Something Ridiculous

Another take of my Fern boy 😏 Isn't he pretty?

"Well? What are you staring at? Do I have something in my teeth?"

Eyyy it's the long awaited Mael skeleton form ref! How many refs does he even need? Yes. The answer is yes. You can tell my main syndrome is terminal.

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Confirmation they intend to work on GW2 expacs (with the same current annual release schedule they have had for SOTO/Janthir/VoE) after GW3 is released

They'll be addressing each area of the game for modernisation and other changes from Core, then going through expac to expac, with a schedule of 1.5-2 months between each of those releases for the next year (or 18 months not sure, think they are counting from now and not from when VoE concludes)

They later addressed their intention to finally explore some lingering plot threads that have been hanging in the air for a long time for future GW2 expacs

They said that GW2's version of the Hall of Monuments would be a mix of stuff that applied retroactively and required you to replay it, albeit with very loose non-committal language to one or the other

The Charr Imperators that were implied to be up to something (Janthir epilogue)

Torment, at a stretch

Some Dwarves resurfaced but seemed to immediately get forgotten (perhaps by design) and by extension the Underground that Primordus destroyed and caused Asura to flee from is potentially open for exploration again

Malyck

Foefire

Wwwwhere's the Nightmare Court?

Bangar

Norn can return to the Far Shiverpeaks with the absence of Jormag

Where's my Itzel tonic?

This is pure speculation, but I also think there's a fair chance we see Malyck again, given one of the devs (I believe Matthew, though don't quote me on that, in case I'm misremembering) has stated a few times over the years how he loves the Malyck storyline they originally had for HoT (that they had to cut for time), and would like to include the character in some way in the future (there's info about this on Malyck's gw2 wiki page).

And because I love speculation cycles like these (I had so much fun during those months leading up to HoT's original launch), if Malyck returns, my two (favorite) guesses for how he might return are:

As a new side-story during the HoT "refresh" portion during the gw2 "polishing" part of the dev cycle they announced Saturday, where they plan to go through expac in order to add some new things (the example they gave giving the revamped Zhaitan fight!)

Reintroduced during this future Pale Tree recovery arc.

If the second one happens, I have such feels about how the interaction between him and Caithe might be. I actually haven't played the Caithe portion of Malyck's personal story - I've tried but I always end up choosing the Trahearne/Amaranda the Lonesome path lmao - I'm curious how they'd treat any potential dialogue differences there, for players who have played Malyck's storyline.

For players who chose the Trahearne path, can you imagine what the two of them might say about Trahearne? ;__;

Those are my guesses, but I hope people will continue speculating during these interim months, as I love reading fan speculation theories. :D

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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Eldritch siren 🫧🩻👁️

I wanted to do a little something for mermay with a little monster design! She’s lightly inspired by my OC Ekānta and a very old mermaid piece I did in 2019! All around was a fun idea to revisit!

Yes, because the Washington state government activated like a sleeper-cell and ruthlessly, systematically hunted them down and annihilated them.

“Y2K came to nothing amirite?”

Yes because an army of software engineers working around the clock, losing sleep, and busting ass till the last minute prevented it from happening.

“Remember the hole in the ozone layer?”

You mean the one that was fixed through rigorous world wide government action?

One of the root problems of our society is a refusal or inability by media to articulate that all those “it’s gonna be an apocalypse” disasters were not disasters because we collectively did something about them.

The good news is this is actually quite correctable. I maintain my firm belief that we as humans are capable of solving almost all of our problems, when we decide to do so.

And I still think that’s going to happen. I don’t know when or how, but I do know that abandoning hope won’t help bring it about.

Getting ready for bauble farming~

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I am LATE but I am super pumped to officially and formally report, that I've joined the Arenanet Partner Programme! I can finally say: