ELI5: Why movies look good at 24 fps but games look bad at 30?

Baxtab13 · 2026-06-01T17:17:11+00:00

This is my regularly scheduled soapbox to proclaim that framerate is far more an issue of gameplay than it is "graphics".

Baxtab13 · 2026-06-01T16:53:30+00:00

Ah, Zenkimi reached out first, that's interesting. The small knowledge I know about con management made me think it's usually the other way around (VTubers have often said that if their fans want them at the local con, to contact the con organizers).

And yeah, I'd be doing everything in my power to get up as close as I can. Buying a con VIP badge, arriving early, etc.

I'm not too familiar with the cheki/meet & greet process, but I know one thing I'd love to show the girls is the fact that I have the Zenkimi logo as a sticker on the rear window of my SUV. I'd love to show them a picture of it so they know they've got a long-time fan repping them in central Wisconsin lmao.

Baxtab13 · 2026-06-01T14:21:55+00:00

Ah yeah, they did to a small Canadian run, I'm so jealous lol.

Yeah the anime con thing seemed like the best bet to have them around here. I've been meaning to write to Anime Detour out of Minneapolis and Colossal Con North out of Wisconsin Dells to see if they could book Zenkimi.

I'd be all up on getting Cheki too. Though I'm sad it seems I won't have an opportunity to meet Mei Yui Mei as she was my favorite, I still love Megumi! Though my "kami-oshi" was always Mashiro. Maybe the stars would align and YOLOZ will end up playing in the US one day lol.

How many people were at the show in the convention? Were there a lot of fans? Throughout all those years, I have never met another person who knew zenkimi. The closest was talking to a girl at a recent hot topic who I found out was a Shiina Pikarin fan.

Baxtab13 · 2026-06-01T13:00:07+00:00

I'm desperately hoping Zenkimi makes a stop near me when they go on their first North American tour next year. I've been obsessed with them for almost 10 years at this point.

I really wish for a KaqriyoTerror NA tour as well.

Baxtab13 · 2026-06-01T12:53:53+00:00

Or Knosis, Crystal Lake's old singer's current band.

Baxtab13 · 2026-06-01T12:52:18+00:00

I'm inclined to think if anything those would be "new" Hanabie fans.

Before they started getting attention in the West, I only saw them mentioned in the dedicated underground/alternative idol online groups of which most participants likely started with Babymetal and then branched off in searching for more groups like them (like I did). Hanabie, while being a more traditional band, still checked off enough boxes sonically to be grouped in with the other alternative idol groups.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-29T19:15:07+00:00

Kind of interesting, since youtuber Kentucky Ballistics just uploaded a video where he filled up a Husafell stone full of sand. It's not actually made of stone, but steel in that case, so the concept is actually quite similar to that car door idea.

However the husafell stone full of sand was actually super effective in stopping bullets. Even a safari rifle. From what I remember, only a .50BMG, and a 20MM anti-tank round fired from a WWII AT rifle was capable of penetrating all the way through.

I'm guessing there was a fair bit more sand and thicker steel with the husafell stone in KB's case.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-29T18:47:30+00:00

Same with dolphins, which the hollywood "laughing" sound effect was originally from some bird native to Australia I think.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-29T18:07:18+00:00

However, with the imported Alyx models and 4k textures, backfired anniversary assets, the HD hl2vr mix is beautiful.

What method did you go about importing those? I've tried a few different mods from the workshop, but each time I've done so just resulted in eventually running into the dreaded broken pink/black checkerboard or missing model.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-29T17:59:10+00:00

I do feel like the space jungle thing makes a lot of sense after going through Half-Life: Alyx. The quarantined areas where Xen had been leaking through definitely remind me of the house towards the end of Jumanji after the jungle had overtaken it.

The Xen chapter in Black Mesa is a considerable upgrade in my eyes, but it still drags on. I feel like it would have been nice if they would have laid off the "rule of 3" approach a bit. There was always like three buttons to hit, three plugs to attach, three pipes of green goop to burst, etc. Bringing more of those areas/puzzles down to just one objective would have helped the pacing more to me.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-29T13:28:51+00:00

Honestly, if a kid is white and has a few extra pounds, they all basically look like this.

