DerPanduin

He/Him, 27, pfp by @BriDanann
Sitting in the 2XKO waiting room since 2019.

[JG @UTxJGTheDon]

If someone starts arguing with you about how good or bad a video game is, and they lead with sales figures, profits, and steam peak or current concurrent players, don't even engage. They are not serious and have lost the entire plot. It's tiring at this point.

[Riot Yohosie @yohosiefgc]

Been thinking a lot about 2xko and my time on the project. I briefly want to vocalize what I'm most proud of.

We did a lot of great things. We built a lot of champions, a lot of moves, and did an immense amount of polish to make gameplay way cleaner than it was during the Alphas. That's all great, very cool or whatever.

But out of everything, there's nothing I'm more proud of than our Frame Bar.

- The 10 rollover frames to help readability, so you don't end sequences and need to decipher where you are

- The logic of asymmetric hitpause only being visible when projectiles or assists are on screen

- The options to toggle assist frame bars on/off for complexity

- Showing first active/last startup as a different color so you get accurate startup reads, accommodating our insane decision as an FGC to have 10 startup/5 active be a total of 14 frames

- Having it be exactly 120 frames, 2 in-game seconds.

- Chargeable frames being visible, so you can see how close you were to min charging

- Showing active-state-but-not-active-hitbox as a darker color, and updating all cinematics and throws to use this state (even though it literally has 0 gameplay impact)

Designing this thing felt like the culmination of 15 years of being a graphic designer, game designer, fighting game player, and lab monster.

I wouldn't change a thing. It's perfect.

Shoutouts to @adammarkstevens and @phytoporg for making it happen. This thing is a beast and out of everything on this project, I can't believe we got to make it real. A lifetime portfolio piece.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This day is profoundly painful for so many New Yorkers. It marks three years since the horrific war crimes of October 7. On that day, Hamas killed more than 1,100 Israelis and abducted 251 others. We grieve alongside our many friends and neighbors who still carry that unthinkable loss.

The suffering did not begin nor end that day. It instead continued through the Israeli government’s devastating, ongoing genocide in Gaza, in which it has killed more than 74,000 Palestinians—including more than 21,000 children. Even since the so-called ceasefire, more than 1,400 Palestinians have been killed. That suffering has intensified with every Israeli bomb dropped on ambulances waiting outside hospitals, every drone strike targeting a residential building or journalist, and every shipment of food aid turned away at a border crossing. Many New Yorkers are reckoning with this unbearable grief, and we mourn alongside them – all while knowing that our tax dollars fund these war crimes.

Three years later, we must refuse to accept a world in which occupation and apartheid continue, where war crimes are met with impunity, and our federal government continues its complicity with every arms shipment.

To honor the dead, we must fight for a world in which every person can live with freedom, safety, and dignity.

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

You are conveniencing yourselves to extinction.

[DerPanduin @DerPanduin]

@dexbonus Momma Doogs is easily my favorite era of your content so far and I can only see it being surpassed by Granny Doogs a few decades from now

[xGenesis @xGenesis_FGC]

La gente que no ha tocado el 2xko ni con un palo ni lo pensaban tocar, ahora siendo opinologos expertos con los "what if" se pueden meter el palo por el culo

[DerPanduin @DerPanduin]

Until they show us the numbers I will not believe a single word they say about the game's sustainability.

[Riot Games @riotgames]

With a heavy heart, the @Play2XKO team shares an update about the future.
- Active development will end in December.
- The final content patch goes live in October.
- Servers stay online.
- In-game purchases made before August 20 will be refunded.

https://t.co/3UQF7kh5S4

[Riot Games @riotgames]

With a heavy heart, the @Play2XKO team shares an update about the future.
- Active development will end in December.
- The final content patch goes live in October.
- Servers stay online.
- In-game purchases made before August 20 will be refunded.

https://t.co/3UQF7kh5S4

[DerPanduin @DerPanduin]

Riot employees, this will happen again and again unless you unionize.

[Riot Games @riotgames]

With a heavy heart, the @Play2XKO team shares an update about the future.
- Active development will end in December.
- The final content patch goes live in October.
- Servers stay online.
- In-game purchases made before August 20 will be refunded.

https://t.co/3UQF7kh5S4

[DerPanduin @DerPanduin]

@Marcodmeatball MIO: Memories in Orbit for me so far

[SonicFox @SonicFox]

This is the first time on this account where I DID actually say this and people are getting baited otherwise LMAOO

I just think the beta needs way more work still since so many decisions don’t make a lot of sense.

It feels like I’m constantly fighting the game and I hate that.

[DerPanduin @DerPanduin]

@Unconkable @Play2XKO @riotgames @RiotSupport @drewlevin Shoutout to SplendidClaw, got everything reinstated secured! Thank you so much!

[DerPanduin @DerPanduin]

@Play2XKO @riotgames @RiotSupport
My account got stolen yesterday. Submitted a ticket but all it gives me is an Error 429 whenever I click the link provided by riot support. Any help would be appreciated, I really wanna play the new Patch today.

[DerPanduin @DerPanduin]

@Play2XKO
I'm going to be so real, if Ahri doesn't get some real substantial nerfs soon I might have to be content with watching people play the game instead of playing it myself. I have never been this angry at a video game character. Singlehandedly ruining my experience ngl

[eve @eeveeithink]

The average American is starting to realize socialism means everyone gets to have a good life.
WE ARE SO BACK

[Tamoor Hussain @tamoorh]

Look at what Sony is taking away from us

[Trevor Noah @Trevornoah]

I completely understand where you’re coming from, but for a lot of gamers physical discs are the only way they could afford to play games because they could get them secondhand. You can also give games to your younger siblings Which is a great way to introduce them to the games you were playing.

Most importantly though, as we saw from PlayStation this past week, if the media we buy is only digital, it can be taken away from us at a moment’s notice with no recourse. Imagine that, one day your entire library of games could be deleted overnight because technically you don’t own it.

[ProfNoctis @ProfNoctis]

Instead of replying, just don’t engage. Suffocation works better than argument. If you engage, you’re saying their thought is worth spending a moment of your one precious life on (and elevating it to others, too).

Starve them of engagement and reach. Spare yourself and others.

[SchrodingersRevelationSeal @Schrodingersba4]

I am sure this will go over poorly, but there really does seem to be a high correlation between political and artistic conservatism around ff7r in particular. You'll hear a TON of chud dog whistles on the "7r is an atrocity" bandwagon.