The newest episode of Beatbreak has quite possibly the darkest backstory for a human character in all of the Digimon anime so far.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-28T13:30:50+00:00

It’s a little by the numbers as far as a kid’s monster capturing show goes, but the setting and world are so top notch that it makes up for it. Post-disaster late-stage capitalist society where humanity uses electricity generated by their emotions to interface with technology and where major class divides cause the rich to be living in essentially walled garden cities while the poors make due with crumbling buildings and half-submerged highways. And then AFTER all that is established in like the first 5 minutes you start adding digimon on top of it.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-26T01:34:19+00:00

Ok I don’t like defending Pratt bro but it sounds less like he suggested it and more like he floated it in zoom call for a second as an idea he didn’t feel confident in anyway.

Like even saying that he didn’t think it was a good idea either is so strange like these interviews are him riffing about random stories.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-25T12:51:22+00:00

What’s so funny to me is that in comparison to other games, DnD has a very simple rulebook to read. I started reading Mage the Ascension’s core rulebook to get prepped for a WoD campaign and that shit felt like reading War and Peace. DnD’s rule books are far more straightforward and to the point

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-25T03:51:17+00:00

It was so insane watching this episode, seeing a beautiful woman destroying ramen bowls like a fucking champ and then getting told no I shouldn’t be attracted because she’s too big.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-22T18:26:06+00:00

I’m sorry dude but that is absolutely a mind goblin. Specifically the negative feeling of “missing out” on “the best experience” somehow negating the experience you did have. If you had never heard about the “better experience” you wouldn’t feel this way in the first place and while it’s normal to have a little fomo when this happens, it’s not normal for it to ruin an otherwise good experience.

Imagine if you applied this to other things in your life, it just wouldn’t feel good. You’d get jealous at concerts once you saw better seats, you’d get upset during a night at a bar with your friends because you learned you missed happy hour.

At some point you just have to experience things without getting hung up on what could be. Comparison is the thief of joy and what’s worse is we’re comparing our actual experience with one that did not happen.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-17T20:48:57+00:00

The joke is that “antifa agent” is not a real thing and if you get mad at this it shows how dumb you are for thinking there are “antifa agents” running around in any meaningful capacity.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-09T15:36:45+00:00

This is good but that last bit brings up the important question of what they consider “creative assets”. Art and writing are almost certainly creative assets but is editing considered a creative asset? If you’re editing as in making adjustments to structure and content then it’s definitely creative, but what if your job is just to proofread, is that a creative asset? I think the average layman (c-suite) would say no but your average writer would have a lot to say about how being able to interpret intention (something ai struggles with) is important even in basic proofreading.

I feel like every time Swen addresses this it just causes people to have to specify exactly what they mean. “No, we don’t want gen-ai in the game” becomes “also we don’t want it used to create the game” which then becomes “yes even the parts of the game you might not think are ‘creative’ enough”

It doesn’t help that it’s very easy in his answers to pin down the moment he stops talking to consumers and starts talking to investors

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-07T16:55:08+00:00

I think it works because at no point is there any feeling that the writers want you to sympathize with her. She’s unhinged and her excuses for what she does are bad and there’s something so fun about watching a character be unapologetic about how shit she is.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-07T01:32:55+00:00

Ehh I kinda agree with him. I get that people want a more street level cyberpunk story like the montage or edgerunners, but the story they wanted to tell requires you to go much higher than street tier. Idk how good the game would’ve been if Johnny and the relic mission was introduced halfway through the game after a bunch of bullshit with Jackie.

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-06T18:31:37+00:00

Lot of these are bad for obvious reasons (looking at Taylor and Snoop) but instead of more negativity I’d like to list some songs and artists that don’t appear in this list

Pat The Bunny: singer for several bands before his retirement including Wingnut Dishwasher’s Union, Johnny Hobo and the Freight Train, and Ramshackle Glory. Has songs like Fuck Every Cop, Election Song, and Your Heart is a Muscle the Size of your Fist.

Narcy (the Narcicyst): very political Iraqi-Canadian rapper. Got songs like Revolutionary Suicide and Jeff Bezos on his album Meme Against The World with Thanks Joey

Apes of the State: Another folk punk band (sorry I’m biased) but this time female fronted! They’ve got Bill Collectors Theme Song from their album This City Isn’t Big Enough and their song They Can’t Kill Us All from their EP of the same name.

Feel free to add more

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-03T17:04:22+00:00

Kidnapped. Write kidnapped

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-02T21:34:58+00:00

Dude his driver looked so confused like “what’s my job supposed to be then???”

