This is kinda long and kinda vague: I had a meeting recently with some devs/artists to discuss an upcoming project.

In short, the meeting went poorly. I stood alone against everyone else on the design/direction things were going to be headed.

I was tired and frustrated and walked away basically saying I’m not going to support any of it.

After mulling it over for a day, I felt I was too harsh and unreasonable. I reached back out and apologized and asked to give this one more try.

Well they didn’t accept. I guess that bridge is too scorched to go back on. It wasn’t until that point that I realized I really messed this one up.

Dinnede looks very delicious.

I’ve never heard of grilled stickies before but they look delicious.

Around here I’d say beef brisket sandwich with sweet BBQ sauce.

… And of course a Dr. Pepper.

It seems strange but that feels weirdly clever?

I made some homemade blackberry lemonade and it came out pretty good.

I don’t know why but this doesn’t really read like ‘oh I just found this game’ and seems more like a straight up ad to me.

I probably have the details wrong but this is basically what Pornhub was asking for in the US when individual states started restricting porn sites.

Regardless, I don’t like the idea of a nanny state.

I don’t know why, but I feel like Capcom is just going to offer more DLC instead.

Hmm I don’t think I get this one.

Is it because its in a cage? I don’t think that will do much to block the WiFi antenna.

Hmm. On second thought, maybe games were a mistake.

The only recent example I can think of is Death Stranding.

I go to lunch to get away from coworkers. I need that little bit of time to recharge.

There’s definitely weird people making games on itch and sometimes in the depths of Steam.

By its very definition weird isn’t going to sell to mass market. That being said I do agree that we need more weird AAA or AA games.

They kept rebalancing to chase the hardcore PvPers wants who ended up leaving anyways, started getting pushy with their microtransactions/battle pass (that were added in an update), and they added their Funcom launcher in an update.

Above all of that is there are still some ugly persistent bugs that have been huge problems for years now, many involving thralls which are pretty much required for late game content.

I won’t say Funcom did the worst job or anything that far, but they definitely put me in a ‘wait and see’ state for at least the first few major patches, as that will show what direction they want to take the game and who they’re focusing on for feedback.

This is a funky opinion, but I’m holding off on it because of how they handled Conan Exiles.

I suspect we will see a human brain to digital interface. I don’t think it will be “downloading minds” or anything, but I could see someone finding a way to plug a specialized camera or mic in to have a full functioning robotic replacement part.

I’m pretty sure they already have the beginning pieces to this, but its too specialized and expensive to do anything commercial with it yet.

I’d probably sell it. There is undoubtedly someone with a project truck looking for a deal on one of those.

Might be fun to rebuild but I’d imagine it’ll be in the way more than anything.

The artist who the AI stole this from has a cool vibe*