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Heya Wishtap, The new merch store is coming - look forward to letting the community know!

Rob Grant, co-creator of Red Dwarf

Hi Ali-Sama, Thanks for the affirmation and welcome to the community. Please reach out as you get your footing amidst the trolls, denizens, stalkers, and regulars

Hi there, I will follow-up via DM. Fionavar

I decided to buy Atomfall with all the DLC and Im going to play it next I have heard good things about this game 🤖

While I don't know, having never developed a game myself, I would strongly suspect making a 2D game with isometric presentation to be considerably more straight-forward, and has you using your hours on something that leverages your gameplay and not something that's only under the hood. Instead of x-y-z you only have to think in x-y. I guess the most direct analogy is maths when you have to add dimensions, as the product is non-linear: 2x times 2y is 4, while 2x times 2y times 2z is 8 -- double the total of what you had to take in account going only x-y. For example you can drop everything about 3D rendering, lighting, more complex pathing, etc etc. The Pillars games' presentation is rendered 3D, so it's 2D when you're playing the game. The only things still real-time rendered in 3D are basically the characters / NPC's, and a miniscule numbers of special effects, some doors et cetera. But because the characters are in 3D, they still had to add dynamic lighting on top of their 2D. The final product is as you know absolutely beautiful, but there's still considerable time investment to achieve it. But again, the gameplay is 2D. Again, I'm not a game developer so take my thoughts for what they are. But I hope they've given you some things to consider. Best of luck to you whatever you choose!

Didn't Valve only add the mechanic in this way to get around all the scrutiny that "regular" loot box gambling mechanics got?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2026/02/20/mamdani-nyc-budget-affordability-crisis/ Fareed Zakaria has written an article highlighting serious concerns around Mamdani's budget and plans to deliver on his promises to make NY " affordable " This is almost always the case with socialist promises, they end up with a massive tax bill because how do you pay for it? He also raises a trend around financial mismanagement seen in several Dem controlled cities I have included the full article below and I would encourage everyone to read it who is following Mamdani and his plans going forward "Zohran Mamdani ran on a promise to make New York City affordable. This week, he unveiled a budget that is, in a word, unaffordable. New York has been fiscally profligate for so long that the headline number — $127 billion — produces little shock. But for perspective, these are similar to the annual expenditures of a midsize nation (with all the expenses a country requires) — like Greece or Thailand — devoted to governing one city. New York City’s budget has ballooned in recent years. Mike Bloomberg’s last budget, adopted for fiscal 2014, totaled about $70 billion. In little more than a decade, the budget has nearly doubled, growing faster than inflation and faster than the city’s economic growth. And much of it has happened as the city has been losing the one thing that makes big government easier to finance: people. New York City’s population fell sharply amid the pandemic, with a 5.3 percent decline from April 2020 to July 2022. More recent reports show a rebound, but the city remained below its 2020 baseline as of 2024. The arithmetic is brutal: A larger bill is divided among fewer payers. Per person, the imbalance is stark. Using the Lincoln Institute’s fiscally standardized numbers, New York’s general spending in 2023 was more than 30 percent higher per capita than Los Angeles’s — and more than double Houston’s. And what do New Yorkers get for this? Look at New York City schools, the largest district in the country. The city’s education budget has climbed while enrollment has shrunk. It has risen from roughly $34 billion in 2019 to more than $40 billion, with per-student spending projected to reach nearly $35,000 in fiscal 2026 — among the highest in the nation. The outputs — graduation numbers, test scores and reading levels — are at best middling, often comparable to places that spend a fraction of what New York does. Now come the taxes — because every political argument in New York eventually ends up at the same curbside: Who will pay? New York City already sits at the extreme end of the American tax spectrum. For high earners, the combined state and city income tax rate reaches 14.776 percent. Add federal taxes, and the combined marginal rate can exceed 50 percent, reaching roughly 55 percent on certain investment income. New Yorkers pay tax rates comparable to those in European countries that provide, in return, universal health care, free college education and amazing infrastructure. New Yorkers get some 300 miles of sidewalk sheds and construction fences. On business taxation, the city is also off the charts. The Citizens Budget Commission reports that New York City business activity faces the country’s highest combined marginal corporate tax rate — 17.44 percent once state, city and regional layers are stacked. Mamdani wants to hike income and corporate rates even further, or else he says he will raise property taxes by almost 10 percent. Property taxes already made up more than 27 percent of the costs of homeownership in the city as of 2022, above the national average. New York is really the prime example of a problem Democrats seem unwilling to confront. Blue cities are out of control, promising more, spending more, delivering less and pushing off the fiscal problems to some future day. Take Los Angeles — another one-party metropolis wrestling with affordability and disorder. The city’s homelessness budget for fiscal 2025-2026 totals about $950 million. The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority reported that in 2023 homelessness was up 9 percent countywide and 10 percent in the city, and a 2024 Associated Press account noted that homelessness has surged 70 percent countywide since 2015 (and 80 percent in the city) amid public frustration “despite billions spent.” An audit reviewed $2.4 billion in city homelessness funding and found that officials could not reliably track where it went or what it achieved. Or take Chicago, with a mayor whose approval rating is deep underwater and where the pension promises are so large that they will surely bankrupt the city at some point. What is the theory of good government here? If the answer is “keep adding programs,” the city will keep producing unaffordability — because unaffordability is what happens when government becomes a machine that grows faster than the society it governs. Mamdani’s basic instinct is right. Focus on affordability, especially housing. But not by providing government subsidies — these only seem to have driven up the cost of rent, as subsidies naturally do. (The city’s rental-assistance spending rose from $263 million in fiscal 2020 to $1.34 billion in the most recent reported fiscal year. That is a fivefold increase in a handful of years — and housing costs only got worse.) Matt Yglesias persuasively argues that the city should make it easy — and routine — to build abundant market-rate housing. That will bring in more people, expand the tax base, fill the schools and increase local GDP. And that will make the budget affordable. Democrats in city halls can make the right choice: stop governing as if the goal is to announce new entitlements, and instead make government work — safer streets, functioning schools, predictable sanitation and, above all, enough housing that the middle class can find places to live. New York does not need more soaring rhetoric. It needs more homes."

