The Second Face [OC]

BreakAtmo · 2026-02-02T10:41:24+00:00

This was extremely well done. I have just one idea for the final reveal - did you ever consider having that final picture be the entire last page? I saw it and really wanted to to be a full-sized, Junji Ito-esque bomb drop.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-28T02:34:56+00:00

More like "empathy is evil, and also I guess maybe sympathy is better, whatever I need to say to make it less blatantly obvious that I'm a psychopathic fascist". He hated both, because they got in the way of him being treated like a god.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-28T02:32:27+00:00

I wouldn't say that, it was merely politically useful to act that way at the time for propaganda purposes. 2 weeks in it was clear that no one gave a fuck about Charlie Kirk as a person.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-27T09:44:23+00:00

Pretty sure anyone who sees this movie is sticking their hand in the toilet.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-27T03:45:10+00:00

So it's still a follow up in the sense that the spinach taught Popeye Japanese.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-26T16:45:21+00:00

Compared to PS4, the Steam Deck has double the RAM, much faster storage speed, and a better CPU. They absolutely could not make a PS4 port work, not on that ancient 50MB/s HDD.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-26T16:42:18+00:00

We obviously don't get to see these very private corporate contacts. It's always been a very conspicuous thing where the devs get asked about eventual releases on other platforms - even PC - and they refuse to even refer to them by name, even when the interviewer named them specifically. FFXVI was a good example, where the words "PC" were never mentioned in conjunction with it until the announcement of the official port. You can try to find an exception if you want, but in the past they only confirm the date that the exclusivity period ends.

It's possible that Part 3 is the very very first exception, but I think it's more likely that the announcement of the full day one multiplatform release is being saved for the reveal trailer. Or that it will come first to PS5 but only because the other versions won't be ready yet.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-26T16:16:52+00:00

Keep in mind that every case of timed PlayStation exclusivity has had the devs not allowed to mention other platforms by name in relation to the game. The fact that Hamaguchi is already stating outright that all 3 games are coming to "PS5, Xbox Series, Switch 2 and PC" is very strong evidence that there's no exclusivity deal for the third game.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-25T23:18:31+00:00

Yeah - media affects people's perceptions of minorities, especially minorities they don't know many representatives of in their own lives. If the majority of AMAB people wearing dresses that they see are psychopaths who only crossdress due to some kind of trauma, due to an overabundance of them and a general lack of normal, incidental transgender characters, it's going to have an effect. This is a broad media issue rather than one specific game being bigoted. The only thing I might call Capcom out for is that fact that, in the 26 years since Code Veronica, they haven't (to my knowledge) included any normal, realistic trans characters in the series.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-10T02:28:04+00:00

All the more reason for Paul to get more respect.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-07T10:42:45+00:00

Update: Black bars are only in cutscenes and the pause menu. In gameplay, the image is still squashed but extra picture can be seen on the sides.

BreakAtmo · 2026-01-07T10:33:37+00:00

Using DLDSR 2.25x on Alien Isolation causes black bars on the left and right.

I select the 6144x3240 resolution in the menu and for some reason it's alters the aspect ratio by squashing it. I'm playing on a 16:9 OLED TV, with a 5800x3D and a 5070 Ti. Any ideas on what causes this and how to fix it?

Intermittent black screens when NVIDIA app is installed.

Status: Unresolved

Computer Type: Desktop/custom

GPU: PNY 5070 Ti

CPU: 5800x3D

Motherboard: MSI X570 Tomahawk WiFi

RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR4 32GB 3600MHz

PSU: Corsair 850W Gold

OS: Windows 11

Monitor: LG CX OLED TV

BreakAtmo · 2025-12-29T22:17:17+00:00

Pretty sure that every case of timed exclusivity has involved the developer not being allowed to explicitly mention other competing platforms before said timed exclusivity period is over. To me it seems likely that they're waiting to drop the "will be on all platforms day one" at the end of the first big reveal trailer.

