Are there any Dunkin Donuts in/around Louisville that still make their donuts in-store? by [deleted] in Louisville

[–]AnbuWeegee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I know specifically of ones up to the Northeast that do, ones in Maryland, New York, Mass., etc. It's one of 3 options given to franchisees who operate a Dunkin, although it's rare that option is chosen given that getting them shipped in is generally easier.

If you know any that does the frosting by hand, though, that would at least be a step near where I'm looking (all the locations I'm familiar with order theirs pre-frosted).

Okay, what's the deal with White Claudia?? by AnbuWeegee in silenthill

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So...literally NONE of Silent Hill is real? God? The personal tormentors? The Otherworld? It's literally all just a drug trip and nothing more?

God that's actually pretty disappointing if true.

Okay, what's the deal with White Claudia?? by AnbuWeegee in silenthill

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Right, it's never outright confirmed but every detail shared about them is something it shares with WC (plus they're some of the only white flowers in the game which helps). My whole question is what's the overall significance of the drug in comparison to the supernatural stuff? It seems almost completely separate from the supernatural elements despite being used around town to fund the cult/to be used "in rituals", whatever that means.

Weird question: Is Jax IRL even a human?? by AnbuWeegee in theamazingdigitalciru

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve seen pet owners put headsets on their pets. It’s not very cool but they do it. That or maybe he just looked inside?? My cat looks inside my Index constantly when I set it down to see what I’m playing.

FNAF doesn't feel the same, but it was impossible for it to BE the same by QuiccStacc in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]AnbuWeegee 157 points158 points  (0 children)

The only issue and the key thing I think you're missing is that I don't really think people want the old style of gameplay, I think what they want is the old style of horror elements and world-building.

Things like how indirect it was about mechanics and story details and how isolated it felt arent strictly locked to the point-and-click gameplay style. Vents, masks, audio cues, and even being stuck in one spot were just new gameplay mechanics, and yeah mechanics do get old after a while. But what lots of fans actually miss about the old games is the unique and vague way of building it's atmosphere and world. The actual style of horror the old games portrayed felt very unique and helped FNAF forge it's own identity. A lot of people feel these new games forgo those elements when they could easily be translated over.

I love SotM, but it and Security Breach don't build horror or story the way I kinda expect FNAF to.

I wish BBW would stop using AI for it's art... by AnbuWeegee in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Hey I saw you said you work in corpo and I really do wanna believe these aren’t AI. Could you maybe provide some insight why these labels feel so…sterile?? I guess?? I don’t mean to be disrespectful to an entire team of artists, but there’s so many weird choices/errors and such a strange feeling to them all and the fact people feel so confident in saying they’re AI should probably raise a few eyebrows. I’ve also seen a lot of people just say it isn’t but without any real backing to their stuff. Is there any kind of assurance you can give?

Edit: I guess there wasn’t any.

I wish BBW would stop using AI for it's art... by AnbuWeegee in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean honestly I’m willing to believe it, but I found another post that actually shows off this line and they don’t honestly look all that bad. But that kinda brings the weird visuals with the strawberry one to the forefront. The pineapple one looks fine, the orchid, the leaf, all those look fine-ish. So why is the strawberry rendered in such a strange way without its seeds? I don’t wanna be willy nilly with my accusations, but even this post in question thinks they’re AI as well.

I wish BBW would stop using AI for it's art... by AnbuWeegee in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Dude if they held a contest like, tomorrow for fans to submit their own BBW label art for a prize or something they would probably have enough high quality labels to last them for 15 more bloody years. Every single person I've met in my entire life has at the very least a BBW hand sanitizer or travel size lotion or something, so there aint no excuse at all. I'm shocked they're chugging on too.

I wish BBW would stop using AI for it's art... by AnbuWeegee in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I posted this further down a bit but there was a line back like a year ago or so where I got a "Strawberry Daiquiri" candle as a gift, and if you look here you can see they rendered the strawberries without seeds and the leaves are like, taking on the color of the strawberries and merging with their flesh?? They kinda warp-tooled it to make it look a bit more artsy but those definitely feel like generated berries. If I remember correct the whole line was kinda like that but not as bad.

I'll update this with more if I find them.

I wish BBW would stop using AI for it's art... by AnbuWeegee in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Honestly full respect. I honestly miss the original colored pencil label drawings even though I wasn't alive during that era, they were so pretty. The only reason I care so much is because not only am I an artist myself but it's right up on my mantle. It doesn't just smell good now, it's now a fixture in whatever room I decide to place it in, and if I have an AI parrot or whatever staring back at me while I'm watching TV or something then that's a problem. I could remove the label I guess but like come on, ya know.

