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Me to a pokemon: get on my level Charizard:

Are blue, pink, and white not the trans flag colors?

The community doing one online is probably for the best anyway. Not paying for hotels and travel means a "World" championship is basically selecting from people who have enough money to make it to the US / a certain spot in the US, so you're already eliminating a huge group of players who can hang but can't afford that. When I was playing in Regional Imperial Assault or Destiny tournaments, 100% of the time the winner give their ticket to someone several people down the results board before they found someone who could afford to go to Nationals, and I know this happened at Nationals too, particularly at events outside the US. That's not to say the people who did make it to Worlds were scrubs or anything just that it wasn't representative of the actual best players from Regionals or Nationals.

Also on the spoiler topic with @SuperSpreader and @TwinIon, if I was going to be really precious about the Fallout lore I'd say... Again, not a big deal, it's just silly.

Someone accused Gary Chalk and Louise Sugden of being a tourists on Twitter the other day and I just can't. This is @Zaku3 erasure.

Seeing some of the takes online about how "Bethesda and Todd Howard hate New Vegas and deleted it with this show" and I'm wondering how on earth these people navigate the world around them. Jesus Christ.

This is probably for the best, though I appreciate that it’s disappointing to people who could hang at a very high level. When I was playing Imperial Assault or Destiny competitively, I saw many more people discouraged by tournaments on the road to worlds than I did people who found even the regional level of competition to be an enjoyable experience. As someone who was in between I always found the experience somewhat odd; I would rinse anyone who played more casually and then get rinsed by people who played obvious net forces / decks. I’ll also never forget someone who drove from central NJ to northeast MA to play at an Imperial Assault regional event for a chance to get swag dice who got absolutely ripshit with my improbable X results on my white die and favorable draws from my command card deck because losing to me meant he drove the better part of 500 round trip miles to not get dice. Also I don’t think I’m a casual follower of AMG stuff and somehow the only reason I knew Worlds were at Adepticon was from posts here, so… probably best for them to invest that money elsewhere

The funniest bit to me is when the doctor came out and took his pulse by choking him.

It was shitty then, it's shitty now, it will be shitty in the future, and calling attention to its shittiness is always going to be okay.

Finished the show today. Broadly, I really liked it. Again it absolutely nails the BGS Fallout aesthetic so if that's part of what you liked about the games, it's very faithfully represented in the show. The main three characters are all pretty well written and interesting. Their development over the course of the series feels earned and pretty well done. Overall the plot moves pretty briskly and is pretty interesting, even if there's a lot of beats that are familiar to someone who's spent a lot of time in this game universe. Some spoilery thoughts ahead... Minor quibbles aside, it's a pretty fun, good looking show. Interested to see where the second season goes.

They're apparently pretty guilty of the crunch culture that a lot of AAA studios are. There's also speculation about Druckmann generally and the departure of Hennig, but a lot of that seems to have swirled around chud gamer reactions to TLoU2 and the studio being "woke" so who knows. The crunch side of things seems pretty well documented.

5 episodes in and it's pretty good, I'm enjoying it a lot. I'm always going to wish that the series stuck with the Black Isle / Obsidian vibes compared to the BGS ones. But if a series is going to go that direction, this is a very good version of that. Interested to see how the first season ends before I weigh in too much, but it's good!

Ironically a tactic that would make BGS content more interesting.

Did they ever patch in a reason that The Institute does literally anything they do?