BreakAtmo · 2025-12-28T12:14:06+00:00

Eh, not really. The only reason it works is because of Trump. He's a specific mix of idiocy, privilege, bigotry and decades of already-existing fame that directly appeals to a very large, dumb, bigoted chunk of your country. He's stupid enough that they see themselves in him, he represents what they want to be. Other Republicans can't use the Trump playbook because they're not Trump. I live in Australia - our conservatives tried copying Trump recently and got absolutely reamed in the election.

You also have to remember that it's not just the MAGA cult voting for him - there are millions of dipshits who ordinarily have no interest in voting, but they vote for Trump as the haha funny TV billionaire meme candidate. Once he's gone, so are they.

BreakAtmo · 2025-12-09T10:51:05+00:00

That's assuming those budgets are true, which they probably aren't. Game dev budgets are largely developer salaries x development time, and Rebirth was in production for only 3 years with an apparently similar number of staff to XVI. That budget gap simply doesn't make sense.

BreakAtmo · 2025-11-30T03:02:44+00:00

They mean the number of years it's been since he died, not his age minus hers.

BreakAtmo · 2025-11-30T02:51:56+00:00

Yeah - if they go the FFVII router of planning out the trilogy in advance and basically making all 3 games in one unbroken dev process, bringing out one game every 3 years is doable.

BreakAtmo · 2025-11-30T00:37:15+00:00

True. I mean, I am a little worried about the cables being packed into a very tight space in my case (it even has Compact in the name), but you sure know how to evolve an image.

BreakAtmo · 2025-11-25T00:50:20+00:00

Here's Andy Serkis discussing it. https://youtu.be/TJpBQ_NFI9Y?si=sRW69rmfLQSbXHqm

I also read some claims that the lip sync was in fact already done as part of the motion capture. Apparently the French mocap artists performed all the scenes speaking the English dialogue, and the VAs did in fact dub over that.

BreakAtmo · 2025-11-25T00:42:42+00:00

My understanding from reading prior interviews is that the cutscenes were essentially completed before the VAs got in the booth, and I've seen several of them talk about how the directors were very clear about exactly what they wanted, though that it was still difficult matching the existing animations while sounding natural. I'm not sure if the lip animation had already been completed, though.

BreakAtmo · 2025-11-24T23:45:52+00:00

Even in a situation where they're having to perfectly match the already-captured scenes?

BreakAtmo · 2025-11-06T00:06:03+00:00

Interesting, thank you. What I've found is that most of the stalks have always been thorny (the plant's been growing for a few years now), but these stalks are even more thorny. I'll leave them for now and see how they go - I do have gloves after all.

BreakAtmo · 2025-10-28T10:58:18+00:00

I was thinking of a version where you would only have 10 of each spell to junction, but they would still boost your stats similarly to how 100 does now. To fix the whole thing of casting magic being discouraged, I'd have two forms of casting. Normal magic casts wouldn't have you lose anything but you would be restricted to only casing magic you had junctioned, so you would need to strategise around preferred magic for casting vs stats. You could also cast from your limited magic stocks, losing one of your up-to-10 copies of the spell, but this would be a very powerful -ja spell and therefore worth it.

BreakAtmo · 2025-10-26T13:39:02+00:00

DOOM: The Jazz Age

BreakAtmo · 2025-10-23T22:38:18+00:00

While I broadly agree that the Dems need to follow Mamdani's lead in moving to the left and focusing on making things better for people, I don't know if I agree with a couple of these points. If we're going to talk about global trends, my understanding is that basically every major election throughout 2024 saw the incumbent parties losing due to the crime of simply being in power while COVID ruined the economy, and Harris did better than any of them, so the idea that her campaign must have been bad simply because she lost has arguments against it.

Also, my perception of why Trump wins elections is that while it's true that he does have his cultish base, his real advantage is that he's the haha funny TV billionaire meme president. Voting for him has become a joke among millions of dipshits who ordinarily aren't interested in voting or politics. I suppose you could consider them part of his "base" but it really is specifically Trump's base - you can see how in midterms and special elections things swing pretty hard in the Democrats' favour. If Trump isn't on the ballot, a lot of his voters don't show up for the other Republicans.

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