Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker | Coming June 9th

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#DnD inspired visual novel 💜 Play as the tavernkeeper! 🔥 Deep lore 💬 drink mixing 🍹 PnP humor 😹 Get it now: https://linktr.ee/taverntalkgame

The image is an altercation of an existing meme. Originally, a cat with edited eyes and mouth to look absurdly human, is printed in black-and-whie on a one-page flyer. Text above the picture originally says "Have You Seen This Cat?", while tear-off snippets cut to the bottom of the flyer say "NOW I HAVE". The meme has been altered to show Capt'n Beebug, the fuzzy bee-like familiar of the upcoming title Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker, waving into the camera that took the now-printed photo. The text also has been altered to read "Have You Seen This Discount?", riffing off the accompanying post that informs about the "up to 40%" discount currently running on the original Tavern Talk game during the Steam Event "INDIE Live Expo". The post also reads that the upcoming title Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker is part of the gamescom latam BIG festival, but this info is not reflected in the image.
The image shows the interior of the Drowsy Dragon, warmly lit from behind the bar. At the bar, a small crew of celebrating adventurers is toasting toward one of the two characters (a warlock and a bard) in the front. Plakated over the picture itself is the logo of Tavern Talk Stories: Dreamwalker, as well as the words "30.000 wishlists" - celebrating the milestone.
Two images sit next to one another in comparison, one supposedly with DLSS 5 off, the other with it turned on. The image on the right (DLSS 5 on) shows the character Quasar "yassified" - usually done by filters, most commonly found in the app FaceApp. Here, however, an actual artist sat down and - opposing the genAI trend that Nvidia is trying to promote and shove into people's faces - painted the version on the right (as well as using some photographs of snatched nail polish). genAI, short for generative artificial intelligence, is an ethically highly questionable process where hundreds of thousands of art pieces from artists (both digital and traditional) have been stolen and fed into a data set, so that people who don't bother to pick up a pencil and learn how to actually be creative, can write little prompts and feel like they've contributed anything meaningful to society. Instead, it gives the same vibe as somebody in a restaurant describing the succulent meal they were given, while also claiming to be the one who cooked it. genAI is now used by Nvidia to make games look "better", which both ramps up prices for GPUs while also creating a whole new addition to the problem posed by data centres necessary for the creation of genAI slop.