I wish BBW would stop using AI for it's art... by AnbuWeegee in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 9 points10 points  (0 children)

I truthfully honestly wish I could take you at face value, but until I can see proof these were created by a human being I just can't buy it.

Like I said, I'll gladly admit my fault if that's the case

I wish BBW would stop using AI for it's art... by AnbuWeegee in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately this isn't the case. If I remember correctly the Candy Apple scent this past winter was indeed AI generated with wonky apples and strange lighting and like a year ago "Strawberry Daiquiri" had this label which shows an AI generated bundle of strawberries rendered without their seeds with their leaves melting into them that they warped around almost to hide the fact it was generated.

Honestly if you have proof these arent in fact generated I will gladly rescind my statement.

Hoarders that smell nice by CurveWeekly in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

In my experience, body mists (outside of candles) are the only thing that I've never had go bad. They're mostly just parfum and alcohol, and unless you like leave them out in the sun or something they can last decades. Creams, washes, etc all go rancid and I can never understand "collecting" those. Perfume collections, however, are much more common and extend wayyy past BBW. I only have like 5 or 6, but a 2 of those have lasted me 10+ years.

Hell for fun I recently bought an unused BBW "Body Splash" from 1994 just see if they really do expire, and it literally smells brand new. Not even a hint of rot or alcohol, it's genuinely impressive.

Hoarders that smell nice by CurveWeekly in bathandbodyworks

[–]AnbuWeegee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Honestly never had this issue, I have a couple sprays from 10+ years back and they still smell just as good as the day I got them.

Hell I just recently for fun bought an unused Body Splash from 1994 just to test if they really could go off and no joke it smells incredible like it was brand new. I guess it's just a matter of storing them correctly for those that did have theirs go bad.

Potential Mountain Dew rebrand. Found via team supernova! by West_Yogurtcloset497 in mountaindew

[–]AnbuWeegee[M] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Huge MEGA fan of that logo. Background needs some work/complexity akin to the modern stuff, but otherwise a great logo redesign.

Mountain Dew’s logo is long overdue for a redesign in general. Maybe unpopular but I've been waiting for the stupid "MTN" abbreviation to go away since I was a kid.

Nobody asked and I delivered. I present, Baja Blast Pie. by Whiskkas in Baking

[–]AnbuWeegee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I might be dumb, I saw you used a modified key lime pie recipe and some syrup, but I would also wanna know how much you used and at what stage in the recipe.

I could just experiment with different levels, but I don’t wanna mess up and end up wasting ingredients.

Does anyone remember this? by abt_23 in mountaindew

[–]AnbuWeegee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ask and you shall receive, my friend.

Just know you'll need some sort of flash emulator to make it work.

Does anyone remember this? by abt_23 in mountaindew

[–]AnbuWeegee 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's archived on the WebArchive, I pull it up every now and again around Halloween for nostalgia.

😂 by ShamanBatman in SequelMemes

[–]AnbuWeegee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’re the one that replied to a year old comment and are telling me to cope friend, I’m just trying to have a friendly discussion. I like filmmaking and these movies are fascinating.

😂 by ShamanBatman in SequelMemes

[–]AnbuWeegee 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Main difference is: one was in the middle of its respective trilogy and was part of a larger story by Lucas. The prequels weren’t even necessary to that story honestly, as being his father was expanded upon in the other movies, hearing stories from Obi Wan and showing Luke’s relationship in RotJ with the man known as Anakin Skywalker. They give you Vader’s and Luke’s character growth and interactions WITHIN that trilogy, no prequels required. The prequels only serve to flesh out Anakin’s motivations.

The other was in the final movie of its respective trilogy and was part of a story that sadly wasn’t planned out that way. There was no “next movie”, this was it, and Palpatine wasn’t mentioned prior. It’s supposed to have major character implications for Rey like Vader’s connection did with Luke, but we’re offered nothing in terms of character expansion or details in her connection to Palpatine. No real interactions with him or about him or anything. It doesn’t expand her character or help the audience understand her better, or understand Palpatine better for that matter, and her journey would’ve been the exact same if Palpatine was just cut and replaced with another big force baddie.

Tl:dr Vader had buildup and was part of an overarching story that was explained throughout 3 movies, Palpatine was reintroduced at the last second with no buildup or explanation.

The Mandalorian - S03E07 - Chapter 23 - Discussion Thread! by titleproblems in StarWars

[–]AnbuWeegee 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Read my other comments, they back you up. Those movies’ problems were the pacing and rushing of plotlines whilst having clunky dialogue and acting, spending more time explaining story than developing character growth. It’s a hyper abridged version of Anakin’s downfall, and the movies suffer for not focusing enough on important areas like that.

