TheOctonaut

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[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 16 points 1 month ago (10 children)

There's a height on your driving license?

I've never seen one on a passport.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

At a Limp Bizkit concert, possibly

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 37 points 2 months ago

Well the more appropriate term is "gravid".

Although there are many species of fish that give live birth and therefore are usually described as pregnant.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

No, why you got fired does not in fact affect your need to eat food and house your family, so it's not a factor.

And if you are "laid off", ie the company says they don't need your job anymore, you are usually entitled to a pretty nice redundancy payment too - plus the usual.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 75 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Also... what awesome displays? Does he think knight armour in museums has bones inside it?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz -3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

lol.

What in the history of electronic entertainment makes you think that they're done with doing the shitty thing now that they stopped doing it once?

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 23 points 3 months ago (4 children)

If I remember correctly, yes. There was a pain in the ass a few years ago when Firefox switched from their own add-on system to one that matched Chrome's, despite Firefox's being more powerful and mature. The goal was to make it easier to port Chromes (arguably) greater variety of add-ons to Firefox.

It was an unpopular decision and it was the start of a downward decline for Firefox. People that had their browser "just the way I like it" found themselves starting fresh essentially, and without some of their favourite add-ons.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 39 points 3 months ago

The number of people that do this is not going to even remotely shift the usage share percentage.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

While it's nice to have a development team that doesn't have to chase every single possible dollar, and they might go on to make something even better, that final 10% part isn't true.

With the game engine itself now finished, tested by millions of people, a huge amount of work has been done that feels wasted. Putting content into a game engine not only isn't the hardest part (maybe is the most creative part, which can be... hard) but also is usually different people than the ones that create the engine. The engine itself literally has the content split such that another story can be dropped into it.

Maybe mods can pick that up if the process of adding a story get documented?

Maybe their next game will use the same engine, probably with tweaks if some of it is D&D fixated. So maybe rather than make a new D&D game they are starting from 70% into an un-chained RPG game. As an audience it is possible to be both disappointed by the decision not to create more of a thing we love and understanding and supportive of it at the same time. Music fans deal with this all the time. They've obviously earned a lot of trust.

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 17 points 4 months ago

"Rust Belt" isn't literal, it refers to an area of the US where industrial manufacturing declined significant in the second half of the 20th century. It's called that in part at least because its previous moniker was "Steel Belt".

[–] TheOctonaut@mander.xyz 7 points 4 months ago

He's a WWE Hall of Famer. I would not be surprised if he was blading.

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