I suspect we will see a human brain to digital interface. I don’t think it will be “downloading minds” or anything, but I could see someone finding a way to plug a specialized camera or mic in to have a full functioning robotic replacement part.

I’m pretty sure they already have the beginning pieces to this, but its too specialized and expensive to do anything commercial with it yet.

I’d probably sell it. There is undoubtedly someone with a project truck looking for a deal on one of those.

Might be fun to rebuild but I’d imagine it’ll be in the way more than anything.

This isn’t surprising. WotC had been salivating for another hit like BG3. I suspect whoever they talk into making BG4 isn’t going to be able to clear the bar that Larian has set.

I’ve met several billionaires at this point, and there wasn’t really a commonality between all of them except their wealth.

The people downvoting this don’t have a big iron on their hip.

Maybe they meant the installable mod manager, Vortex.

The unfortunate truth is there are likely a lot of very talented developers at most big studios who ultimately don’t have a say on what goes into the game.

Many don’t turn around and try making a start-up game though, most just burn out of the industry forever.

Oof, but yeah.

In my mind, having “something” to show is better than nothing, even if that something is mediocre.

I know first hand that JRPGs are a hefty projects to make, but I’m a little surprised they opted for shutting it all down and not going for Early Access to continue funding, especially as the idea seemed popular.

I can only guess that means the game is still in a pretty bad state.

Online PvP has always been toxic, but modern game communities have definitely cultivated a special kind of toxic.

Most people I know meet up for coffee.

I don’t think its uncommon to have a beer at a restaurant or as a drink or dinner. Meeting up at a bar for drinks as a first date feels funky, at least in my region.

If that’s not your jam then probably don’t push into it. A date should be a comfy experience for everyone involved, if possible.

Up until recently ish, for 3D art I would export UV maps, do my editing, then reimport them to view the changes on my model.

I did this up until it got brought up in a meeting, and a senior guy from a publisher basically called me out saying “Why in the world do you still do that? We moved on from that like 15 years ago!”

So I quietly had to reevaluate my process and learn something new.

In my defense I am not an artist, and despise giving Adobe money.

We say to ‘nuke it’.

So it’ll be like oh I got to nuke this pizza for a minute.

Some people put a lot of weight into their dreams. Like a chain of thoughts that leads to a deeper realization about something that finally puts it in perspective. This can feel important and it feels like you want to do something with this new perspective.

Some people don’t as they feel dreams are just chaotic nonsense, and trying to read into them is a fruitless endeavor.

Jump Ship for sure.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2841820/Jump_Ship_Demo/

Definitely got some rough spots though.

Agent is a huge meme for my friend group for pretty much the exact same reasons Lol.

I see there are some homebrew modules out there that add spellcrafting but they’re more or less point buy systems.

I could kind of see it as I think you’re describing, in that you make a spell with a bunch of spell symbols/glyphs that modify it, but each one of those cost components.

Hmm this is worth scheming on.

Looks great, I’ll check it out, thanks!

I don’t know the “right” answer, but I set it so if you hit something, it plays out some checks similar to as you described:

• If we collide with something but its only waist high, then we will have the player stop the grapple and attempt to vault over whatever it is.

• If we collide with something and its more than waist high, then we wait for a very small delay and see if we made any progress towards our destination. If not, end the grapple because something is in the way.

• Ignore all collision damage otherwise when grappling. Either we get stopped on the way and give up, or make it and then end the grapple.

… And last but most horrible of all:

• Do a completely different set of checks if the player is underwater when the collision happens.

All my games are janky though so I don’t think this is some ideal setup.

Edit: Cleaned up the collision damage part as I thought I handled it differently.

Wii sports resort makes you calibrate every connected wiimote each time you launch a game.

Its quick but a little annoying.