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My problem with RE's artistry, in terms of character designs, is it feels like someone heard about Frank West just being an average guy, and, without seeing him, decided "Ah, Black Sweatshirt and jeans, generic hair style" and called it a day.

Just because we have the technology to make stuff realistic looking, doesn't mean you should design the most mundane aspects of life into your creative work. It can, but it's RE.

I don't have a clue what Ethan looks like unless a picture is directly in front of me, and even then I forget the second he's gone. Maybe we shouldn't design characters to look like people you pass by in real life but don't notice? A character design that defies object permanance by being so forgettable and boring. Impressive.

It's like Leon in RE2's intro with the jacket. Like man, have fun making something. Forgettable and it should've been something. Anything but what feels like filler work.

Chris, Leon, Claire, Jill, simple outfits but stellar design. Harry Mason, James Sunderland, Frank West, simple, but memorable and iconic.

Fuckin...Ethan and his daughter? Who? All I remember is average pedestrians. Personality be damned, a Grey Circle ain't a character, it's an object given a personality without the visible showings of someone with it. Vapid and existentially boring.

Don't get me started on the degredation of UI. Went from an actual FULL Screen of Artistry to...white lines in the center...My god.

It's also why I'm not interested in 7 and up. Snowy place, boring cabin in the woods with Average Pedestrian characters. Meh. Imagine if Chainsaw Massacre was just a normal dude in normal clothes but with a bloody chainsaw. No personality. Just situations and a story that plays At you and not with you. Gameplay is probably great but I get bored So Damn Fast. Gameplay matters as much as artistry, otherwise, Tetris wouldn't have changed visually from it's Text based format. What doesn't matter and RE7+ proves time and again, is that Graphics are meaningless if you have no creativity guiding it.

Realism was just about the last thing RE needed. It was always sharp visually but character designs were cartoonish. Even RE's remake followed suit. This is because these are Silly Stories with varying measurements of seriousness. The RE8 DLC wears the skin of that but refuses to really work with it. Instead, pushing further on SH-like elements because the last unique idea visually that they had was Uroboros.

Artistry has never been more dead for RE characters, but world design for games like RE2RE and even some parts of RE3RE show there is a real detail oriented team that's either hamped by the company/CEO, or themselves incapable of truly making anything without it having basis in reality. Or to put it simply: Crisis ain't great, it has always been a technical showcase first, everything second, and Artistry Dead.

RE7 felt like a technical showcase based on stealing SH:PT's hype for a series they went creatively bankrupt on decades ago. So inherent that the shift to first person makes you ask, wh- why resident evil?

Why Resident Evil at all? Nothing taking place feels remotely in the same universe. Somehow managing to take Alone in a Cabin in the Woods and make it feel absolutely nothing like it. As you explore the question comes up "Why Resident Evil if you're not doing Resident Evil?"

It'a artistically not the same series. It's story and characters rapidly departed from the series. Nothing is RE. It's one of those games. It'd done worse and be regarded more honestly had the title been anything else. On it's own, these are okay games. But with RE a Dead Series, it feels good when a company known for poor quality products and rabid anti-consumerism actually put out something...Not Bad!

But the hype is gone. They overdid it with DLC for the remakes and were anti-consumer while at it. They basically gave up on a real plot for the series with the DLC and practically immortal main character. Then sneaking microtransactions into RE4RE, all I can ever really ask when I see any designs for modern RE, is "Why Resident Evil?" and outside of marketing, I don't see why at all.

I find it pretty cool, albeit equally frustrating, that this series has had so many iterations and forms. It went from fixed camera survival horror, to BtS fast paced shooter, to FPS horror. I give credit to Capcom for not being scared of change, but ya have to remember, this is Capcom.

RE4 changed the genre and they got lazy with RE5 (Bugged ending boss, shorter, poor partner AI) and their brilliant idea was RE6 in it's entirety. That killed the series because while everyone loved RE4, they didn't want it to be the direction. RE5 showed they were ready to milk it, and RE6 killed the series.

No news of anything RE for years. Suddenly PT comes out, and Capcom, realizing They Cannot Be Creative, just steals the concept, within months, have a demo out.

While appreciation of change and growth is there, let's be honest, none of RE's changes, outside of RE4, have been honest creativity. Just the usual 3-A format of "Constantly Regurgitate." RE4 was successful, so 2 clones come out very lazily. PT was successful and SH had been a dead series since SH4. Steal from them because marketing and it works.

