Techwright

For decades I've built super-powered beings with phenomenal cosmic powers capable of leveling armies. So what did I do today? A Dogwalk. Just released, and currently sitting at Overwhelmingly Positive in player ratings, Dogwalk, by Blender Studio, is a well-crafted, whimsically-cheery, tragically-short free game on Steam. For about 15 minutes (5 of which were figuring out a few obscure mechanics), I got to play a woolly sheepdog dragging his beloved little human around a snowy countryside looking for objects to enhance the little human's snowman. The potential is there to both entertain and upset the human. When he gets downtrodden, several good slobbery doggie kisses soon have him laughing again. It is such a simple game, and over so quickly, yet I found it greatly brightened my day. Completing the game has the reward of some behind-the-scenes footage of the game being constructed. I will note I had one computer hiccup when starting the game. I simply closed the game, reopened, and everything was fine afterwards. Promotional video: https://video.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_trailers/257160343/movie480_vp9.webm?t=1750688687

Well, they've clearly mastered target tracking.

I was over on Gold Side yesterday to get some exploration badges for a Blue Side character. As I flew over the plaza where Marauder is stationed, I was shocked to see half a dozen players running around the plaza. Normally, any place I visit over there I never see more than 2 other players at a time, and usually none. I do wish it would go back to a standard of higher numbers. Not necessarily like Excelsior's Atlas Park, but enough that the place feels inhabited.

I would pay good money for an update of the two Elite Force games, and would pay more for a well-written third game. Get the team that put the Star Trek: Resurgence storyline together.

Without spoilers, how was Nicholas Hoult's performance as Lex Luthor? I like Hoult alot in what few other works of his I've seen, but I admit to a little concern when I heard he was cast as LL. The trailers didn't alter that concern. He's a great actor, I just have trouble imagining him covering the role successfully.

Just in case anyone runs into other abbreviation or terminology questions, here's the Wiki pages regarding them: Page 1 (A to J) Page 2 (K to Z)

I'm just here for the potential Snarky sightings. Well, okay, there are other things, too. The nostalgia, certainly, but after 6 years of newer experiences, I've moved beyond that. There's a better illusion to rooted attacks in this game. It makes me feel like the team's attacks are more fluid than they actually are. That rooted experience always annoyed me in other MMOs, especially WoW. (Firefall was a lot more fluid, but it didn't make it and has never returned.) PUG experience is...usually...a lot better in this MMO than others of my experience. While we do have changes to powers and power sets at times, they're generally not the sweeping changes I ran into in other MMOs. I lost track of how many "from the ground up" changes were done to archetypes I was playing in other games, not just tweaking the powers, but wiping them out and replacing them, forcing me to completely relearn the character or worse, end it because it was so different it was not the same character I'd enjoyed playing. There's a lot more flexibility in how the character can be crafted. In other MMOs (yes, WoW was one) I was informed that there was only one way (possibly two) that a character could be trained and enhanced, or it was considered a gimped character.

It might help to know what you want out of a supergroup, or perhaps what you're hoping to contribute. Take a look at the individual server forums for a listing of supergroup names and/or SG recruitment postings. As Excelsior and Everlasting are the highest populations, I'll give you links to those: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/39-excelsior/ https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/40-everlasting/ You can also broadcast your SG desires in General chat in the game. That will usually get a response. Oh, and Snarky's a died-in-the-wool Red Side kind of guy. Don't outright dismiss his comment regarding Blue Side, but do take it with a grain of salt, preferably garlic salt.

I'd say whatever studio Rob Leifeld is doing art for now, but only because you caught me flat-footed with that question. 😁 Hmm... That's a hard choice. I don't really get into manga or anime, but I did like the old stuff in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Whatever house did Robotech would probably do a fine job with Major Ray Gunn. I'd love for Jim Lee to cover him, so that might imply DC Comics currently, but I also loved early 1990s Valiant Comics, and X-O Manowar had a style I liked, so their successor, Valiant Entertainment, probably could do a reasonable job.

There's a great many wonderful answers to that found here:

You just had to go and remind me... 😭

Wilson's looking a bit different these days. I have to wonder if this was an early model of Atlas that the devs just recycled.

I...I would not have dreamed Chopin would be used for such a show. Wow. 🤯

I suspect you actually meant to say "diameter" rather than "radius". A 10 foot diameter AoE would have a 5 foot radius in all directions. The OP makes a good question though: are all AoEs going to be spherical? or might some be vertically flatter, like a donut?

I'd have to agree on those as possibly the worst. People (and strange cybernetic people) are supposed to work in these spots? They're so pitch black, you're likely to be eaten by a grue. Just like the black Arachnos bases, I have to ask: did the designers ever consider what it takes for the inhabitants to traverse these areas on a daily basis?