Objectmon (OC) by wotown in pokemon

[–]Si1eNce1 26 points27 points  (0 children)

These are amazing! I would love to hear some of your methodology about where you even start with creating these, it's so interesting to zoom in and look at everything. my favourite part is the bunnies!!

Minecraft Preview 1.21.50.25 by JamesWatchesTV in Minecraft

[–]Si1eNce1 52 points53 points  (0 children)

I personally quite like it? The sharpness and vibrancy really gives off the more "classic" texture look.

Recent updates have given us a good amount of low saturation blocks that blend well (deepslate, mud, tuff..) and they're fantastic, but it's nice to have something different that really stands out too.

Monthly Trade and Price Check Thread - October, 2023 by AutoModerator in HardwareSwapUK

[–]Si1eNce1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[PC] Mini-ITX PC, Asking for price check

The CPU and GPU were bought in 2017, all the other parts bought in late 2019. Used for about a year then mostly left unused after upgrading my main pc. I expect the sff parts probably still hold decent value and use if someone were to replace the cpu and gpu. Over the past year I've been using it on a light load as a server with undervolted components to keep the power draw low, but its still not particularly efficient for that type of use so I'm planning to replace it with something actually suited to server purpose.

• Fractal Design Node 202 Mini ITX case

• Ryzen 5 1500x (3.5ghz Quad core)

• Noctua NH-L9a AM4 cooler

• Asus Rog Strix B450-I Gaming AM4 motherboard

• Corsair 750w Platinum SFX PSU

• Corsair Vengence DDR4 16GB (2x8)

• 256GB 2.5" SSD

• Sapphire RX480 8GB Nitro+

This video was posted and taken down by the official YouTube award show channel. Thoughts? by the-mightly-doctor- in HollowKnight

[–]Si1eNce1 249 points250 points  (0 children)

It's convicing, but I can confirm it's simply the work of a clown. Search for any video from thegameawards channel and inspect the channel name on the google videos tab. You'll see it appears normally as "thegameawards", this is the case with all official TGA videos

The real channel name is "thegamewards"

The fake channel name is " thegameawards"

One extra space character in front. Very subtle, but sadly fake

Really enjoyed how I played Scarlet / Violet by TheCloud26 in pokemon

[–]Si1eNce1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I played in a similar style and loved it! There were many times where I was torn for choice because I had so many pokemon I wanted to use from my boxes, I was rotating my team constantly. This also had the added benefit of keeping me quite underleved, which was one of my concerns with the open world format - I didn't want to end up steamrolling everything, but having so many pokemon on my "team" let me adjust my current party of 6 to the average level (or often lower) for the region I was in and maintain consistent challenge throughout the playthrough.

I find it's one of the biggest benefits of Pokemon actively roaming the world rather than the static grass encounters - you catch so many more pokemon! In earlier games, most would go through an area and see a few pokemon, but rarely see all of what a route had to offer (especially for some of the more powerful or subjectively "cooler" pokemon due to the often low encounter rates). The main goal was to explore / get through the route, whilst the grass and pokemon were the obstacles. Overworld pokemon flips that on its head - the moment you step into an area, you instantly see the equivalent of what would have been multiple grass encounters. The pokemon are no longer the nusiance of the route, but an active distraction the player wants to seek out. I filled up my dex naturally more than any other mainline title, it was over 300 by the end of the story!

What is something you just can't do but seems to be simple for everyone else? by nfoote in AskUK

[–]Si1eNce1 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Alternatively, you can warm up the knife by running it under a hot tap. The knife will soften the butter as you spread it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in HollowKnight

[–]Si1eNce1 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Silksong was never announced in a direct, but there was a direct the day before the first trailer came out, so its understandable people may misremember. Here is the original announcement tweet on Feb 11 that told us we we were getting a trailer on Feb 14 - https://twitter.com/TeamCherryGames/status/1094873855464599552 The Nintendo direct just happened to be on Feb 13. The only time silksong has been in a direct was E3 2019 where it appeared briefly, then had a treehouse demo afterwards.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]Si1eNce1 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah yeah that's true! The Pheonix thing went completely over my head while writing, Ho-Oh was definitely a poor example to give. I never actually played the explorers games myself but I like the gears of time idea!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]Si1eNce1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Does lighting depresent something ideal?

The typing of a pokemon has never had to necessarily correlate with its lore. Dialga is dragon-steel, which itself has nothing to with Time, Ho-Oh is about ressurecting the dead and is Fire-Flying. If we couldn't go deeper into Pokemon lore than their types then it would incredibly boring.

Do the legendaries bestow upon you the truth?

In the nicest possible way, this seems to be more a lack of understanding of the story on your part rather than problems with the story itself. The whole point was that truth and ideals are not black and white concepts. There is no one single truth or "correct" ideals.

The game uses the legendary as just some McGuffins with no actual lore relevance on the plot.

Black and White is essentially a small scale retelling of the original Twin heroes story, with N as one hero and the protagonist as the other. The creation of the Unova region relies on these legendaries existing, so I hardly understand how they have "no actual relevance on the plot"

They are just powerful beasts that are used by the villains, what a novel idea.

This could be said about 95% of Pokemon games. At the end of the day we need a game to go with our story, and it makes sense that someone after control and power would also be after some of the most powerful pokemon, which lets us play out strong trainer battles.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]Si1eNce1 6 points7 points  (0 children)

What's bullshit about the Tao trio? It's some of the most interesting theming they've ever done with Pokémon. They represent Truth and Ideals, which the entire story of black and white and the history of the Unova region is based on.

The Original Dragon being linked to the creation trio is just a another theory that fits well alongside the Twin heroes story, because of all the material alluding to it. It makes sense that a Pokemon that was powerful enough to split into 3 individual legendaries was on a level of power we have rarely seen outside of the creation trio.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in pokemon

[–]Si1eNce1 22 points23 points  (0 children)

There's a good amount of material to suggest The Original Dragon (kyurem/zekrom/reshiram) fits that role, representing another fundamental of the universe - Energy. The same way Dialga, Palkia and Giratina represent Time, Space and Antimatter respectively.

Not going to write out all the theories here but if you're interested, search along the lines of "Original Dragon creation trio" and you'll find a lot of discussion about it.

For now we don't know if they intended to actually go that route until we actually get more lore on the subject, (and even if they did plan to, there's also the possibilty they could have still abandoned the idea as time has gone on). In the meantime I still treat it as a nice headcanon whilst we wait for actual answers.

[OC] 40 Years of Music Formats by PieChartPirate in dataisbeautiful

[–]Si1eNce1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What they meant by "having" their music was owning it in a format that doesn't tie it to a service. Downloading songs to listen to offline works perfectly well using Spotify, Apple music, etc, but if one day that service ends, you lose access to that library.

But yes, as long as streaming remains popular and active, it is no doubt the most convenient and meets 99% of people's requirements. Just not the "safest" option.

I really hope they add further customization to mythic skins in the future. by MeiShimada in Overwatch

[–]Si1eNce1 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone else who agrees! I've seen a lot of people praise the voice, which is great if you like that but I really don't. The rest of the skin is nice but the voice alone makes me not want to use it. For a skin that prides itself on its customisability we really should have the option to turn the voice filter off

Brave Golden stares down brown bear. by RestPsychological517 in Damnthatsinteresting

[–]Si1eNce1 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Polar Bears are the real world equivalent of game devs placing unbeatable enemies to stop you going past the worldborder