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[tasti man LH]

Oh, forgot to do this.

Season 3 (!!!) begins with a mini-series...of Changeling: the Lost 2nd Edition, featuring a familiar fae pathfinder, the Vatheck! It's the Vatheck's Oath.

Episode 1: Durance



Episode 2: Dream Warriors

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[tasti man LH]

That's not the issue though.

Because as of right now, we ONLY have the artists' word that that's the intent of the ad:...

[tasti man LH]

Yeah, they got both.



There is not, no.

Although the way how it's described, my impression has always been that, despite the name, they aren't actually the materials from the Skinlands side. So if you managed to bring a True Silver weapon across the Shroud and into the Skinlands, I don't think it's supposed to work like regular silver on a werewolf.

In general there isn't a whole lot of crossover bits, nor are they REALLY a major focus. There's some token stuff, like hinting at Mirrorlands wraiths' interactions with the Samedi bloodline, the...

[tasti man LH]

Art direction doesn’t really fit Dreaming. The monochromatic color does seem to evoke CofD art design...but if it’s a new CofD gameline, seems a bit premature to announce one now while Deviant is still nowhere near complete....

[tasti man LH]

And Polygon was able to talk with the artist who made the image to ask what happened.

So from my perspective, and considering myself a neutral party (due to a.) not identifying as trans, and b.) not CDPR fan):

Looking at it by itself and considering nothing else...yeah, it does work as a topic to be explored through the lens of cyberpunk. That yeah, it would make sense that in a world where other sexualities and gender identities would find more mainstream acceptance...which means more exploitation from big business and that its obsession with hypersexualized advertisement...

[tasti man LH]

Lands of Gold/South American Underworld....

[tasti man LH]

...ok, just to clarify:

I meant couch co-op as a feature, not the feature.

Where the idea of couch co-op is just one of many features that a single game has, but not necessarily the focus. Just one of many gameplay modes that a game has. Since in that regard...yeah if a game is trying to be a bunch of things, a couple of them are going to fall to the wayside.

Because yes, of course if the game was designed with couch co-op in mind, a lot more focus would be given to polish it up to make sure it was running smoothly.



...that's the...

[tasti man LH]

Meanwhile I'm still like:

"Did they say anything about Metroid Prime 4 or Pikmin 4? If no, no fucks are given!!!" lol

(yes I'm aware of the development reboot of MP4, don't @ me)

[tasti man LH]

Honestly? I don't think there's THAT much of a conspiracy behind the loss of couch co-op in AAA games.

As mentioned before, the tech behind games have become increasingly more advanced and complex. Aiming for higher fidelity and more systems running at the same time.

Because of that, any co-op beyond 2 players are getting harder to run.

Having more then one instance of a player character running around on top of running AIs and whatever scripted sequences in non is going to tank the performance and framerate on a single console, and HARD. It's why when you...

[tasti man LH]

Well we are using completely different methods of collecting errata......

[tasti man LH]

I mean. What other alternative is there, aside from just canceling the entire AAA game industry?...

[tasti man LH]

So if for SOME REASON you still had doubts...

"Yes, we are 4 realz doing vampire-Dishonored"

[tasti man LH]

That's fair. That said...

Frankly, I don't think crunch as a concept is ever going away.

With games tech increasingly getting more advanced and more complex, and the gaming public's ever growing thirst for "more" is going to prompt developers to throw more people and more manpower at it.

It's either that or every game ever is going to take more then a decade to get made.

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Ok just going to keep things brief then usual, since right now I don't have it in me to do the usual...

[tasti man LH]

...what, have they still not apologized sufficiently for the "accidentally" transphobic comments?



Betting time people, how long will it take before CDPR announces a delay for CP2077???...

[tasti man LH]

...aaand can't watch the streams for Microsoft or Bethesda due to work today.

Tell me all about it later, on who does/does not fuck up!!!

[tasti man LH]

And in the worse case, there's always STVault......

[tasti man LH]

Alright, just getting this out of the way because otherwise EA's E3 2019 press conference has only the one thing that interests me...

Jedi Fallen Order looks cool. But, as usual...

Don't fuck this up, EA!!!

[tasti man LH]

Ok, I'm by no means an expert on the Vodou religion, culture, and it's variations, but going off from a quick scan on Wikipedia...

...what we now know as Haitian Vodou has origins in West Africa. And that we even had a sidebar saying that yes, there are two different Mirrorlands: the one that's part of the Ivory Kingdom and the other one that's part of Haiti. So it doesn't seem out of place to have that here.

And the "gumbo" bit is supposed to be in reference to Ghede deliberately looking at other cultures that fell to colonialism in an attempt to find. Which...

[tasti man LH]

Ok, I'm about to head to bed so I can't talk about all of this, but...



Uhm...no it hasn't?

Specifically: the Bush itself hasn't. It's only the "Ivory Mirrorlands" that has. And the Plantation isn't something that was forcefully imposed on the wraiths there. It's an elaborate lie that the leader, Ghede, spearheaded in an effort to save the Ivory Mirrorlands from being taken over by Ya'Qub, and to buy time so their corner of the Ivory Kingdom can prepare and ready themselves to directly fight Ya'Qub and his army....

[tasti man LH]

No clue. Only way to know for sure is when the errata page closes.



...in what way?

(bear in mind that from the beginning, I don't think it was ever meant to be on the same scope of, say, M20's Book of Secrets or C20's Player's Guide)



"When it's done".

Meaning: errata needs to finish collection, integrated into the book, sent back to layout if necessary to accommodate for shifts in the text, get the PoD proofs to make sure everything's ok, and THEN opening it up for DrivethruRPG.

All of which...