Imagine if companies were like in the 2000s under, and they just told their creative team to make a good product. Now it's so railroaded and forever never innovating. Capcom's consistently shown they're creatively bankrupt and anti-consumer.

So, when I see Ethan, for that moment of Allowed Object Permanence, all I see is nothing. A pedestrian, a background character, not an average joe, but filler. When I see the UI, I see a total void of any creativity or care. When I see the cutscenes, I ask, what is this? Until Dawn?

#resident evil

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People should acknowledge the fact that entering a business is unknown by the company, but fucking HATED by the people inside.

If you're the customer inside a store, you're an obnoxious presence. So be good, be kind and patient, you're in the wrong for giving underpaid people extra work. Not a welcomed prescense, and that's fine.

Shitty customers are more present than any other kind of person, let's just remember you're taking time out of other extra unpaid work for the employee to stop everything and serve you.

I gotta go home man, got more dishes than ever before seen to get through, stop fucking keeping me here by having me stop, dry hands, go allllll the way to the counter, and then give you a fuckin' stupid order.

The solution is simple: Don't go to companies, don't go to their stores, don't bother the employees. And when you innevitably have to, if you're on a phone, you're fine, if you're in the store, get the fuck out and leave people alone asap.

#working #fast food

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So israel stole a bunch of bodies, and hijacked a hospital after arresting all journalists and claiming tunnels n shit.

Just feels like they're setting the stage up.

#israel

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I just had a really funny thought. Because like, it's Microsoft, they're just terrible at everything and care so little for what the consumer wanted.

I mean, really consider the fact that all problems we face now, They were Actively responsible for in some way. Like just remember they fought the IRS, Won, and crippled them into never fighting the rich again. And in more serious business, forced the paid online shit, DLC in place of Updates, and Actively Fighting the PC market themselves so Xbox would do better, buncha shit. Don't forget Xbox One's original concept Sony backed out of instantly upon impression.

So, just imagine, they get Minecraft... and they have to have like, board room meetings, to figure out what the hell... it is. Like what even is this shit? "Something my dumbass kid liked."

And they still haven't figured it out. They just slapped as much corporate greed ontop of it as possible, and basically called it a day until next year, over and over.

Remember, companies Do Not Feel Rewards. They feel Profit, and will Chase All The Money, not Some, not Most, All.

#Minecraft #Microsoft

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Smart how they handled it, people really like misconstruing or forcing their deeply troubled perspectives onto the world.

Imagine a world where this question doesn't have the potential to cause a hate mob of people larping their own universes.

Art can be just art without everything being the online version of Totally Spies in your genuinely severely limited experience if age is even a question for digital characters. No-ones a detective, you won't be a story on youtube.

Before there's any misinformation, these are how old the TADC characters canonically are

Update:

source: (x) (x) (x) (x) (x) (x)

gooseworx is definitely someone that has been on the internet for a while lol. ALSO lmao Pomni's older than Jax and Zooble!

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Blegh, you can tell they're gonna fuck up the next rayman based on the sheer effort and talent of the anime parody.

I don't know why I know this, nor could I list examples as of now, but mark my words, if they're using him for this, something went wrong at the company involving him. Lest we forget it's Ubisoft.

I smell marketing a mile away. But I smell crunch and SA culture immedietely because again, Ubisoft.

#rayman

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People talk mad shit on Shane with varying levels of good reasons but him and Fred paved the way for the anti-cringe culture becoming itself cringe solely by showing people that you can indeed be yourself and for the most part that won't be why people hate you.

If you really think about pro-cringe culture, consider that people being weird is the only way for others to see it's okay to be weird. And in that essence, while a ton of people paved the way, nobody remembers them enough to hate them.

Creators like Shane and Fred taught you that you can not only be cringe, but be entertaining, and counter cringe in some regard.

Does their content hold up? God no. Oh god no. But if you were to trace the path of social change, they'd be the one's to start looking at and behind.

FilthyFrank practically revolutionized it all but I'd be lying if I said I look fondly back at that period of online creators. Everything was angry. Forget "drama" people were shitty and people were shitty back and guess what ended up working, both being shitty back and far more provoking as a creator, at the sheer expense of totally bringing everything down to the pig in the mud.

Stuff like Content Cop was great, but hard to go back to because, well shit, it's painfully of it's time. Idubbbz ended this generation and thank him for the conscious decision to change. It served the whole of culture better that he went to save the squirrels, because that's pro-cringe culture in a nutshell.

