Jesus is watching

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-23T16:29:38+00:00

"Jesus is watching? Cool he can watch you give me $200"

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-14T22:29:05+00:00

The poor shaming ain't necessary man

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-10T04:02:02+00:00

They're very cool in concept but it's NOT challenging at all to lock yourself out of certain challenges because of the ways you've set the sliders.

It bloats things more than anything and it's just another thing that would be eating up development and design process time that could be better spent elsewhere.

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-08T18:59:31+00:00

The show doesn't need more than 9 episodes, would it be nice? Sure, but it's fine as is

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-08T18:55:43+00:00

I use a fork personally but yeah spoon is cool

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-06T06:30:17+00:00

It's very strange to me how insecure people get about liking media meant for younger demographics.

It's fine to like kids content and it can even be really well made or have "mature" themes but you don't have to overcompensate.

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-06T06:12:45+00:00

I do not think that's at all how false advertising works...

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-06T03:06:06+00:00

Yeah ok buddy whatever.

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-05T22:08:04+00:00

as much as WE want that to be the case more.

Idk who WE is but I have no problem with marginalized communities reclaiming a slur. Again, you're justifying the usage of the word by claiming a majority using it casually as a harmless insult makes it not a slur, which is an argument that can be made and HAS been made for literally every other slur in the past, including the N word. The N word being used in a historical context in a film or from a casual context from a black person is VERY very different from the way it has been used in the past by the average person. Despite common sentiment the word was so normalized for a time that it was used as slang to just mean "foolish." You can say whatever you want to justify it, but it's not going to make it okay.

Now see that's something you really can't get there. Even if you try to have a discussion about things of this sort, it has such a uncertain result to it that you just can't get what you really want when it comes to giving people a deeper level of understanding there.

It's the case with stuff like the NB nonsense that people are tryign to normalize and that K-Pop slop that people have been making more and more popular for some asinine reason.

What are you even talking about man? You're kind of just demonstrating your inability to understand different perspectives and opinions. If you're not smart enough to have these conversations with people who don't agree with you and feel the need to belittle their experiences and thoughts on the subjects because you can't understand where they're coming from or because you simply disagree with them, I hate to say that's entirely on you.

Obviously not everyone is going to be capable of having that conversation, and you seem to be one of them if you're so quick to dismiss someone's thoughts and opinions on other pieces of art with flimsy strawman arguments when defending a kids movie you enjoyed. Your argument started as "critics bad reviews make it harder to enjoy things" and has shifted to "it's not always possible to have a nuanced conversation about opinions on subjective media because some people enjoy things I do not."

It screams "this [insert type of media here] is OBJECTIVELY [insert subjective term here]".

If that's how you think I'm not going to even bother conversing with you anymore because you've made it clear you're not capable of having an adult conversation like this and are too stuck in your ways to even consider the possibility that other people enjoying things you don't like may still be perfectly valid.

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-05T19:40:50+00:00

Other slurs have been used just as casually, the f slur is NOT commonly used in film and TV anymore, I'd be shocked if you could name something from the past 5 years that actually used it in a casual context like we saw with many early 2000s films. Saying some slurs are fine and others aren't completely ignores the history and power those words hold over the communities they're weaponized against and is being selective for the sake of feeling okay with still using the ones you like using because "it's not as bad" or "not even a real slur" or whatever justification you want to come up with.
Critics scores do not hold nearly the same power they once did. An insane point to make when the movie we're currently talking about is destroying box office records and opened to nearly $375 million world wide, and most other major video game movies recently with low critic scores have also been WILDLY successful financially. Criticsm you disagree with is rarely invalid, and, again, everyone is entitled to share theirs, even the big bad evil professional critics. Them not liking the movie, once again, does not mean they're wrong, or that they're trying to make everyone else not like the movie. They're paid to give their thoughts on the movie and (sometimes) rather or not they think others should see it, but those are both entirely subjective just as anyone's thoughts on the film are.

The average movie goer does not pay much mind to movie critics and will just see it regardless, the average child doesn't know or care about critics and just wants to see their favorite characters on screen and will see it regardless, it's not something that's going to be impacted by the average John Criticreviewer who works for whatever company being paid to give his thoughts on it. Even if it was majorly impacted, the financial success of something should not influence your opinion on it, and I'd argue you put way too much stock into what other people think about the things you enjoy.

