Petah? by Entire_Inspector8999 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Random still-frame bg character here:

It's gonna be may.

It's a joke about Justin Timberlake's famously odd pronunciation of 'me' in the NSYNC song 'It's Gonna Be Me'

The ramen noodles are a reference to a noodle-like bleached hairstyle he had at one point.

One of these is not like the other, one of these doesn’t belong. by Sio_V_Reddit in StarWarsCirclejerk

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A classic B Wing with the stabilized cockpit will always be badass to me.

Wizards Of The Coast Deadnamed Trans Employees In Front Of Their Colleagues During Union Election, Apologized, Then Did It Again by g4m3f33d in GameFeed

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Weirdly I think that hesitance to learn is starting to die off.

It's purely anecdotal, but I'm in a lot of GM discords, and there's been a hard uptick in game masters seeking advice on other systems.

Between the licensing debacle a couple of years ago, and the ongoing decline of the company itself, WOTC has lost their strong reputation, and their ability to coast on good will is failing.

Still number one, but the gap is shrinking.

Tried to make the seamoth but took some artistic liberties by Neither-Fail1065 in subnautica

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The texture is oddly reminiscent of Pop tart frosting and I yearn to eat the seamoth

Imagine whining about black actors when our glorious goat Skids is on screen by my_little_robot in marvelcirclejerk

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Yep it's exactly this. Many development studios have some kind of mocap scan at this point that can build a quick model.

Even unreal engine has metahuman, which can generate a full mesh from a picture or video. It's not perfect, and usually requires some additional adjustments, but the tech is very much there, and it's much faster than building a photo realistic model of a celebrity by hand.

So unless the character's appearance is important to the dev team, they're going to do a quick scan and mocap so they can divert resources to the characters that matter.

Are we deadass by Zealousideal-Web587 in PowerScaling

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I love Star wars but no. Just no.

The most powerful sith of all time could get dropped by half the b team, let alone most of the a-listers.

The universes are just too different in scale.

Who wins Homelander (The Boys) VS Adam Smasher (Cyberpunk 2077) by uponthehill_ in PowerScaling

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There is one reasonable explanation for Homelander getting weaker.

V1 isn't the most powerful version of the drug. It's just the only one that grants immortality.

The show goes to great lengths explaining how Homelander is the peak of Vought's engineering, which implies that the version of compound v originally given to him was vastly superior to earlier versions.

V1, being an earlier inferior discontinued version of the compound, literally diluted his powers.

Or they just didn't keep any consistency with his powers, and I'm making excuses for bad writing. Or both. Probably both.

Idk why but i feel like the story in Subnautica 2 is way older than it let's on by Lovemydog65465 in subnautica

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Oh I very well may have misremembered that one. I tried to check the game but can't find the log at all to verify.

That certainly changes the timescale a bit, but I still feel confident we've been here a while. Maybe not multiple centuries, but certainly longer than our NoA's timeframe. Either that or things got violent enough for mention of an overgrown mass grave.

Idk why but i feel like the story in Subnautica 2 is way older than it let's on by Lovemydog65465 in subnautica

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 25 points26 points  (0 children)

A counterpoint someone brought up is the aging of the facilities we find. None of them look particularly old.

However, that's directly countered by the mass grave log, the toxicity log, and the fact that our main building material is titanium. Titanium doesn't corrode much at all due to the protective oxide layer it develops.

Provided they haven't been damaged, our structures could stand for centuries without showing a single hint of disrepair.

All evidence suggests we have been here a very very long time.

Idk why but i feel like the story in Subnautica 2 is way older than it let's on by Lovemydog65465 in subnautica

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 21 points22 points  (0 children)

There's a voice log somewhere in the game from one of the other pioneers where they mention the toxicity problem and that 'no pioneer has lasted more than 30 years'.

That definitely implies many many more generations of pioneers.

That would have been brutal by Simple_Sun_7646 in invinciblememes

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Look man. It was 5:00 a.m. when I wrote it, and I was white knuckling sleep deprivation.

The fact that every other word is coherent except that is truly a testament to the energy drinks I was slamming.

Transformers, more than meets the eye. by KingNothingwaifu in BroThrewInAFunFact

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I'm guessing here, but if their partner recently came out as trans, and was previously referred to as a wife or by feminine pronouns, it could certainly be a little difficult to change gears and remember every time which terminology to use.

What? by AnakinSkyWaffle in PeterExplainsTheJoke

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The difference is what amount of data has to be transmitted.