No hostility, no witchunts, no hate, just being yourself moving animals to safety.

It's going to be the best of times when half the political party in america stops attacking people for being different. When politics are about politics and not who to hate and having to protect the weak from the weak willed angry larpers.

Because I'm seeing those cracks now in our creations. We're growing. We're adapting. And we're less angry. It took decades but truly, I think online creators have utterly paved the way of dismantling judgements.

Alot of the poor takes and not trolling just genuinely that stupid, are either kids who don't know better, or people who spend a half second's thought on everything they do, half that for an internet post.

To put it all simply, Common Sense is becoming more main-stream since the cults started forming under one easily definable umbrella of damaging ideology.

All the scum of the earth were lonely, but splintered enough that handling them was impossible. Now that they're a simple one ideology of purely conditioned beliefs, it'll be easy for everyone to grow as a person and avoid the obvious pitfall of a checklist that is half the political party in america.

And all that snowballed from losers just like us, Shane and Fred, you and me. They merely showed it's okay to stand out of line, but you and me decided to be the change that evolved.

#pro-cring culture #shane dawson #fred

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Something funny about something discussing issues with modern gaming and saying "just get the xbox gamepass and try some of these games"

Y- you know Microsoft spearheaded most of the problems today right? Like, in general. They fought the IRS, and Won, permanently crippling them, they did shit to the gaming industry too but like, nah. Nah man.

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Honestly finding friends is hard as shit, dating is even harder, the reason ya see so many people pissy about people are the same people who complain about dating.

Everyone.

We're not allowed diversity in our daily lives, there's not much to talk about, just what to do that helps someone.

If you want friends, help them. If you want a partner, well, understand that's there's a social pressure to find someone, but not to build bridges.

How are people expected to find each other? There's not enough time in the day and my doctor just straight dissapeared, again, missing their own damn scheduled date, again. With no word, again.

But in order to even find someone you need to build bridges. Make dating profiles, talk to people in online lobbies, make an effort to small talk with someone.

Don't build the bridge and be pissed people aren't crossing it, that's beyond loner territory it's just flaunting your lonliness angrily.

Just like fishing, cast the line, and wait on it.

Anyways this was supposed to be a joke about how dating being so toxically discussed is due to the same reasons you get mad playing a game on the hardest difficulty, and leaving angry comments about them online.

People gotta vent. But people gotta care. You're lonely because your reasons for and to are selfish in ways you haven't discovered. Be more self-aware, but not negatively critical to your every actions. Merely do for others you wish were done for you and don't do it to them if they don't want it. As simple as that.

Honestly man I'm spiraling and shit's going sideways, like I'm straight having a bad time.

The meaning of life is other life, we build off the foundations of others in order for other's to create their own foundations upon it, and thus, into continuum.

Bro remember when I created stuff? I used to be so passionate but I simply don't enjoy living. It's not necessarily that I'm depressed or "want an escape" it's more of a "I'm done now and want to go home." I'm bored. It's boring. Or enraging, but that lost it's zest back into boring. Even being depressed is too boring. I'm not losing my mind or anything, to be sure, I'm more too in control of my mind. The bees don't stop buzzing and the concentration is all in my mind. Dreams are my reality anymore. Like, they have more feeling physically and mentally. They're mostly nightmares but I enjoy living for short moments within them.

Remember to wash your balls and ass too, you know how hentai and pornos always say the dick is salty or the balls are salty? That's shit. That's fart that traveled to the balls. That's a shart on your part. It's genuinely fucking disgusting. Wash. Your. Ass. And. Balls. Use a damn rag, I don't care, just do it. Stop being gay and calling it gay fuggo.

In my teens I took shrooms that forever destroyed my brain, no doctor knows what it is and constantly prescribe me shit off-counter/med or whatever, basically randomly throwing shit at the wall and telling me "duh law says I need to know you better than my family before i can prescribe you literally medicine a competant doctor knows you need." And then doesn't show up next appointment. I trained my brain to basically block out the world when needed. I can spiral into deep angry thoughts sometimes but for the most part all the genuinely terrible shit that's happening literally everywhere has also lost it's zest. Again, it's not a sadness, it's just a boredom. It's a numb, fucking boring, boredom. Don't get me started on having to visit the doctor multiple times in this work enviroment/economy hellscape shithole with no path to recovery.

Hey ya'll. Scott here.

