Uruanna
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- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 2 days ago:
That was Castle Town, there’s also the Temple of Time entrance, there’s not that many maps where the OG just had a literal JPG flat background. And we saw Castle Town in the demo, it’s still a 1:1 map with the exact same fountain square, the same people, the same shops, and the same back alley, not a single change. Everything they showed had the exact same flat ground, flat walls, square rooms - only the Gerudo Hideout has ONE extra pillar stump that appears to go up to the cell you escape out of with the hookshot. Only Hyrule Field seems to have more variety and UE5 look in the hills and river banks and apparently a spot where the river kind of becomes a mini swamp area with Tektites (not sure which map that shot was in the trailer, could be the drained Lake Hylia)
It’s looking like the maps will be 1:1 down to the pixel, only filled up with space in the area past Castle Town walking up the guard trail to the castle. Except Kakariko where they apparently flipped the Skulltula house and the construction spot with the cuccoo coop in the back, for some weird reason?
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 2 days ago:
No dawg, you did that because the hardware required a load screen there.
Have you heard of Breath of the Wild? The hardware does not require a loading screen there. There is a load screen because they separated the maps, so they do have to load the new assets between each screen transition, but splitting the map is the choice they made. They didn’t have to split the map, they could have made one big open world-style map (except for the dungeons) and they chose not to, that’s what they’re talking about.
- Comment on Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time Remake Trailer 2 days ago:
Saria, Malon, the Kokiri shop kid, look decent. Young Link looks like a doll face with shimmering eyes and rosy blush cheeks and glossy skin, young Zelda has super weird eyes and nose proportions, but the other kids look a lot better with skin tones a lot flatter and less random shading, Saria’s and Malon’s eyes are much less jarring than Zelda. In the shot with Saria and Link facing each other at the beginning of Miyamoto’s play demo, Link’s face profile is glimmering from the lighting, and Saria’s face is normal in the same lighting, they’re clearly not from the same art / shading style.
- Comment on Nice Going Buddy 5 days ago:
Same place all the preachers had to go to answer all the people who kept asking this exact question. They made it up with the only excuse that would get everyone to shut up. It’s not from anywhere.
- Comment on Dragon’s Dogma 2 DLC devs faced “diametrically opposed” feedback from players in the West and Japan 1 week ago:
The term friction in gaming is a good thing, it’s basically engagement, keeping you awake while going from point A to B, a challenge, a puzzle, making you think or act / react, test of skills. Seeing it as inconvenience just shows the disconnect between what the dev wants you to do and what gameplay loop makes you happy.
- Comment on Why is the approach to nudity and sex in films and tv so vastly different between the US and Europe? 1 week ago:
If you think that a particular thing matters a lot, and other people think that thing doesn’t matter at all, then clearly they’re nihilistic degenerates.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Random goofy faces where the person just does the same face everywhere is terrible, but if it’s a channel I know is serious about what they do (not necessarily serious as in never make a funny), I can understand that putting on an appropriate face for the content does send an easily understood message about what kind of video it is just by scrolling quickly. It’s not a bad thing to tell if it’s going to be a complaint video or a happy news video and the likes. Of course, the face value drops pretty quickly if it’s a random channel I’ve never seen, because I don’t know how relevant it really is and if that random person’s alleged feelings will inform what I can expect to feel in that video, or if it’s just random engagement bait that I don’t resonate with.
- Comment on In Comics and the MCU what is an "Incursion"? Is it where one reality moves into another or another earth destroys another earth? If so who or what has the power to move realities or earths? 2 weeks ago:
In the MCU, Loki came first, and the Marvel heads were hinting early on when Spider-Man followed that none of the events of the other movies would have happened without the events of Loki first, and / or maybe that Spider-Man just gave the final push after Loki - but none of the characters in either movies are aware of who broke it first (except Loki). But then, that was when they were making plans for Kang, and throwing in Ant-Man that was also intended to suggest that the quantum verse was common to all universes, and quantum travel was going to play a part in the incursions (pushing the theory that they all played a little part in breaking the walls), but then they gave up on that, and that’s why the loss of some context made it weird. We don’t know yet how Doomsday and Secret Wars intend to fix that mess, retcon it entirely, or just… handwave it away - but they’ll probably pull a random explanation. So far, it’s looking like Doom is angry at Steve for breaking the timelines just to have a child, so maybe he’ll blame the careless time travel that the Ancient One warned Banner about.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 4 weeks ago:
It cuts to a different scene when he hits the ground. I thought it was someone cracking an egg to eat, thus the joke, but I just checked and it’s someone dropping an effervescent tablet in a glass. Close enough.
