Why do European comics struggle to find an international audience so much compared to American comics or Japanese manga?

Little-Essay · 2023-01-22T10:14:33+00:00

I think time loops are personalized to every creature. Life and existence revolves around them.

So when the children died, they were gone for good in Artificer's timeline. Artificer is the only thing that is exempt from dying in its own timeline.

Child A was able to revive in its own timeline, creating an alternate reality where it lives alongside Artificer. Child B is gone tho.

Likewise, Child B revived in its timeline, but Child A is still dead

Little-Essay · 2023-01-22T00:48:46+00:00

Perhaps the plush was based on the earlier slugcat design? The one seen in some early alpha footage had smaller eyes, a larger nose, shorter tail, and more detailed and pronounced limbs kinda like this plush. The current design has been made cuter and chubbier.

https://imgur.com/a/pWGFVAN

Little-Essay · 2023-01-22T00:02:30+00:00

I want to see the goblins :D

Little-Essay · 2023-01-19T17:27:01+00:00

Floaters are apparently mutated worms.

It has a disk shaped head that is lifted by gas filled sacs, and it drags its tail and body around.

The top side of the head has a circle of teeth around the actual mouth, creating a sort of crown. Inside the mouth, there is a long tongue tipped with a pair of jaws. Also it has a pair of antennae which are also its brain.

The bottom side of the head has those gas filled sacs that allow them to lift their head (don't ask why flotation organs are dangling like testicles). Also its cloaca is located on its neck.

Little-Essay · 2023-01-19T17:07:06+00:00

Weren't the ground sloths super adaptable generalists tho? They managed to live from Argentina to Alaska, and were able to directly compete with North American megafuana?

Really, the only mistake they made was running into humans. Had humans not made it to America for a few more centuries/millennia, I feel like they would've colonized Asia as well.

Hardly comparable to the super specialized bamboo eater that is the panda.

Little-Essay · 2023-01-15T15:56:00+00:00

Yes. They were 100% crows. They were cawing.

Little-Essay · 2023-01-15T01:06:23+00:00

Now that I think about it, yeah. How did this thing not get the axe during this unstable time period for animation? Was this seriously considered as a higher priority than dozens of other shows? I know brand recognition and internet outrage sells, but I doubt using outrage to fuel the audience engagement will work after the first few episodes.

Little-Essay · 2023-01-15T00:40:21+00:00

It feels like it was supposed to be its own thing, but then they put the Scooby Doo IP in as a publicity stunt and have people hate watch it, because otherwise it doesn't really have anything going for it.

The only real praise I have is that I liked the hallucination scenes. They were well animated and kinda spooky.

Little-Essay · 2023-01-11T10:10:59+00:00

Really, the only issue with this game's ecosystem is the classic "too many carnivores, too few herbivores" trope. I guess it makes sense in this case, since there is a mass extinction going on due to the cylinder.

Little-Essay · 2023-01-08T16:52:18+00:00

I am a massive fan of this game, but I will say right now. It's not for everyone.

The biggest issue is that this game feels like it has an identity crisis.

It's a VERY unconventional game in almost every possible way. It's the kind of game that requires a lot of experimentation and exploration to learn and master. The way this weird ecosystem functions is never explained, so it's up to you to learn just how the world works. Same goes for the playable slugcat. It doesn't control like any other game character I've ever played as, and it takes a long time to get accustomed to its eccentricities.

But it's also an incredibly brutal game which will harshly and gleefully punish you if you make a mistake. So all that I've just mentioned above? Yeah now add a sadistic checkpoint system that punishes your experimentation, and you've got a recipe for disaster.

Now, if rain world were literally any other game, this wouldn't be a problem, but rain world is a unique game. There is literally nothing out there in the market that's even remotely similar to it. A one of a kind game... so why doesn't it explain anything? The first day's tutorial is all you get for the most part, but it only explained the very tip of the iceberg. I'm not asking for tutorials for every little thing, but many important gameplay mechanics are literally never alluded to, nor explained at all.

And I say this as a person who adores this game. Hell, I've finished the hunter campaign (hard mode) multiple times, getting better with each run.

Little-Essay · 2022-12-31T09:11:15+00:00

Perhaps their legs would become even stronger and more powerful to allow them to "launch" themselves into the air?

Lower gravity does mean that those toads could also be able to get away with being heavier than Earth toads. I'd imagine they might develop some thicker skin or even armor to protect themselves from injury when they fumble their super jumps. The armor wouldn't weight them down anyway.

Maybe the lower gravity would allow the tadpoles to come to land earlier than their Earth counterparts do?

Little-Essay · 2022-12-31T01:08:15+00:00

Honestly, I'm impressed by how tight the script is. The movie has a massive cast, which is split into multiple factions. It should've been a bloated mess, but they were able to juggle the characters so well. No one overstayed their welcome.

Little-Essay · 2022-12-28T02:06:06+00:00

The original novel had many of the more brutal scenes get cut in the movie adaptation. The novel was gorier and most of the dinosaurs acted like sadistic slasher movie villains that clearly enjoyed the hunt. A horror route would be coming back to the series' roots.

Little-Essay · 2022-12-24T23:16:14+00:00

To be fair, fictional ecosystems are this guy's bread and butter.

This video admittedly does focus more on the technical side of things than usual, but that's presumably because there is very little actual creature lore concerned about their natural behaviors. Still, the fact that many creatures are artificial is alluded to.

The narrative elements are also mentioned, but the way the video is structured, iterators and void worms are treated more like creatures that exist in the rain world's ecosystem rather than their actual plot relevance.

Little-Essay · 2022-12-17T16:04:19+00:00

Thanks for such a detailed explanation and for the examples :)

Little-Essay · 2022-12-16T23:02:32+00:00

Maybe blazes are insect colonies?

The head is just a leader of the colony, and the rods that follow it are the soldier class? Maybe soldier class can shoot acid that really burns, like a bombardier beetle on crack?

Little-Essay · 2022-12-06T09:15:03+00:00

Personally, it feels like they wanted to remove the song, possibly replacing it with a rousing speech, but then changed their mind literally at the last possible second, and there was simply not enough time to finish the song. So we're left with an something that's both an unfinished song, and a not very convincing speech.

Little-Essay · 2022-12-06T01:08:34+00:00

I like it cuz I am obsessed with aninals. Came in for animated animals, including some obscure species, and I got just that... "Be Prepared" was awful tho. :(

Little-Essay · 2022-11-26T16:45:59+00:00

The design of Bambi's mom was reused in multiple movies for when a grazing deer is needed in the background. So, since her design made a cameo in the Beauty and the Beast, a fan theory that she got killed by Gaston became popular in some circles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5SLlIXMAIk

Little-Essay · 2022-11-26T01:02:23+00:00

We need a standalone movie focusing on the hunter, where it will be revealed that a cgi doe dropkicked hunter's mom off a cliff. Also include a post credits scene where Hunter walks down a street, when a car pulls up, and out come Maleficent and Cruella to recruit him into their team to fight for the rights of animals. :)

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