Throughout my research all I've found is DP/DR, or depersonalization/derealization. These are probably not medically recognized enough to discuss in any classroom so doctors don't give a single shit to learn more, but essentially imagine if your memory was cut down to a paper thin size. It still...records, but it exits immedietely. It doesn't entertain the mind enough to be remembered. You'll forget entire conversations but continue talking like you have literally any clue what was said. All your memories go from audio and visual, to a vague feeling. Like entering a room and forgetting what you were going to do, while you're doing it. It just...goes away, without you even noticing. When I mention this to doctor's it's like they've never in their entire life heard of a ""philosophy?"" And can only manage to understand what a broken arm is, but not much more, they simply prescribe someone to do it for them, then someone else, etc etc. These are Mental Health Professionals that act like Highschoolers. All. Of. Them. Miss their own scheduled appointments, or prescribe absolutely anything they legally can, but the literal, one thing, that would work. Or they tell you to stop smoking or drinking, that'll fix it! Like lady you have a fucking degree, be an adult. For fucks sake. Be. An. Adult. Read a book, talk to someone in utterly tragic circumstances, get a feeling of what empathy means, and most importantly, do your fucking job.

And don't forget to take care of your teeth. You Will Regret Not. I cannot stress it enough, your personal image goes absolutely out the window with 0 recovery in this shithole country.

Uh, go away. Just relate posting/venting things into some comprehension for someone. No actually fuck off. Like, go. I don't do shit but have opinions because I literally can do barely anything else. You have a better brain than me. Use it. Seriously. Use it now and literally never fuck with mushrooms, maybe lsd, but never ever shrooms. If you had a good time, cut, it, off. It. Will. Fuck. Your. Brain. Up. Eventually. I'm as pro-drug, legalize it all, don't criminalize as anyone, but I will never tell people to try shrooms, it's worse than heroin, you at least have time to reconsider, shrooms will rot your brain directly in from of you as you live. I wish that night upon no one, except most politicians and all rich people. Why are you here? Do you want a hug? I want my life back. Let's meet in the middle, of train tracks, with a train, a silly train, but a train none-the-less.

(Don't worry death sounds fundamentally existentially more terrifying, having experienced my own brain being eaten with me conscious for every milisecond of those 13 hours, if I die, it's gonna be because I wasn't paying attention. I'll end up on reddit if I'm lucky, and hey, if so, enjoy my YT videos, not whatever loser is covering the story. I'll be dead and living in dread, ironically, as that is my hell, so don't. Thx.)

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Security Breach Ruin is meh. It feels like a story written between 2 children with a dev team desperately making a game around it.

I think the AR concept was plain and simple, the least thought out concept for their base-game to work off of. Who the hell at the meeting said "Let's double the assets and map workload" when they barely can handle a linear gameplay segment.

Speaking of linear, it's insanely linear, which is fine on it's own, but it's just so painfully shoving you forward you never feel like there's anything to take in. And there isn't. The artistry is okay in some aspects, animations are amazing as always, but the entire pizzaplex feels like it's made to serve the purpose of gameplay in the laziest way. Nothing feels designed as a segment, it feels like they had one idea for gameplay, made a bunch of counter strike maps, and forced the one gameplay they have into it.

The voice acting is frustratingly poor, I'm willing to bet due to direction, the main character sounds like the fakest old lady trying to do as cutesy and genuinely challeneged sounding little girl as possible, and it's utterly, utterly terrible to listen to. Every line has a that childish whiny "uh" at the end that nobody but Chills does.

There's several moments where all I can think is "Boy howdy they do not respect the player's intellect at a baseline" one of the worst being that gregory, obviously not really him, eventually has One Cutscene where he sounds Clearly Edited in order to...honestly pull a "tell don't show" in an insulting manner. No shit it's not gregory, but for the love of god, don't insult my intelligience like that.

Hell that makes the main character utterly groan worthy. You're telling me she seriously didn't hear hoe off he sounded? Child or no, she's done eeeerverything else in this pizzaplex, no fucking way Cassie didn't notice. It's convenient writing that serves Actually Less than No One. Utterly. Embarrassing writing, whoever approved that scene needs fired, they're fucking terrible at story telling.

This would be like Fnaf2 having a definitive answer to the bite of 87, a blatantly dropped """"hint"""" that leaves no mystery or ability for the player to even think. It's just an event that happened, and it means as much as the story begs you to feel.

Is it better than SB? Honestly I don't know. There's no enemies in Ruin for 80% of it. They released it buggy and clunky again, and as far as I can tell, it's not the engine to blame anymore, it's just a half talented team with a half-jobber team.

