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Khanstant posted:Enough talk! Time for action. You're the union leader now for the videogames. I have joined this union and I'm an artist for the videogames now. My demands are don't get fired when we finish the videogames. I'm gonna roll in from 930 to 10 and leave from 5 to 6 depending on the vibes. As the union leader for video games I elect to kill all nerds and keep all the video games for myself
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counterfeitsaint posted:Isn't the video game industry known for considering 60 hours a week "light" and actually publishing a game is a lot like playing Russian roulette with your job security? Some AAA studios like Rockstar are like that. They actually contacted me for a release engineer position a few years ago, which I was fairly interested in, until the guy told me that 80 work weeks during crunch time are not atypical.  Boring, non-video game software is pretty chill though. As an extremely lazy person, it has my endorsement.
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jokes posted:As the union leader for video games I elect to kill all nerds and keep all the video games for myself Hell, what's my first job boss? I'm on board with this.
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Devils Affricate posted:Computer touchers haven't unionized because the the money still flows freely in that sector. Paying a fee for the privilege of engaging in collective bargaining isn't usually at the front of your mind when there's an endless supply of companies climbing over each other to pay you six figs to sit on your rear end all day. This will change with time of course, but currently it's a seller's market. there's benefits to collective negotiation/action other than just more figgies for example requiring X months' notice/pay for layoffs so people don't randomly get thrown out on their rear end when the CEO decides now's a good time to pump shareholder value or when a higher-up demands return-to-office for no good reason when a company's been working fine remote/hybrid for years, a union can push back on that
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I think video game development also has the option to become an indie developer, which is risky, but probably a lot easier for the individuals who want to be treated like people, but don't want to go through all the uphill battles of creating a union in an established, unionless industry. The Pinkertons are still around, and they can't spend all their time threatening nerds for unboxing magic cards!
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I just finished the first cycle on Baroque on Sega Saturn. It’s a cool looking game.
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I never customize my character beyond a cursory inspection. It doesn't matter to me what some dude on the screen looks like when 99% of the time I am looking at the back of them.
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Apr 25, 2024 06:32
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Waltzing Along posted:I never customize my character beyond a cursory inspection. It doesn't matter to me what some dude on the screen looks like when 99% of the time I am looking at the back of them. That's why you pick a lady char, gimme them pixel buuuuuutts
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Waltzing Along posted:I never customize my character beyond a cursory inspection. It doesn't matter to me what some dude on the screen looks like when 99% of the time I am looking at the back of them. I will slam a prebuilt default that looks ok every time for the off chance theres a zoom in on my build a characters face.
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SilvergunSuperman posted:That's why you pick a lady char, gimme them pixel buuuuuutts That’s the excuse we all use at first.
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I make all of my characters redheads because I am a red haired man and we need more representation in media I also name them all Borkus because its funny.
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Caesar Saladin posted:I also name them all Borkus because its funny. you're that gnome npc from BG3?
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Waltzing Along posted:I never customize my character beyond a cursory inspection. It doesn't matter to me what some dude on the screen looks like when 99% of the time I am looking at the back of them. Thats why I put the butt slider: 100% on all my twink characters.
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DontMockMySmock posted:you're that gnome npc from BG3? No but Borkus definitely saved Barcus, it was meaningful between them.
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Selecting from a dozen or so different preset faces and/or equivalent hair types is infinitely better than all these god drat sliders. Give me Jedi Jesus from KotOR2 or the Morrowind Lego-heads any day.
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People who don't slam the sliders all the way to make an IHOP funny face character are goofballs who are missing out. If you wanna look at pretty people go buy a fashion magazine.
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Pretty sure people were spending an extra long amount of time in the BG3 character creator because of all the stat/feat/spell/class/etc options, not because they were goofing around with the sliders.
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Devils Affricate posted:Pretty sure people were spending an extra long amount of time in the BG3 character creator because of all the stat/feat/spell/class/etc options, not because they were goofing around with the sliders. Video game crunch is nothing compared to 20hr D&D lvl 1 character creation sessions as you sit in a dim, smoky room comparing Hill dwarves and mountain dwarves proficiencies in woodwork vs stone carving.
