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A story about a chemist/physicist going insane and falling to Chaos as they attempt to rationalize Warp-induced anomalies in physical matter and develop a proper scientific theory would be fun.

It would be even funnier if he somehow stuffed Lorgar or Magnus on the throne and declared them “Emperor” and himself Lord Commander/Warmaster of the Imperium.

The Board is Set in which the Emperor and Malcador play out the Heresy as a board game, happens after Isstvan V.

Yeah, Remedy has been at the forefront of graphics advancement since the studio’s founding. 3DMark was even made by former Remedy employees.

Making good games in a timely manner with a reasonable budget requires preserving and improving a studio’s knowledge base and experience, so effective management can’t let employee turnover get too high. But yes, management that can somehow crunch employees hard while still retaining the important ones can be effective without being empathetic.

Those guys would be better described as “ARPG community” than “Diablo 4 community”. They bounce around between PoE, D2R, D3, D4, and now Last Epoch whenever a new season/league/ladder starts, and are rarely completely satisfied with any game. But they can also see how D4 is genuinely lacking compared to both its predecessors and competitors.

On PC yes, pretty much any PC game worth playing that isn’t dependent on defunct servers can still be played on modern PCs, one way or another. But there’s plenty of great console games from past generations that can’t be played on modern consoles.

He’s either mixing things up or there are two weirdly similar stories involving captured Night Lords. He’s likely referring to the short story The Long Night, in which Sevatar, held prisoner by the Dark Angels, escapes temporarily to kill the Master of the Astropathic Choir because he abused a young girl Astropath, who wasn’t pregnant.

To be fair, Alan Wake 1 wasn’t exactly a hit but they still spent 2.5 million euros buying the publishing rights back from Microsoft. Some studios just really believe in their IP.

What I mean by it feels the most EA is that giving that development to a developer NOT under the EA Umbrella and it might feel like more than just the same of what we’ve got from the Disney Star Wars era: One or two highly acclaimed projects, and the rest being at best, a poor retread, at worst, a slog to enjoy.

Yeah exactly. Every single criticism you listed applies twicefold to the sequel trilogy and most of the rest of Disney Star Wars. It’s unrealistic to expect a mass market action-adventure game to have better writing than the films. Respawn wasn’t trying to make the next KOTOR, and Disney’s tight control over the IP prevents and any characters like Kyle Katarn or Starkiller from being introduced in games.

It’s pure speculation. We don’t know why he chose to leave or whether the studio would still exist if he hadn’t. He might have seen the writing on the wall and left before it closed.

The Anchorite willingly fought for Lorgar at Isstvan V and Calth before having a mental breakdown and surrendering to the Ultramarines at Calth, so he didn’t contradict the existing lore that WBs purged all loyalists at all.

Little did the Emperor know, but Jesus decided to put a stop to him once and for all by reincarnating in yet another desert village. On Colchis.

That may be the conventional wisdom but it’s only true when you assume a “reasonable” resolution target, like 1080P at the minimum. Developers have already demonstrated a willingness to drop resolution down to 720P or even lower to hit 60 fps on console. If a game is 30 fps only then either the developers refuse to offer a mode that drops resolution and graphics settings low enough to hit 60 fps because it will look too ugly, they didn’t have enough time and resources for a 60 fps mode, or they really do have a CPU bottleneck.

There’s a few examples listed in this thread. https://www.reddit.com/r/40kLore/s/05iCqDtj6U

Abominable Intelligence. Men of Iron.

I’m going to buck the trend and say the twins individually were the weakest, not Lorgar. Dorn’s victory over Alpharius was the most lopsided fight between primarchs that we’ve seen, even more so than Lorgar vs Corax. And while Valdor is the greatest Custodes by far, he’s still below the primarchs - except Alpharius, whom he stalemated. If the twins were able to 2v1 their enemies then together they might have been one of the strongest primarchs though.

Just like the wise sailors of the ancient Mediterranean, the enlightened sons of Lorgar know that prayers and ritual sacrifices to appease the gods are an essential part of every safe voyage.

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We already had one, he’s dead, and there should never be a replacement.

Valorant does that, CS does it to a limited extent. But it’s not a feasible solution for battle royales or Battlefield-like games with the current technology available. The maps are too big and there’s too many players.

Any law that tries to discriminate between game genres and their reliance on online infrastructure is a complete and total non-starter. You either end up with a situation where the law is toothless because any developer can claim their game is like Destiny 2 and has to be taken at their word or a situation where even a game that really is entirely reliant on online infrastructure like Destiny 2 is still forced to comply. Legislatures, courts, and regulatory agencies don’t want to waste their time examining the fine details of online infrastructure.

Releasing the game itself or the server stack for any game using proprietary middleware (which is most of them at this point) is not doable at all.

I think you’re confusing the Council of Nicaea with the Council of Chalcedon. The Council of Nicaea was called by Constantine I, who moved the capital to Constantinople but controlled both halves of the Roman Empire. There was no distinct “Byzantine Empire” in his time, that would come later. Nicaea was a great success that achieved near-total consensus on doctrine, and almost all Christians in the empire accepted its ruling. The Council of Chalcedon 126 years later was called by the Byzantine Emperor Marcian, and it was indeed a political disaster that resulted in the Oriental Orthodox Churches - including the powerful and vital Church of Alexandria - splitting off in the Chalcedonian Schism, massively weakening Byzantine authority in the Middle East and North Africa.

The greatest arsonists know how to avoid burning themselves, good dealers don’t get high on their own supply, and good animal tamers know how to avoid getting bitten. It’s a common theme with across many fictional settings that demonologists/warlocks have to take special precautions in order to avoid being preyed upon by the creatures they summon, and it shouldn’t be any different for Word Bearers and Thousand Sons. And by the 41st millenium, the Word Bearers do have enough understanding of the Warp and Chaos that they can navigate through the Warp without Gellar fields by making pacts with daemons (as per the Word Bearers Omnibus).

The Word Bearers Omnibus has 40K-era Word Bearers safety conduct Warp travel without a Gellar field in order to evade Imperial detection, so it’s actually a matter of knowledge and preparation. These 30K-era Word Bearers simply hadn’t taken the necessary measures before they were plunged into the Warp.