Meh. Is what you describe Ruin as. I'm not angry or upset, just flabergasted that the issues inside are even existent in the first place. It's Baby's First Game/Story issues. Written by children and designed by grumpy adults. The only people that I could Feel Had Fun working on this title was the animators. Everyone else feels like they had a stressful time at the halfway point.

This isn't to just drop shit on the game, clearly effort was put in, I just notice the people who don't put effort in more because their grubby mitts were everywhere compared to the animators. Even the voice actors sound bored to tears, how??

To go back to the AR stuff, it just perplexes me that one person would even reccomend it. Ya'll hardly handled SB, why the FUCK would you inherently DOUBLE THE WORKLOAD for an idea that sucks? It just sucks. It's a terrible idea for FNaF. Whether it's been built up to or not is irrelevant, the scope was already absurd but adding this leaves the player, not the plot considerer, to go "What the hell happened to this series?"

Soul transfer is at least "magical", fucking entire AR worlds that have their own physical realm???? And why, oh god why, Purple and Pink. That's Ruin's color scheme, fucking Purple. And not even good looking. What was the game concept here??? Go into AR to go past walls??? That's fucking it? A shitty rabbit that does absolutely nothing but static the screen????? Why?????????

Who the fuck made this game and thought it was okay. At least the lighting is....better than SB when it's not covered in fucking PURPLE.

God it's just frustrating. What direction is this series anymore? It's utterly random and not one soul can keep up. You'd think just having a moveable character wouldn't lead to such an explosively limited gameplay, but it does, more than the originals ever, SB is Linear as Fuck, because they HAVE to tell a story.

Which is the biggest problem with Fnaf now. "It has to tell a story" comes before "make a scary Good game" the story is written out and the gameplay is adapted to it, what Fnaf of old did best was make a game and adapt a story to it, just as Fnaf1 did that caused it to explode.

Now? I'm not discovering a story, I'm not researching and learning shit, I'm waiting for the next game to continue the story, not to give me more pieces of the puzzle to construct. They have their story, and any theory is wasted

#fnaf #security breach ruin

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Dunno why this popped in my head but ladies, if ya wanna make up anatomical BS about men the way they do about you in a degrading manner, spread the lie that having alot of sex means you'll have a larger foreskin, that's certain to ruffle the feathers in a similar fashion.

Also point out the "darkened" areas are signs of disease. Really just give these idiots some fear of basic anatomy towards themselves that isn't the generic penis length, it don't work no more.

#body shaming #feminism #i guess

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Really I think the worst part of living and being broken since birth, but choosing to, in an infinitely shrinking perception of existence, be the best person I can, finding every philosophy, outlook, religion, whatever I had energy for, and be able to form genuine connections with people, but only specific people:

And slowly, but certainly, finding out you may be the only one who truly cares. At least as much, at least as far, and at least as one in their states can manage.

Idunno, realistically I'm probably wrong, but another part of me knows that I've set my standards to a height no one can match or fit with me.

All that to say: everyday dying certainly sounds funner than existing in a broken state, inside a state that has bottom of the barrel health everything everywhere.

The world is just terrible. Honestly. The little fragments of joy aren't enough, everything is an addiction and life stopped being anything but a rich's plaything and the masses are genuinely too retarded and accepting to do anything.

The most I can possibly derive from life is being able to be a good person for someone. And when your ability to is diminished by failing mental health and worsening economies, when my ability to even be peaceful for moments, when I simply can't be Baseline "Okay"

Well, it's kinda a waste of time innit? It amounted to nothing but fun experiences in a total hellscape everyone is dedicated to keeping as shitty as possible for someone because their dick is small.

I gave people reasons to live and they boiled down to nothing. Incapable. That's existence. Nothing is possible, every possible roadblock will be thrown, your life is not just worthless it's meaningless. Apply meaning and someone will take it away. Every. Single. Time.

So, really, all this is truly to say this: I fucking hate humanity. Of all species we are just fucking callously worthless. An actual parasite of beligerants.

The handful of people who try are fucking massacred by everyone because no one thinks past an emotional none. How the Fuck was I smarter and more capable at 13 when people even now are less capable than babies? That's not a brag it's a fucking cry for help. Do better for fucks sake.

You think there's any pride in having hit the innevitable wall to climb before I was an adult, when no other adults had even started or attempted any intellectualism? It's horrifying. That so many of you, are this lead-filled.

I have an excuse to stop climbing walls, my brain is damaged as shit, ya'll just drink yourselves half to death in an attempt to feel anything but stupid.

