A bit late, but good for them.  

Immigrant here. I didn’t grew up with Magic the Gathering, so it’s very difficult to get into the game. It takes a lot of money to not lose and also a lot of players are pretty snobby.

Question, are the gems necessary?  I have been playing for a couple of days with all the legendary gears.  I had not participated in any PvP so far so I don’t see those gems being necessary.  However, the articles like this make it sound like it’s something I need, so have I been playing it wrong?

Xeno series have the best stories since the days of FF6 and Chrono Triggers. Ever since that shocking ending of Xenoblade 2 that recontextualizes everything, I am very much intrigued by what’s going to happen in this game.

I like my characters with big eyes, but this Ellie felt odd, her new design looks like it felt into the Uncanny Valley.

Yeah, don’t see it. This teaser footage didn’t really show much, just musical note motif. If anything, the fight reminded me of the Kung Fu Hustle musical fight.

Not defending NFT or block chain, I hate it myself, but: https://gizmodo.com/shanghais-covid-lockdown-spurs-nfts-to-avoid-china-cens-1848878652

Shanghai Lockdown Spurs NFTs to Avoid Government CensorshipIf you start your own chain or NFT, you may need to know how to run your own database. But this is now mostly done via services, only YouTube millionaires would start their own chain.

The definition of optimization is now incredibly murky. Back in the days with CGI, each component does one thing and one thing only. Then we moved to fully server based web applications around ASP era. After JS frameworks became popular there is a front-end and back-end split.

Monolithic server with load balancer can do the exact same thing. The containers on the cloud could in theory spins infinite number of instances, but they are still all virtual servers running on hardware blades, very much the same as processes and threading on monolithic servers.

Cloud servers are now much harder to manage. A couple of years ago when it was wild west of cloud servers, just putting things on there and applications would run. But now there are so many security concerns and dependency issues, most businesses once again needs server administrators to manage the cloud instances.

As a tech person, there is a benefit to distributed ledger for access control. But yeah, it’s basically reinventing the wheel for no visible differences.

Two major changes made this my favorite Lego games, first is to make collectables as quests, thus there is a catalog of what had been collected and what’s still missing; second being the NPCs now have dialogs, making them more than just background objects.

Remember when Nintendo announced Sora on this one other title was released on the same day? I kinda get the feeling that Nintendo is now flexing their muscle at third party. Would be hilarious if Mario Kart 8 Booster Course 2 comes out on the same day as Disney Speedstorm.

I would say it doesn’t necessarily have to be about evil, just red, since China use red on everything domestic and international, so Red Game just mean Chinese nationalistic games. How scary it is is up to viewer’s interpretation.

There are a bunch of them on Kotaku alone, here are some of the top search results:

I still stand by that Red Game gets approved far easier than any other game, it hasn’t changed. Just look at the requirement for the government approval for publishing.

To my understanding, the basis for approval is that they have to always shown Chinese government in positive light, cannot show foreign government in positive view, restriction on killing and sexual contents...

They definitely are, but my point remains that here in the west anyone can make an anti-imperialist game and doesn’t need for it to be approved.

Keep in mind when they said “quality of the games”, it usually mean however much the party likes them. So “Red Games” have far better chance at getting approved than the next global sensation.