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Apologist for: United Federation of Planets, Clan Ghost Bear, the Ultramarines of Macragge, NERV Unreservedly enthusiastic about: Samus Aran, GGG Please stop killing: Queer people, BIPOC, Ukrainians, Palestinians, immigrants, pedestrians, cyclists, + more

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Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · May 31

I need an artist to design (and optionally produce, if you’ve got the equipment,) a patch for my cosplay group. Still nailing down the text. The art is a nebulabia (a nebula shaped like a vulva with a 🌟 in the right place.) 💙💜🤍 maybe 🩶 on 🖤 background. Pixel or needle artists? Need them late July.

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Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 29m

Classic hardcore already exists and is played. Players will take an opt-in hard mode to flex/challenge/whatever reason people do that. They already have “mythic mounts are guaranteed while current and rare later.” You don’t need to go full fomo. Opt-in hard mode is the way. Or maybe I opt elsewhere.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 39m

Actually yeah, this is it. People who want rewards that only a limited number of people can get (hall of fame, top % titles) play in hard mode with restrictions, the rest of us just coast to our unlimited rewards. If you want, keep mythic raids in hard mode too. Or keys over 15, rated pvp, whatever.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 45m

Ohhh she’s cute!

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 45m

How about: RwF on tournament realms with no addons. Every player gets a helper looking over their shoulder to communicate important information to them and their team. The rest of us get uncapped crests so we can play the fucking game. Separate “serious” from “I just want the fomo PvE mounts, guys”

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 52m

And when they launched their “cooldown manager” it had much worse UX/customizability than Action Bars, which were the state of the art over 20 years ago. How long did it take to get edit mode, which still doesn’t cover important things? They prove every patch they can’t handle this. Ion, never talk.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 55m

I had never used class/rotation/useful in combat weakauras before. All I wanted was the same information Blizzard provided, but customized and emphasized. They knew 20 years ago that they didn’t wanna do that customization themselves, so they outsourced it. Closing that hole only works if they do.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 57m

Blizz had a sound when the 4 second window started and a buff indicator. The sound was okay, but the buff bar in wow is an overfilled wasteland (still better than BFA HoA bullshit.) I got a weakaura that played a loud “cha-ching!” And showed a big icon of how much time I had left. Customization!

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 59m

The Undermine tier set for Retribution Paladin was essentially “you have a chance to get a stacking buff, but whenever you do, you have a chance to lose the buff proportional to the number of stacks. When you do lose the buff, you can spam your good buttons for 4 seconds.” Super fun to play.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

(Bur, accidentally typed WoL instead of WoL. Now there’s a game where I never felt like the devs hated me and wished I wouldn’t sully their perfect vision by trying to enjoy the game and make good use of my own valuable time. If you want no addons, you need good UI/UX. RIP tier set weakauras…)

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

I gave it a positive review because the devs listened to players and made the game more fun and “balanced” in the way that more options in the game were now viable and thus fun.

I guess what I’m saying at this point is, Blizzard take heed. Most of what we want is QoL, don’t be such babies about it.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

But over time, the devs listened to player feedback. They made it less grindy/optionally easier without removing the ability to do things hard if you wanted to. Someone asked if I would change my review. They didn’t solve my problem, but they did make good player-focused updates, so I changed it.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

I left a negative review for SD Gundam Battle Alliance because it had an offline single player mode with no pause function. It was a good game. Some parts were very grindy, and some suits/playstyles were unbalanced. But it was a good game, complete and reasonably well designed.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

I can understand the desire to own the discourse in spaces around your work, but it’s Steam reviews and Steam forums. By all means, ban them from anything official, but I don’t know about kicking them off Valve’s stuff for being an idiot. And as for changing a posted review…

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

And I guess I typically think saying stupid things into the void should be allowed, even in places like here, because and as long as it’s trivial to filter out. One untargeted idiot is whatever. When people start doing block evasion and coordinating harassment, that’s when it needs to stop.

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Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

What level of disagreement, or, dare I say, Discourse, must we allow to have useful product reviews? I like the developer’s response, but I’m uncomfortable with the view that the inciting comment shouldn’t be allowed in a third-party/commercial space. “Horrible people won’t like this” seems useful?

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

I feel like writing a review that says “this game is fascist” or “this game is misogynist” lies in a similar place to “I’m upset that this game has too many women.” Calling the latter DEI is obviously nonsense, but some human people would say the same my statements? cont.

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

I’m reading about the Little Rocket Lab thing, and finding myself thinking “well yeah, horrible people are gonna say horrible things in steam reviews and on the forums, what did you expect,” and I’ve gotta think more about that. I feel like I might be doing some bothsidesing bullshit? cont.

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CarsonDrewIt @carsondrewit.bsky.social · Sep 8

Glenn Dissociating

#dailysketch Day 121
#art #illustration #frog

Finally found the time to make another one of these! This one was a reward for this month's Pictionary winner!

A digital sketch of a frog in clothing and a cape sitting in a forest clearing with an open notebook staring off into the distance with unfocused eyes. Beside them, a squirrel holding a chestnut looks at them with slight concern. In the background, a large moss covered creature looks in at the frog and squirrel with piercing eyes. Their motives are unclear.

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Post-Structural Blancmange @poststructuralblancmange.bluemotelstudios.com · 5h

...uncalibrated rock

Patrick "Waschbaer" Clough. More detailed description to come, updates welcome.

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Cool Mecha Art @coolmechaart.bsky.social · Aug 19

Sazabi from Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack (機動戦士ガンダム：逆襲のシャア) by Park Jae-cheol

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Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

This is rad!

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Seb Downie-Blackwell 🔜 Games Ground Berlin @downieseb.bsky.social · 5h

Big Rusty and the Moon

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James_R_Millar @jamesrmillar.bsky.social · 15h

Gonna try and do #Mechatober2025, Starting with "Recon."

I figure it has big Tharsis-style reverse-feet to stop it tipping backwards.

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Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

I also learned a lot this recently about the authentic underpinnings of what I used to think was such obviously destructive behavior that I had come to consider it a shorthand for bad writing. Things like saying a sentence where you yell a single word and that word is “husband.” Caricatures of anger

Nuclear Bob @nuclearbob.net · 1h

Some episode of The Great Gundam Project I listened to a while ago talked about how Seinfeld’s cultural juggernaut status defined writing of comedic, “quirky,” maladjusted characters in a very lasting way. Watching people perform such transparently bad interpersonal behavior can be very stressful.