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Shade Aurion

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  1. Shade Aurion

    Pokemon General

    From what i've seen, I don't like any of the starters. Grooky is probably the best final evo. They others.. wtf And that poor fox thing is going straight into the hentai blender
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    Pokemon General

    So, I finally bought a Switch. I had one but it became my partners so now I have my own and my pre-order set for Sword.
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    Diablo 4

    They shared thematic concepts but the skills had pretty big differences that affected builds. Expiries on the summons was pretty lame TBH I don't know how much got eventually patched but at launch, but it was pretty underwhelming and felt gimmicky if anything and a much more active class as opposed to the former version which was more about raising an army to fight for you while you provide support. There's a lot of pros and cons but overall it was a different experience. I know a few people that were a bit annoyed with it. All in all, a different beast. If you enjoyed it though, that's good. To me, it just didn't feel worth making one let alone paying for it. 5 classes to start off with is fine but each DLC should add 2 classes. That would be a nice bit of fan service and frankly, Blizzard should be doing a lot more of that to make up for their recent shortcomings. I mean they could make up for it all with words but political action i'm not so sure. Just developing more good shit and not standing by bad politics. I mean fuck, republicans and democrats alike were up in arms over their recent actions. After the repeat backlash, they should stick to making games so it can all blow over. Recapture some of that magic for people. I'm sure Overwatch 2 will go a long way toward that. I'm torn personally. I want new classes and returning old classes. Or at least some of the more prevalent abilities
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    Small YouTube Channels Suggestion Topic

    1000 subs, 10,000 views and 240,000 minutes of watch time within a year actually. They moved the goal posts like 3 times for monetization sadly
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    Diablo 4

    In my defense, i'm going half off memory and half off shit i've read Regardless, it seems strange for Brack to act like freedom of speech is Blizzard policy when it obviously isn't. IF (and it's a big if) IF they have changed their stance than there is nothing to prove that currently except them not firing the presenter who said "sounds good to me" which amounts to very little. Frankly, if they were changing their approach they'd condemn the posts by netease on the official chinese Hearthstone twitter instead of acting like it didn't happen and unfire those two innocent presenters instead of making bullshit excuses. If this is supposed to be Blizzard "doing better going forward" there is a lot left to be desired, that's for sure. It's sad really that a paltry 4.9% of investor stock can swing a company from being all about freedom and unity to pandering to the likes of an authoritarian communist dictatorship or at the very least, a company that stands by those positions. Either way, their words will forever be empty to me til I see a real example of them standing by their community and the values they've claimed to stand by for years. As it is, it's just sad to see a developer I previously held in such high regard sell out so obviously while making bullshit excuses all the way to the bank. Sad and pathetic. Somehow that interview and the forced takedown of a social media post flew under the radar for the most part so I figured i'd share while the topic was still relevant. I mainly quoted you not to direct that comment at you but because it's a sentiment ive seen many share without knowing about the other stuff. Personally i'm not taking their word anymore. --- As for Diablo 4, what i'd love to see is them bring back all the old classes from 1 and 2 complete with skill trees. It rubbed me the wrong way at first when Diablo 3 broke tradition and just mix and matched/recycled rather than making new classes like 2 did after 1. It grew on me eventually but the Necromancer was way less good. I'd like to see a return to form at least partially mechanics-wise for re-used character classes and if they are going to bring classes back, bring them all back. Variety is always a good thing and the roadmap is already there in Diablo 1 and 2. It'd be nice to have a Warrior, Rogue, Barbarian, Paladin, Sorceror, Sorceress, Assassin, Druid, Necromancer, Amazon, Monk, Witch Doctor, Demon Hunter, and Crusader to choose from and after they overcharged for the Necromancer DLC, they could really make the effort for some fan service because that was pretty damn cheap of them. I'd also love to see some lesser evils come back, like Duriel and such. Maybe bring back Mephisto so he isn't nearly as much of a complete joke
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    Destiny 2

    Well, I guess I better get my ass on Iron Banana Edit Boom, 951
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    Destiny 2

    951?! MT you savage! I'm only 941. Speaking of seasons, I need to get on that. I want the titan armor ornaments. Wings ftw!
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    Small YouTube Channels Suggestion Topic

