Bait used to be believable.

Paint.NET (note: not their URL sadly) is simple and will get the job done for 99% of your meme needs. I find Krita and alternatives are harder to use for simple edits because they’re designed for more complex tasks.

There certainly was a trend early on when vtubers were just high pitched “cutsey” girls but thankfully it was properly broken a while ago. It’s such a shame that it tainted the concept for a lot of people, when there’s plenty of men and women now who are just regular content creators that don’t want to show their face.

There are dozens of us! Dozens!!

I really hope Bigscreen manage to bring the cost down of their small headset because an affordable and comfy one might renew interest. It’s still very much an underexplored medium!

There’s been an interesting development; Krafton have responded with some pretty direct claims and the founders are suing.

TL;DR the most important claim seems to be

In particular, following the failure of Moonbreaker, KRAFTON asked Charlie to devote himself to the development of Subnautica 2. However, instead of participating in the game development, he chose to focus on a personal film project.

Ever since the Doom Eternal Mick Gordon situation there has been several more controversies (Bayonetta’s VA pay comes to mind) where it seems the first person to make the claim is hiding something. Is it an attempt to control the narrative? It has always backfired so far so we’ll see if that trend continues.

Hi, someone who does make games here!

Whilst there are some concerns with the interpretability of the movement, the reasoning I have seen pirate software give comes across as disingenuous. He explains the worst possible reading, and dismisses the entire movement rather than help guiding it in the right direction like someone in his position could do.

The real reason people are mad at him is because he made some unnecessarily rude comments about the organiser and the movement as a whole, which was incredibly unprofessional and made a lot of people feel betrayed by openly siding with the same big studios that many people feel cheated by right now.

If you happen to have any questions, feel free to reach out! This is an incredibly passionate subject for both players and developers alike, but a lot gets lost in the crossfire :)

Oh god I remember watching the 2019 anime but getting really confused a few episodes in because things just seemed off and like I was missing something. When I searched for it the next day on the site I was using showed the 1998 OVA “series”, and I thought it might provide the context I was missing. And oh boy it certainly did, just not in the way I expected…

Never knew it had such a big role in Visual Novel history. That’s cool to learn!

I’ll say it a million times: they tried to copy several games but ignored the development structure that made them successful: release a minimum version and work on it alongside the community.

A lot of people saw this coming since when they announced that they were completely restarting development of their engine.

They let perfect be the enemy of good enough and so not a single build ever saw public release.

Oh my god I had completely forgotten about that game!! I vaguely recall being taught some exploit that trivialised it but it was so fun to come back to every now and again.

Of course nothing should be inflexible, but I’m just saying there’s no reason for every campaign to be derailed completely. If your players are actively going against the scenario something’s gone wrong. And yeah, if you give them the opportunity to do something, be prepared for it to happen and roll with the consequences.

Unless you play low level John Does every time, characters should know stuff about the world they’ve lived in their whole lives. And if none of that ties into the scenario are you playing a campaign or in a sandbox?

If everyone’s on the same page and wanting to play out a story, seeing how your characters and world changes in response to things not playing out as expected is part of the fun. It should never truly derail unless someone is trying intentionally to, in which case you need to talk about it. Or you got complacent and dangled a campaign altering thing too close for them to resist…

I was the same! I think it was the Egyptian inspired series where one of the characters asked about what happens when people who don’t believe in anything die. Even though I don’t remember the exact answer, the feeling of oblivion has stuck with me ever since.

I’d still like to believe that all the gods are actually having a giant battle for supremacy though lol.