I've posted my upscaled versions of the first two episodes of Visionaries: Knights of the Magical Light to YouTube! I ended up compromising a little sharpness to keep it from getting too much of that upscale smudginess, and I think it looks pretty good. There's another upload there at the original resolution if you want a before and after. #RetroCartoons#Visionaries#Hasbro#80s#AIUpscaling
Ran the intro to Visionaries through RealESRGAN and the results were good enough that I decided to try the full first episode! Which is on hour 5 or so of processing, fml. I was going to try 1080p but for some reason the model I have for that is screwy so enjoy UHD.
Dungeons and Dragons folk: The Beyond Printing extension for Chromium based browsers seems to do a pretty solid job backing up your #DnDBeyond content if you're worried about #WotC / #Hasbro shenanigans.
Well over 20 years ago Hasbro sold off its wildly successful games publishing division. Now they are looking to bring it back ? :hmm_cat: #gaming#hasbro
Während #Hasbro im Q1 insgesamt verliert (-24%) zeigt #WotC ein starkes Wachstum um 7%. Digital and licensed game sales am stärksten mit +14%, Tabletop gaming gesamt +5% und Magic the Gathering #MtG +4%
I picked up a pretty nice-looking CD/cassette player at the flea market and then I realized I got rid of most of my tapes from my last Volvo, so how am I going to test the cassette part? Except, wait, I still have one…
"#Hasbro has no problem taking money from companies funded by the Saudi government, but this partnership with #StumbleGuys, which at first blush seems a goofy and innocuous Fall Guys knockoff, is the first time that the #DnD brand has been in contact with a now wholly PIF* owned company."
I’m reading stories (well, a story) that Tencent is looking to buy #DND from Hasbro. I’m not certain how reliable the news site doing the reporting is though.
For the #DnD or #Hasbro nerd the working together is very notable.
Skydance was one of the other producers on some GI Joe and Transformers movies.
Tent poles the push cross promotion and tie-ins are kind of Skydance's thing -- they also did Mission Impossibles, Top Gun: Maverick, the Reacher film that didn't work, and things like Tomorrow War that still do well on streaming.
If you're a person that wants movie people to make movies Skydance and Paramount make sense.
People need to stop worrying about what #Hasbro#WotC is doing to #DnD. #RPG, at its core, is a very simple thing: rules, dice, paper, pencils, people, time and space, and a lot of snacks and beverages.
The genre transcends its progenitor. Your rules need to govern how to describe a character, how to describe the environment, how to resolve conflicts, and how to handle rewards/progression/improvement. All of it can be and in fact is made up.
#RPGs were always meant from the very beginning of #DnD to be mostly #DIY, just like D&D itself started.
And, for the love of Selune, Lliira, Eldath, and Mystra (insert your preferred $deity value), #Hasbro makes the Basic Rules available for free download. It contains the most important bits of the framework, enough that you need never spend a penny, provided you are willing to supplement that framework with an active imagination (which really, is the first requirement to play, after all!)