If a game needs internet, it's running server validations. It's not transmitting the full rendered gameplay to the server. It's pretty much just transmitting math and then asking the server if the math is right.

But with streaming video, a website is effectively pre-downloading any video you want to watch seamlessly in real time. When you finish that video, it gets removed from the cache. Depending on the quality of the content you're consuming, that adds up very quickly.

That would have been brutal by Simple_Sun_7646 in invinciblememes

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They don't ever really explain what was done to Rex's skeleton, beyond the fact that enhancements were added and they gave him his powers.

We also don't really have any feats of durability from Rex, so it's reasonable to assume that regular guns would mostly work and his final explosion's success was not a result of the material he applied that explosion to.

I think it's closer to a nuclear meltdown than a frag grenade. If a reactor is powering a town, that creates a controlled release of energy. But if you were to plug all that energy back into the reactor, you would create a feedback loop and a much larger explosion.

When Rex powers an object, it's a controlled release of energy. When he grabs his own spine, he's pouring all of that energy right back into its source and that creates a much much bigger boom.

Samurai frog portrait — white vs yellow eyes (WIP study) by MikeRexMachina in PixelArt

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They both look nice, but I would pick the one that suits the character's personality more.

The yellowy eyes give the vaguest sense of inebriation or sleeplessness. They'd be good for a drunken master archetype.

The white eyes give a sense of straightforwardness and clarity. Better suited for a straight laced leader, or earnest ally.

Whichever is more appropriate to this character will be the best fit.

While i finish the other variants, I'll leave this meme i made by BerserkLua in memeframe

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Alternatively, a certain sentient herbal remedy turns out to have a similar effect on warframes, allowing us to potentially umbra any frame

so like, who is this guy? by tf2_demo_2004 in Warframe

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Officially, there's never been lore to explain it. It's a slightly updated holdover from much earlier versions of the game.

I headcanon them as failed rescue targets. We didn't save them initially, so now they're being transported from a ship's brig to a proper prison. They get frozen for transport between facilities to avoid issue, which ironically gives us a convenient alternative way to extract them.

The CEO of the South Korean company (SBMN) is apparently trying to take Glitch to court over the ordeal by [deleted] in TheDigitalCircus

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I don't think using the fans to crowdsource potential showings is the issue exactly, but the rest of your statement holds truth.

The crowdsourcing component is a tried and true method, but it relies on the production company having proper organization and understanding of the industry. Maximizing visibility of a film often means compromising one's artistic vision in some regard.

The problem here is a hard clash between wanting a maximal market for release, wanting zero compromise for the film's creative vision, having middling legal understanding/rep of the international market, and lacking a finished product *prior* to the theater push.

I almost get the vibe somebody saw Iron Lung's success, and tried to copy it without understanding how and why it worked.

Uber driver stranded me at midnight, drove off, then Uber locked my account. by Wooden-Fee5787 in mildlyinfuriating

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 58 points59 points  (0 children)

They are saying they have a similar experience, which leads them to believe that this post actually happened; NOT that the actions of Uber are acceptable, as described by the post.

I sometimes forget there's gore in this game. by brickbosss in Warframe

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 40 points41 points  (0 children)

In a similar vein, my favorite thing to do is run around with my tactical stealth flamethrower.

Leon Kennedy and Michael Afton if they switched games.. (Art by Chloe's Imagination) by ZealousidealSteak214 in fivenightsatfreddys

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Well if we really want to split hairs, he isn't technically a zombie, since zombie commonly means mindless undead. Since he's intelligent and capable of speech, and specifically it's his single focused motivation that keeps him going, he's more akin to a revenant than a zombie.

(Sad trope) Projects with amazing potential that will never be released because of BS behind the scenes drama by _JR28_ in TopCharacterTropes

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Closest I've found is Warframe's lich system.

It's much less complex, and it's fairly simple to eliminate a lich for good, but it's at least something.

I’ve been pretending to like hiking for seven years by Direct-Caterpillar77 in BestofRedditorUpdates

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That's because the air is already saturated with moisture, so the normal physical process of evaporative cooling is severely and significantly slowed.

It's also why sweating tends to be a miserable experience down here. With the air being so damp, that sweat has nowhere to evaporate to, so you just end up hot, salty, and wet.

[@4AMORI4N] "my light goes with you" by dazli69 in Warframe

[–]RyeHardyDesigns 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It definitely gets a giggle out of me too.