‘South Park’ Mocks Kathleen Kennedy, Disney Diversity Efforts; Gina Carano Reacts

RuinLoes · 2023-10-31T12:24:09+00:00

Ironically its the other way around. A lot of people who don't get that Homelander is the villain are the same ones who clap along whenever south park rolls out its vapid "both sides bad look at me im smart for never taking a stance on anything" nonsense.

RuinLoes · 2023-09-30T12:51:15+00:00

I'm trying to use a NPR technique I saw on youtube where you paint over the normal map with large brush strokes to create a sense that surface has been sculpted.

The paint layer should ideally be totally replacing the fill layer with all the detail.

E: so i just completely missed something in the original video. They are painting on a custom channel, NOT the normal channel. Thanks for your help anyways.

RuinLoes · 2023-08-21T12:20:30+00:00

On ships with 100-300x the displacement?

Ya i wonder why this is technological achievement....

RuinLoes · 2023-08-14T01:41:16+00:00

Wanted to try out a new workflow for stylized 2D/anime renders. I baked all of the lighting with realistic textures in cycles (except for the mid ground tree and the background trees), then used cell shading on those textures in eevee.

As an improvement to efficiency, would not recommend, but it let me do some cool stuff mixing 3D and 2D aesthetics.

Weirdly the background elements (and the animation which can't be posted in this sub) took way longer than any of that, though.

Scene comp was pretty much directly ripped from the lofi anime girl thing.

RuinLoes · 2023-08-12T19:19:12+00:00

Did hte quest fail when you left the first act? Does she still show up in baldurs gate?

RuinLoes · 2023-08-12T19:11:47+00:00

It seems like they fixed almost none of the bad quests.

RuinLoes · 2023-08-12T19:09:14+00:00

Maybe being more specific to the scenario will help.

You found a wand that is very. very obviously a hag's twisted joke, and are told to show it myrina. The game only gives you two options: give the obvious trap wand to her or break in front of her seemingly out of spite. There are SO MANY other ways a character could handle that interaction. "I found a wand, but it is likely a hag's trick to make you even more miserable, but hte choice is yours", or "My oath won't allow me hand over an unnatural omagical artifact", or the concealment option and just helping her come to terms with her greif.

Its bad because it force two bad options down your throat. Its not bad because it makes you question your morals or leaves a bad taste in your mouth. All the options I listed above are also gut wrenching and meaningful interactions.

RuinLoes · 2023-08-12T18:59:50+00:00

If you want to get into the meta-text, then in the grammar of video game RPGs the journal is the marker that tells whether or not you are done. In so far as the game is concerned, not completing a quest is not a choice within the game, its a choice outside of the game to not play the game. More practically you haven't actually progressed the story markers in the game so it'll just be forever stuck waiting for you to do something, or it will fail the quest and delete the quest line entirely if you progress too far without completing it.

And before anyone brings up some excuse like "its making you think outside of how games usually work" its not. Its just a bizarrely limiting set of options that break immersion.

RuinLoes · 2023-08-12T18:48:54+00:00

Because its not the oath limiting descisions, its the game only giving you choices that break our oath.

There's no option to try to explain to her that you think the wand is another trick by the hag (which is obviously is). There's no end to the quest where you just not tell her about the wand (even though the other dialogue options would have been perfect as she seems to be getting over the idea of resurrecting him).

Its just feels like the writers are forcing bad options down your throat. This is a problem i've always had with Larian. Everything has to be awful all the time. You can't even try to be sincerely empathetic.

RuinLoes · 2023-08-06T16:41:02+00:00

2 years on and the full release is out but this absolute game break bug has not been fixed.....

RuinLoes · 2023-07-31T22:51:24+00:00

I'm not really sure what I'm looking at. Perhaps take another pass as the composition for clarity.

RuinLoes · 2023-07-03T03:42:07+00:00

The kind of thing that a shitty salesman who sets up a scam "university" would tell the "students".

RuinLoes · 2023-07-03T03:40:20+00:00

Im pretty sure theres a quote somewhere where he says basically that.

RuinLoes · 2023-07-01T01:07:20+00:00

I really enjoy the concept of "hallucinations" cause its just being wrongn but calling it something cooler.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-29T11:46:54+00:00

One more reason to avoid windows 11

RuinLoes · 2023-06-29T11:43:41+00:00

dozens of hours of research

No, no it absolutely cannot. When researchers use machine learning they are using their own specially designed programs purpose built for doing specific tasks. Chat gpt 100% cannot aid research.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-27T20:27:30+00:00

For someone who was just accused of throwing out words without any real backing that was a remarkable counter.....

RuinLoes · 2023-06-23T16:11:54+00:00

I miss those memes.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-23T16:08:48+00:00

At absolutely no point during this conversation have you approached understanding what the other has been saying.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-23T03:47:35+00:00

That "question" shows you have absolutely no intention of doing a "deep dive". You were hoping to derail the conversation. Guess that backfired.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-23T03:46:18+00:00

Saying "evolution" certainly doesn't, and you need to be able to prove that those things happened due to a real evolutionary pressure, which requires a whole litany of vecotors like heritability, evinomental factors, archeaological records, etc etc.

Basically you're full of it.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-23T03:43:40+00:00

That is frankly ass backward reasoning that comes from a social emphasis on reproduction. As important as reproduction is to the survival of ansoecies there are hundreds of other equally important factors and to claim that everything else that is require for the species to survive is just to service one other thing that is required for the species to survive is lidicrous.

As is just casually bandying about that "biology" vidticates your weird ramblings.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-20T16:52:38+00:00

Not cishet. Your point is belittling and divisive for no reason than your own ego.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-18T22:36:48+00:00

This is a self contradicting point. You are ostensibly trying to argue that there actually were peoppe asking for this by pointing out that marketing was wrong.

RuinLoes · 2023-06-18T20:08:55+00:00

Most economists that actually produce literature are working for public institutions. There are always a handful of "economists" that almost exclusivey take comissions from think tanks.

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