innovation! If I remember correctly, Jar Jar was a pretty big deal for the industry.

The reaction to Phantom Menace might have been “Wow that looked great!” but for A New Hope it was “HOW THE HELL DID THEY DO THAT???”

When Star Wars was released, people said technology had peaked because it was such a huge jump in quality. Similar things were said about Avatar for the same reason. Both films are notable for inventing new technology to fulfill the vision.

I’m just saying (and I mean it encouragingly!) there will come a time when Avatar looks dated. We’ll be marveling at things we can hardly fathom today

I suppose so but I did specifically say technology can peak multiple times, not a franchise