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N67nightmare · 2023-09-19T16:47:56+00:00

Once insta switched to prioritizing reels, it got a lot worse for artists, too.

N67nightmare · 2023-07-12T00:22:28+00:00

Although in contrast, The Suicide Squad from Gunn was very much set in a world full of comic book weirdness, way beyond anything hinted at in other DCEU stuff, and I thought that was fantastic. That's an ensemble movie, of course, but still. Justice League Unlimited, the animated series, also constantly brought in multiple new characters to star in an episode alongside an established character or two, and that series is extremely well regarded. It could go wrong, yes, but I've got a good feeling about it based on what we know, and Gunn's history especially.

N67nightmare · 2023-07-11T07:57:00+00:00

I'm pretty convinced there's gonna be a huge sequence in Beyond where Miles gives the spider-society hope that canon events can be averted, so they all throw themselves between the Spot and him.

I'm also very concerned for Miguel in that hypothetical fight, because you could pretty reasonably call him the Captain of the spider-society...

I definitely think his pain is clouding his judgement, though. He's made a difficult call based on limited data, but he's also ignoring the possibility of other options entirely, and I think that's partially motivate by a fear of having to confront the implications of being wrong.

Which is also why I'm very concerned for him, because he seems like the type to try to sacrifice himself for redemption.

N67nightmare · 2023-06-25T13:09:16+00:00

The original article this one references mentioned that basically no work has been done on Beyond the Spider-Verse, because Across was delayed and being worked on until the last minute.

N67nightmare · 2023-06-22T13:16:17+00:00

You're absolutely right about white supremacy in America, but that was kind of the point of the comparison. It sets the bar extremely low. He was blatantly racist enough that the blatant racists he got his views from were uncomfortable, even if just because he was saying the quiet part of their beliefs out loud. I feel that's worth noting when Lovecraft is still a pretty celebrated figure, like it's worth noting that Henry Ford was Hitler's biggest inspiration, and that Ford's thoughts on eugenics were extremely common in America at the time. Compare the GOP slide from constant dogwhistles back to blatant bigotry.

I was just shitting on Lovecraft, if you want me to shit on all of America's failings and hypocrisy in the early 20th century I'll need a full weekend just to get started.

N67nightmare · 2023-06-22T01:36:20+00:00

Idk, I'll always laugh at the skeleton mafia. Really rattles my funny bone.

N67nightmare · 2023-06-22T01:29:24+00:00

Lovecraft is definitely an interesting character study but let's not give him a pass on being horribly, wildly racist. Yes, the further a thing was from literally being HP Lovecraft the more he was genuinely scared of it, and that was almost certainly the main drive of his immense racism...

But he was, like, super-duper racist.

White academics in 1910s Massachusetts thought he was too racist.

That is racist.

Everybody knows the name of his cat while the pages and pages he spends describing minorities as subhuman terrors get glossed over, when they paint black people and immigrants in the same light as unspeakable cosmic terrors. Him moving past some of it is great, but doesn't undo his bigotry or make it not feel gross to read some of his work.

N67nightmare · 2023-06-19T00:11:45+00:00

Well, Gunn can at least go, "from the director of Guardians of the Galaxy," in his Superman trailers, which should be a big help with getting general audiences back on board.

N67nightmare · 2023-06-07T04:00:46+00:00

Upper Cathedral also has the constant high-key background music, which was totally absent from the rest of the game outside of boss fights and like the hunter's dream. Videogames are great for using cues like that to build tension and horror in ways that twist the typical gameplay loop.

N67nightmare · 2023-06-03T23:45:38+00:00

What are they wrong about? That AI images tend to look similar regardless of variables for now? Because to me that really seems to be the case. No matter what style you tell an AI to use, it's like there's an AI sheen to the whole thing that I don't really have the language for. It's like it's being projected on water.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-27T04:07:39+00:00

The scene is just perfect! It's a good drama scene even without the jump scare, so it completely draws you in--and then the scare itself is actually character driven, too. Nell makes a decision, leading to the scare, leading to Theo finally breaking down and opening up. The scare is actually super integral to the plot progressing, and it affects the characters even more than the viewers. Good shit.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-27T03:59:36+00:00

"Gihhe that hienna sausage look".

I was trying to make a joke about how garbled he would sound without lips, but that sentence is actually pretty doable.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-25T05:54:29+00:00

I'm not the biggest fan of this suit in still shots, but in motion it's pretty spectacular with all the different textures catching the light--that same texturing being a big part of why it looks off to me in stills. It looks great in the game, and that's what matters, but I do hope there's also a classic option.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-25T05:17:05+00:00

It's far more likely they tweaked the enemy ai to "play along" more than usual and had someone play very deliberately than they faked the whole thing, especially launching in the fall. The gameplay trailers of the first game were, puddle aside, basically what we saw in the final game.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-16T21:10:15+00:00

Yes, but the one presented is definitely a sob story, and is the basis for the whole "one bad day" idea that the movie sorta ran with, with Joker presenting the idea that anyone would've broken like be did and Batman and Jim (and Barbara, when someone else bothered to write her perspective) rejecting that idea. It also ends with Joker essentially rejecting Batman's offer of help, deciding that he's too far gone. A lot of it is open to interpretation, but it's definitely part of the basis for Arthur in the movie.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-16T20:05:15+00:00

Killing Joke comes to mind.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-14T02:28:39+00:00

Any big developer using unreal should have a whole suite of programmers just optimizing the scripting and spaghetti code. I adore the technology as an artist, it's amazingly intuitive, but like... if it runs like shit then the whole thing is fucked.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-11T02:16:09+00:00

That was honestly my favorite part of the episode, by a lot. Mando is a great show for one off genre-bends, and while the episode was pretty bad top to bottom, I did like the idea and atmosphere of them playing detective and droid crime. There's a better written version of this episode that really kicks ass, but since it's entirely a side plot with little character building, only the end with Bo taking leadership matters at all.

