GasBandit
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BROUGHT TO YOU BY RAID SHADOW LEGENDS?!
Random Video Game Crap
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Archipelago is kind of the next version of Super Metroid Zelda 3, which is the same concept but specifically with those two games. The reason THAT specific combination works without a server is because Super Metroid and Zelda: A Link to the Past were originally designed to be sold on the same cart, kinda like the old Super Mario/Duck Hunt combo on the NES, but it was abandoned at some point and both were sold separately. There's not conflicting file structure or information on either of the two games to prevent cross pollination of items, so it was eventually made possible due to fan efforts.
This reminds me of @GasBandit's insanely wide assortment of chests that were near meticulously labeled in Grounded.
GasBandit
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Oh buddy, you should have seen my workshop in valheim.
What, you organized all your assistants by cup size?
Or am I thinking of the wrong game?
That's probably Conan Exiles you were thinking of.
GasBandit
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Well, yes, that too... but I also had over 100 meticulously organized and labeled containers for specific items.
Unfortunately, I can't go back to Conan now because my favorite modder has quit the Conan Exiles modding scene in protest at the direction the game devs are going.
That affects both my ability to customize my harem thrall workforce, AND my quality of life organizational mods.
This is what it felt like playing Valheim with you guys.
I wish I could go back to 7 Days to Die too, but then they hired that sex pest to voice a character WAY after all that stuff was out in the open, so I kinda just don't want to support it anymore?
I genuinely miss Conan Exiles, because it did so much right and perfectly fulfilled the premise of it's franchise, but had to stop because I was doing like 8 hour sessions every day. What's going on with Exiles that is an issue now?
My guess would be "Funcom being Funcom".
I am still extremely salty about what they did to The Secret World.
Dave
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In Soulmask you can make a "dump chest" where a thrall will take everything out of it and put it in the chest it belongs in. Then, crafters can go take mats out from the mats chest and build. And when YOU build you build directly from chests. Soulmask does a lot wrong but they do this perfectly right.
Dave
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Soulmask is Conan if they actually cared enough to fix Conan. Did I mention I like Soulmask?
GasBandit
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I did quite enjoy building all those slut huts. But last time I checked the mod situation in valheim was also pretty eeegh in the wake of the Ashlands release. Maybe it's time to check on it again... But I can't go back to playing without auto deposit, auto fuel, and craft from containers mods.There's always VAAAAAALHEIIIIIIMMMM!
I've been kinda getting a hankering for Grounded again. I never finished it. But that hankering also comes with the temptation to start from scratch again, as I often do with games like that.
I don't want to agree, but I have to agree.
These publishers are basically stating/admitting here that their preferred desire for a game is for it to disappear entirely from existence rather than that the game eventually hit a point where they stop making money from it. This would be like J. R. R. Tolkien's descendants forcing The Lord of the Rings to only be printed on rolls of toilet paper, and then ceasing production of new copies after 4 years BUT then fighting anyone who tries to keep their crappy "Extra Soft" editions from disintegrating before future generations get to experience it.
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Exactly. Whatever the idea, if it doesn't make a billionaire richer, it isn't allowed to happen. If software is "out of print," you can't have it because it won't put money in a publisher's pocket. It must stop existing if it isn't profitable.
“The works of the roots of the vines, of the trees, must be destroyed to keep up the price, and this is the saddest, bitterest thing of all. Carloads of oranges dumped on the ground. The people came for miles to take the fruit, but this could not be. How would they buy oranges at twenty cents a dozen if they could drive out and pick them up? And men with hoses squirt kerosene on the oranges, and they are angry at the crime, angry at the people who have come to take the fruit. A million people hungry, needing the fruit- and kerosene sprayed over the golden mountains. And the smell of rot fills the country. Burn coffee for fuel in the ships. Burn corn to keep warm, it makes a hot fire. Dump potatoes in the rivers and place guards along the banks to keep the hungry people from fishing them out. Slaughter the pigs and bury them, and let the putrescence drip down into the earth.
There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange. And coroners must fill in the certificate- died of malnutrition- because the food must rot, must be forced to rot. The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get the dumped oranges, but the kerosene is sprayed. And they stand still and watch the potatoes float by, listen to the screaming pigs being killed in a ditch and covered with quick-lime, watch the mountains of oranges slop down to a putrefying ooze; and in the eyes of the people there is the failure; and in the eyes of the hungry there is a growing wrath. In the souls of the people the grapes of wrath are filling and growing heavy, growing heavy for the vintage.”
― John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
This is why he's the Big Boss.
Not only that, we're living in the kind of brave new world where even the Piranha Plant can get it.
What a time to be alive.
(do you know how long it took me to find a sfw version? longer than you'd like!)
Having principles:
Chasing algorithms:
I was going to go with a thumbs up and thumbs down, but those aren't options. I thought they were for some reason.
GasBandit
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Nah, i looked them up, the guy is just a anti-woke panderer.Chasing algorithms:
Right now they're all spinning DA: Veilguard as still a likely failure since it didn't get as many concurrent players as Wukong/Monster Hunter/SM2, even though it's #1 on the Steam sales lists.... I wonder what they'll pivot to if the sales keep up and it's a success.
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Ahhh, my mistake. I was looking for generic hand symbols like on my smart phone.