    Under 500 subs is oddly specific πŸ˜› I doubt I follow many under that low tier but there are plenty of channels if you know what to look for. I follow plenty of artists, philosophy, science, history, yoga/work out, craft, destruction, music, comics, comedy, etc channels but if a channel is good at something, they tend to get subscribers
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    q3M

    He will or he won't? πŸ˜›
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    Diablo 4

    I dunno about that. Seems like an empty apology filled with posturing to me https://www.pcgamer.com/au/blizzard-president-clarifies-decision-to-ban-hearthstone-player-and-two-casters-over-hong-kong-controversy/ PC Gamer: I wanted to revisit the statement you made at the beginning of the opening ceremony yesterday. You said Blizzard is "committed to everyone's right to express themselves in all kinds of ways and all kinds of places," and you made a commitment to do better going forward and that your actions are going to matter more than words do. Are you going to be repealing the punishment against Blitzchung and the two Taiwanese casters involved in this incident? J. Allen Brack, Blizzard president: We are not. Why? So, one of the things that we talked about in the commitment to expression about all kinds of ways and all kinds of places, is the fact that we're huge believers in free speech, and we're huge believers in free expression. We have a long history of that being part of the culture of the company for employees. That's certainly part of the culture of the relationship that we have with the community. And so employees are free to post on their social media accounts. If you think about the people that we have that are esports athletes, our Grandmasters, or anyone who is participating in esports, they're free to say and do whatever they want on their social channels. I feel like we have a far more open set of guidelines and policies than really any other traditional sport that takes a view around making sure that all of the people stay on message. And so, that's how we think about free expression and how we've contextualized it. We want the official broadcasts, which are a small percentage of the overall content that gets created, to be about the games. And we want those to be focused on the games. Again, it's not about the content of Blitzchung's message. It's about the fact that it was not around the games. If we hadn't taken action, if we hadn't done something, you can imagine the trail that would be in our future around doing interviews. They would become times for people to make a statement about whatever they wanted to, on whatever issue. That's just a path that we don't want to go down. We really want the content of those official broadcasts to be focused on the games, and keep that focus. So Blizzard's perspective is that, of course you want players to express themselves, except for when it's taking place through official channels? That's right. Is it fair to say that if Blitzchung had said any political message, it would have incurred the same punishment? It wasn't that he was specifically calling for Hong Kong's freedom, it was that he was saying anything political? That's correct. The content was not the problem. It was the fact that it was not about the game in question, it was something very specifically different. I think, and I don't want to speculate around if he had said this, that, or the other, and how would it have goneβ€”I think that's a difficult thing to think about, but it's not about the content of his message. There are many people that are supportive of him and his message. --- Sounds all well and good right? Exceeeept.. https://www.vg247.com/2019/11/03/overwatch-coach-hong-kong-tweet/ So he's outright lying here. And then also the fact that this announcer is allowed to say things like "Sounds good" when people support free speech and democracy but he doesn't lose his job so I guess those other two announcers who did nothing wrong were only fired to appease Chinese stock holders. Lets also not forget that J Allen Brack is wearing a LGBT pin during his 'faux apology' so clearly certain politics are apparently okay. He's just a hypocrite and pandering to that 4.9% of Chinese stockholders. In summation, Blizzard are outright lying and this 'apology' is worthless. He said actions matter more than words and you know what? He's right. --- I stand by my previous position. I'll probably play Diablo 4 but the magic is dead. There are good developers in Blizzard but the higher ups are just corporate shills who will happily sell out Blizzards morals for Chinese money. Now Blizzard stand beside Activision, EA and Bethesda for useless corporations focused only on making money whatever the cost.
  11. Shade Aurion

    [Gaming Chat]

    It's sad honestly. Just a symptom of shitty giant publishers eating a company and then milking franchises while knickle and diming their demographic until the original developers leave. That said, these days Activision are giving EA a run for their money on being a villainous corporation lol
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    Diablo 4

    I'll probably play this but the Blizzard magic is def gone for me. Like Bethesda i've just lost that respect and admiration I had for them. Looks like D4 is going to have a similar skill tree to D2 so thats a nice touch and the gameplay does look fun. I'd be a begrudged purchase for sure XD
  13. Shade Aurion

