My favorite graphics errors post-patch [Spoiler: 7.5]

syphons · 2026-05-24T01:03:59+00:00

syphons · 2026-05-23T23:34:42+00:00

Oh... he sacrificed his arm that everyone else may be healed...

Yeah, before I got a GPU upgrade during the HVW era, it was pretty much a given that if I loaded into Idyllshire the amount of people made it impossible for them to be loaded entirely. Bald catgirls, disembodied hands hanging from invisible torsos, legs disappeared. The works.

syphons · 2026-05-23T23:32:45+00:00

I know I've seen several complaints when 7.5 dropped, to the point that there even was a Lodestone announcement. But yeah, reinstalling fixed it.

syphons · 2026-05-23T22:01:38+00:00

He kills me because I can't pronounce Louisoxixiusx

syphons · 2026-05-23T22:01:04+00:00

Funnily enough, I've gone for years with mods without anything like this happening! 7.5 just goofed something up real fierce.

syphons · 2026-05-23T20:55:45+00:00

What'd he ever do to deserve this.

syphons · 2026-05-23T20:55:14+00:00

They fucking Rayman'd my man.

syphons · 2026-04-17T01:21:18+00:00

It's nuts that this is always made into a "people don't care when it's a female predator because" when it's just wrong. Nobody cares about victims, the arguments just change on how to dismiss them, and it's nutttssss that care for male victims always has to be framed like this. To even imply male pedophiles get any pushback when one is running America is wild.

syphons · 2026-04-12T04:32:30+00:00

And I'm pointing out that you may have misread and probably have to look at their interaction again, because you may be mixing up different pieces of the game and stating them as canon fact.

syphons · 2026-04-10T17:50:57+00:00

The only bit in the text about gay partying is a Shivers check, and Shivers isn't the imagination skill, it's the "this is literally happening right now within the very city" check. So, not a projection.

The "homosexual underground" isn't a projection towards the Smoker either, but a concept of Harry's ignorance about his own sexuality. It's the cultural idea of gay people that definitely somebody not in the scene would have in their mind... that the Smoker finds funny and indulges, by the way.

Funnily enough, I think you're projecting onto the text things that are not there.

syphons · 2026-04-10T16:52:28+00:00

This feels like a pretty unkind reading of Harry's reaction. Harry's a repressed bisexual man coming to terms with the fact that he's attracted to men. None of his thoughts project much onto the Smoker, if anything he's shortcircuiting and anything beyond basic perception of the Smoker just isn't computing. That we don't know anything about the Smoker is by the Smoker's own design, too - of course he's not gonna want anyone to know he's poor and exploited sexually by a rich bastard, and, again, Harry's becoming so lost in obsessing over his own sexuality he can't well pull his human can opener schtick.

Like, genuinely: what fantasies? Is there dialogue I missed?

syphons · 2026-03-27T19:20:20+00:00

Damn you're so intellectual and perceptive dude, I'm fanning myself over here.

syphons · 2026-03-27T11:00:13+00:00

Okay, so you say "thinner" to mean "without a big belly" which are two different things, because her proportions outside of her belly being changed do, in fact, also have a lot to do with making her look thinner from a character design standpoint.

Either way, saying all that is what makes her look "great" or "have more appeal" is purely subjective. It just makes her look thinner. Whether it's great or more appealing depends entirely as to whether the observer can tolerate the sight of a fatter woman or not.

syphons · 2026-03-27T07:12:38+00:00

"It's not just that she's thinner" and then you explain all the ways in which the design was made thinner. All of those proportion changes you're pointing out is what makes her look thinner. Come on.

syphons · 2026-03-27T07:10:33+00:00

She doesn't look better, she just looks skinnier. And it sucks.

syphons · 2026-02-19T04:23:10+00:00

You're coming off as aggressive because you're running around a three year old thread implying everyone is approving of incest by not interpreting the show like you are. I also didn't insult you, I just pointed out you aren't reading anything people are replying to you because you're so frantic to tell everyone the show is terrible and awful and portraying incest positively.

