https://old.reddit.com/r/dragonage/comments/1gh1ca9/no_dav_spoilers_the_ogre_in_this_game_just_looks/

>never leave bedroom

>skinny legs, complexion of vampire

>butt of jokes in movies, tv shows for two decades

>never breed

>spend 40% of income on games

>oh well

>at least vidya makers know what you like and keep making cool shit you enjoy, right?

>wtf every game suddenly has microtransactions

>wtf new diablo is candy crush reskin

>now spending 70% of income on games

>wtf pixelated waifus now as ugly as real life foids who despise you

>wtf now the ugly 2d waifus are butch lesbians and are calling you toxic

>wtf games suddenly jam-packed with transshit

>everything you were using games to escape from has followed you

>see trailer for new game full of things you hate

>buy game anyway, proving there is demand for things you hate

>wait really?

>yes, really

>you are here

>In the next big AAA gayme, you play as Alexander the Great, an obese black lesbian ruling over a peaceful, matriarchal society. perhaps a horse-breeding sim?

You guys talked about the Dragonshit game so much and then YouTube put that warcraft streamer with the filthy gooncave in my recommends. I don't normally watch streamers, but holy shit I cannot look away from this game. I'm only 20 minutes in, still in character creation (!) and I've been giggling like a kid watching his first R rated comedy.

After I tuck in the kids tonight, I'm gonna put another hour on a turn-based strategy game I bought for $30 six years ago. We are not the same.

Today was my first day of work. I showed up, and they were like "secretary is working from home today. I can't get you your laptop, can't get your office, can't get your staff card or even your staff number. Come back on Monday." So I got the rest of the day off. I will say, for as much as lecturers and professors b-word and moan, they have one of the cushiest jobs possible in the middle class. I genuinely can't think of a profession that is as cushy as academia, especially when you consider the work/pay ratio. The big hurdle occurs right at the beginning - it's almost impossible to actually break into academia. There are a lot of forces working against young academics, including the two-body problem, the publish or perish complex, and most importantly, the lack of open job posts. It doesn't matter how educated you are when the number of jobs available is shrinking and 70yo boomers won't let go of their posts. We can see this in countries such as Australia for example:

But the number of academic positions has shrunk. Australia saw a significant decrease in academic staff from 54,086 in 2016 to 46,971 in 2021 as universities cut costs during the pandemic.

https://theconversation.com/australia-has-way-more-phd-graduates-than-academic-jobs-heres-how-to-rethink-doctoral-degrees-203057

Despite the shrinking academic posts, the number of PhDs is only growing. The result? A shitload of graduates who can't find a job.

Our estimates suggest this figure has not changed much as of 2021. If there are about 185,000 people with a PhD, this is four times higher than the number of available academic positions (46,971).

We also know some PhD students struggle to get work outside of academia, despite the prestigious nature of their qualifications.

The 2022 Graduate Outcomes Survey found 84.7% of research degree graduates (which includes masters degrees by research as well as PhDs) were in full-time employment within six months of completing their studies. This compares with 78.5% of undergraduates.

It's incredibly hard to get into but once you're in, there's no more hard work tbh.

>muh research!

>muh teaching!

Doing research is one of the easiest things you can do if you work in the Humanities. Once you figure out how to please reviewers and which ideologies are in vogue, getting your work published is not hard. As for teaching, you regurgitate the same info year in, year out. It's routine work, and it doesn't take much intellect. In fact, planning out a course is fun because you get to teach topics you enjoy. Students are also generally nice, and they're more afraid of you than vice versa. As for the perks - high pay, flexible work hours, status, influence on intellectual zeitgeist - they're excessive. Universities are flush with money, and it's incredible how much of that money is spent pampering academics. They need their precious catering, you gotta pay for their travel and accommodation as they dash to different conferences, they need specialized courses on diversity, they need like half the year off to work on their research. Nonsense! Let's not even get into tenures. Shouldn't exist.

