Random Thoughts.....What Are You Thinking?

Well that was the best episode of Mandalorian ever. Why can't they make more episodes like that.

The bad batch was good too. Both of em right in the feelies.

Me watching bodybuilder guy channel on Youtube, thinking funny how those guys are completely hypocrates:

1. They say dont try lifting weight over your own capacity, but their own videos show them doing lifting with like 1 or 2 helpers, clearly proving they are way over their own capacity.

2. They say prioritize your posture over weights, but then, you see them almost using their entire body to lift a weight, despite focusing on a single muscle group, what would be the so called "technique".

3. Finally, and the most astounishing one, they say dont use chemicals, but them, you see them joking they use heavy shits.

My conclusion in the end, is that being too thin or too strong generally doesnt mean a healthy lifestyle, or that someone used some illicit methods to achieve that.

Dammit, PS5 updated in rest mode while I was on a trip and it erased all my wild arms 2 progress... pissed about not having saved in 2023...

That sucks…

After seeing my Xenoblade 2 crashing after 10h play, i adopted a routine of saving every end of day, and not relying on auto saving or rest mode from console.

XB3 crashes a lot less than XB2 (only happened once in 140h play time), but anyway, all loss is limited to 1h, what is the usual interval between saves

Uhh, what?! o.o; How'd you play without saving it for so long?!

Flashbacks to the days of leaving memory cards at a friends house and not being able to save anything you played for a while.

Switch also have this neat feature of going to standby mode instead of a complete shutdown.

Easy to forget to save, if you can just stop it and restore at very same point.

But.... only a flash-type of save.

Currently rushing to finish my reviews before my second cert exam.

But already added one extra cert on my list.

Currently i got 3, now 4.

I wonder if at some point i can just take it easy….

I honestly thought it was really meh.

I think the biggest thing that kills me about these is how short they are, like 10m of credits.


Just happened I guess, got used to auto saves in like all games these days. Definitely saving now lol

Oh man. Preach was reading through the history of ffxi.

I found this video to be really wholesome. The person was patient enough to get the hang of a very different game and seems to be thoroughly enjoying it.

This is why I think it's so important that we make a distinction between the different subgenres of MMORPG. Who knows how many more people would be willing to try XI (et al) if they were distinguished as sandboxes.

"There was no indication of where the main story takes place, so any time a cutscene played I just assumed it was a step in the right direction. As I soon found out, this wouldn't be the case. But I didn't mind because I loved exploring the town and seeing whatever events popped up."

"This in my opinion is the biggest difference in gameplay from Final Fantasy XIV: the average mobs in the open-world and dungeons are strong enough to wipe you out single-handedly if you're careless. Needing you to fully prepare before adventuring outside."

@Draylo where are you? Resident Evil 4 demo may drop today after the Capcom show. \o/

edit: IT DROPPED.

Up to season 2 now of Vinland Saga.

Kind of disappointed with what happened with Askelad and Thorfin and Cnut. Also kinda finding the start of Season 2 a bit weird.

Hopefully it picks up again shortly.

Well that's fun

https://www.rpgsite.net/news/13882-square-enix-says-forspoken-sales-have-been-lackluster-and-many-small-and-mid-sized-titles-did-not-perform-as-well-as-we-had-expected

Next year they go all in on blockchain and collapse, bankruptcy

I'll be the first to buy Squares NFT of the bankruptcy filing.

I still have every intention of playing Star Ocean once it hits the bargain bin. The rest of the games can go pound sand.

I just saw a similar article.

"Major title launches will not be concentrated solely in FY 2024/3. We have organized our pipeline so that we will have a good spread of new releases in FY 2025/3 and beyond as well. We also hope that you will look forward to the blockchain games we plan to launch in FY 2024/3 and thereafter"

As long as FF14 continues to bring in immense profits, these low budget single player games really don't matter. SE will be alright.

I unno, they been piling up L after L outlook ain't great.

It is difficult to fail so much you have to sell or close but they're trying their damnedest to do it.

That is until they decide to bring Web 3.0 to XIV.

Actually, who am I kidding... That would probably work.

Mmos don't make a lot of money, for SE they make a relatively high amount of money because they have very few mtx based games on the market and have no major franchises like call of duty.

They're going to try to fix that with block chain games. It's going to explode in their faces cause a majority of people on earth have either never been interested in block chain games or have been burned by them already.

Honestly if I were in SE's shoes I'd abandon hope of trying to strike it big and do what I do best: maximize profits from online and mobile games. That's the only niche that has worked for them in terms of long term gains. Their dev cycle simply doesn't work for single player AAA title profitability. Their commitment to having to be on the bleeding edge of graphics at the expense of just about everything else is also a huge factor.

Sometimes i feel like my surroundings are too hostile to me, almost like repelling my existence from here.

I already have many plans to move on, but they arent still on move because i have others matters to address, but then i feel like the world is conspiring against me to force me to change, as fast as i can

Perfect time for me to ask a question I've ALWAYS wondered. During the WoW boom, they like 10M+ subscribers. $15 a month. That's 150M USD a month. Does it REALLY cost that much to design/produce/implement an MMO?

Technically yes. Half goes to advertising.

Could pull up their earnings for 2008 or whatever year that was and see.

A) WoW during its peak is a very bad example because no other game has ever gotten close to that. XIV has gotten close to modern WoW figures, but it hasn't touched its peak.

B) The average MMO doesn't make a lot of money relative to more profitable projects. If you look at earnings reports you'll see that games with MTX, extremely large franchises, and mobile games (falls close in with mtx) make many times more than even the most successful MMOs. For Activision/Blizzard, games like Candy Crush Saga and CoD obliterate even WoW's profitability. The reason XIV looks so good on SE's report is cause they have basically nothing else. Majority of their "high quality" AAA releases in the last 20 years have been financially successful in terms of not losing them money but not blowout hits or massive money generators.

This is why the gaming industry has taken the shifts that it has over the last couple of decades. We can whine and complain about it but ultimately we are no longer the target demographic. We aren't the cash cows.

Ah, the full blown economic collapse started today. What a time to be alive. I've lost count of "once in a life time events"

Pull your money out! sell everything! panic panic panic!

The second biggest bank implosion in us history and everything and everyone connected to them is F.u.c.k.e.d.

Finally got my PS5. Was never in a hurry, but I'm glad to have it. Gonna check out FF7 Intergrade first.

-Edit Or not. I guess its not available.

Not available? That's weird. I think it's free with PSN+