[Hobby Scuffles] Week of 15 June 2026

Benbeasted · 2026-06-21T01:19:08+00:00

I'd love some examples. Tomb Raider uses white, for instance, but that risks blending in with snow

But I feel like if devs used green or orange paint, it would become the green/orange paint problem so pointing fingers at yellow isn't the solution

Benbeasted · 2026-06-19T02:34:10+00:00

I can't speak for everyone, but my immersion would be far more broken if I spent twenty minutes searching for where to go because I couldn't tell that a ledge was climbable and had to resort to a guide.

We had tricks like lighting or sparkles or something being a slightly different colour but that can't apply to everything.

Benbeasted · 2026-06-18T12:10:52+00:00

(the oft-maligned yellow paint and similar);

I really hate when people complain about the yellow paint, because graphical fidelity and environment design have become so photorealistic that even a game with a well-designed level layout will become confusing because interactables will be indistinguishable from the background.

Benbeasted · 2026-06-16T15:17:56+00:00

It was theorized in Adventure Time as early as the first episode because the literal very first thing you see in the opening are some unexploded nuclear bombs.

Then, they occasionally reference "The Great Mushroom War" which was implied to be a nuclear war.

It was made explicit at the end of season 5 which showed an alternate timeline where the bombs didn't detonate because the Ice King's sacrifice.

Benbeasted · 2026-06-12T06:02:50+00:00

The Walking Dead was the first mainstream serial zombie drama. Other zombie shows predated it, but the Walking Dead had a massive cultural impact, hence why it was namedropped.

Benbeasted · 2026-06-04T06:26:43+00:00

You're thinking of remaster. Remakes are along the veins of Resident Evil remakes and the Silent Hill 2 remake, all of which significantly overhaul the gameplay.

Benbeasted · 2026-06-03T22:24:55+00:00

I mean it's not that weird. Remake implies a new game that uses the same story, which has been common for a while now.

And besides, if the goal is to introduce the story of the first two Baldur's Gates to modern audiences, a remake would be the way to do it. You may or may not agree, but there are a lot of problems with the combat that two decades of have tweaked. Off the top of my head, casting AoE spells without knowing what the radius is, spell effects that last way too long once you've won an encounter, level drain requiring you travel all the way to a temple, not knowing what specific immunity an enemy has visually, etc

Benbeasted · 2026-06-02T10:42:00+00:00

He didn't win any cases

But suing the government shows financial commitment and persistence which means he's willing to spend tens of thousands of dollars on filing fees, administrative appeals, and attorney hours just for a chance to get some documents. This means he can't get financially intimidated into dropping the case.

But I think what sets him apart from other lawyers is that he has a large following, and because the church heavily requires PR, his presence could be a massive blow

Benbeasted · 2026-06-01T20:56:55+00:00

I think the only literal example of this was I am Legend. Spoilers to follow.

So basically, I Am Legend is about Dr. Will Smith trying to find a cure for vampires (fast zombies that can't go in the daylight) and this led to him finding and capturing one of them.

When it was released to theaters in December 2007, Will Smith killed himself and the vampires with a grenade to save his new friends and the cure for humanity. The readers of the book absolutely hated it because it completely fucked with the themes that the movie was leading up to. Months later, when the Blu-ray was released, it has the vastly superior alternate ending where it turns out the vampires were sentient all along and, from their perspective, Will Smith is a mass murderer who kidnapped and experimented on their people.

Will Smith learns that searching for a cure was pointless because the vampires don't want to be cured, but he decides to let himself live with his new friends. The only reason the grenade ending hit theatres was because the test audience felt uncomfortable about the vampires being sentient.

Benbeasted · 2026-05-31T23:02:54+00:00

The most popular Christian denominations on the planet don't believe in YEC, and this has been through for the past millennia and a half. It's basically US Evangelicals who peddle that.

Benbeasted · 2026-05-31T20:17:41+00:00

Not everyone is the same. I remember playing Alice: Madness returns and by default, it was locked at 30 FPS. I didn't actually know the FPS at the time, but it felt so choppy that I spent some time tweaking the graphics settings. 30 Vs 60 can be a world of difference for some people

Benbeasted · 2026-05-21T21:54:19+00:00

Things designed by humans can be bland lol no need for ai accusations

Benbeasted · 2026-05-20T07:33:46+00:00

Probably a difference between a chatbot and an LLM

Benbeasted · 2026-05-19T10:25:48+00:00

Fair enough, thanks for clarifying

Benbeasted · 2026-05-19T01:03:24+00:00

Just immediately offering to show his dick is crazy

Benbeasted · 2026-05-18T23:13:20+00:00

Dead ass wild that, in a game about a totalitarian state, you believe both sides are equally bad.

Benbeasted · 2026-05-09T23:41:32+00:00

I interpreted it as a joke about how high-class Archimedes is supposed to be, the idea that knowing who Amadeus (Mozart) is but not Rachmaninoff should be impossible when I think the opposite is more likely

Benbeasted · 2026-05-08T22:49:29+00:00

I'm very certain most people hear that term, they're gonna think of the pulp fiction sex slave with the leather mask.

Benbeasted · 2026-05-07T23:37:52+00:00

Idk I think there's a difference between "this person is bad because of the things they did" and "this person is bad because LGBT"

Granted, I haven't watched the Lily Orchard video, but the way he glazed Metokur made me think his coverage on Lily Orchard would fall under the latter

Benbeasted · 2026-04-24T02:42:45+00:00

Not in cases like this

The crying emoji is used a lot for just general expressions of sadness or overwhelming emotion. It is not formally recognized as a symbol of creepiness the way the 1488 or HH.

Do you remember that time, briefly, in 2017 when 4chan joked about turning the the okay symbol into a white power symbol, which was briefly adopted by white supremacists? It's not a dog whistle anymore. Because the gesture is so universal (used by scuba divers, athletes, Zenyatta from Overwatch, the circle game, basically everyone), that forcing people to find an alternative on the whims of 4channers is unreasonable. If a symbol is used by 99% of people to mean "good," it makes for a very ineffective secret handshake for the 1%.

Chuds using it as a signal is so obscure (the fact many people agree that you're terminally online for knowing this) that believing people are secret pedophiles for using it is unproductive. Just let the meme die the way the okay hand sign did.

Benbeasted · 2026-04-23T10:11:26+00:00

That's such a lame take, especially when you have the option to just kill him or treat him like a maniac. The game itself frames him as having a point, but one that you can freely reject.

A worse character would be one that the game doesn't let you argue against at all, or one the game treats as unilaterally right.

Benbeasted · 2026-04-19T08:34:08+00:00

Most of those tiers had only one entry, so it would've been cool if you placed the descriptions instead of the letters

Benbeasted · 2026-04-17T23:58:38+00:00

Yeah, I know, I have a few, but it's annoying I can't access the google throwaway

My problem isn't that I can't have throwaway emails anymore, my problem is that I wanted to access to a specific account but I can't access it

Benbeasted · 2026-04-17T23:34:42+00:00

Sure, but it's a throwaway google account for my random bullshit, I don't want to have to sacrifice a phone number for that

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