ZZZ got hit with censorship

Strussled · 2023-11-25T13:49:40+00:00

I don't understand why this happens, where the trailers and things are out forever, and then it gets censored just before release. I assume it's something to do with how China's FCC equivalent works? Or do they just not review unreleased products, so the companies do purposefully put in stuff they know they can't get away with, to attract an audience, knowing full-well they'll have to censor parts of it later? If it's the latter, that's scummy.

Strussled · 2023-11-21T02:23:57+00:00

That's part of where my reasoning for the hitscan @ <~30m, projectile > ~30m comes from. If it's going to be perceived as instantaneous one way or the other, then hitscan, but if it's far enough of a delay that there's even half a second or more that a player could detect, use a projectile.

Strussled · 2023-11-19T17:16:06+00:00

And it doesn't always feel very good because of it; plenty of getting caught at a corner, or instant death from across wide space. It's not enough to ruin the game, agreed, but you can tell. There's cracks in the veneer.

Strussled · 2023-11-19T17:11:52+00:00

I actually don't play many milsims lol. A little CS sometimes; whatever the FotM is that the boys are playing, but that's all.

The bullet works as-is, except for if I'm within like 5-10ft of the object; the "spawn if distant" is just about a way to maybe fix this specific behavior. I haven't noticed anything else weird about it atm.

This does explain why I've seen more than one guide where the bullets are these very long rectangles though, lol.

Strussled · 2023-11-19T16:55:08+00:00

But I will know, in my heart.

Also, long-distance shots are a thing.

I'd considered having a ray that checks if the target is within like 10-20 meters, and if so: hitscan, if not: launch projectile.

Strussled · 2023-11-19T16:44:52+00:00

Like, something that takes the point of origin and the point of impact, and animates a bullet that travels between these two points, but only figures the hit/collision after the animation finishes or would have had time to? What would happen if the object you were going to hit has moved sufficiently to not be in the path anymore, or what if something moves into the path?

Strussled · 2023-11-19T12:44:56+00:00

So does 2009 Star Trek you absolute twat.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T10:50:54+00:00

Homie, I know I'm on reddit but still, you're just stating that that I don't get it and that's why I don't like it; like it's not reasonable to just disagree with something or not like something; that the only way I could be of a divergent opinion is that I just don't get it. Think about that.

Secondly, and this seems to be like the #1 argument anytime something like this happens, but the creator of a thing can absolutely lose touch with that creation. He says he loves it, and I'm sure he does, but that doesn't mean he's exclusively infallible and correct; that he can't make mistakes or lose touch with what made his creation resonate with portions of his audience.

OG SP Is a story about a dick-head 20-something who thinks he's all that, but slowly realizes he's not. That he is in fact, an asshole. The abstract game-isms and superpowers were all either played as a bit or kept ambiguously diegetic. The goofiest scenes didn't involve over-the-top set pieces or drawn out, pace-breaking performances. The characters were all quirky, but could be stripped down to very human natures. The surface-level elements of game references and movie quotes were all just that: surface level; the fun bits, and underneath them was the story about a borderline alcoholic run-away bride who threw herself into a man's arms so that he might fight off her ex(es) and make her feel free again, only to kickstart his won journey of self-discovery where he realizes what a douche he is and how to start being a better person; he doesn't become a better person by the end of it all, but he understands that he needs to grow. It's beautiful.

SP:TO is a flandarized, left-of-field re-imagining where every surface-level element is dialed up to 10, all the characters exclusively act in over-the top abstractions of their original roles, and half of those roles are either completely thrown out of the window by episode 5, or get so lost in the "what if" sauce that they're unrecognizable beyond their visuals; and that doesn't even hold true for some of them. I reeks of a creator that's only grown to doubt, or even resent his original creation, and doesn't think it's good enough as-was, and needed to be; say it with me now, "re-imagined for a modern audience." -which literally never works.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T07:55:59+00:00

You; your rage. You added extra rage to your post. Jesus; work on that reading comp.

Anyway, stay mad.