While I was enjoying my first day of work which lasted like an hour, there are some young souls who are reeling after being laid off. Once again, I am discussing video game journ*lists. This is a dead profession, and it is absolutely not stable enough for someone to forge a lifelong career. Nevertheless, like moths to a flame, thousands of youngsters are drawn to it believing that they can make a living writing about video games. Well, reality has visited a few folks. Let's analyse.

Fandom experiences layoffs

Fandom is a Wiki hosting service that hosts wikis on several entertainment topics. It was founded by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales, and the site has found great popularity. Fandom owns several publications, including GameFAQs, GameSpot, Giant Bomb, and Metacritic.

Recently, Fandom experienced a great deal of layoffs, and it's estimated that 11% of its staff got the axe. GameSpot was particularly hard-hit, and many of those affected took to social media to share their plight. Let's scroll through and see what they say.

https://old.reddit.com/r/giantbomb/comments/1gfr2mg/layoffs_happening_at_gamespot/

https://old.reddit.com/r/giantbomb/comments/1gfubpu/looks_like_bailey_was_part_of_the_layoffs/

https://old.reddit.com/r/giantbomb/comments/1afpyej/looks_like_fandom_laid_off_some_folks_over_at/

https://old.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/2c6vw4/gamespot_hit_with_layoffs_carolyn_petit_tom_mc/

Looks like I'm back to my YouTube channel.

Just got laid off from GameSpot. If anyone is looking for a Video Producer/Senior Producer, I've got you. Also been working on a game for the past couple years, and can program in C# and Unity, plus do Game Design.

— Dave Klein 🗡️ 🐝 (@TheDaveKlein) October 30, 2024

So hey, if you need someone who can write/edit/manage/work with video/work with marketing and branded/work with social/work with SEO/do any of the 20 thousand other things I did at Fandom and GameSpot, I'm here.

Give me a job. Please.

— Chris Hayner (@ChrisHayner) October 30, 2024

GameSpot was the goal.
Reached it sooner than I thought I would.

Now that its over... idk.

Time to switch careers & sell feet pics on OnlyFans?
(naaah, just tryna make myself laugh a lil)

Gonna try to enjoy my son's 1st bday in a few days, then the job hunt begins again.

— DeVante Chisolm (@devantechisolm) October 30, 2024

Hi everyone, as you may have heard, there were layoffs at Fandom and Gamespot today, and unfortunately I was one of the people who got let go. I’m pretty devastated because I loved my job and the people I worked with. If you know anyone who’s hiring a writer/host/producer/etc,

— bailey meyers (@baileymeyers) October 30, 2024

This neighbor got a son to support and he's working as a fricking video game journ*list!

Conclusion

I be outside hitting the weed vape as I shitpost. I find it funny that these people see the mass layoffs hitting their industry, they are personally affected by them, and their first instinct after getting fired is to beg for another job in the same industry! You'd be foolish to have that experience and choose to become a video game journ*list again. IT'S NOT A REAL PROFESSION. I hope they can learn from their mistakes and steer their lives in a different direction before it's too late.

Darklands Series

1 - Darklands LP Part I

2 - Darklands LP Part II: Charles Bronson Edition

3 - Darklands LP III: Nuns and Coins

4 - Darklands LP Ep IV: Introduction to Equipment & Combat

5 - Darklands LP Part V: We finally briefly go out into the dark lands

6 - Darklands LP VI: We actually start a quest!

7 - Darklands LP VII: We reach our destination

8 - Darklands LP VIII: Raubritter confrontation & learning how combat works

9 - Darklands LP IX: I'm not giving you my goddarn alchemical materials

10 - Darklands LP X: We actually do some alchemy!

11 - Darklands LP XI: The Main Plot

The Witches' Sabbat

It's Halloween today, October 31, 1402, so it's time to take on the forces of darkness once again.

In our last episode, we finally made it to the witches' Sabbat, basically ComicCon for Satanists. Day one has a bit of an amusement park feel, but they seem to be building up to a big event tomorrow. We're going to do what we can to ruin their fun. But hopefully we won't have to slaughter everyone here. Even these people can still be saved if they repent.

