Hades II tops the list so hard, it even brought the previous game up with it!
I initially questioned whether something like Monster Hunter World (now that it’s been stripped of Denuvo) would also make sense for whatever they’re doing with it, and then I realized this might be in a convention setting, so maybe better to not run a demo of a game with an hour of setup (character creation + progressing far enough to save and quit)
“…the Holy Roman Empire.” (Quickly and quietly) “It’s actually Germany, but don’t worry about it”
Edit: to be clear, I was quoting Bill Wurtz
Remember when Facebook’s overarching company bought out Oculus? Well, some VR games seem to start out as exclusives on the “quest” headsets. (I know Facebook [the parent company] changed their name to “Meta”, but I refuse to acknowledge that)
I don’t have the tech-saavy for emulation, and I’ll still wait for console exclusives to come out on PC (unless we’re talking Nintendo exclusives I’m actually interested in). I’ve actively waited for Ghost Signal: A Stellaris Game to no longer be a Facebook exclusive, and now I’m doing the same for Out Of Scale.
In a roundabout way, you could argue both were factors.
Twitter’s echo chamber becoming cacophonous with spite and worse means less people visiting the site, and refusal to support the site would be a better look, but that pr move might be easier on the corporate wallet as well.
That being said, I question how that applies in this context. Corporate leadership doesn’t exactly strike me as trustworthy nor worthy of mercy, although that could be a lean toward cynicism on my part.
Do we have any estimates as to how long it takes for a species of bacteria to go technically extinct entirely via genetic drift?
So, let’s say there’s a species of bacteria that is known to dwell in Greek yogurt. How long would it take before that species of yogurt-dweller only has modern descendants different enough to qualify as one or more new species?
Considering this and No Man’s Sky having to spend YEARS clawing back good will, I think the lesson here is “don’t make deals with AAA publishers”.
Yeah, maybe it would make more sense to just hook up an electrical mimic-fireplace to a fusion reactor’s electrical output, than to use the actual helium plasma exhaust to mimic flames, come to think of it.
How would you go about determining where you’ve already been in 1.20 caves?
I’m tempted to start making oddly specific small statues made of random materials, maybe with limbs pointing to the previous statue in a sequence. Is there a better method?
No, that still probably wouldn’t work out, as the other comments have pointed out. Just clarifying that the dangerous aspects of what I asked wouldn’t involve uranium in particular.
True, but I was specifically talking about nuclear fusion, which would entail helium/hydrogen plasma rather than fissionable material.
If nuclear fusion were to become useful for residential heating, could the plasma be useful for fake fireplaces?
When I say “fake fireplace”, I mean something like those structures fueled by fossil methane that produce flame and heat but obviously don’t burn actual wood
The way you used italics, I gotta ask, is excommunication coming from the Presbyterians unusual compared to other Christian groups?
…by coming back as a yurei to haunt the people who wronged you? I’m not following.
Do we have any theories as to why complex life eventually started requiring various metal elements as micronutrients?
For example, why did zinc, of all things, start getting utilized by brain and prostate tissue in humans?
How do some animals (or at least humans) manage to generate more force than their own muscles are rated to handle?
Just as an example, there were evidently reports during the 2007 Glasgow airport attack that someone attempting to subdue the assailant and assist police kicked said attacker in the testicles… but somehow managed to do so hard enough to injure one of their own foot tendons.
Would the frame/stockiness of a Neanderthal be a better fit for high-gravity conditions than a modern human?
Do we know whether Australian magpies have similar intelligence to true corvids?
…I’m out of the loop, are sorcerers somehow less effective in social and/or combat encounters with specifically blue and bronze dragons?
“Oh, no, those powers require being the kid in that situation…”
Depending on the setting and its origins, perhaps a scholarly Bard would work well.
Do we know of a means by which artificial nuclear fusion could be used to mimic stellar carbon-12 production?
Do we know of a means by which artificial nuclear fusion could be used to mimic stellar carbon-12 production?
Yeah, you could easily reflavor component-requiring Animal Friendship as “just feeding the animal and somehow flawlessly avoiding harm”, just to make it ambiguous whether this is actually magic or just mundane.
I haven’t actually seen this being used, but since Hypnotic Pattern in DND5E can require a stick of incense as a component if you’re using spell components, I imagined someone casting that by twirling a thurible (incense burner on a chain) above their head, and somehow physically throwing the scent into the targeted area, and then a (mostly) harmless explosion of colorful, sparkly gas charms any affected targets through sheer fascination.
Yeah, I think there’s a vast difference between what we have now (ChatGPT and whatnot), vs the theoretical possibility of an AGI (artificial general intelligence), or even an AI based entirely off of human neural patterns. Mind you, brain uploading sounds hard, so maybe I’d see a completely synthetic AGI as more likely.
But if we were ever to develop an AGI, we’d better start giving those things humanesque rights fast.
The first sentence made me think “alright, Kingdom of Loathing”, but I don’t know if goblins in that universe imprint on people.
Come to think of it, there may have been one character in West of Loathing that popped, respawned, and had no memory loss at all, so never mind.
I was thinking something like a chisel, but yeah, these comments suggest even that would break before the ice.
Is PLA a good material for 3D printing a tool intended to remove pack ice from a driveway?
Considering tigers may have a mental capacity for revenge, is it more accurate to call them vengeful or spiteful when wronged?
Do some animal species relocate their populations over the course of centuries or millenia, to the point of self-extirpation in their original territory?
What somewhat-“friendly” bacteria species are common in Greek yogurt, and would their gut presence likely increase consumption of other dairy?
Did our understanding of the function of human eosinophil cells change substantially in recent years, and if so, why?
What are the most common chemical elements in pc gaming electronics (actual PC tower and monitor, sim equipment such as a HOTAS) by mass?
Apparently some humans are born with two spleens. What evolutionary pressures likely created the trait, and what future pressures could drive second spleens to become more common?
Do we have enough evidence of Neanderthal leatherworking to replicate the techniques for ourselves?