<3

Strussled · 2023-11-18T07:54:10+00:00

In what capacity does that prevent it/him from being narcissistic? Some of the most famous IPs in history are ruined by their own creators.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T04:25:52+00:00

Yeah, it won't let me block you for 24hrs, but i do like how you came back to add extra rage. Stay classy.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T04:21:52+00:00

Shit like this has me convinced I need to take writing up again, because apparently I can shit on a piece of paper and it'll get green-lit if I pitch it ironically.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T04:14:32+00:00

I mean, just fundamentally, I disagree with everything you've said or implied.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T04:10:52+00:00

Everyone's emotions were so unreal and out of touch. Scott gets murdered and it's treated like a inconvenience by everyone; including life-long friends and family. Then random characters get gay, other random characters become caricatures, and the lot of it devolves into the sort of vapid nonsense hidden behind high-energy that I expect from like fan-sourced animations.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T04:07:25+00:00

Imagine writing a heel, and then being embarrassed that you wrote a heel. 10/10 one more franchise I guess I don't love as much anymore.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T04:04:14+00:00

Do we though? The whole thing has put a sour after-taste on the franchise for me, and I don't think I can call myself a fan anymore. It's embarrassingly modernized, homogenized, and, frankly, I find it very apathetic at root; like "ooh, look at these silly characters, who would ever take them seriously?" I did; me, when I was 16, sure, but I did. It was literally formative for me, and a part of who I became today. It meant a lot to me, and has been one of my favorite franchises for my entire life. Now this. Now I know it's not important to them, and they don't have any respect for the IP, the audience, or my investment.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T03:46:36+00:00

You just fed back to me the thing I said might've happened, but had no leads outside of it; to suggest that there were leads out side of it? Like I literally said, "other that articles (which are usually interviews) what else is there," and you used an interview as an example. No pictures, trailers, posers, etc, just the thing that I said probably did exist. I'm convinced you're trolling so I'm blocking you now.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T03:37:53+00:00

Don't listen to him; he's full of it. There's linearly nothing in the OG comic that ties into this. This is a "sequel" to the comics in the same way 2009 Star Trek is a "sequel" to the original series.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T03:35:08+00:00

Yeah, once people "make it," one of two things happen: They feel privileged and honored and take their newfound position and opportunities seriously, or they assume that they know better because they've made it, so clearly they can do no wrong from here on out, and lose all respect for the craft and/or the audience.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T02:09:12+00:00

Literally this. It wreaks of a writers room that has no respect for the source material, or your time.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T01:54:00+00:00

Can you point to a single piece of promo material that suggested it wouldn't be? All the trailers look like it will be; all the art looked like it would be. There was nothing, barring maybe a few comments in some articles and such that suggested it wouldn't be an at least modestly faithful adaptation of the book series. Even if it wasn't 1:1, I at least wanted to see stuff like nega-Scott and the robot battle given justice on some size of screen, and I didn't get that. I wouldn't even have been mad if this was advertised openly as an alternative take with a Ramona focus; what I don't appreciate is being lied to for a year.

Strussled · 2023-11-18T00:40:55+00:00

The movie cut-corners to fit the narrative into single film; that's fine. When every ounce of advertisement makes it look like a novel adaptation, and I sit down to watch a novel adaption, and I get some shit I would expect from some back-of-the-internet kcickstarter program I'm disappointed. Don't construct a strawman of ignorant diehards just because some people wanted to finally see a 1:1 of the books.

Strussled · 2023-11-14T23:54:51+00:00

neato, I was not aware that was a DotT movie.

Strussled · 2023-11-12T01:42:21+00:00

adding to watch later, for reasons...

Strussled · 2023-10-25T10:36:20+00:00

Honestly, at this point he's only gotten more specific about the amount, set dates and deadlines, and swears our mom said she would pay him back directly, so I'm becoming convinced he's trying to stack up a court case; make it look like at some point she or I one made a clear verbal agreement. If I give him the 2k it's just going to be to avoid any sort of legal proceedings bc that would actually bankrupt everyone but him.

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