xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

also a gun store got raided by the IRS and they took firearm purchase records.

Random find today: an abandoned playstation 4 on the side of the road, no cables/controllers

It was not booting properly, but I did a factory reset and now I got a functional ps4 for free 🐁

@xianc78 Thank you for articulating this. The art style of SMBW really bothers me.

@beardalaxy @KoopaTV @xianc78 To me, it looks like the same kind of thing - taking proportions intended for a completely different artstyle and lazily applying them to a new artstyle, without any concern for how much it clashes. It's "faithful" in the wrong ways, rather than attempting to find a way to make it look good with a different style, or retaining the old style, it creates an ugly half-assed mix of new and old. There are certain limitations older hardware, and certain artstyles, impose. These limitations impact game design, art design, etc; the proportions of the artstyle are an example of these sorts of limitations. The proportions work with their intended artstyle because they are part of it - a product of it. Taking those exact proportions and using them for a completely different artstyle just looks ugly and lazy. They're mindlessly copying the limitations without understanding why they were there to begin with or what purpose they served - it's just mindlessly tracing the work without understanding why it works.

BDSP were endlessly mocked for being "faithful" remakes to the point of serving 0 purpose, because they're just straight up worse than the game they're trying to remake; they're just a much, much buggier DP with an atrocious artstyle, and without any of the improvements people loved about Platinum.

This leaves 25 quests for me to complete! Definitely not going to be easy, but I'm chugging along.