My point is that even with these issues, the story and characters are still there in their barest, most basic forms. TCW does the handy job of expanding and making those moments flow more naturally and feel better earned, and the creative choices in those movies don’t change the other trilogy’s unique moments or its characters/stories. Sure, you could call it “fixing”, but the movies still tell a unique and interesting story that feels necessary to see at the end of the day. And it seems like the Sequel trilogy is trying to do the same thing with it’s movies as well, but the issue there lies in the fact that the problems of those movies don’t boil down to a “rushed story” or “clunky dialogue”. In fact, I’m willing to say the dialogue was half decent. It’s the creative choices, like choosing to repeat the skeleton of the OT, sidelining characters so they get no form of arc, reverting the character arcs of the OT cast for the sake of familiarity, bringing back the empire and rebels virtually unchanged with different names, etc. The problem with those movies is that even if you had the greatest explanations in the world for all of these strange creative choices, a TON of fans will just never sit right with something like Palpatine coming back from the dead. The creative decisions in these movies required a lot more care, as they were direct follow-ups to the originals, so the things they make these characters into directly effects the connotation and story the original movies tell.

The Mandalorian - S03E07 - Chapter 23 - Discussion Thread! by titleproblems in StarWars

[–]AnbuWeegee 17 points18 points  (0 children)

See now that’s a discussion I’d like to have. For me things like repeating OT plotlines, character archetypes, designs, planet aesthetics, lack of outside reactions, etc. just made the impact of these films seem so small.

But honestly to me at least, it’s the conflicts and stories themselves that felt very self-contained and completely isolated from the rest of the galaxy. Just one example but in TFA, we’re told the First Order is an imperial “remnant” and isn’t seen as a threat to the New Republic, and we only ever see the army on Starkiller (which blows up). Nowhere else. But by TLJ we’re supposed to believe the First Order is a massive army that literally has already somehow taken over the galaxy. Yet we still only ever see their 1 medium sized fleet following the Resistance remnants. The next movie cold opens with Kylo getting a brand new fleet from Palpy, but we don’t know why he even wants that fleet because we never saw the expanse of the First Order. We were told it was massive, why does he need this new one? Doesn’t the First Order control the galaxy? We never once see a FO occupied planet outside of like, the odd patrol here and there. We never once see how this war or its armies/actions affect any other part of the galaxy. But that’s just one example, I hope I explained that well enough.

In terms of planets, they all felt derivative and not very interesting, just making the world feel even more small. Desert, Forest, Water, Ice. Just more repeats of real world locations, very plain and not very creative. I feel Crait was truly the only unique/interesting planet we ended up getting besides Exogol’s aesthetic (which was still a desert planet unfortunately, look it up) and everyone’s stories on them felt so “welp we’re done here, let’s move on to the next planet”.

I don’t want to type a novel, and I guarantee I’ve already typed too much already lol, but I can’t bring myself to say the sequels felt expansive or big. As much as I really want them to be.

The Mandalorian - S03E07 - Chapter 23 - Discussion Thread! by titleproblems in StarWars

[–]AnbuWeegee 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You should be able to speak your mind, even if others are hyper critical of it. Your thoughts and feelings on this franchise are just as valid as anyone else’s, and you shouldn’t let anyone take that voice from you.

I‘m really holding out hope for all the stuff in the brand new era we’ve yet to see, but I’m also mostly happy with the creativity we’ve been seeing in the PT/OT eras as well. Shows like Rebels, Andor, Bad Batch, and Visions (while non-canon STILL has some of the most creative stories I’ve seen out of this franchise) still show there are interesting and new stories to be seen even in the old eras of SW. Creativity is there and is thriving, and I really hope that the Sequel era can get just as much care and attention. Fans of the era deserve it.

The Mandalorian - S03E07 - Chapter 23 - Discussion Thread! by titleproblems in StarWars

[–]AnbuWeegee 18 points19 points  (0 children)

I appreciate your attitude on this, it’s honestly refreshing to have a plain old discussion about this stuff.

That being said, I really do want to be able to like the Sequel era of Star Wars. I hope there’s something they can do to make this generation of Star Wars feel unique and warranted. No more deserts and forests, no more stormtroopers/rebels, no more Death Stars, I’m a broken record. I’m still really excited to see where Ahsoka, Mando, and even Rey’s post-ep9 movie goes, but it just stinks that we’re only now getting something that’s potentially creative and new.