At the risk of sounding negative that gets harder and harder in an increasingly overcrowded world 😖 Social media doesn’t help either, as people have long since worked out negativity is more profitable

If we don't get a frog boss I'm rioting

This is Reduvius Personatus (or the Masked Hunter bug) I was thinking of the Playground area which is more than likely going to be like the sandbox from the first game. Obviously there will be antlions, but I was thinking of a bug that could replace the antlions in some situations. I present you, with Reduvius Personatus. They can attach things like sand grains to their bodies, and at night, actively hunt prey. If there's going to be a sandy area, there are more than likely going to be a ton of new bugs to help diversify, (example: Camel Spiders, new scorpion variants, and even the adult Antlions), but I wanna just throw this one out there. For how it would be likely encountered or fought, I'd imagine it be like if you gave a Northern Scorpion steroids. They're incredibly stealthy, venomous, and very fast. With them being mostly nocturnal hunters, traveling the playground area at night (to avoid sizzle damage) would mean you'd have to constantly be ready to fight one. I have no idea what tier they'd be put into, but I personally would put them T3 or above. The main issue in terms of combat however, is that they use paralyzing enzymes to rapidly immobilize prey. I don't know how this would work, because I feel like this would be largely unfair due to how quick you'd be able to die to one. A paralyzing effect could be added where it builds up like chill, slowing you down over time but with the added negative effect of that it damages you too. As for their size, since Obsidian has taken a lot of creative liberties in the sizes of creatures and the world around us, so I genuinely have no clue for how big they could be in game. If you have any suggestions for this, don't hesitate to add them in the replies

Valve getting sued in New York for loot boxes. Or at least, that's the headline version. Seems to be more about there being a marketplace for selling the results of loot boxes than the mechanic itself, which is why they're targeting Valve/ Steam specifically instead of other who just use loot boxes. IMO, should have happened way sooner.