- Comment on Be a punk rocker 4 weeks ago:
You also got the Superman summary wrong because Hawkgirl does drop the guy from the sky at the end and it’s made very clear that no one catches him. He dies. Superman doesn’t drop-and-catch him, just pins him to a cactus. That doesn’t stop him, which is why Hawkgirl later flies in, points out she’s not Superman when the guy groats that she won’t do shit to him, and then she cracks his egg.
- Comment on Capcom isn't worried about PlayStation and Nintendo shrinking the physical games market: "90% of our unit sales are digital" 4 weeks ago:
they’re likely cooking a mainline megaman as we speak.
They announced Mega Man Dual Override for next year back at the game award event before new year, yeah. I don’t think we know why they didn’t name it Mega Man 12, considering that from what little they showed, it’s directly in line with the latest entries of the main series.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 month ago:
You know they’re the only axis power that still openly celebrates their WWII generals, yeah?
Okay so this one is ultra cultural. They still openly “celebrate” generals who tried to overthrow the imperial family then cursed the capital after their death to be hit by a plague, natural disasters, and famine, over a thousand years ago. With people from the imperial family dying from it. There’s several people like that who literally have an active cult today, to alleviate their anger. It’s not about being happy with what they did, it’s about appeasing everyone who wielded power and caused fear even after their death, because they have a culture of vengeful ghosts and Chinese Buddhism gave them the idea that people with power in the “real world” court still maintained the same power in the court of the underworld and could cause natural disasters and plagues. That said, I don’t know how many of those cults are still observed by the Prime Minister.
- Comment on Cool Japan 🌸 1 month ago:
I mean, if the Japanese text says “if you can read this, you’re welcome”, it does suggest that English or Chinese people who speak and read Japanese are welcome. It’s a real weird thing to pull, like they think they’re being cute.
- Comment on Brought to you by RFK Jr. 1 month ago:
i think the mentality of "they are evil, therefore they are not logical
No one has ever told you that about right-wingers and religious extremists.
- Comment on FINAL FANTASY RESONANCE - Pixel Trailer 1 month ago:
Brave Exvius started in 2015 and Octopath was 2019. This is just a new iteration, dumping the gacha part and adding a full traversable open world map.
- Comment on Before Wolverine got his adamantium body, could he grow back his bone claws do to his healing factor? Or is it just for skin muscile and organs? 1 month ago:
In the sense that originally, the writers just threw a guy with claws on his gloves against the Hulk, and people liked it so Marvel said make more of this guy, but pretty quickly the writers decided that they didn’t want to say anyone could pick up the gloves and be Wolverine, so they decided that the claws were part of him and not the gkloves. And the Weapon X plot came around with the adamantium. I don’t know if any writer actually said that Wolverine didn’t have claws at all before the adamantium skeleton? It’s just that Marvel kept adding details just as new readers kept asking questions about how it works, and then Marvel suggested that Wolverine’s healing factor might mean he was actually very old, and then they said well what did he do before the adamantium skeleton, and bam, there’s the bone claws. It’s not even a retcon as long as no one said “no claw before the metal bones” before, that’s just how writing goes over decades most of the time, new things get piled on.
- Comment on Why Aren't there More Fem-Focused Werewolf Stories? 2 months ago:
unless by fem-focused you mean femboy werewolf.
As in the femboy becomes a… bear?
- Comment on Anon tries to break the ice 2 months ago:
Autism is a much larger spectrum than you might have been led to believe from popular media depiction, and you probably have met a few people in your life who had some degree of autism but you thought “they seem normal?”
- Comment on 2 months ago:
No, i would say it’s very similar. Pilgrimages, a priest class, specific buildings to worship in and “sunday school” of some form or another. If you disapprove of modern religions but like the old ones then it’s really the content of the religion you have irks with.
Early “shrines” in Mesopotamia were about making a landmark to find and return to and rebuild each time they came by (which isn’t necessarily a “pilgrimage”, just knowing where to return), and then building large storage rooms for all the grain that could be redistributed to the people. We don’t have any particular trace related to sacrifice or teaching worship, or even any mark of distinction between priest and non-priest class, as this was before writing. Source is “the invention of the city” by Gwendolyn Leick.
