The hardware makes it sound like it will still be $1 000 minimum. Mayhaps more with everything going on.

The article didn’t say their stance on opening the device. Does it void warranty to upgrade or repair?

They replaced the art later, but shouldn’t the bar be high like this? Otherwise, the caution won’t be there. It also could be abused, like games only getting adjusted post-launch if a certain measure of success hits. Plus the final product is not the only part of matters in the was-AI-used discussion, it is also about the process. If AI is the product of stolen human artwork being fed into a machine, and then that machine is used during creation, then AI has been used in the process that led to the final product no less than the concept art that may not be seen in game but was important in steering the ship.

Maybe someone can share their thoughts though. I’m still formulating mine and this is where I am at the moment.

I once got in trouble because the phishing test talked about a bonus and we had only just a month prior had our annual pay increase become an annual decrease against inflation. I emailed HR, basically calling it bullshit. They did not like that. I did not like them.

I didn’t get canned, despite a few more HR visits for each their own thing, but I don’t work there anymore. It really changed my perspective on what a good job is: as few people above you as possible and as unchanging as possible. Good jobs become bad jobs real quick.

/end-semi-rant

I know almost 0 about Hytale. I played a lot of Minecraft but never interacted with their stuff. I also never got into minigames outside of the old school Mob Arena plugin.

All that said, this looks really cool to me. I’ve wanted to see something build upon the foundation of Minecraft. Now even more so with MS murdering developers left and right at the alter of AI. I have looked at Vintage Story a few times at length, but each time I walk away thinking it looks way too hardcore for me.

I used to use a username, for like 10+ years, but had a “personality” use the same name and become popular. That was before Twitch blew up, so I can’t imagine it is any less common now. I saw in the Hytale FAQ that they will claw back names that popular users use. I get it, but also it is strange. I guess that is the world today, everyone wants to be a brand.

I think you just noted why they compared them. Both were huge.

Kinda sad to see the state of them now.

Did you enable all the DLC? Maybe you didn’t the first time. I made the mistake of playing it for the first time with everything, and some of the DLC gives you all your powers/etc right away I believe. It has been years but I remember this really bummed me out rather than unlocking things as I went.

I could be remembering wrong, but I think it just hands you a lot of unlockables almost right away. I recall feeling like it killed some of the excitement that would have been there.

Someone with more recent memory can help me out. I just remember being powerful super quick.

I did the same on my desktop. I haven’t bought a laptop in forever though and idk what to do about them all having an AI key now.

Fair enough. I will keep it in mind. :)

I responded to his comment about the Birthright setting with a video on the Birthright setting. I suppose I could have been more clear, but I definitely did respond to someone and did not post at random.

Funny thing, there was a 2e setting called Birthright, which pretty much made the game about developing land as a lord, rather than dungeon delving

Oh. I just learned about this. I have no involvement in this channel but this video was neat. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsGk9M-4dq4

I also see the Kingdom Two Crowns + Bad North bundle there for 80% off and that is nice as well.

I’ve never played either the original or its DLC. Does it get any more weird west outside of zombies?

How much couch money do I need to acquire Westwood’s NoX out of this?

I’ve wondered something related and maybe someone here knows. When using breeze dark and shake shake in Plasma, it seems still pretty sharp even when becoming massive. However using other themes, (like Layan) and shake shake, you see it get quite blurry as it gets bigger.

It has just been a curiosity of mine.

I feel like a guide site is very likely to get scraped up by AI. People just typing in “How to repair buildings in Worshippers of Cthulhu” and getting their answer without ever knowing who wrote it out originally. I hope the best for them. I think it’s a cool endeavor.

I’m not sure that you can get wallpaper engine running. Maybe someone else can say otherwise, but I wouldn’t trust second hand.

Oh for sure my confidence is way low. I don’t do much early access stuff and CU would definitely not be an exception.

I want good things for it is all. Seeing a video drop is nice, if only to show a sign of life.

I’ll try it when it comes out. I really got hooked by Warhammer Online mostly until it closed (now alive again).

I never backed it, but I never felt Jacob’s as anyone bad. He put his own money in and I believe they did considerable refunds after a while. Maybe a bit misguided with whatever that spinoff game was. Warhammer Online tried the same thing after he had already left, with Wrath of Heroes.

If it is fun PvP, I’ll be there. I hope they popularize something new again. I feel like many games have some version of public quests now.

I would be extremely surprised if they don’t find a way to get more money out of it. Cosmetics for sure. Perhaps quests at some point. I feel like full expansions are kinda dead though and certainly out of scope, as isn’t just the normal game in an Unreal 5 wrapping?

I play ESO, and love it, but I have been shaken down too aggressively to trust.