Let's start out with the food. It's what Anthony Bourdain would do.

It's not ideal, but let's at least give these babies a quick baptism while we can.

We really do not want to attract too much attention, so we better be careful the next place we go.

Okay, let's see what's going on by the stream. Ugh. This is no good. But I'll try to give these people a chance. I'll boost Sasha's Speak Common and Charisma even higher and have her try to persuade them this is wrong. St. John Chrysostom is an obvious choice. One of the most important figures in the development of the early church, he was renowned for his oratory. Chrysostom literally is "Golden Mouth", exactly what we need now. Sasha now has 99 Speak Common but you can never be sure of success in dangerous situations like this.

As demonstrated here. Looks like these guys are gonna have to die.

They're very poorly equipped and no trouble to beat, but I expect we'll get in multiple combats before the Sabbat is over and we won't have a chance to heal between them, so any damage done here will add up. That cultist with his flail turns out to be more dangerous than I thought and Redactor gets hurt a bit.

We've drawn too much suspicion to ourselves. This busybody is going catch us eventually if we don't do better. I'll use the "yeah, I'm up to something" line, hoping to confuse him for now.

Let's check out the broom-riding and see if this really is as cute as they make it out to be in childrens' books. Oh no, it's actually awful.

Sasha still has her Speak Common boosted so maybe she can at least convince these people. She fails again and we have to kill these people too. I've consistently been getting really bad luck throughout this. Maybe Halloween isn't my lucky day.

Let's see what's going on at the altar. So that's what this is all about. They're summoning a demon. Satanists are so lame. It really is a ripoff of Burning Man.

We're under a lot of suspicion but there is absolutely no way I'd ever consider engaging in this kind of blasphemy.

My party has pretty terrible Stealth skill, so I suppose I shouldn't be surprised at failing this check.

Despite screwing up everything we tried to do, we managed to get by using brute force. Our party is hardly even injured. That chainmail really makes a huge difference when going up against a mob of poorly-armed enemies.

The fortress monastery? What's that? I guess we'll find out someday.

I have Sasha try to win over the baptism crowd and she fails yet again. Then it's summoning time. So that's where the Fortress Monastery is. I always knew that the Danes were Satanic.

We've got practically no injuries and most of our Divine Favor left. And for this special occasion I'm going to break out the alchemy. I'm passing out:

• Hardarmor - One for everyone. This will increase the quality and boost the effective thickness of the armor by +2, better than even plate without alchemical enhancement.

• Fleadust & Arabian Fire - Two for everyone. The offensive potions you want to spread around through your party. If one guy is carrying them all he might be engaged and unable to throw.

• Essence of Grace - The healing potion. There's no mechanic in the game to stop you from just chugging these constantly, which isn't really a fun way to play, so I'm going to arbitrarily limit us to three per person for now.

I won't bother invoking saintly aid to improve our weapon skills since they're already into the 80s. Okay, let's do this.

The demon turns out to be pretty weak. Am I over-prepared for this battle?

Now is the hard part. The high witch will be tossing potions and her minions have flails, which with 4 penetration would match our chainmail if it wasn't alchemically enhanced.

The fight is tougher than we've had in a long time, but not too challenging. The enemy can't penetrate our armor so they do very little damage to our Strength, but there's a lot of them and they land a lot of non-penetrating hits that do a few points of Endurance damage. Sasha takes an Essence of Grace to keep from getting knocked out.

The second wave is just like the first, but this time I'm a little smarter about defeating them in detail. Nathan manages to slip past the cultists to get to the high witch but she hits with him Fleadust or something, greatly reducing his skills, so he has trouble hitting her, but it's over soon enough.

We now have a clear mission ahead of us: Go to Denmark and assault the Fortress Monastery!

Sorry for this being so anti-climactic. I didn't realize how powerful my party had become and I wanted to make sure to explain all the main systems of the game before going forward with the main plot. Don't worry, it gets much more difficult.