- Comment on Pink Ranger 2 months ago:
Google the text “未来戦隊” “ミライス”
- Comment on Pink Ranger 2 months ago:
Google returns like 5 or 6 other images on Vietnamese Instagrams, with a few different people, a couple of them wearing the exact same shirt, and the logo changes between each picture in a very AI smudged way, or gets photoshop airbrushed off in one. One picture shows a completely other actor under the helmet having a smoke break, and his hand is Marty McFlying off the image.
It’s AI, and at least this wave appears to be like a week old. There may have been an older image used as a basis.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
It’s how they urbanised, not why. The why is agriculture. And it wasn’t religion the way we see it today.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
You’re thinking of modern marriage and legal status. Marriage existed thousands of years ago separately from religion. It was about inheritance.
- Comment on Pink Ranger 2 months ago:
This is not any of the pink Sentai and the katakana text under the logo is also nonsense. I’d say this is AI but it’s probably older than that, just a good old 'shop.
- Comment on Superman is a meanie 2 months ago:
Ah, I got mixed up, it’s been a while. He was specifically looking for Peter, but didn’t know Peter was Spidey. You’re right, inexcusably dumb move, there’s no way it would have worked.
- Comment on Superman is a meanie 2 months ago:
I don’t think he was trying to find which one was Spidey, just trying to cause chaos so that Spidey would show up, wherever he is?
- Comment on I forgot that AAA slop devs actually made fun games that didn't have money pits 2 months ago:
The Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection has SF3, although I think people were disappointed with that one and I forget why.
I believe the input lag makes it unplayable online and everyone just stuck to whatever they were already on for that.
- Comment on I forgot that AAA slop devs actually made fun games that didn't have money pits 2 months ago:
Sony signed a blank check for the full thing like 15 years ago for the exclusivity.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 2 months ago:
Uh, Zelda’s always done the tapestry thing though, haven’t they? 'Cause they like being presented as old myths.
I can only think of Wind Waker and BotW, also a bit of stained glass action in Minish Cap. Most of that was just for the intro, to set up the state of the world, and then nothing (beside the Calamity tapestry in BotW). I suppose this tapestry might be the same thing, it just reprises the opening narration from a voice that might turn out to be no one in particular.
Zelda games do have a story of course, but they always come up with new elements for the backstory that they then completely abandon. Very rough “pillars” have stuck, like the Goddesses, Sacred Realm, Hylia, but the actual world building elements to make a real kingdom beyond just basic fantasy setting, actual “historical” events like Majora, the Dark Interlopers, Lorule, the Minish - you’re lucky if you see it mentioned in the next Hyrule Historia. They make a new Zelda game, they come up with a new tribe and a new ancient power that becomes the new mechanic, and when the game is done, you never see that again. Maybe you see an Easter egg in Breath of the Wild, at most.
And it’s not like OoT isn’t enamored with Hyrule’s dark past. If they’re going to expand on anything, it’ll almost certainly be that.
Most of OoT was almost entirely vibes though, no context for anything. The Forest Temple was literally made for Hyrule Castle material but then cut out and pasted into its own temple, and bam, new place with its own vibe and you’re free to come up with your own backstory - because Nintendo sure won’t do it.
But yeah, the brand new world redesign (entirely judging by Link’s bed being completely redone and not at all like the OG) makes me think we’ll see more about places like the Shadow and Forest Temples. Not sure they’ll put as much love to actually cement and explain the connection between OoT Rauru and TotK Rauru, actually expand the world’s history beyond just what we saw in the OG, but surely we’ll see a bigger castle town, more inhabited places in the overworld, all that with a bit more information on local cultures like the Sheikah, actually literally anything about the Hyrulean civil war and Ganondorf’s involvement, and so on and I’m huffing hopium again.
- Comment on I just saw the Ocarina of Time Remake glimpse at Nintendo Direct 6.9.2026 2 months ago:
Yeah, but the fact that Nintendo (can’t remember if it was Miyamoto orr Aonuma) lamented that younger TotK players didn’t know how important Rauru is, and this reveal that it’s not a 1 to 1 remake after all, is what’s sending the fandom into heavy hopium that this time, for sure, Nintendo will do what they’ve never done before and actually push the story. The tapestry presentation can certainly be read as supporting this expectation, too.