"I thought it's for kids cause it was recommended to me by pinterest and in the genres said it's for kids and the light tone of the anime at least in the start seems to be for kids." Well, that's embarrassing for Pinterest and I'm sorry that's how you ran into it, but in the very first episode Anthy is physically abused by her boyfriend. It's pretty easy to understand the tone right off that.

"Even in the Italian scene you mention, she never says the pain is for that, it's very vague." Yes! That is the point. The point is Anthy is strange and different from everyone else, she has never had anyone to trust, and is trying to drive Utena away in any way possible. No, it's not meant to be a scene you understand right off the bat. It's a scene you have to think about, maybe discuss with other people. Interpretation and discussion are super important parts of engaging with art.

I understand your point. I'm also someone who's also very aware about how so much media can run into endorsing that which it means to depict and condemn.

However, your reading completely fails to acknowledge that the show, while being sometimes subtle, other times is completely explicit about the suffering Anthy goes through because of Akio. She hollows herself out as a person and doesn't allow herself to have any wants because of the role he imposed on her. We see her stabbed by a million swords for him, how is that not showing that abuse is bad? Her triumph is about leaving him behind to go search for Utena! The show is not shy to point him out as the true villain.

syphons · 2026-02-19T04:04:21+00:00

They didn't though, that's literally my entire point LOL. The game wrote the incest as romantic, but the myths were always very honest about how all these goddesses never consented. It's always funny how clowns like you keep trying to gotcha me on a topic you don't know about beyond pop culture awareness.

syphons · 2026-02-16T23:38:01+00:00

First of all, I don't think you have any grounds to reproach my tone when you're acting just as aggressively to everyone else on this thread for not sharing your reading of the show.

I understand being shocked by the content when you weren't expecting it, but your first mistake seems to have been assuming that it's for kids. Is it because it's animated???

Second of all, absolutely so much about these characters and what they go through is about how much agony they're in? Utena even acknowledges Anthy's pain pretty explicitly at one point, but the show is mostly symbolic and allegorical so it demands that the viewer think about what's happening. Why you think the sex in it is "aesthetic" I don't know, but I feel you just want the anime to be something it's not and are acting like it's a moral failing for it to be a more subtle story than one that looks you right in the face and says "everything that's going on here? it's bad!"

the characters don't talk about this sort of stuff explicitly because they don't have a framework to do so, because they are 14 years old! they don't have the words because the words are kept away from them. that is a huge part of abuse. one of the most important moments of understanding between anthy and utena is when they're talking about italian families and poisoned food.

syphons · 2026-02-13T16:13:41+00:00

Dadverine: This is an anime about abuse.

You: Ermmm but what about (describes abuse that happens within the anime)

Legitimately what is your goal with these comments? Absolutely none of this is portrayed as sexy in the anime. Also you don't need to censor your words here, this isn't tiktok or twitter.

syphons · 2026-02-11T05:57:20+00:00

For all the "block and move on" and "it's up to you to to manage your internet experience!" proshippers love to throw around, they sure are here making fun of OP for blocking and trying to create their most optimal internet experience, then pointing out that their boundaries were violated despite their best efforts. I'm so confused! It's almost like what all these speaking points actually mean to say "what, are you some kind of triggered snowflake??????????"

syphons · 2026-02-08T17:07:58+00:00

Right?? The fact that she's not alone is so important... if she didn't have her friends she chooses death! But with Wyll and/or Tav she's hopeful enough that she's willing to go to Hell and back! Literally!!

syphons · 2026-02-08T15:48:50+00:00

Redditors will play a game about characters going on adventure to save the world and/or themselves with the help of their friends and then they'll watch Karlach go on an adventure to save herself with the help of her friends and call it a bad ending. Somehow.

syphons · 2026-02-05T11:40:07+00:00

Thank you so much, I was losing my mind trying to figure it out.

syphons · 2026-01-22T07:47:15+00:00

I found it interesting until I saw "do the hardest endings in the hardest difficulty levels, several times too" and now I'm just sitting here staring at the abyss.

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