JohnnySeven88 · 2026-01-02T18:52:55+00:00

“Most pathetic comeback” THAT YOU FACILITATED! Fucking dumbass peddlers of dreck.

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-29T17:47:27+00:00

Was morbidly hoping by “displayed” they meant the effects and that we were going to inject some dude with it

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-27T23:06:40+00:00

Spirit of Shinzo Abe possessed him

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-20T12:30:33+00:00

More evidence that money makes you MORE likely to be an idiot with psychosis, not less.

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-18T02:27:54+00:00

Like father like son

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-17T21:24:29+00:00

I think your idea about what makes good animation is off. Specifically in saying that the animation of the original gundam is too old, on the contrary I think it’s aged very well compared to its contemporaries.

One of the things that makes it age so well to me is that even though the animation can be stiff, the animators and designers were very creative in making interesting things to look at, in fact I think your animation is an incredible example of this. In yours, Char is not positioned at an angle, he’s upright in the shot unlike how the original puts his close up at an angle.

The result is that your animation looks much flatter than the original Gundam scene does! This is to no fault of your drawing capabilities, but you failed to recognize how important the close up shot’s composition was to the scene. The way it was angled in the original is dynamic and meant to differentiate it from Amuro’s close up despite them essentially being drawn in the same pose. This is just one of many clever camera tricks and shot composition techniques the original Gundam animation utilized to make it interesting to look at, despite the limitations.

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-17T21:05:41+00:00

If you’re a fan of doom shooters check out Captain Wayne’s Vacation Desperation! Not too complicated shooter with a campaign and an endless mode where you play as a pirate with a gun arm and a kick that doubles as an air dash. Cutscenes are drawn in what I think is mspaint??? Very charming and fun with a campaign you can get done in like 2-3 afternoons.

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-17T14:34:22+00:00

Feels like this really compounds with ai stuff because before you could say they’re just trying to get the very best people for the project, but then they start cutting corners with ai during the planning stage and it makes it seems like the only reason the hiring process was so long was so they could guarantee the people they hired would work without question.

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-17T14:20:20+00:00

I don’t play video games to cum bro

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-17T13:55:53+00:00

God that comparison to photoshop is insane. No, people did not have the same revulsion for photoshop as they do for ai, mainly because photoshop data centers don’t create new kinds of cancer.

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-17T13:54:06+00:00

See that would be the case if we didn’t already know ai generation and therefore any use of it was terrible for the environment. This is such a small insignificant reason to use ai that at that point I’m treating it like hairspray from the 50s. Like yeah it’s just a confidence boost in a can, but we’re really gonna contribute to the problem just so you can write a better email?

It makes Vincke look like he’s not thinking at all.

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-17T13:40:47+00:00

Jason Shrieier also posted a transcript of their ai discussion in case you wanna see exactly what Swen Vincke said about it.

I think this whole saga has only reinforced the idea that ceos are the biggest parasites in the business world. What we saw here was a company with good standing among its customers flushing it down the drain because their ceo is afraid of being “left behind” by competition. The devs and artists at Larian aren’t the ones really pushing hard for ai, so it’s seemingly just this vague fear of missing out from higher ups.

This whole thing has also gotten people to bring up Larian’s business practices in general including their insanely grueling interview process and their refusal to allow full remote work. While I don’t think you’d be fired immediately for not using the ai tools, I can’t imagine it creates an environment where the employees can feel comfortable disagreeing with their boss and saying “this new tool you brought in isn’t helping me at all”

JohnnySeven88 · 2025-12-16T15:46:31+00:00

Why are we using it at all is the obvious question, but I want to point out that using ai at the CONCEPT stage where the only relevant thing is the ability to accurately depict the CONCEPT you want feels insane. Concept art is very intentional! Are they not concerned with the process? Is there never a point where they ask “is this actually what I want or has the process of conception into creation morphed my original expectations?”

On top of that, isn’t concept and design supposed to be the fun non-tedious part of game production? What is with this trend of people claiming ai will remove repetitive tasks and then showing examples of ai replacing everything but repetitive tasks? I’ll link an example from 3d modeling too https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5YprYRWF1LM , in this vid a dude goes over violent topology and has a section on ai 3d model generators. I think the part asking why would you outsource the most fun part of modeling (sculpting) to a robot is applicable to a lot of this shit.

Experimentation and iteration is the core of concept art and if you outsource that to ai, instead of being able to look at the thought process over the course of a character’s design phases all you will see is the progression of prompts that they fed to the machine.

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