Happy Halloween!

Darklands Series

1 - Darklands LP Part I

2 - Darklands LP Part II: Charles Bronson Edition

3 - Darklands LP III: Nuns and Coins

4 - Darklands LP Ep IV: Introduction to Equipment & Combat

5 - Darklands LP Part V: We finally briefly go out into the dark lands

6 - Darklands LP VI: We actually start a quest!

7 - Darklands LP VII: We reach our destination

8 - Darklands LP VIII: Raubritter confrontation & learning how combat works

9 - Darklands LP IX: I'm not giving you my goddarn alchemical materials

10 - Darklands LP X: We actually do some alchemy!

One of the few weaknesses our party has now is Sasha. She's not well armored enough and her longsword is pretty useless against most of the enemies we're starting to run into. I head back to our old home turf in Westphalia. I know Paderborn makes good weapons and Soest makes good armor. I buy her a poniard, basically a dagger. That might seem like a big step down as it has a base damage of 5 down from the longsword's 12 but it has 4 penetration (matching chainmail) and is much faster. With the poniard we should be able to get her into full chainmail eventually.

Level Scaling & The Main Plot

Darklands does have level scaling but don't jump to the conclusion that it's a bad thing. Some games like Oblivion are notorious for doing this the wrong way. All the enemies in the world are pegged to the same level as you, so theoretically if you could teleport to the end boss at the beginning of the game he would be at level 1 and the fight would be no more difficult than if you had played the whole game out to being level 20. In Darklands it calculates how strong it thinks your party is (I'm guessing based on skills) and as you get more powerful it upgrades the enemies, I believe twice. For example those street thugs who fought at the beginning of the game used to have just ordinary clothing on their limbs. Now it's padded armor. Presumably their attributes and skills are boosted too. But it still matters who they are. We're still going to slaughter those guys. But now a raubritter's henchmen will actually have some decent armor and are a challenge to us again. Since we're playing out the same quests over and over again, this is a way to make sure they don't get too stale.

Another thing that's triggered by your party growing stronger is an event calling you to stop just wandering around and take on mid game challenges. This definitely should have triggered by now. Either there's a bug or I got my saved games mixed up. So let's pretend it just happened now.

Well now we've got a real quest. Not from some banker or mayor but from God. Let's get on it.

I happen to be outside Magdeburg again. Let's check out this castle.

Oh it's not a castle. Yuna prays to St. Dorothea for guidance and we get this result.

Okay, let's go in.

(They act like I've already been here before. This must be a bug. She's an enigmatic astrologer who can see fleeting glimpses of your destiny. The first time you go here, she should either tell you that you're too weak and need get stronger or that you're ready to take on the Satanists at their Sabbat.)

Investigation

The Sabbat is where the pagans meet to celebrate their obscene rituals on one of their holidays. But when and where will it be this time? What would Crockett and Tubbs from Miami Vice do if they were hunting down a vast Satanic conspiracy in 1400s Germany? They'd start by picking up a low level Satanist and find out who his boss is.

We go to another Satanic village (there's quite a few) and slaughter everyone without even taking a single hit. Now what's this? Southeast of Goslar on June 21? It sounds like something important is going down. We should check it out. Today is June 5 but Goslar happens to be very close by so I should be able to get there in time. We'll want to avoid all combat if possible because we don't want to lose time healing wounds.

On the 15th we find this interesting Stonehengey type place southeast of Goslar. As we approach the music turns from adventurous to ominous.

I haven't been to a place this disturbing and depressing since I quit reddit.

A severed finger

I was thinking yakuza but actually Satanists would make more sense. So we've found the place we're looking for. There's not much to do but camp out here and wait a few days for them to show up. Maybe Redactor can stir up a few more potions. We're going to need them.

Nothing Happens

Somehow I missed them. Maybe I got the dates mixed up or something. Happens to me in real life all the time. Whatevs. We go to another Satanic village and get the next date: SE of Teschen on Halloween. Teschen is in Silesia near the border between Bohemia and Poland. It's pretty remote, but I think we've got plenty of time to get there.