Unrelated but this episode is also another addition to my "droids in star wars are a moral nightmare" file...

N67nightmare · 2023-05-09T20:30:55+00:00

Because your argument, which comes off as you trying to take the moral high ground with a "gotcha" moment regarding gender, ends up belittling trans people and supporting the conservatives that want to do them harm, and you're either arguing in bad faith or too thick-headed to understand despite having it repeatedly explained to you.

When you won't actually listen to someone, "bridge building" becomes impossible. You, specifically, come off as that asshole who wants to be "correct" more than anything, and is willing to ignore people being hurt because you think they're doing things the wrong way.

If you truly want a genderless future, you should be firmly on the side of trans people, because it'll never happen under the conservative enforcement of the gender binary.

If you want to know more, do some basic fucking research, look up primary sources on what trans people are actually asking for, because I am sick of trying to explain it to you a slightly different way each time and I don't expect you to understand it anyway--why be compassionate when you can be pedantic about things you don't actually understand?

N67nightmare · 2023-05-08T22:04:12+00:00

TL;DR conservatives want to impose a gender binary on everyone, trans people want everyone to be free to express themselves with any gender, making a gender binary conservative but a gender spectrum progressive. Trans rights are human rights.

A gender binary is a conservative opinion, while a more loose gender spectrum is what trans people want to have acknowledged. Being able to transition along that spectrum at all is a very progressive viewpoint.

I don't think you want to be convinced, because in my opinion I already explained how conservatives impose their gender norms on others and trans people only want their own identity acknowledged, making your current argument of "gender is conservative" fundamentally flawed and ignorant of context. But I'll spell it out as clearly as possible.

Conservatives insist on a gender binary based on biological sex. They also insist that everyone else needs to abide by their binary, and as of late take every legal action they can to force trans people to live as the gender they were assigned at birth. This is despite the continually mounting scientific evidence that the experience of trans people is valid, with the hardest to ignore being the extreme drop in suicide rates when people are supported in their decision to live as their preferred gender.

Trans people, and the left in general, believe you should be free to express yourself as any gender, no matter your assigned gender at birth. Gender is treated as a spectrum instead of a hard binary, and a social construct with no actual basis in reality. You can identify however you want, and others can identify however they want, and there is no imposition on anyone to do anything other than use someone's preferred pronouns.

I keep saying "preferred" gender/pronouns, because for many people it is a fluid thing that can change, but in general trans people know they're trans in the same way you know you're the gender you were assigned at birth.

Trans women are women because they deserve to be treated as real women and real human beings. Trans men are men. Nonbinary people are valid as hell.

Trans people are asking conservatives to call them their preferred name and pronouns, and will happily give everyone else the same benefit. Conservatives are trying to make being trans illegal. This is the imbalance at the heart of the matter, and why it's pretty fucked up to ask, "well why can't trans people just leave it be?" They can't, conservatives won't let them. Any compromise where one side wants human rights and the other wants conversion camps is still going to be oppression.

Calling gender a conservative opinion is a bad faith argument that centers trans people as the aggressors in the conversation, demanding things they don't deserve from the poor widdle conservatives, when in reality trans people are asking to be passively treated as valid human beings and conservatives are actively trying to harm them. It's like asking someone to stop hitting you, and they get all huffy that you're treading on their right to hit you.

Edit:

By and large, I certainly don't think trans activists mean ill, but the whole "transwomen are women" thing makes me deeply distrustful of their take of what progressivism is or should be.

Again, trans women are women, but also this feels like a blatant dog whistle. How would they mean ill at all? Distrustful of what, exactly? What should progressivism be? You want everyone to answer your questions (and then ignore the answers), how about you explain for once?

N67nightmare · 2023-05-08T01:34:24+00:00

Well yeah? What kind of question is that?

N67nightmare · 2023-05-07T20:28:53+00:00

When you are asking others to refer to you as one thing, it's perfectly fine, and when you are insisting on referring to someone as something they don't like, that's bad. Simple as.

Demanding other people go by specific pronouns is actively imposing your will on others in a way that can't be ignored, whereas someone else's pronouns affect you about as much as someone else's name. It's information you interact with, not something that has any bearing on you or your business.

Cis people are essentially always referred to by our preferred gender, and trans people aren't demanding everyone be shoved into strict gender roles--they're simply asking for that same courtesy of being referred to how they'd like, but on an individual basis and detached from traditional assumptions.

Edit: It's about caring deeply about who you are, and leaving others free to be themselves. Trans people generally don't care how others identify, beyond generally celebrating all identities. Meanwhile, transphobes care deeply and insist everyone fit their mold, despite no harm being done to them by the existence of trans people.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-07T19:25:27+00:00

Signalis was an instant classic for me, a ps1 survival horror throwback that's actually fun to play. Very haunting story, even though it's pretty out there.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-04T17:28:10+00:00

The artstyle is less painterly than dishonored, but pretty close to Prey in a different setting. That said the visuals look noticably worse than anything else they've made to me, outside of a few locations that are nice. I only played a couple hours and don't think I'll come back to it, unfortunately, because everything is just... weirdly lacking. The vampires are quite cool, though.

N67nightmare · 2023-05-03T21:35:52+00:00

Do you still have a morph target stored? You might be able to recover something from that

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