Before the Game Awards GOTY was hands-down either Dispatch or ARC Raidersโฆ
But after seeing Expedition 33 sweep 9 awards from the most nominations for a single game in history, I might just have to play it and see if I was wrongโฆ ๐
๐คฏ HALF A MILLION VIEWS ๐คฏ
My Golden Lap series has so far got over 567k views and that is nothing short of MIND-BLOWING
Thank you to all the viewers!
Episode 10 (season finale) will be out this as a premiere, so if you want to catch up before then ๐๐ป
https://t.co/E8BJdvbbJQ
Holy fuck guys weโre not "pushing hard" for or replacing concept artists with AI.
We have a team of 72 artists of which 23 are concept artists and we are hiring more. The art they create is original and Iโm very proud of what they do.
I was asked explicitly about concept art and our use of Gen AI. I answered that we use it to explore things. I didnโt say we use it to develop concept art. The artists do that. And they are indeed world class artists.
We use AI tools to explore references, just like we use google and art books. At the very early ideation stages we use it as a rough outline for composition which we replace with original concept art. There is no comparison.
I talked about how we use ML here if you would like to know more:
https://t.co/41KPNjaqI7
We've hired creatives for their talent, not for their ability to do what a machine suggests, but they can experiment with these tools to make their lives easier.
@seiglegar@adhocstudio Such a phenomamal game littered with clever humour, engaging story and fun gameplay. Itโs taken the telltale genre up a step imo. The VAs did a great job too.
I also need a roguelite/standalone version of the dispatch shifts - it was like This is the Police meets D&D checks haha
Dispatch is an incredible game and quite possibly GOTY
But Iโm watching Ludwigโs playthrough and he just called Waterboy โthe skinny version of the Baby Steps guyโ and now I canโt unhear it ๐
4 new redeems for our Civilization VII campaign, starting today (in just over 4 hours)!
Can you figure out what they are? ๐ค
(No, none of them are "name a city" because that's not in the game just yet ๐ข)
#Civ7#CivVII#Civilization7#CivilizationVII
๐ข Official RELEASE TIMES for Civilization VII
Thursday's going to be a HUGE PROBLEM for me... how do I get through an entire day's work when it drops at 5AM?? ๐ฎโ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ๏ฟฝ
๐๏ธ Our 5-day Civ weekend starts Thursday @ 17:30 UK! Blind play, Civ chosen by chat
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https://t.co/OXFcyLT3Gy
๐ LAUNCH WEEKEND for Civilization VII ๐
Civilization VII is launching THIS THURSDAY! ๐ซก
I can barely contain my excitement, so I'll be streaming the game EVERY DAY over a 5-day weekend... and chat chooses our starting Civ ๐
Happening at ๐๐ป https://t.co/n8sN7ICI7n
ALGS starts tomorrow - the best in the business gather in Sapporo, Japan!
Following the most recent updates (and a LONG-overdue buff for my main man Mirage... main men?) will there be changes to the comp meta?
Lots to get excited about - who you rooting for? ๐
#ALGSSapporo
@Exoborne I received an email claiming to be from you this morning, but it comes from a domain "https://t.co/mcRF0NqAmy" and I can't respond to the email
If this is genuine, please reach out to me at [email protected] as I have questions but can't find any contact info for you
@PirateSoftware The two things I will never understand:
1. Why people feel the need to send hate and freakin' death threats ffs
2. Why people thought that you not wanting to be aggressively talked over by Yamato was you "having an ego"
You rock dude. You've done much good for many people โฅ๏ธ
This OnlyFangs stuff actually sucks. Lots of weird attack posts and people taking it too far. Putting everything in one place and washing my hands of it after this.
To start, here is the response about the Dire Maul run. From my perspective I didn't feel I could save anyone else with the resources I had left even with mana gem and robe cooldowns. Since the call to run was made I followed the call and got out as quickly as possible. In every other instance where shit has hit the fan the shot-caller has called specific targets we locked in and nobody died. If you call RUN RUN RUN then everything after that is a shitshow. Yamato pinned the entire thing on me despite everyone making mistakes and this rapidly spiraled into attacks both on and offline.
https://t.co/aPaZvzMiAR
The next few days was just tens of thousands of messages berating me, sending death threats, doxxing, and all kinds of shit. This happened on Twitch, Twitter, YouTube, Steam, Reddit, Discord, and over VOIP initiated Phone Calls all at the same time. Here are a few examples from just inside of WoW to give you some understanding.
https://t.co/7lVqSGoeFE
So what do you do in this situation? You start reporting it and banning people. We took the 10,000+ attack accounts and reported them up for the organized hate raid that this is. It disrupted our broadcast on all platforms for the last 3 days and prevented our community from doing anything. That's a hate raid no matter how you slice it and it needs to be reported. We also setup automation to shut down the First Message Last Message shit stirring posts which worked to mostly positive effect.
Despite all of this I kept running with the guild and kept doing dungeons with people. Got my UBRS key, had runs that were fun, and had some clutch moments as well. Then during an UBRS run another creator in the group shit talked me the entire run and spoke many times about wanting to start a fight with me over voice "For Content". I was pissed about this and said bluntly to the community that I would be reporting anyone that does things like this. Not just anyone covering the situation, anyone specifically targeting me to make "Content" out of it by directly disrupting our broadcast.
The idea that you shouldn't fight back or do anything to defend yourself is absurd. Absolutely do something about shit like this. Defend yourself and report that kind of behavior. It doesn't matter what size of creator you are that doesn't belong on any of these platforms.
This was posed as a "Content Guild" which to me meant we were crafting stories and narratives around our characters and achievements. Not content at any cost which this clearly has become.
For those in the guild that reached out to me after all of this, thank you. Was fun running together and maybe we will again one day in a different game.
**12-HOUR NEW YEAR'S EVE PARTY**
๐ฅณ The annual HereBeCush New Year's Party is here!
๐ซ 8 amazing guests
๐ท Drinks + games
Come and end the year in style!
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https://t.co/OXFcyLTBw6