Along the way we run into this place. It's a good reminder of just much history already existed back then. Germany had been Christian in Roman times but was then conquered by pagans who eventually were converted. This whole process took centuries, so there's ancient Christian ruins now that are long forgotten. In terms of the game, somebody probably sent us on a fetch quest here and I never bothered to go because I was far away at the time. But if we get his item maybe we'll run into him again someday.

See, I told you those Thunderbolt potions would be useful someday. I use one to blast open an entrance.

There's gotta be skeletons in every game.

This is the first time we've been in a long multi-part combat. There are groups of enemies around this dungeon and if I run into them I'll have to fight, but between fights we can walk around and go wherever we want. I'll have the party travel in single file so we don't get stuck every time we reach a doorway. But wait, Sasha, our weakest fighter, is pointman. I change the party's marching order so Nathan is in front. Now it's time to search for an exit.

Well that was easy. I find some stairs guarded by just one skeleton. He goes aggro on us when he sees us, kind of like a pod of enemies does in Nu X-Com. We make short work of him and walk off with the ancient crown.

I go after another one of these evil castle lords. For the first time we run into enemy archers. Everyone does fine except Sasha. Their armor blocks most of the damage, so it's only about 3 points for each arrow. A 3 point hit probably will only hurt endurance, not strength. Most of your lost endurance is regained after each fight so that's not huge problem. Restoring strength requires either rest, prayer, or alchemy so it's much more serious. Did I mention that when strength goes down to 0 your character is dead? Like completely permanently dead and you have to replace them with a new one.

I got plenty of time to kill before the Sabbat so I wander around the region, doing my usual thing, learning new saints and new formulas. In Pressburg the local alchemist trades to me the formula for Essence of Grace, the most important in the game as it's the healing potion that restores lost endurance and strength.

Teschen

Here we are. It's October 11, so that gives us plenty of time before Halloween to find the site and do some alchemy while we wait for the Satanic horde to show up. It's supposed to be SE of Teschen but Teschen is at the extreme eastern edge of the map. It must be this place. Yuna knows St. Raymond now, who can boost Redactor's Alchemy skill up to 99, so he can make huge batches of common potions. We'll settle down and let him do that for now.

Today's the day. Let's see what they're up to. WTF? This better not be Burning Man. I'll slaughter everyone if it is.

I'm going to chat up some of arriving weirdos and try to blend in with them.

Well obviously there's only one answer to this. They're a bunch of goths after all.

See, I still know my high school subcultures.

Uh oh. Instead of bomb-sniffing dogs for security they have Christian-sniffing dogs. Fortunately we don't have to try to bluff our way through. St. Aidan will help us. He was an Irish monk who converted the Anglo-Saxons of northern England and also really liked animals.

Good dog.

What in the heck have we gotten ourselves into? We'll find out in the next episode.

!nonchuds !g*mers

With Factorios new DLC, you can create automatic factory space platforms, it comes quite early on in the progression. space is unlimited when building one if you have the resources. you can travel to a few different planets, with the later ones requiring more firepower to shoot your way through asteroids.

>The game kind of forces you to use rockets though which sucks. My small platform (200 tons) comfortably traveled between the early planets at 150 speed and now I have to rework it only because devs are trolling me. And my guess is the solution is to be braindead (like everything else in the expansion) and to just build big.

(the dlc about expanding to other planets adds content focusing on building big???? what the frick WUBE) (also i think the speed limit is like 160-170, even at ~350 ton)

>Why reward players for efficiency and small size when you can let them solve all problems by throwing more resources at the problem?

>700 tons weight is a joke.

>edit: I love how this comment started with 3 upmarseys now it is downmarseyd. I am not the only one. Git gud.

In what way did the devs troll you?

