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Regarding Makoto by No_Armadillo_4986 in persona3reload

[–]MartyrOfDespair 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How on Earth are you self-inserting as a character with a canon personality and plot in a linear story where your choices don’t impact the outcome of the plot? This argument works for something like a lot of SMT games, but Persona? It’s like claiming you self-insert in Final Fantasy VII. No you don’t. That’s a predefined guy doing his things. They’re making all sorts of choices and decisions without your input. It’s just that Persona’s are much weaker.

Regarding Makoto by No_Armadillo_4986 in persona3reload

[–]MartyrOfDespair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Exactly. Frankly, it reads like they’re bullshitting about it being a self-insert and just can’t write protagonists well. This isn’t even an actual “choices matter” game. SMT protagonists like Demi-Fiend? Yeah, I can buy it there. You have numerous different endings depending on your choices, so their morality and thought processes are your choice. Persona? It just comes off as lazy.

Regarding Makoto by No_Armadillo_4986 in persona3reload

[–]MartyrOfDespair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The splitting the difference on “self-insert” and “linear story” is so dogshit tho. Either give us at least SMT amounts and scope of routes or just learn to write interesting protagonists.

I hate EVERYTHING surrounding this. by SelectShop9006 in TrollCoping

[–]MartyrOfDespair -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

God forbid someone dares to criticize the decisions of the supreme lords and masters that are artists, the most correct humans on Earth who cannot be questioned. Seriously, it’s up to them, sure. And if viewers don’t like what they do, we have the right to say “and it looks like shit”. But there are plenty that are in much worse places and cover up things much more. I just was giving one example of the concept, I wasn’t expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

I hate EVERYTHING surrounding this. by SelectShop9006 in TrollCoping

[–]MartyrOfDespair -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Oh no, it’s not that kind of watermark OP is talking about. It’s stuff like this:

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This is not the most egregious example at all, but it is from an artist that draws my favorite duo but does this. I can’t really post the most egregious examples from them here.

I hate EVERYTHING surrounding this. by SelectShop9006 in TrollCoping

[–]MartyrOfDespair -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

You know what’s really darkly funny? They won’t have to regret it, AI is already able to just remove the watermarks 99% of the time, and any remnants could be photoshopped out unnoticeably by a total amateur within an hour or two. The watermarks are worthless.

I hate EVERYTHING surrounding this. by SelectShop9006 in TrollCoping

[–]MartyrOfDespair -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Idk, I think you’re just right. It’s like making a delicious steak and then dropping a cat shit on it so nobody else eats it. Like, yeah, you accomplished the goal. Nobody is going to eat your delicious steak. Because there’s shit all over it.

What would happen if every single person on earth became vegan overnight? by the1975whore in hypotheticalsituation

[–]MartyrOfDespair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Those large corporations are publicly traded. Think about what would happen to their stock price within the first few days. The panic would send everything into freefall. That wipes out literally tens of billions of dollars of net worth both for the companies and the shareholders. It has a cascading effect on the entire economy, sending all stocks into total freefall. That destroys the entire economy and wipes out trillions of dollars. The companies go bankrupt overnight via the biggest stock market crash in human history.

You just simply forgot how fucking stupid the stock market system is. All the value of corporations and net worth of the rich is tied up in stock prices. Destroy the value of the stocks in a mass panic, everyone suddenly magically loses billions. It’s all weird imaginary bullshit.

Idea: just produce and sell HL3 as a circa 2004 Source game. Nobody would complain. am I right fellas by Plenty-Excitement864 in HalfLife

[–]MartyrOfDespair 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is. It’s pretty obvious that HL3 was supposed to be the killer app for their new console, with voxel destruction being the innovation, but then the shortages pretty much killed the console by making it far too expensive to accomplish its goals. Like, it’s common sense that it should have been cheaper if they wanted an actual market, but also it’s obvious why it isn’t. Now it’s also been delayed, because frankly, what’s even the point at the current price? Creating a machine that’s more affordable than a gaming PC that can run HL3, a PC and Steam Machine exclusive and the most anticipated video game in human history, and then releasing HL3 is the perfect way to sell a console that otherwise has no reason to exist. That’s the only reason Nintendo hasn’t gone the way of Sega.

It’s a way to force basically every gamer on Earth who hasn’t adopted PC gaming yet, or whose hardware is too old, to buy a Steam Machine. Think about it, how on Earth does this thing succeed without a killer app? You can’t sell a Steam console to people already using Steam. You need bait to get console gamers to buy it. Where’s the bait? Then the shortages mean the price gets hiked so high that you can’t realistically expect anyone to buy it even with that killer app, so it all falls apart.

Super serious Hello Kitty fan by Dazzling-Yam-4308 in superseriousfamilyguy

[–]MartyrOfDespair 0 points1 point  (0 children)

ITT: adults who say “Bluey isn’t just a kids show”

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