    Destiny 2

    Farken siiiick cuuuunt ❀️
  14. Shade Aurion

    Destiny 2

    PM me a permanent link to your Center discord
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    Destiny 2

    That's because im always set to offline or invisible πŸ˜› I'm down to play with you guys though. I miss you mofos ❀️
  16. Shade Aurion

    [Gaming Chat]

    Some absolute savage has finished it in 25 minutes already XD
  17. Shade Aurion

    Dr Stone

    Waiting for each episode hurts me deep inside.. SEEEEEENKUUUUUUUU!!!!!!
  18. Shade Aurion

    [Gaming Chat]

    Hard to compete with Netflix and HBO. I actually play a fair bit of Fallout 76 as my co-hosts and I were doing a Let's Play series. It is just.. so vapid, empty and boring.. The vast vast majority of content is just recycled randomized RNG rather than anything of substance. I still haven't played Nuclear Winter because every time i've tried to play it, I gave up on waiting after an hour. Literally every update that drops breaks a whole bunch of stuff that never even gets mentioned. Like the third last update put my base halfway into the ground and I couldn't get into it. Certain areas never ended up rendering and you'd be killed by invisible enemies or just fall through the ground.. but I think the worst thing is Bethesda's general attitude. I thought it would be hard to top Blizzard's recent bullshit but honestly, how many times in succession can a developer directly fuck over their demographic and have a demographic left to fuck over. The failed launch, the canvas bags, the shitty 500 atoms to make up for the bags, the bags being eventually delivered but late, customers being mass doxxed trying to get their bags, the failed nuka rum, the mouldy nuka world power armor helmet controversy, them going back on their grandstanding about the "line" or morality when it comes to microtransactions, the paid subscription debacle, the private servers not actually being private servers but instances where players have left the world empty, the unlimited scrap box actually deleting all your scrap.. and that's just off the top of my head. Just a constant stream of negative PR and yeah, I kinda don't give a shit about TES6 now. I'll still do another 3 or so eps of Fallout 76 but I have only played it as it was fun to play with friends. FYI half the episodes are just bitching about Bethesda and pointing out broken retarded shit. I did also grab that $1 game pass. I'll be starting Outer Worlds tonight. Just had work, did some Halloween episodes and some Festival of the Lost shit in Derpstiny
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    Destiny 2

    I kinda play a few times a week. 940+ atm I want that Reverie Dawn Set πŸ˜›
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    [Gaming Chat]

    The second was having anything to do with Epic beyond making their game available there. Game devs need to start signing pre-nups
  21. Shade Aurion

    Destiny 2

    I'll probably start playing again once it's released on Steam. I really hope they re-release Destiny 1 on Steam too and now Activision has essentially fucked off (good!) maybe things like matchmaking in raids and nightfalls can become a thing. So far i'm liking Bungie's decisions though they have a long way to go to jiggle off the scum that Activision so generously coated them in.
  22. Shade Aurion

    Nintendo General

    I wouldn't say it's a strange complaint at all. Frankly it'd be ideal. Then we'd have a fully portable, a dedicated console and an intermediary all for the same generation of games. Sure some games aren't playable but it'd be fine to have access to most games portably, have access to higher spec games console only and be able to 'Switch' with the OG ?
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    Pokemon General

    It's literally the official english slogan. They tried to retire it and it persisted so it was officially brought back along with the website in 2013 - https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Gotta_catch_'em_all! For Nintendo to act shocked that people expect that now that they have less limitations across the board.. well, this sums it up perfectly
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    Nintendo General

    Frankly I wouldn't be surprised if this was the gimmick for the 'New' Nintendo Switch Pro. Higher specs but no portable option. Just a dedicated console.
  25. Shade Aurion

    Pokemon General

    Exactly and frankly, that is fine but they need to stop acting like what they're doing is ground-breaking. It's another eD pokemon game. The only thing ground-breaking is their audacity to omit any Pokemon in a game about "catching them all" lol Any Pokemon left out is potentially someone's favourite. Just increase the res on the existing models and it looks fine and boom, there is the national dex. You can increase Citra's resolution up to 4k and the models smooth out perfectly. There's literally no good excuse not to add things in later. They just fucked around on Let's Go for too long which frankly shouldn't be too much of a stress fest considering its the 3rd remake of the same generation game. Guess we'll see how it is but they better do better than this:
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