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@helldiverliberator i saw some people complaining about brownwashing stuff, but idk this one feels different. maybe because it's an exact caricature of a Brazilian and they're all loving it so it's all in good fun. it's not someone taking existing art and being like "there i fixed it" or any of that weird shit.

Vinny and Club Cousin meet each other again at a family reunion
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@Pawlicker @ChristiJunior oh man this is awful xD

Damn, rainy labor day. VERY RAINY.

@ChristiJunior yeah lol there's no way malon wins this but I'll just say... She'd make a much better wife.

@redneonglow i got some notifications from baraag users for a little bit like 8 hours ago, but it seems it just went back down again.

i get an nginx error on my phone but a cloudflare error on my desktop where i have the hosts file setup for baraag, so that's interesting. maybe they're working on migrating?

@redneonglow they're back up!

@ChristiJunior it's like if you went back to 2010 and asked people if Daft Punk or Skrillex was better. Daft Punk wouldn't win that vote, despite just releasing one of the best soundtracks of all time, just because Skrillex was the new/popular thing. You ask that question now and people will say Daft Punk. Like a true vampire, Remilia will probably outlive us all.

@ChristiJunior I don't think that's an upset tbh. Pretty predictable that fedi would vote for the basic wolf girl from a mobile gacha game. Remilia is too strong and has too much of a legacy to win in match ups like this, which sounds like some backwards logic but it makes sense. It's the same reason why Zelda just didn't make it in the last tournament.

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just testing out segmented walls. i can make them look prettier, they actually just look segmented because it helps me keep track of them while developing.

i currently like this approach of just removing the lower wall whenever a player is in a room where it would obstruct their view too much. they can only turn the camera about 50 degrees each way, so they'll never actually be able to see the bottom wall of a room anyway.

as much as i want to give players free control over the camera, rpg architect's camera doesn't have collision. because of that, it'll clip into walls. i don't want the player to have to deal with manually zooming in to see specific spots.

i was toying around with fixed camera angles too and i might use that for some key scenes. it's good to know it's an option but i'd also have to remove walls in some instances doing that anyway.

GreatZott goes metal detecting and makes an explosive discovery

@ZRDR_DelRio @susie limitations breed creativity. less limitation = less creativity. less style. less reliance on good game design.

@susie i'd agree for a lot of devs, but this is naughty dog at the absolute top of their game we're talking about. they were so damn meticulous about everything this game. joel is about the same age as tess and looks pretty much his age (which they still pushed further in the remake anyway). the person who originally designed these characters surely had the intention of doing it this way.

and that's part of the problem. for the remake, they redesigned all the characters. new art director, as far as i'm aware. it really just reeks of "we did your job better" mentality and is disrespectful to the vision of the original game. not just druckmann's vision which is apparently not what tons of players believed while playing the game, but the entire team's vision. each moving part.

on top of that, the character no longer looks unique. she loses all, well, character... just blends in. in the push for heavier "realism" in games, so much has been lost. if i saw that picture of her without the logo plastered on top i would never guess that it was tess. i wouldn't even be able to tell you it was last of us related because it just looks exactly like everything else does. i guess "ugly" isn't exactly the right word for it, but just bland? uninspired?

maybe they could have aged her up a little bit but at least kept her same general look. gone with a more "in-between" situation. it's just sort of character assassination as well as shitting on the legacy of the game and the work the old devs did.

nobody got it worse than sarah though. holy shit. she looks so much worse, like bordering on uncanny valley looking. criticize that though and you have people jumping down your throat asking you why you want a child character to look good in a video game.

it's like yes, on paper, it looks theoretically "better." better skin textures, higher quality mesh with more bones for animations, new lighting techniques that respect materials more, etc and whatever the fuck. it just looks WEIRD though. and it loses the quality that the original game had of looking almost hyper-realistic in a video-gamey way that almost sold the illusion to you, but now since they've pushed for way more "realism-accurate" graphics it just looks strange and uncanny.

i think the original game's graphics are just going to age a lot better because they still had style to them. the artists realized that. new shit has no style.