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Waltzing Along posted:I never customize my character beyond a cursory inspection. It doesn't matter to me what some dude on the screen looks like when 99% of the time I am looking at the back of them. me spending 45 minutes tweaking the nose bridge length on my dark souls character's face only to wear a full helmet for 95% of the game
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Devils Affricate posted:Pretty sure people were spending an extra long amount of time in the BG3 character creator because of all the stat/feat/spell/class/etc options, not because they were goofing around with the sliders. BG3 barely even has those and they're not on the character creation screen anyway. It doesn't even give you a preview of later levels of your class. You just choose preset cosmetic options and pick a class and race iirc Then the feats in BG3's version of 5e are so poorly designed that there's only 1 worth picking and it's the one that just lets you add 2 attribute points. And there's only ever one attribute your character will care about.
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If you're playing a monk you want to take the tavern brawler feat ASAP. I can't imagine there is a class where none of the feats are important.
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Character creation is the best and I will happily spend 2 hours creating my character then restart after 30 minutes and spend another 2 hours because I decide I didn't like them.
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I am enjoying the System Shock remake very much. I never played the original, even though System Shock 2 is in the running for my favorite video game of all time. Creeping around with no hand-holding and getting talked down to by cyber-mommy is apparently still my jam.
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lol if you don't just mash random on the face maker until you get something euclidean
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Quote-Unquote posted:If you're playing a monk you want to take the tavern brawler feat ASAP. I can't imagine there is a class where none of the feats are important. Ability score improvement outclasses every other feat pretty much every time. Monks and throwers want tavern brawler, 2h-weapon-users want great weapon fighting, ranged-weapon-users want sharpshooter, two-weapon-users want whatever the two weapon fighting feat is called, and that's pretty much it. Every spellcaster feat sucks balls. So every character is gonna take 1-3 ASIs. Certainly on your main, party face character, there's never going to be anything that competes with +2 Charisma, especially if they're a warlock/sorcerer/bard.
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No love for Alert feat? +5 initiative and ignore ambushes is pretty great. Would still max my dex first.
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A lot of those ASIs are a theory craft waste because in the game you have gear and there's plenty of gear to just set your ability score to something great that saves you like 8 levels of levelup investment.
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Ability score improvement is boring and unnecessary for such an easy game. I only choose it when leveling one-time-use characters I don't give a gently caress about, like Wyll, who is only useful in one fight in act 3 for his arcane gate spell. Alert, sentinel, crossbow expert, mage slayer, lots of fun stuff. The only really pointless feats are the magic initiate ones and ritual caster. There's a lot of fun stuff in act 3 but I don't blame people for giving up on it, it no longer has the fun adventuring feel and there is way too much going on at once and you're surrounded by cops at all times.
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Khanstant posted:A lot of those ASIs are a theory craft waste because in the game you have gear and there's plenty of gear to just set your ability score to something great that saves you like 8 levels of levelup investment. It is still really powerful. And BG3 lets you reroll your characters stats for almost free. If you find STR 23 amulet late in game, you can just respec your fighter to STR 8 and use the freed points to max out CON/DEX instead. Or take a cool feat instead of ASI. On tabletop there's no Respec and wondrous items are not guaranteed to drop. Or if they drop, maybe other players want them too. ASIs are much safer bets.
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Overheard some non-gamer coworkers talking about fallout 4 today and I learned some things about it: Even though it's #4 it's the only good one It has co-op, but only online It's a lot like grand theft auto
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deep dish peat moss posted:Overheard some non-gamer coworkers talking about fallout 4 today and I learned some things about it: “I only play madden and fifa but fallout 4 is sick”
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guy who has only played grand theft auto playing fallout for the first time: "getting a lot of grand theft auto vibes from this"
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deep dish peat moss posted:Overheard some non-gamer coworkers talking about fallout 4 today and I learned some things about it: Now I want Fallout 4 split screen co-op so Sean's mom and dad can eat him together.
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Playing skyrim and thinking its co-op because this person in the village talked to me and gave me a quest
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William Henry Hairytaint posted:I am enjoying the System Shock remake very much. I never played the original, even though System Shock 2 is in the running for my favorite video game of all time. Creeping around with no hand-holding and getting talked down to by cyber-mommy is apparently still my jam. Panting and sweating as u run thru my corridors
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Did they make Fallout 4 good or are people just playing it because of the TV show?
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Nice Van My Man posted:Did they make Fallout 4 good or are people just playing it because of the TV show? They made fallout 4 even worse with a recent patch. You literally cannot play it on Playstation if you own some of the dlc, it just crashes instantly before the menu screen. Source: I tried to play it after watching the TV show.
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sounds like they made it better actually
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Nothing else gets my grognard impulses firing like Fallout. I wish other people gave a poo poo about Fallout 1 and 2, two of my favorite games of all time, instead of garbage games like 3/4/NV.
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