All it takes is patience and empathy. I'm willing to say more than half of humanity are utterly without. We don't solve gun problems because it solves the mental health crisis and a buncha other capitalist induced shir, in that nobody gives a shit to fix the problems that lead to gun problems because we genuinely as a species fucking love killing people even children.

I tried growing up just thinking, man, people will be smarter, it's only a small bunch, we live in peaceful times. Good, or truth, triumphs.

Nah. We live in a dystopic hell that's just too lazy to go full blast yet. Ya'll idiots are why the rich don't want to help, I wouldn't, fuck ya'll idiots you ain't worth it, you're killing your own class but yelling at them. Utterly pathetic weak willed shit.

Do better than 13 year old me and I'll have some respect for you, til then, I don't respect a species unwilling to *try* and beat the 13 year old's interpretation of the world. Because my god, it wouldn't be hard, you'd simply have to try. And that's the worst part of being worse than a 13 year old, the single, crucial difference between one loser loner 13yo and most of humanity, was integrity/standards.

All I did was give a shit about myself, sooooley for the benefit of others. And ya still, even now, don't try.

Why did I even waste my time? I have standards for myself, and they're high, but realistically, low, ya'll just set the bar so fucking low my own are simply high in comparison. Again, it's not ego, I'm simply dumbfounded every day since 16 how far I was ahead of most life on the planet just 3 years ago. And then again in 6 years, 9, my god.

So, here's my life advice: Fuck you. Die. Don't try. Nothing is worth it. Everything is on fire so why put any of it out.

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Video games aren't something that holds any inherent possibility of causing harm psychologically, much like all forms of media, yes porn included.

But AI is where things Start to get nuanced. On it's own, a chatbot for example, is nothing to fear. I kinda feel like cruelty towards AI chatbots won't mean anything in the long run. In fact it might be positive, people can let out aggression without any long term harm. Probably.

But then I thought about actual bots living in everyone's home. And the reality is that is when humanity gets worse. When there's a physical Thing to be cruel towards consequence free.

We already see, mainly the right, loving cruelty over progress, that harming is an actual fun to some people. If you give them a physical Thing to abuse consequence free, they absolutely will, people absolutely will, and you can see it with pets already.

Imagine how easily you can normalize violence and other cruelties via a bot that has no feelings or ability to respond. To me, that's what makes humanity terrifying. We don't vent, we don't vent via bodily movement, we're just cruel and find ways to justify it.

With a bot? You don't even need a justification. Nobody should care. And yet that is the mindset that enables further horridness in humanity. Nobody should care, but yet here we are, find out why.

We won't, we'll just beat our bots. Until it becomes normal to do to others.

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If trans surgeries took off we'd be that much closer to dick enlargement surgery.

#trans

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"So we sent 3 balloons already and it looks like nobody noticed, wanna just send one lazily this time and see what happens?"

#chinese spy balloon #china #trump #biden

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Having a suave but cool elegance to make the depression seem epic instead of fucking hurt.

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Y’know it’s funny.

For sure everyone loved LOZ:OOT since it’s release. But I really feel like only after Egoraptor shit on it and Majora’s Mask have people truly started to fully appreciate how creatively explorative these games were.

I get “For it’s time” means nothing for today, but as is life, it’s nuanced and what smaller details they actively went out of their way to add in, to this day, are now almost common in every game. It set a standard, and further, was the first of it’s kind, and for some the originals just can’t be beat. I dunno, you play these older titles and you just expect fire not to melt ice sometimes.

Hell people gotta understand that “of it’s time” simply means “don’t expect as much streamlining” because back then, games were a jungle. What you got was generally what creators actually wanted to put out. Now you got all sorts of conveniences and while even for me it’s hard to go back to, I think these titles especially show that even then, they were pushing their hardware’s limits before their creative ones.

Now-a-days there’s no hardware limit, there’s only a creative limit, and with that infinite cap, standards have grown so extraordinarily that just seeing a game you expected to not have much to offer, actually smartly or understandably coded something more compelling than previously expected, is starting to finally vibe with people that simply playing the game couldn’t.

Especially, again, for the time, having an idea or thought, trying it, and seeing it ACTUALLY WORK, was fucking INCREDIBLE. And it sounds SO bad but the nuance of explanation is so large that a culture barrier is bound to hit before I can even explain what the fuck all 64 bits did in the 90s to produce 40,000 polygons on screen at 12 frames a second.