TwilightVulpine

Oh damn, I thought knowing Vampire the Masquerade was a given in TTRPG circles. I’m getting old.

I’d love to read it! Sometimes I wish to do it but I don’t think I could do it justice. I’m but a fledgeling bi occultist.

Given HP Lovecraft’s known status as a paranoid raging bigot, I wonder if there’s some game where the elder gods are cool actually, the “cultists” are just people broadening their horizons into cosmic queer transhumanism, and the investigators are just close-minded people wishing to restore their own sense of normalcy. Which, true to form, about half the time awaken into these horizons anyway.

Truly an eldritch horror for Cthulhu to inflict over a cis man

Big beefy warrior with a heart of gold and a peanut brain that could crush anyone easily but she would rather be friends with everyone and have everyone play along. It’s a heartbreaking character to play in games that just assume all you’re gonna be doing is killing, but it could be pretty cute as the muscle of more diplomatic sorts of campigns.

Wouldn’t be the first time awful people tried to take over and twist well-meaning jargon from black people.

Hasbro fired my bro

How isn’t there a massive overpopulation issue when these races have hundreds of years to procreate? Instead they always seem to be rarer than humans.

This is one reason why I’d think actually making characters mature at the age of adulthood would make more sense. Of course there won’t be that many elves if raising each one is a century-long effort

I mean, really, at some point we gotta draw a line in the sand and decide that some things just need to be handwaved for the sake of fantasy.

Yeah, at the end of the day the main purpose of D&D is being a game so it’s understandable why they even it all out. That said I keep wondering if there could be a game that actually expressed these things, what would it be like? Maybe adventuring across ages with different heirs of humans who go from weak to strong extremely fast while elves start strong and grow slowly?

Like @Eeyore_Syndrome was mentioning, the anime Frieren is really good at showing what that would really look like, how a character who can live so long can become much stronger while also losing track of time, and yet a human can match them in talent, even if not in training and experience.

If they need to reach adulthood at the same rate biologically so that they can defend themselves in the wild, why would a 100 yo elf ever be level 1?

It sounds much weirder to consider that elves and dwarves keep acting like teenagers 30 to 80 years past their human-like rate of physical maturity. Or don’t they? What does adulthood even mean for them? Sometimes it sounds like they have a higher standard for maturity than humans, wouldn’t also be some form of neurological development? But I never seen that manifesting in any practical way.

D&D worldbuilding is made a little awkward by how fantasy races age and develop drastically differently, but they also must become strong at the same pace, such that a 100yo elf can be completely inexperienced and grow at the same pace as a human during a week of adventuring. They try to have it both ways, but the more it’s explained, the more confusing it gets.

Serie is petty as hell

Frieren should cover all the Mage Association buildings with that flower spell

They are arguing that the sticking point is that it subverts the copyright protection measures.

But it still relies on users providing their own keys so that doesn’t make much sense either.

Absolutely. I’m not even that impressed by the occasional new mob or niche item added by updates compared to the complex industrial automation or intricate magic system or incredibly varied decoration options.

Not so sure. When it comes to human hatred, big differences, petty differences and made-up differences work just as well as one another to motivate atrocities. Elves and aliens would end up on the list, but I don’t think they’d hold us back from being awful to ourselves. Ultimately there’s no real logic, so in what order that would happen is anyone’s guess.

Nah. I’m listening, I just don’t agree that you get to decide when the discussion gets to end. You are just repeating yourself at this point, but folks aren’t satisfied simply with responses of why someone ought to buy it when they want to comment on the limitations and missed opportunity.

Additional costs and risk aren’t even a reason not to do it, they are merely a consideration to have. Companies choose to take these risks all the time. The PS5 has a whole new VR2 headset even though the market for that is even riskier than a portable device. Yes, it would cost more, and they could have done it anyway.

Besides, a cloud gaming feature wouldn’t even raise costs all that much, and it might even lower the risk as an additional selling point.

If you want to tell me that Sony didn’t do it because Sony didn’t do it and some people bought it because some people bought it, that’s not much of an answer.

But you also glossed over the detail that if what people want is to stream their games to a device that’s like a cheap tablet with a split controller… they can just use a tablet with a split controller, spending less while also not having weird restrictions such as needing to buy a separate headset for it. Most people who can afford a PS5 already have phones that would do this perfectly well without spending whole $200 on an extra dumb screen.

Here’s the thing. Of course sales matter. Sony is not only a for profit company but one that is not particularly inclined to play around just to be different (like Nintendo). Saying sales don’t matter just does not make sense.

Besides, people are not just lamenting that it isn’t a full-blown portable console, but it’s also not integrated with the Playstation Now cloud gaming service, so the use case is so limited as to be baffling. It shouldn’t have been much more costly to make it capable of playing cloud games.

You are asking people “so what”, and they are telling you what. Good for you if this is good enough for you. It doesn’t mean everyone else gotta just agree or say nothing. This is a discussion thread. The most that one might say is that the discussion has strayed away from emulation, but then again I don’t think arguing what it’s originally intended for contributes much to that either.

I don’t think developing and selling a whole hardware device is quite so trivial, but I also doubt that it would mean they don’t mind taking losses on it. This is not a new market that would be worth risking a loss to get a headstart, people could even get the same experience with… a tablet and a split controller, which has a lot more functionality.

I don’t know what’s your point with “they don’t care if you buy it”. Of course they don’t have a department keeping track of one single guy. Sounds like you are taking criticism of this device personally.

Boring AND conceited. I always roll my eyes at this trope of “unlike all these different fantasy beings that are good are specific things, we can be good at everything”. Seems like imagination falling short, that other beings would not have their own breadth of possibilities, and humans wouldn’t have their own unique advantages that are particular just to them.

If I had to pick one thing, it would probably be something teamwork related. Humans are very social beings compared to other animals.

Only in fantasy humans get to not be genocided by humans

I’d think companies like Sony do care if people buy or not

It would have been nice to have a proper Remake but this is not bad per se, though I’m not a fan of how much it’s being dragged out, and that Vincent and Cid still won’t be playable still.