I’m pretty sure Crunchyroll was airing only illegal fansubs in the very beginning. It’s been like 15 years so I don’t quite remember the details but I was surprised to hear of their agreements with various companies to simulcast etc. The stuff came much later. I had long written them off as “will get sued to oblivion…

Their latest IP was Overwatch which was (is) stellar. The remake of Warcraft 3 was shoddy and rushed, but the remaster of Diablo 2 was pretty dang good. I don’t think they’ve released much other stuff apart from WoW things.

I mean, it makes sense for the plums to ripen as time goes on.

This is very true. They are or have been very good at nailing the core “fun” of specific genres and really honing in on that. A lot of current survival games have tons of bullshit arcane inventory management and crafting. Valheim succeeded for me personally because it removes a lot of that stupid bloat.

Too late, they’re going to be churning out dozens of new properties over the next few years.

Yeah. An NFT of a program license just means that the NFT is only valid as long as the server it’s pointing to is still running.

There’s nothing positive to write about NFTs in games. If someone actually manages to come up with some good use for them along with a mining system that is energy efficient and that won’t get exponentially worse over the years, then maybe there will be positive words to say.

With the viewer as the cuckee? I’m surprised it doesn’t exist yet.

Watch out, some day “virtual cucking” will become an actual trend.

Not my image but I found this where someone has calculated what he’d make in various scenarios of being fired.

Being a fucking jackass isn’t a necessity. It’s a choice.

It was a really great episode, exactly why I listen to it.

After he became trending on Twitter and a whole hate storm? Oh, they’re talking about it.

I’m primarily an audio only listener so I usually don’t see that stuff. But yeah, where I’m from you don’t wear hats or sunglasses or shoes indoors unless you’re a douchebag. I realize that this is not true in the US, but I wish it were every time I see it.

It all makes sense now.

Looking forward to the next Play Watch Listen for Troy’s take on this thing in general and this article in particular.

Eh, Gunbreaker (especially above level 82) and probably Paladin can do that too as long as there’s no too-strong stack up mechanics or meteor towers etc. And that’s still only true for bosses that don’t have any kind of hard enrage.

To be fair all jobs got some buffs or QoL stuff in Endwalker (and 6.05 for some). Some classes need love more than others but that’s hardly enough to harass the devs. The tuning is pretty dang tight.

Yeah. It’s settled down a fair bit since the mostly-story players are finishing up by now. I think once the raid’s been out for a few weeks it should decline even more. I’ve personally started playing more other games too after mainlining Endwalker :P.

I avoid Twitter for a reason. But basically the only whining I’ve heard is stuff like “Reaper is too strong”, and they literally responded to that (legitimate) complaint by just saying “we’re going to bring other classes up to that level instead of nerfing Reaper”.