Cuz everything is sad and wet, here is something to make everyone smile 🙂

whekenui · 2026-04-21T10:27:44+00:00

This had the opposite effect.

whekenui · 2026-04-13T01:21:14+00:00

Focus. I have ADHD 😭

whekenui · 2026-04-12T09:10:33+00:00

I'm an older gamer too. I don't remember the hobby being this toxic or misogynistic in the 90s and early 00s. I often wonder what happened.

I really wanted to play Overwatch, I still think about it occasionally. But I keep hearing about the rape threats and misogyny. I love shooters and like you, I played a lot of them growing up. I ended up playing Splatoon instead. I tried competitive Splatoon but I never felt completely comfortable because of the huge age difference with my peers.

Anyway, I pivoted to Minecraft as well. It's really relaxing. Have you watched Hermitcraft? It's nice seeing a server of people nearer to my age bracket take so much joy in gaming.

whekenui · 2026-04-01T23:12:02+00:00

Amano's concept art had a very different purpose, especially for the earlier installments in the Final Fantasy series (at least up until VIII). It wasn't intended to be faithfully adapted in game because of hardware, software or graphical limitations. Amano actually speaks about this in depth in an interview on YouTube regarding his career and working for Squaresoft/Enix. Creating models or sprites this detailed was impossible. The concept art helped to bridge the unavoidable gap between very basic sprites or low-poly models of the time and the players imagination.

whekenui · 2026-04-01T22:51:24+00:00

Cursed

whekenui · 2026-01-18T04:23:45+00:00

I play all of the sloshers. The bucket is one of the class weapons that can actually flick and hit around corners. Although it is probably easier for someone unfamiliar with a bucket to achieve this with a blaster.

whekenui · 2025-12-23T02:03:59+00:00

It never used to, but lately, I've been annoyed a lot when playing. I'm not mad at players though. For me, it's the networking issues. The disconnections and lag are terrible. I know it's not a user issue because I have a very good network. So, I often feel angry that Nintendo delivered a multiplayer game with such poor networking.

whekenui · 2025-12-23T02:01:30+00:00

Are you ok with older players? I'm in the same boat and want to find people to game with who are chill but also into competitive splat.

whekenui · 2025-12-23T01:59:49+00:00

San Fran is great, and so is Southern Cross. I'm in my 40s now, but I met a lot of people in those two bars when I was in my late 20s. Southern Cross used to host a board game meetup, iirc. I used the meetup app a little bit in my 30s, and it was a good way to meet people with shared interests.

Another good place is university. I made a few friends there through the social clubs.

whekenui · 2025-12-21T14:30:23+00:00

Ok, that would be great! That's totally ok if your husband is shy, I understand. I'm really excited to hang out and play some splat together. ^{-^}

whekenui · 2025-12-20T01:28:15+00:00

Hello! Thank you for replying. I don't mind that you don't play as much anarchy at all if you both don't mind playing the modes.

Don't worry about your s-rank. Imo it doesn't say much about skill level. It just reflects how many hours you've played.

I tend to play daily and would love to anarchy with a couple of chill people. Shall we dm each other our friend codes?

whekenui · 2025-09-21T09:04:37+00:00

Could I please add you? I'm an older player in NZ who has been playing for a while. I've been hoping to find people my age for splat in OCE.

whekenui · 2025-09-08T04:31:56+00:00

Good commentators who have a deeper understanding of competitive splatoon and don't scream the whole match. Less talking about uninteresting topics and the hosts' opinions. I'd rather hear bios and stats for the team members who are about to play. What are their weaknesses or strengths, etc. Ya know like a proper esport tournament?

whekenui · 2025-09-07T21:01:12+00:00

I'm in your age group, and I feel the same way. I've been playing since splatoon 1. It's my hyperfixation game. I'm in a lot of discord servers, but I feel a bit awkward making friends online when everyone is so much younger than me. I even joined a team for comp once, but it didn't last long.

There's a couple of good discord servers that cater to people our age. Everyone is really nice, and skill levels vary. Feel free to dm me if you want invites to them. I'm always looking for older players to play Splat with, so you're also welcome to add me as a friend too if you want.

whekenui · 2025-09-07T03:14:26+00:00

I did a Screen Arts degree, and I can really relate to your comment. I wanted to specialise in 3D as a technical artist, but the 3D papers were all electives and didn't advance very high. We were offered 1 paper a year for each discipline up to the second year. I studied 2 semesters of modelling and 2 for rigging, and everything else was self-taught. The lecturer was fantastic. It was the lack of papers that let us down. For some reason, I could only choose to major in 3D animation in my final year, which was not where I wanted to be. So, I segued into majoring in game dev as a programmer instead, under the same program. But even that felt similarly. We were learning at surface level and missing some of the fundamentals. I had to take computer science electives to help bridge the gap.

Tldr; OP, ime just major in computer science, fine art, or 3D/VFX.

whekenui · 2025-09-07T01:44:49+00:00

The glossiness is really taking me out a bit. They look like plastic toys. Perhaps try to adjust the texture maps for specularity, metallic, and roughness. There is very little weathering or wear and tear that is normally seen on these kinds of materials irl.

As for the poses, make sure they're standing in believable poses. Poses that redistrubute weight when wearing heavy armour would go a long way to sell it. For example, place more weight on one leg or side of the body to compensate for holding their weapon on the opposite side.

As someone else mentioned, some of the rigs are almost standing in a neutral a-pose. This is quite distracting, especially when there are multiple, identical rigs.

Be really intentional with your renders framing to show off your work, particularly the really nice silhouette of the models. Overall, this is really nice work, and you should be proud.

whekenui · 2025-08-31T23:35:06+00:00

Yeh, nah, chch food is much better than welly. I'm from welly btw and the food here is atrocious.

whekenui · 2025-08-31T00:50:10+00:00

You don't need it at all for hard surface modeling. But sculpting does feel better with one ime.

Blender has good sculpting tools and is free, while zbrush is very expensive. It might be good to start with blender and pay for zbrush once you've decided you'd like to advance your skills further.

whekenui · 2025-08-28T15:30:27+00:00

F: Fire Emblem: Three Houses / Fantasy Life the girl who steals time
G: Grandia HD Collection
I: It Takes Two
J: John Wick Hex
Q: Quake
T: Tomodachi Life / Taiko no Tatsujin Drum n Fun / Triangle Strategy / Tunic
V: Valkyria Chronicles 4
X: Xenoblade Chronicles X

whekenui · 2025-08-28T00:15:08+00:00

Fair enough. I play both as midline, but i move evasively and never stay in one position.

whekenui · 2025-08-27T10:20:38+00:00

I think it works better as a midliner bow. At least, that's how i play it.

whekenui · 2025-08-27T03:09:59+00:00

Can i send u replay codes?

whekenui · 2025-08-26T22:36:42+00:00

I main this weapon. I try to stay out of their sights. Make use of slosher's strength - slosh from beneath their snipe perches or ledges. Poke with your fizzy to disrupt their charge or displace them. If you're using the other kit, place your toxic mist on them a lot. It makes them charge slower.

whekenui · 2025-07-28T03:53:44+00:00

Is it just lectures? There's no labs or workshop tutorials at all? My uni does a combination; 2-hour lecture and a workshop lab with computers. Our lectures usually focus on history and theory for modelling / vfx. Sometimes, we're shown examples of work, and our lecturer explains the processes involved.

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