VindictiveJudge
@VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 18 hours ago:
Yeah, that wasn’t a good example since taste is weird. A better example would be that most people would agree that the pink background on this sprite sheet is almost painful to look at while other, more luminous, elements are fine. If our perception significantly varies, then simple mid-luminance color blocks shouldn’t have consistent effects from person to person. Parts of that yellow gradient on the right should cause more strain to someone you know than the magic pink field if perception is strongly variable.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 19 hours ago:
The logic is based on perception, though. Colors either clash or go together because of how we percieve them and which colors go with which is pretty consistent between cultures and time periods.
- Comment on "Trippy" Reality 21 hours ago:
Given that color theory works the same for anyone that isn’t some variety of colorblind, I’d argue we probably see colors the same way or very very close to the same.
- Comment on Do "rich" superheroes have to be rich in order for the story to work? 6 days ago:
It’s his cover for why he doesn’t have a real job. If Bruce isn’t wealthy enough to not have to work, then he has to work during the day, fight crime at night, and never sleep. Even Peter Parker has a job with flexible hours to accommodate his Spider-Man time.
However, Peter only has the one gadget, doesn’t even own a car, and barely makes ends meet. Bruce needs a vehicle to get around town and at least a few gadgets and body armor to deal with the fact that he’s outnumbered, even with just normal criminals and not considering supers like Mr Freeze or Poison Ivy. If you’re keeping supers out of the equation, you could probably strip Bruce down to things that you could make in your garage, like reducing the Batmobile to an ordinary car he’s tinkered with a bit, painted black, taken the license plate off of, and ground off the VIN.
You still need to deal with how the hell he funds everything, though. Even with minimal gear, he’s going to need a full time job to afford it all. And if he doesn’t want to advertise who he is and where he’s operating out of, he’s going to need a second location to store his bat-stuff so that his neighbors don’t notice the Batmobile parked in his driveway. You’re probably looking at a small house that he doesn’t live in and another house or an apartment that he does live in without any roommates or renters at either place. Even with this minimal setup, Bruce would need at least $100k a year in income. This means one of the following: a) a well-paying full-time job, which cuts into Batmanning; b) inherited wealth; c) lottery winnings; or d) an extremely successful Only Fans account. The first doesn’t seem viable, the second is what’s already being used, the third just feels contrived, and the fourth, while something I’d probably read for the novelty, is probably really difficult to market.
- Comment on What are your hallmark games? What games have shaped how you view games? 2 weeks ago:
There’s actually an official “back path” for the Morrowind main quest if you killed Vivec. You need to take an item from his corpse to Yagrum Bagarn, but you also need a high reputation. If you muck up the back path, too, you can brute force the main quest by completing the final step anyway, but good luck figuring out how to do that without a quest pointing you to what you need.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, same general premise, but the structure is very different between them. In Dances with Wolves, Dunbar is basically abandoned by his people and slowly assimilates into the local village. By the time Dunbar’s people return in the third act, they’re no longer his people at all. In Pocahontas and Avatar, Smith and Sully are part of an active and present colonial force, wind up on generally friendly terms with the locals, start dating the chief’s daughter, and wind up with a strong case of conflicting loyalties, having to pick between their people and their lover’s people when the fighting starts.
- Comment on Are there any story ripoffs that are actually good? 2 weeks ago:
Avatar is absolutely not Dances with Wolves. It is Pocahontas. Throw in a couple musical numbers and it’s real close to being a shot-for-shot remake of the Disney movie.
- Comment on Bird leaf 3 weeks ago:
In Spanish the word for pen can also be for a feather.
In English, too, with the word quill. Though the word now specifically means a pen made from a feather rather than a pen in general, and calling a feather that isn’t being used as a pen a quill is very archaic.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 3 weeks ago:
What assets you’re recycling is a huge factor. There are crates in Fallout 4 that were originally made for Oblivion. You almost certainly won’t notice unless you’re looking for it. Similarly, I’m playing Divinity Original Sin 2 and there are a bunch of little things that were reused for Baldur’s Gate 3, like vases. Again, most people will probably never notice.
On the other hand, BioWare reusing animations that were originally created for Neverwinter Nights in Mass Effect 3 is jarring, even though those animations generally worked fine in KOTOR. Or Assassin’s Creed 3 using combat animations in the modern day segments that were designed for the flintlock-wielding enemies in the historic segments.
- Comment on Everytime 3 weeks ago:
Really? I heard that you got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold 'em, know when to walk away, and know when to run.
- Comment on Anon plays a game 4 weeks ago:
Well, Tiberian Sun’s Nod ending is a story ender, what with the world altering missile. And Tiberium Wars switched to a sequential series of campaigns that are all canon, like Blizzard’s games.
