Japanese game Fighting Baseball solved this ages ago, just put in a bunch of fake players with funny names! Bobson Dugnutt has been in my brain for years

Oh man yeah, the key is definitely to get goofy with it. The cutscenes were always a highlight in SSX. Even that wrestling/fighting game that featured rappers i remember having a great time with

If memory serves they hated how Comic-Con was ran so much that they made their own convention, lol

The Penny Arcade Expo was created by the Penny Arcade guys, yes! Tycho and Gabe (or Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik) the webcomic guys started that convention which plays all across the world (there is also a PAX Australia!)

They're still doing cool stuff! They actually teamed up with Matt Mercer to continue their Acquisitions Incorporated campaign with the Daggerheart game system

www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6LP...

unrelated but I SEE THAT HORSE

The "used as creative inspiration tools, similar to Pinterest" part is like, THEN JUST USE PINTEREST. Good professional artists are extremely good at making their own mood boards!

Suspiciously round? I am never...

Suspiciously round? I am never...

Yeah, again, not even my community, I'm not into vore at all, but witnessing the whole fiasco from the outside just felt like such an overreaction to something that was a pretty small thing. Like if you thought the non-free version was too much? Go back to what you did a week ago and forget it?

They backed out immediately when it got too much attention, including offering refunds, so I sincerely don't think it was a grift. They wanted to make a fun new thing and it just exploded faster than they thought.

It was functionally Early Access, if you wanted to pay, you would pay for the early, unfinished version, in testing, not a finished product. Now I don't like Early Access much in general, but it's a thing that exists and if it must, overcharging so only the most invested apply, seems appropriate

I think it has a place! I wouldn't mind a similar hyper-specific one for fat ferals as is my interest, I don't expect it but if it popped up I'd probably want to take a look XD and just hope it doesn't get swarmed and demonized immediately for whatever thing people decided was bad

it took like 24 hours to go from 'ooooh cool new thing!' to 'furries have predictably ruined a cool new thing for everyone and the developers had to pull the project for the time being'

I have some slightly bad news,

bsky.app/profile/halo...

Me every morning as my first thought when I wake up