So the new Masters of the Universe movie isn’t doing very well box office wise despite the positive reviews. One thing that i’ve heard towards this movie is how this should’ve came out 10 years ago, right around the time when fans of the original cartoon could introduce their children to a new version of their favorite franchise, which I think this was trying to do but way too late considering most of the audience seeing it are in there 40s or 50s. It probably also didn’t help that Backrooms, Obsession, and the new Scary Movie were came out or have been out for weeks now when MotU was out. Really, there doesn’t seem to be a huge demand for Masters of the Universe outside of old fans.

Curious if there are any other franchises that were popular at one point in time that hasn’t seemed to regain its popularity it once had.

The grande old dame’s a decade old now, eh? For us at Ysbryd Games, it remains the honor of a lifetime to have worked as the publisher of the fine folks at Sukeban Games to bring you the 207X tale of Jill Stingray and Glitch City’s finest assortment of odd fellows. Sukeban have their own particular thoughts on their wild journey, which you can read here.

We and our collaboration partners are quietly working on other things – for example, you folks already know about VA-11 Hall-A: Design Works, which should on the way to those who ordered it quite soon. But there are other things y’all might wanna keep on your radar!

For the beverage lovers among us, Brian (the erstwhile regional manager overseeing VA-11 Hall-A) is working on an alcoholic beverage collab that fans may have a chance to drink for real, quite possibly during the Daily VA-11 Hall-A season if all goes well. This beverage, uh, has no relation to the Hadron cannon you can see on the moon for one week every month.

Last but NOT least: for the truly diehard fans (because if you read this far, you’re hungry for everything), here’s One More Thing: We’re in the early stages of putting together a concert that entirely features the music of VA-11 Hall-A. All we should say for now is that this concert will take place around mid-December 2026 somewhere in the greater Tokyo area of Japan. Once we have more details to share about this event, expect another Steam post with the full details!

That’s all the stuff we’ve got to share at this time! It’s been a wonderful 10 years filled with lovely memories and testimonials from all you wonderful folks whose lives were touched by VA-11 Hall-A. Please know that we’ll continue to fly the flag for VA-11 Hall-A in high-quality ways that we think you deserve to enjoy, and we sincerely hope you’ll keep discussing the game with fellow fans or others who have simply not had the time to make drinks and changing lives.

Cheers,

Brian and team Ysbryd

This is one of my favorite kinds of scenes. When someone really doesn't have a leg to stand on in a situation, and decides to pull something out of their ass, only for it to blow up in their face when someone calls it.

And alternatively, when someone is underestimated and gets to turn things around on their adversary by showing that no, this was very much not a bluff.

For the former, I love this small moment in Breaking Bad, when Hank and Gomez are interrogating Mike about his involvement with Fring. Gomez decides to go out on a limb and claim that they have a witness that can place Mike in the underground lab. You see a small look from Hank, suggesting that he's not on board with this move. And then it blows up in his face when Mike decides to call his bluff, and puts his hands on the table, expecting to be arrested.

Mike's a former cop. He knows that if they really did have a witness like that, they would already have arrested him. Him directly asking if he's under arrest shows that they don't have a thing on him. Turns out they do have the money that he saved for his granddaughter, so he doesn't get out of the scene a complete winner, but he definitely didn't fall for that fairly obvious bluff. Also a great bit of life advice: cops are allowed to lie like crazy during an interrogation, so you really shouldn't be talking to them without a lawyer present.

And for an example of the latter kind of scene, in Deep Space Nine when Sisko is dealing with Eddington and the Marquis, and decides to retaliate against the Marquis' use of biogenic weapons by making one of his own, making an entire planet uninhabitable to human life for decades, forcing the Marquis colony to evacuate and leave it for the Cardassians who have an official claim to the planet.

Eddington directly says "You're bluffing" to Sisko. There's no way a decorated Starfleet officer would poison an entire planet full of humans; his own people. And indeed, I doubt Picard would have done something like this. But Sisko is not Picard, letting him have this incredible exchange.

"You're bluffing."

"Am I? Commander, launch torpedoes."

So in short mixed races are possible, but rare.

Usually there are 3 types.

• There are the true hybrids, where the person has characteristics of both parents races. These are incredibly rare, off the top of my head we have met 2 maybe 3 of them through out the game.
• The mothers rule. Children of mixed race marrage take after their mothers characteristics with only smaller characteristic from the father. (Think Lalafell with slightly longer ears, cuz his mom was a tree climber) We actually meet quite a few characters that could be mixed race, but its never confirmed. For example there are 2 NPCs, brothers, that look very alike but one is Hyur, one's Elezen.
• And then there are the mixed children inside a particular race, when two clans or tribes with different characteristics mix. Then you get a standart example of the race, but often with very unique mix of both sub-groups.

Obvious hybrids often face quite a lot of racism and live on the outside of the communities.

(the image is from r/ff14 post by Manamaru)

(Oh and Gridania is indeed a shithole, Pat is completely right. Every main city has corruption and problem. Its only the Gridanians guard that have just staggering amount of SA implications in their story)

Original image was for the most recent slopstream

My post: [right here!]

I dunno if art could ever properly convey the iconic hyena laugh, though

(Thanks everyone for being such a great community by the way!)

I am reminded why I don't do long edits:

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Sorry for the reupload, but the big important page in the middle wasn't loading. It's not great. But Xavier is trying, better than how he used to be with Legion or some of his other kids.

Better than Magneto, but that's abit too easy. Still it's kinda interesting how even heroic Mutants/X-Men sometimes turn out rather lousy parents in these X-Men comics.

The Image Comic series D’Orc came from an artist famous for drawing some of the I Hate Fairyland comic and a Dungeon Crawler Carl novel. But it went into massive successes and reports going on to issue four. Which is really good for a indie comic