Watched the Highguard launch showcase... it's a biiiiiit better than I expected, but a few decisions from it are ABSOLUTELY baffling to me.

Though hyping it up so much in the Game Awards did so much damage for their own chances of the game actually doing well.

Basically:

It's a fantasy, base-defending PvPvR shooter (PvP versus resource).

Ya go out and explore the world for a bit to upgrade n whatever. And then eventually this mighty ultra-sword thing (the shield breaker) spawn. Once you get it, you can insert it into some kinda stone to break your opponent's base's shields. From there, destroy your enemies' base.

So what's wrong?

I think it actually has a good base for gameplay... but I think the biggest flaw is that they went into the game with a "guns first" mindset (as they literally stated). Plus only getting inspiration from other 1st person shooters around.

It wants to set itself apart with its actually cool magic stuff... but the problem is... THE GUNS LOOK AND FUNCTION TOO HECKIN MODERN!!

It feels like all the other generic 1st person guns! Why didn't you make them clunky, archeic, and MAYBEEEEE do some cool magic stuff with them???

It feels like if you gave a DnD party call of duty-esque guns. And it doesn't even look dumb enough to laugh with in a sh-tposty way. It just feels too generic instead.

How would I personally fix it?

Their biggest mistake when going into development was doing it with a "guns first" mindset. They focused too much on the guns feeling good that it feels indistinguishable from every other shooter. Along with that, they only took inspiration from other modern shooter games. Instead of giving them modern guns, they should've given them sh-tty old guns that feel clunky (with a steampunk aesthetic), like linklocks, blunderbusses, and pepperboxes arquebuses (thanks to a friend for those suggestions.

So...

Conclusion

I so desperately want highguard to be a good game but... there are just way too many dealbreakers for me, sorry. It has a good base. But they tunnel visioned too much on one aspect.

#mewishthoughts #highguard #pvp #shooter

After listening to a video about someone who used to found screwattack before making the alt-right channel of "plat formers", I think I have an idea of why alt-right people end up being ones early into tech spaces (such as FOSS and hosting one's own website):

A lot of the people in these spaces wanted a way to get away from the "rules" being "forced on" (not even really forced, just slowly introduced people to not say slurs, and introducing more diversity) to them, of which they learned their behavior from participating in an armsrace of trying to outtrash talk your opponent in online games.

Thus they self-host their own stuff, perhaps to some kinda creative vision, but also just generally wanting a place with no/less rules.

#political #mewishthoughts #retrospective #hosting #foss

POV: Living with a fren who is a novice homelabber
You are having a hard time connecting to the internet...
Connected but no internet.

(It's me. I am the fren who is the novice homelabber. Very happy my roomie is chill.)

#mewishthoughts #server #homelabbing

#federation #mastadon #mewishthoughts
Just discovered it's possible to effectively make "private" accounts on mastadon instances as well! It's not just a Wafrn thingy.

It's just under the Privacy and Reach category in the settings rather than a big list of settings.

Sorry for my misinfo XP

#mewishthoughts #tech #Samsung #mobile
I think I encountered possibility the worst Samsung update in existence. The side buttons on phones, historically, have been used so that when you hold down the button, you can turn off the device.

Well... in this new update... it DOESN'T do that anymore. Instead, it brings up the absolute BS Google Gemini "feature". No amount of holding down makes it shut down.

I hate AI being shoved down our throats at the expense of other ACTUALLY useful features.

#abdl #dl #mewishthoughts #diaper #hypermess #hypermessing #messing
When I think of scenarios where there is hypermessing, I specifically have it in a way where I basically want to break the laws of Conservation.

How I see a lot of people justify hypermessing is that their character overstuffs, and messes a proportional amount. And I mean, more power for those with a fattening kink.

BUT

I personally want it so that hypermessing is a thing that can happen when eating a NORMAL amount.
And I know that is absolutely unrealistic, but it's what I want most =w=

#pokemon #pokopia #mewishthoughts
"Ah heck ya! I loved that Pokopia extended trailer! I wonder if people think of stuff in the game!"

Looks at comments,
Game Key Card discourse, stuff outside the game

"groans"

Don't get me wrong. I understand that people REALLY don't like game key cards for the second reason I mentioned in my game key card ramble, mainly for preservation reasons.

And that is extremely important, I know. I don't know how long Nintendo will keep the game key card download servers up.
But it's almost like people are treating Game Key Cards like the satan of games. When Game Key Cards are a better version of digital games.

As I mentioned before, they aren't tied to a specific account. You can give the game to other people. You can share it.
I don't see this much repulsion when Kirby Dream Buffet is digital only, objectively worse than a game key card release.

I am just so tired of this discourse flooding out comments of people who ACTUALLY want to play the game, and wanna geek out about what they like ABOUT THE GAME.

#mewishthoughts #pokemon #pokopia
WHOAAAAA
Professor Tangela! I love the character design and personality of them  
I also love how they kinda expanded on the themes of abandon and decay, with the pokemon near the end.

The professor says that they hope that pokémon and humans can be together once more, but I am curious if they actually will, or if all humans actually dead. At the very least, the place was wrecklessly abandoned, so it still has post apocolypse vibes.

Count me excited for this game!

Honestly, I don't understand people freaking out over the game key cards, in relation to news of pokopia.

The only real downsides I see are:
1. You need to download it in order to use it
2. It is unclear how long they can keep the ability to download the game from the servers

It has a BIG upside from purely digital games in that it is not user-restricted. You can give the cartridge to a friend. You can resell it! I really love this system, from a technical standpoint

#pokemon #mewishthoughts #keycards #nintendo #switch2 #pokopia