Seeing all these people shitting on Hytale is genuinely insane to me.
- Game gets announced 9 years ago, one of the most hyped up games ever
- Developer makes 20 million from selling Hytale to Riot, can literally retire for the rest of his life
- Riot runs Hytale into the ground over the course of years, community gets strung along for the ride
- Riot CANCELS Hytale, community is in complete shambles
- Developer comes out of retirement when he and his wife recently started a family to try and save the game, makes a bid and reacquires the IP
- Bid gets accepted, dev spends months away from family to undo all the years of bad development so the game can become playable asap
- Sets a release date thatโs super early because although he knows the game is extremely unfinished, he wants to get it out asap so the community can finally play it
- Spends WEEKS telling everyone how unfinished the game is to temper everyoneโs expectations but promises consistent updates
- Game releases, half the people are shitting on it because itโs unfinished and they say itโs not worth $20
- ???
I havenโt played the game yet because I wanted to wait until it was a little more complete, but seeing all the discourse actually makes me want to play it sometime this week.
Regardless though, itโs genuinely insane to me that this game is already so ahead of its time even in early access that people are legitimately comparing it to MODDED MINECRAFT (a modded version of a finished game thatโs been out for 20 years) and think that theyโre valid for doing so.
Keep up the great work @Simon_Hypixel , as someone who wanted to play this game since I was 16 years old because I always loved games like Minecraft and Cube World, Iโm thankful that there has come a point in my life where I actually am able to.
People are always going to look for reasons to hate on everything; donโt let the negative noise drown out the fact that starting yesterday, you were able to fulfill a dream millions of people have had for almost a decade now of finally being able to play your game.
she appears in the side lane.
i've been waiting for this moment my entire life.
evelynn. the one who took everything from me.
who smiled while my parents bled out on the floor. who made me watch.
she thinks i'm just another victim. another lonely soul she can seduce and devour.
she's wrong.
i see her Allure form above my head. that familiar pink heart.
the promise of pleasure before pain.
"come closer, little hunter" she purrs through the fog.
"let me show you what your mother felt before she died"
i don't respond. i create distance.
moving away from where i know she's lurking. every second she wastes charging that charm is a second i'm not under her control.
half a second before it fully primes, i pop Ghost.
then Final Hour. then Tumble.
i vanish into the shadows. her shadows.
the same darkness she uses to hunt
now i'm inside it with her.
the Allure fizzles. wasted. and now i see exactly where she is.
the charm indicator pointing like a compass to her location.
i don't rush. i let the timers bleed. patient. controlled.
she hates that. i can tell. demons like her feed on desperation. on impulse. on want.
i give her nothing.
finally, i approach.
she fires a Hate Spike. then Whiplashes forward, closing the gap, getting close.
too close. her lashers brush against my neck as she fully materializes.
"mmm" she breathes into my ear. "you've grown into such a fine huntress. your skin... it reminds me of hers. soft. warm. breakable."
i auto attack.
then Condemn.
she flies backwards, pinned against the wall.
i take two Hate Spikes to the chest. it burns. but pain is familiar.
pain is focus.
she recovers. eyes wild now. desperate.
she flashes forward, lashers spreading wide, positioning for the Last Caress.
the killing blow. the execution.
the arc of death she's used to end so many before me.
i see the zone.
the zone of influence where her ult will shred everything in front of her.
so i flash forward.
into her.
past the arc. past the danger zone. past everything she prepared for.
she fires her ult into nothing. hits air. emptiness.
and now i'm inches from her face.
her eyes go wide. for the first time, she's not the predator.
i lean in close. close enough to feel the cold radiating off her demon skin. close enough that she can hear every word.
"do you really think a monster can make me feel anything?"
i tumble behind her. three silver bolts proc. she's melting.
she tries to retreat. to slip back into her shadows. but i'm already there.
already autoing.
already ending what started the night she took my family.
before the final bolt leaves my crossbow, i whisper:
Study the Saskio way
Regarding the accusations: There are 2024 claims of you requesting explicit images from a 19-year-old who said some were from age 15, which you've denied as false, citing the accuser's catfishing and deletions. A 2017 stream showed you using the N-word, for which you apologized. No legal convictions found.
many of you have seen my tweets about duoing with my ex.
the amount of people in my DMs asking for updates is insane.
so here's the update.
we talked. not in game. actually talked.
3 hours on the phone.
the kind of conversation where you forget what time it is and suddenly it's 4am.
she saw everything. the tweets. the clip.
the one about her hands on the keyboard.
"i didn't know you still thought about me like that" she said.
honestly? i didn't either. not until i wrote it down.
something about putting it into words made it real.
we talked about why it fell apart the first time.
i always thought i had to choose. her or the grind.
like loving something meant abandoning everything else.
she told me she never asked me to quit.
just wanted to feel like we were on the same team.
i didn't get it back then.
thought she was asking me to choose.
she wasn't.
we both fucked up the first time.
i made her feel like she came second.
she made me feel like i had to choose.
neither of us said what we actually needed.
turns out we were both bad at saying what we actually meant.
too young to know that loving someone and chasing something don't have to compete.
so yeah. we're trying again.
not just duo. the whole thing.
i'm still me. the coaching isn't stopping.
the content isn't slowing down. the grind continues.
she's back in the lobby.
no promises. no pressure.
just seeing what happens when two people stop running from what worked.
we're older now. less ego. less need to be right.
just two people who finally grew up enough to try again.
study the Saskio & Rins way
she hovers rakan.
i lock xayah without saying anything.
we both know.
the first few minutes are quiet.
just farming.
just existing in the same lane again.
i forgot how she moves. or maybe i didn't.
she positions like she's reading my mind.
always in the right spot.
always one step ahead of what i need before i need it.
i throw feathers and she's already adjusting.
creating space.
pulling their attention so i can set up the angle.
it's annoying how natural this feels.
she engages and i swear to god she strokes that W key different than anyone else. soft then sudden.
the way she drifts in and out. testing. teasing.
waiting for the perfect moment.
then she commits.
flash R into both of them. no hesitation. no ping.
she just expects me to be there.
i am.
i'm already autoing before she lands.
feathers everywhere.
she knocked them up and i pull everything back.
double kill.
silence on the call.
just the sound of her breathing through the mic.
"nice" she says. quiet.
"yeah" i say.
we don't talk about how we moved like one player. how her hands controlled her champion and somehow mine too.
how i followed her in without thinking because my body remembered before my brain could stop it.
she backs off after the fight and i watch her character retreat.
smooth. patient. controlled.
she always played like that.
like she knew something i didn't.
like every movement was deliberate.
i used to watch her hands on the keyboard when we were together.
the way her fingers danced between abilities.
the way she'd posture up before an all-in. shoulders forward.
leaning in. focused.
i don't see her hands anymore.
but i see her champion move and i remember exactly how she's sitting right now.
some things you can't unlearn.
after the game she says "that was clean"
"yeah" i say.
neither of us leaves the lobby.
we're over each other.
we're over who we were out of game
we tell ourselves that.
but in game?
we'll never find better.
and we both know it.
study the saskio way
Real or AI?
Supposedly these clips are from the early 90's.
I believe shapeshifters exist and I believe they could showcase themselves to the elite on stage like this.