It’s literally the first entry Valve cites under the “Over 200,000 peak concurrent players,” a category that excludes anything that had its numbers juiced due to things like say, a free weekend.

Like, INSTEAD of regular highschool?

Few things to think on...

But I will disagree with him on whether a blockchain is a viable means of facilitating item ownership and player to player sales with *certain* advantages over traditional database backed marketplace APIs on the backend of a single game (or as noted above “coupled games”)

I was really only responding to the paragraph I quoted.  I just started off quoting the top of the thread, so you had that, then also grabbed a few of the relevant tweets in the thread in case you didn’t click through to read.  I’ll respond to your other response.

But NFTs where the resource they point to is on a fixed network like a gaming service where the sole owner of the item can be identified via a blockchain seems like a legitimate application of blockchain technology. The usage of the NFT terminology is problematic but the underlying blockchain tech could be useful to…

Well there’s a reason I’m doing a map despite hating actually doing it.

...but the fact that the author didn’t embrace the map making process when writing the books is crazy to me, isn’t that the best part of writing fantasy??

The topic is humans, though, and those aren’t a fantasy species...

I mean, just because it’s a fantasy world does not mean it won’t come with justifiable expectations.

Because ethnicities emerge naturally as a result of their environment, of human evolution. But because of this dependency on specific environments, significant diversity requires a degree of migration that suggests historically significant events.

A massive influx of another race though, that would be not just appropriate to address but also cool.

You could argue, lore-wise, that a primarily white area that might mostly be expected to skew white, should you put a lot of black characters in there suddenly might not make sense and would be quite jarring. This definitely seems like a genuine design/lore issue to me.

Justifications aren’t required.

Well because this article isnt really about that.

https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/dr-dre-was-accused-of-violence-against-women-before-marriage-to-his-soon-to-be-ex-wife.html/

Is there a reason that Kotaku’s decided to, now repeatedly, describe a well documented abuser in nothing but glowing terms?

I can’t play the game is my clear concern. Not sure what was unclear about that.

I am concerned though that there seems to be no remedy coming soon, outside of hoping people play less. I get the issues they’re facing, but it doesn’t change the fact that at some point people won’t be paying if they’re wholly unable to play.

AAA games are going to go up in price someday. It’s inevitable. I really don’t understand why people are so surprised.