As long as they don’t actually steal any assets or character designs it’s pretty safe - that’s the only thing they could DMCA taken down for, and it’s usually what kills clones, like all the Chinese ripoffs of Overwatch.

The original game heavily ripped off Big Lebowski and Pulp Fiction*, wholesale lifting entire lines of dialogue and characters** from both movies, back in the days when you could do that. I wonder if that’ll be preserved in these more litigious times.

The basic improvement is that you can count on really fast low latency scatter-gather reads with (rumored) hardware decompression. You no longer have to read something, ‘absorb’ it, and write it to RAM where you want it. You just say ‘load this here, load that here, load that here, load this there, GO’ and they just…

DQB2 on PC with SSD is pretty darn fast, but Switch is no speed-demon for loading - even the internal ‘drive’ is slow. They do try their best by pre-loading most things on the first long load.

This was a double edged sword for me. On one edge I was pretty amazed by some of the stuff they were showing, genuinely impressed, and I’m glad I got to see them.

That’s the trouble with DLC that takes a year to come out (or what seems like a year). Even if I wanted to play more KH3 it’s been so long since I’ve played that I’ve forgotten everything. so it’d be a miserable experience - so pass.

It’s usually not this bad, but yeah it’s been a thing forever.

Studio Deen is infamous for their kwalitee... but this is pretty impressive even for Studio Deen.

Could it be that Techland is actually attempting to release a non-janky game for the first time ever? That seems unpossible... but even Obsidian were able to change.

Yeah, the $25 is an expensive one with great meat, seafood (shrimp, crab), bing-su bar, drink bar, everything’s all you can eat, and best of all you get to make your own broth so you can get it as spicy or tonkatsu or miso or garlic or mala as you want.  This is where we go to for special occasions.

I’m sure it’s like putting on headphones.  Nobody wants to talk to you for hours, but as soon as you put your headphones on every f@#$ing person in the company decides that’s the right time to bother you. (‘Oh, he must not be busy!’)

I would actually like this for a nap in the afternoon - if that’s all it’s used for.

That’s true, when you’re fixing a bug you’re fixing maybe 0.75 bugs on average.

Yeah, I’ve died a couple times, usually of shame, but still totally worth it.

@Ryan: I thought you did a really good job of explaining this terribly complex result for the space given and the audience.

I think salmonella is the least of your food safety worries in China.

The civilized thing to do is just go to an all you can eat place, there are a couple here where $25 will get you two broths in a yin-yang pot then unlimited lamb, beef, chicken, fish, noodles, veggies, tofu, whatever you want without worrying about the cost.

My crap show is Slayers, but I know it’s a Denny’s show and I know the Slayers video games were crap and will freely admit it. The key is being self aware enough to know and admit it’s crap and then owning it anyhow.

Making money isn’t bad - I hope every good game makes tons of money. It’s more a matter of whether you’re trying to make a decent game for the players’ money or just crapping out the minimum saleable product because you know the brand alone will let you sell crud. i.e., where licensed video games were in the 90s.

A big part of it is that even failing a roll is usually hilarious, sometimes informative, and often successfully moves you along. In most RPGs failing a stat roll is all punishment, but here usually the worst that happens is a ding on your health/sanity so you’re free to choose whatever looks interesting even if your…