Me with my HD598s with a modmic and Bluetooth DAC zip tied to the headband:

Yakuza 0 hands down. Some of the side stories had me in stitches.

It already doesn’t if you take the time to use tools like LORAS, Controlnet, and Inpainting to guide the output.

I’m all for wearing masks when needed but that last point is dumb. Facial expressions are a huge part of human communication.

“Oracle” sounds like they were trying to be as dystopian cyberpunk as possible when naming their company.

Adobe After Effects. Despite being an unstable spaghetti code nightmare, there is no other viable option for professional motion graphics designers.

AI is about at creative as Adobe Photoshop is, or a pencil for that matter. A human operating it (no, not txt2img prompting) is where the creativity comes from.

Ants is a pretty apt comparison to Japanese culture at the time. All expected to become soldiers and die for the hive. Seriously, shit was crazy. They were not going to surrender otherwise.

Firebombings were daily killing more than the bombs did as well.

Look up projected casualties for Operation Downfall

I have a lot going on lol

Wrapping up a Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign as a player. Playing a Swarmkeeper / Nature Cleric who is a squirrel/small mammal ecologist from Candlekeep on a field study.

When that’s done, I’m taking up the mantle and running a Shadowrun game heavily inspired by fairy tales. Quests will include things like the Big Bad Wolf terrorizing apartment blocs owned by three “pigs”, following digital breadcrumbs to find a hag kidnapping children in cyberspace, and a space elevator heist with a giant guarding the space station.

Also running a character-focused Deadlands game on the side. Posse is up against a corrupt lawman sacrificing his town to the tree of forbidden fruit from the garden of Eden, the Yeitsoh/Anaye monsters from Navajo oral tradition, and the Ravenites who are trying to incite war between the steampunk Mormon nation of Deseret and the US.

It’s been fun running something in the “real world” since I feel like I’m actually learning stuff when I do prep. The big set piece locations are places I can actually go.

Pyre is a sleeper hit, soundtrack included. The way the credits song dynamically adapts to your decisions is incredible.

I’m down to discuss Savage Worlds! Running a SWADE Deadlands campaign right now.