However, there is Twisted Insurrection, a mod for Tiberian Sun with a campaign that functions as a sequel to Tiberian Dawn’s Nod victory.
- Comment on No u 🫵 5 weeks ago:
The shadow thing could also be from a disk. I mean, it’s not, but disks also make round shadows.
- Comment on ESL homework 1 month ago:
Connery’s character is Lithuanian.
- Comment on ESL homework 1 month ago:
Oh, I know how that one happened. A rooster is also called a cock, though we don’t much use that word anymore, for obvious reasons. Probably didn’t know the word and checked Google Translate or something similar.
- Comment on Beyond fucked up 1 month ago:
I remembering having a crush on Hermione. Emma Watson was also older than me, though, and I remember thinking that adults perving on her was gross.
- Comment on it's a long distance relationship 1 month ago:
My personal example is identical twins. If they’ve had the same experiences, then knowing what one looks like tells you what the other looks like, but ripping the arm off of one doesn’t magically rip the arm off the other.
- Comment on Your teenager AND your husband 1 month ago:
Ironically, pre-sugared cereal may have also reduced the amount of sugar in kids’ cereal. For a while, kids were taking regular cereal and dumping sugar on it. Instead of actually parenting and telling them no, the parents started buying sugary cereal.
- Comment on Players are returning their Dispatch copies due to Switch censorship 2 months ago:
Cyberpunk also has a censorship setting in all versions.
- Comment on Human 2 months ago:
Either that, or he’s AFK, and will come back to see how we’ve developed over the past 2000 years.
Fun fact: that’s pretty much exactly what the bible says is happening.
- Comment on Is it normal for mothers to constantly talk to their children about their experience (particulary the part about their pain and suffering) of their pregnancy and giving birth? 2 months ago:
It varies a lot from woman to woman and from one pregnancy to another. Anywhere from, “That’s it? That wasn’t so bad,” to, “Oh, god! Kill me to make the pain stop!”
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 2 months ago:
You can also get really good at Lute Hero, but it takes longer.
- Comment on Fable - Gameplay Teaser 2 months ago:
The money grind in 3 is easy, too. You just need to buy a house, rent it out, use that to buy another house, etc.
- Comment on Alleged Fable concept art seems to point towards a return to Fable 2's rogueish hive of scum and pub islands 2 months ago:
And changing yourself. Frequent magic users would get old and spindly, I believe occasionally glowing. Axe swingers would get ripped. Your character would be a literal representation of your playstyle and that was cool as hell.
It was both more and less involved than that. Putting XP into the Strength stats made your character buff, Skill stats made them tall, and Will stats gave you glowing patterns on your body, except in 3 where they made your tattoos glow instead. What you actually did was irrelevant, just how you spent your XP. In Fable 1, buying levels also made your character older, but age became connected to plot in 2 and was dropped as a morph in 3. Moral alignment in all three and ethical alignment in 2 and 3 also affected character appearance, but the specifics varied a lot between games.
- Comment on Day 548 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 2 months ago:
My problem with the Forerunner stuff in Halo 4 is the same problem I have with all the aesthetic changes in 4 and 5 - it’s extremely busy. 1, 2, and 3 have a sleek and simple design language that makes it very easy to tell what’s happening in chaotic combat. The vibrant colors and shiny materials even give Halo 3 an almost heroic fantasy vibe. They deliberately went the other direction with Reach to enhance the grim tone of the game, but environments are still relatively simple so that enemies stand out. 4 and 5 put excessive lines and greeblies on absolutely everything. It’s all so packed with details that you sometimes lose enemies in the background and it can be difficult to tell what you’re looking at.
- Comment on Nintendo Switch 2 sales stumble over Christmas 2 months ago:
Nintendo is consistently terrible about not having solid launch titles.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
I’ve also seen volume settings not kick in until you loaded a save file. Also, PS1 era Final Fantasy games that don’t acknowledge your button mappings until the save has been loaded, so that B is select and A is cancel on the main menu, but the other way in-game.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 2 months ago:
RPGs are absolutely terrible about giving you the ability to inflict status effects on enemies, but not giving random encounter enemies enough HP to justify inflicting statuses, and then also making the bosses immune to them.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 months ago:
And the point I’m making is that only a handful of games are keys; the vast majority are still on the cart, same as the last system.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 2 months ago:
Games aren’t “games”, they’re download keys.
Generally agree with your post, but a large majority of games really are games. If they’re a download key, it’s very clearly labelled on the box.
- Comment on genius 2 months ago:
And so do the people inside the big helicopter!