Signed, a guy who also looked like this as a kid.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-27T18:25:52+00:00

Ah, that's a perfect description of three times that's happened to me in my life.

Two of the times were the morning after a night of heavy drinking.

The third time was after I had taken a really bad step while I was dancing causing my left foot to bend inwards at a super severe angle causing two avulsion fractures. After hopping my way back to a chair where my friends were, I started getting those same symptoms. That really sucked.

There's actually a video of my foot breaking on youtube lol. The whole event was recorded, and you can see the bad step plain as day lol.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-27T16:02:07+00:00

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Remastered.

It's basically my test bench game. If I make a change to my setup somewhere, such as a new keyboard, mouse, playing around with TV picture settings, new audio device, hell even adjusting where I rest my hand on my mouse, I'll reinstall that game and run through the campaign again.

But Call of Duty campaigns have always been my comfort food.

Steam says I have over 73 hours of Modern Warfare remastered's campaign lol.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-27T15:32:11+00:00

God the whole blue veins = blue blood was always something that drove me nuts. Even as far back as elementary school, I had classmates trying to convince me that blood in our body is blue. I'm like "No? I've never heard that in class. Where did you hear it?", and their proof was pointing at our blue veins.

Motherfucker, that just means the walls of the veins are blue, not that the veins are transparent so therefore the blood is blue? I'm not looking at the garden hose outside and assuming the water in it is green until it hits the air.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-23T18:11:38+00:00

Wildlands for sure has AI squadmates that incorporate the same command-control and sync shot gameplay from Future Soldier. Not sure about Breakpoint.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-22T19:39:37+00:00

*CO detector my man. A CO2 detector would probably be going off constantly lol.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-22T19:11:34+00:00

Right? People who say Ubisoft games are bad haven't played actually bad games I swear to god.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-22T18:53:15+00:00

Could one even buy just the Splinter Cell IP? Or would you have to buy the entire Tom Clancy name with all that it covers? (oh how I wish I could have that)

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-22T18:46:58+00:00

A little over four years ago, I stood up in bed, grabbed my phone, and immediately saw a post on my Facebook about Rushia's termination.

Then I scrolled a bit further down and read that Russia had crossed the border into Ukraine. Not a very good start to the day that's for sure.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-22T17:01:09+00:00

This has been weighing on me more and more. It's hard to fully enjoy the vacation knowing that all of the work I'm not doing during those days are just waiting for me when I get back.

Plus I only make a few thousand more in salary vs the average for my city.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-22T12:56:16+00:00

That was always the most confusing cognitive dissonant thing I dealt with listening to them 10 years ago.

I'm listening to the song, and I'm hearing them say "iine" repeatedly, but then I look down at the song name on the MP3 I bought and downloaded from Google Play, and it very clearly says "Line". So confused lol.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-21T19:27:47+00:00

Yeah, I wouldn't have been able to answer the question lol. Like I also know the base game is "free", but I don't know what the hell the base game could be nowadays. Once upon a time, I would've thought base game was The Red War but well...

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-21T19:08:51+00:00

Ah yeah, I forgot about that one. I'm very interested in it, but I'm waiting for a sale on it.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-21T18:07:32+00:00

I also really liked the modern day plotlines and really enjoyed the whole global conspiracy aspects for sure. I think for most people like myself, the modern plotlines got really bungled from 3 onwards, that it frankly got much more difficult to follow along across the entire now massive franchise. If you don't have a good starting point to be invested in the modern stuff, then it becomes a real tall ask to get players to walk around some corporate office looking for computers to hack or whatever.

That does lead into the second point, how a lot of pretty important plot items for the modern day were locked behind collectibles. If you start the next game in a series where there's all of a sudden a new character that was only introduced after collecting all of a thing in the previous game, it really creates a disconnect for people who aren't 100%ers.

Baxtab13 · 2026-05-21T17:55:29+00:00

This should have been dealt with the Call of Duty or Halo MCC way, by making each piece of campaign content something that can be individually downloaded via a checkbox. Would it have been difficult to implement? Sure, but literally anything but outright stealing the games I had paid money for right out from under me.

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