Hi, I love the game so far it calms me down. So while playing the game I have told friends and family about Grounded2 and It would be cool to add more players to the game (More kids). And if you add more bugs could you add centipedes, monarch butterflies, flies, Daddy long leg spiders, frogs, turtles. And then with the furniture cis their a purpose or just for decoration? Can you also add more fruits and vegetables ? That’s all i have for now but great game!!!! I’m loving it.

Finished Norse: Oath Of Blood. It is a buggy mess. It could have a bit more content. The content it does have though is good. The story is well written. The world is fleshed out. Once you get to recruit people, you have way more hirdmen than you'll ever need to use in battles. Actually, on normal difficulty the ones you get while progressing the story are more than enough I really enjoyed it when I wasn't battling corrupted save games... Once they have sorted out the bugs it is a good tactical game.

I have completely missed it yesterday, but classic FFVII has been released on GOG https://www.gog.com/en/news/final_fantasy_vii_is_now_out_with_a_limitedtime_discount_alongside_classic_final_fantasy_deals

First one I noticed, is that whatever enchantment I chose for any weapon on my first run, remains locked to every subsequent run. I thought maybe when I found a new version of the weapon I'd get to change it on that one, but no. Not sure if this is a bug or meant to be this way. Since I messed around with weapons in the first run that I didn't plan on using, this means some are now locked to enchantments I wouldn't have chosen if I were actually going to utilize those weapons. Second is, around level 13 your companions abilities will be complete. However, they'll still accumulate points which means you have an big ol' exclamation mark on your abilities tab for the rest of the game because you can't spend those points. Not only that, if you don't turn off the 'Level Up Notification' setting, every now and then you'll get a pop up on your screen telling you that you have unspent ability points. For those of us that feel the need to clear the little exclamation points from all the tabs every time we open the character screen.. this will eventually drive us all insane.

I don't think anyone posted it yet but a big shakeup at the top of Obsidian's corporate overlord: Phil Spencer is retiring, Sarah Bond is leaving. Matt Booty is still there and gets to be a "chief content officer" while the new CEO job goes to Asha Sharma the president of Microsoft’s CoreAI product. Proof will be in the pudding, but her background doesn't inspire me with confidence. The VergeInside Microsoft’s big Xbox leadership shake-upMicrosoft has a new gaming CEO

I submitted my applications for the Obsidian sumer internship program but I haven't heard anything back at all. Does no email back to me mean I didn't make the cut or are they still deciding?

the raids came really late for me aswell. Maybe you have to finish the story before the raids are coming.

i have the same issue with the german (qwertz) layout. even switching to qwerty doensn't solve this problem.

I'm kind of itching for a mostly overpowered mage type game, vs over-gimped ones, that isn't from the 1990's. Tainted Grail was kinda like that by late game but already played that one. Sometimes I want mega-power-creep characters and screw any balance. Running around in MM7 spamming that Dark GM spell Souldrinker that covered a huge area was fun. Wish I could still get into that game - too many years ago tho.

Yeah I saw Daniel Owens vid re: those. Seems reasonable. The 1st game was pretty well optimized (imo) for the results at the time, was expecting similar. That engine they use seems pretty decent re: that stuff. The concept of a different upscaling offering is kinda interesting too, although nvidia users probably have no reason to use it over dlss.

AP NewsSupreme Court rules the Postal Service can't be sued, eve...A divided Supreme Court has ruled that Americans can’t sue the U.S. Postal Service, even when employees deliberately refuse to deliver mail.Shouldn't be using mail-in voting anymore: your post office would seem to be allowed to steal or destroy your mail without repercussion now.

I always thought it looked similar to malachite