>How do I learn about those chunky asteroids that have resistance to everything but one thing?

read the in-game wiki

>The ingame info is amazing and I read it but it lacks ton of information and I didn't notice anything about chunky asteroids. Just admit that the game mechanic is basically trolling and to annoy players and to artificially slow them down to build one of the 1000 ton platforms that you are screenshotting here because other than that the game would be braindead easy.

ina different thread:

>Another boring 1000 ton ship with tons of wasted space.

Yup! This game is awesome. No wonder so many people are posting their creations.

>I think you are missing rocket turrets. This will not get you to Aquilo because there are troll chunky meteors immune to everything but rockets.

>Blue science is difficult because oil is never explained anywhere so I would understand that. Not being able to do black science is just trolling.

Explains everything tbh

/u/Brilliant-Elk2404 im going to build a 1000 ton freighter and name it after you <3

The server was migrated to a new datacenter and lost its old IP. However, I discovered that I can assign the server a free subdomain, so you can now connect to:

marsey.minecraft.best

To join the server, see the first thread for instructions.

Here's how things have been going so far:

Spawn

Spawn is a big desert which kind of sucks, so on the first day we built Bussytown in a jungle east of spawn:

New players were having some trouble getting there, so I built a house at spawn with a Nether highway that takes you right to Bussytown.

Current Bases

The center of town is the Bussytown longhouse:

Foozy went far far away and started building Chudstone on a pair of islands:

@BasicallyAMonster is living in our mineshaft:

@AnchorShill built a glass house and put a respawn anchor in it, and then it blew up and we haven't fixed it for some reason:

@Kang-PrimeTimeline built this house and then disappeared:

I am still living in the longhouse because I haven't started on my cool base yet

Other buildings

@Biggles built this bridge across the cliff next to Bussytown:

And also this skeleton XP farm:

Other information

None of us have been to the End yet. @Biggles and I are the only two who can handle it, but he hasn't come on lately and I don't want to explore it alone

You can change your skin with the /skin command.

Current world borders are as follows:

• Overworld: 10000 block radius, square

• Nether: 5000 block radius, square

• End: 5000 block radius, square

I also recommend installing Distant Horizons.

Dragon Age Veilguard has peaked for today.

70,414

That not what you would expect. It started strong but began tapering early.

We will see if the weekend numbers go higher but I have doubts.

Source: Steam DB pic.twitter.com/r3acJeZzrU

— Grummz (@Grummz) October 31, 2024

Despite what Grummz says these are okay numbers. They are not good so rightoids feel vindicated, but they aren't bad so leftoids feel vindicated.

The seethe is just not there

I thought Resetera losing their shit over Cyberpunk was bad, Well this is worse.

All the OG Bioware team left eons ago. The team was completely taken over by chasers, s and gendershitters since Inquisition. GG cute twinks.

長毛種猫クリが楽しくてずっとアイルー編集画面に篭もってた（本編はチュートリアルしかやってない）
このエンジンでアイルー主役のゲーム作って欲しいなぁ。ガルクも出てくるやつ。#MHWilds #モンハンワイルズ pic.twitter.com/UtLhhoXgZP

— アペ 🐾 (@apepe) October 30, 2024

!chuds !g*mers !germs

This is probably my mosst esoteric thread title yet!, try to decipher it! !metashit

That's right, chuds. The game hasn't even been sold yet and it's already wildly successful. Sorry @Awoo @kaamrev maybe next time they'll go woke go broke

Dragon Age Veilguard Review Guidelines pic.twitter.com/vy69fOqF9T

— Pirat_Nation 🔴 (@Pirat_Nation) October 30, 2024

LEAK!!! BioWare and EA caught red handed? MrMattyPlays agreement supposedly leaked!

It wasn’t a conspiracy theory, it was TRUE!

“Return to Form” a required phrase!!!

Content creation guidelines for Dragon Age Veilguard leaked?

If true, this confirms everything.

There is so… pic.twitter.com/v9pd5ItWRO

— Grummz (@Grummz) October 30, 2024

Happy to say that game journ*lism is a return to form