Can electroplasma be used to spin a turbine? Asking for a friend.

I find it hard to believe that imperial china didnt invade anyone between 598 ad and 1912

Have a drink with ice. Hands down that and air conditioning would be my top two missed conveniences if I went back in time.

You only get one master ball, so use it on a rare and difficult to catch Pokemon like Fearow!

Don’t really know much about Jimmy Cliff but I know that he has one of the funniest Space Ghost Coast to Coast appearances RIP

prominent female characters

This is the next question I’ve got, maybe the bulk of the difference is in minor NPCs who have 1-3 lines of dialogue each.

wild to think that x-2, xiii and xiii-2 all have more male than female dialogue, makes me think that maybe there’s an error in the data.

yeah and this is just a port of JFK Reloaded anyway

IMO there have definitely been multiple attempts at HL3 but they’ve all been derailed. Like Half Life: Alyx was probably imagined as HL3 at some point in its development before getting turned into the Valve Index console exclusive.

The aesthetic just doesn’t work for me. It’s too… gritty? realistic? Brown? idk how to describe it. I had the same issue with Concord. The proportions are right in the uncanny valley for me.

TF2 and OW both really work for me, they’re cartoony in just the right way. Same for Valorant. But the only one of those with gameplay that I like is TF2.

There’s a sweet spot with internet forums, and the exact number varies by community, but every forum I’ve ever been on got shit after getting too big.

Hang on, is CoD a Metal Gear-esque fever dream of supernatural opponents and dreamlike scenarios now? I might actually check it out if that’s the case.

Not really interested in the Machine but the Controller v2 and the Frame look absolutely perfect. Especially that controller - every single annoyance about the v1 seems to have been addressed, from the lack of a real D pad to the ease of accidentally touching the trackpad without meaning to.

Unfortunately for Valve, I’m the type of person who will continue using my Index and Controller v1 until they literally disintegrate in my hands, which hasn’t happened yet because they made them so high quality in the first go around, so I probably won’t be buying either for a while if ever.

Crypto is banned in most of China, but it isn’t banned in Hong Kong, and based on my very brief search is seems that LuBian (the miners that were stolen from) stopped mining in 2021 when the general Chinese ban came down, but this hack occurred in 2020 when they were still active. So in terms of crypto theft this is ancient news either way, but if the news is credible I’m guessing its only coming out now because it was a long investigation.

But if one of those characters wears a wetsuit instead of a bikini in her summer skin, you might accidentally spark a civil war.

“woman with a sword” genre continues to be a big hit with the people who actually buy video games instead of complaining about them on twitter, more at eleven.

No… that’s not true… that’s impossible!

Someone saying this could either mean:

a) There are so many indie games being made by passionate devs with interesting ideas that you could play a new one every day and never run out

or

b) graphics have never been better (thanks to record levels of dev crunch)

I feel like it’s a good time to be a non-publicly traded company these days. No private equity coming for you, no incoherent demands from investors who can only see one quarter into the future.

Has Valve ever put out statements about their intent to leverage ai/nfts/crypto? I mean they kind of invented their own with the CSGO marketplace and that has all of the problems you would expect, but the fact that they don’t thoughtlessly chase every trend to impress the stockholders is a pretty big indicator of their stability.

lame people: there are too many magic items in d&d, everything’s a monty haul campaign

cool people: haha fire sword go brr

i had a game once where every player showed up with a broom of flight. 10/10 game it basically turned into touhou