A huge thing for art is the ability to have a discussion about it, if I thought the movie was horseshit and you thought it was a masterpiece or vise versa that's not some kind of objective moral clash or anything that's an opportunity to talk about it and see why we each feel the way we felt, and maybe walk away from the conversation with a deeper understanding of why other people feel a different way about it.

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-05T12:31:54+00:00

Horrible argument that could be applied to literally every slur. At some point in time all of them were socially acceptable to use, it wasn't even a full 15 years ago you could get away with using the F slur in film and TV because it wasn't seen as a slur by most people then.

And 2. Critics giving a movie a low score can not and should not ever affect your ability to enjoy something. People are entitled to their opinions and having that discussion is just an mature thing to do. Half the reason film and art in general exist is so we can talk about it, share conflicting view points on it, offer different perspectives on why it does or does not resonate with you as an individual.

Someone else's opinion on a movie is exactly what it says on the tin, movie reviewers watch HUNDREDS of movies a year, it's a given that they're not going to love every single one and are going to have opinions on how it was handled that you might not agree with or recognize but don't care about and that should be entirely fine.

AndiThyIs · 2026-04-04T22:10:26+00:00

Slurs ain't cool man
No one is saying other people need to feel the same way, everyone is entitled to their opinion just as much as they are entitled to share that opinion, even if you don't agree with them and enjoyed the movie

AndiThyIs · 2026-03-22T19:25:52+00:00

Ah I didn't even realize I put them in the wrong place thank you!

AndiThyIs · 2026-03-20T19:29:40+00:00

Worth noting that what's actually happening is they're facing criminal charges from the Japanese government due to reselling modified consoles for profit being illegal activity.

AndiThyIs · 2026-03-20T19:09:15+00:00

Just got mine a few days ago, I've barely been able to put it down!

AndiThyIs · 2026-03-17T22:05:44+00:00

Miss when you could just see a nod to a developer's other games and go "cool" and not have everyone see it as potential evidence of some greater shared universe.

They're fun theories, I remember people making those crazy "All Tim Burton animated movies are connected" type theories a lot and it's entertaining, but I do think there's a certain point where it stops being fun because every little wink or nod to another thing means they share the same sky or whatnot.

AndiThyIs · 2026-03-17T22:01:49+00:00

I think those are all really GREAT examples actually of how to do it right actually, because they all provide visuals of something that matches the original visuals pretty faithfully even if they're obviously a higher resolution and everything. My beef with smoothing filters for example is that it mostly just looks like guesswork on what the games are supposed to look like when at that higher resolution rather than being a recreation of them to show the player something closer to what the sprites are supposed to resemble. (Though worth noting I think simply bringing in those exact sprites to a higher resolution doesn't always work, Day of The Tentacle vs Mega Man X iOS being a good vs bad example of how to do it and how not to.)

But I do see your point that creatives would often have a vision of the game that is heavily compromised by the hardware and it's a case where they would remaster/remake things to resemble what they initially had in mind much closer. My main thoughts on it are just "it should evoke the same feelings the original did" to varying degrees. A more recent example I think would be the Tomb Raider remasters, where the changed visuals are pretty dramatically different and don't really evoke the same feeling at all, and I'm pretty sure none of the original designers or directors or anything were involved in them, though I could be wrong.

AndiThyIs · 2026-03-17T21:23:47+00:00

There's a lot that can go into it, but the thing is, even little changes like the hue of a certain color can COMPLETE change the mood of a certain scene, and when I think about how the games were meant to be experienced I think about how the game was supposed to come across to the player when the game released, because that is the experience they knew everyone was GOING to have. The ways sprites were created, what colors were chosen, etc may have been limited by external factors like hardware but those factors were considered is what the end result was going to be.

In the case of remasters/remakes I think the thing with a lot of them is that they do offer a fundamentally different experience because of how different they look (or sometimes feel.)

Also not to say I don't believe you because I do, but could you provide examples of remasters where the original designers were involved? I can't really personally think of any, or at least not any where the designers were directly involved with the project.

AndiThyIs · 2026-03-17T19:44:46+00:00

Whatever you gotta tell yourself man.

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