Some pizza is great fridged, but not all pizza. There’s a local pizza place in town that makes this cheesy, greasy pizza with a soft thin crust. That pizza is particularly good fridged.

This was one of the best laughs I’ve had in a bit, thank you

That is not what “the Tetris Effect” means. :P

God I’m so glad I’m not the only one. I thought everyone likes embarrassment humor and maybe I was getting a little cynical about “how bad taste is getting” or something. So good to know that others call it “cringe” (in one way, not in the other) and can’t watch it either.

That’s because they’re fake.

The moment you done effed up while everyone’s watching.

Yes, technically, just like “everything is subjective”. But only ignorant people remove all context like that.

Most of these clearly have no proper etymology and root/suffix/prefix structure, and therefore are clearly made up.

Capitalism: “Numbers go brrrrr”

Too expensive. Rich people taxes would have to pay for it. How can we whittle the class down to paperwork, paper homework, and study hall? /s

I can never rely on people to self-tag posts. But tagging communities would be much more manageable and helpful.

I made a post like this not long ago, specifically about hiding all sports communities, yeah.

If you purchased a fucking game and they take it away because you didn’t play it for X period of time, that is absolutely fucking illegal. Like, regardless of current practices, that is fucking illegal. You own what you buy, and everyone who says otherwise is just trying to scam you.

To be fair, the baby would’ve cried even if they didn’t do that.

Like, I could try to explain everything, but I’d basically have to open up a video presentation to show what I mean. It’s very hard to show my points over text— people’d just have to take my word for it.

But several of the points I would be showing off would be stuff like:

• The lack of clear, purposeful direction and shapes for the facial structure and the eyes, turning them almost into squishy globs or weird “tears of paper”
• The fact that the cel-shading is so weird that features do not have clear start points and end points, and often disappear altogether depending on the camera angle and lighting— and by “often” I mean like 25-50% of the time
• The fact that the few actual textures that exist are really dirty-looking and poorly-executed, like the eyes
• The extreme amount of blur that is constant in every frame and is really dirty and bad-looking when there’s particles, which this game loves
• The sloppiness of the models, of the hair, of the cel-shading, of the shapes of the eyes, pretty much everything makes me believe all this was done on purpose. This game’s sloppy and blurry visuals aren’t exactly incompetence, I am guessing— instead it’s like they’re trying to go for some form of Japanese painting style or something. And it doesn’t really work in 3D because the engine can’t fine-tune any results to look nice

These are things I noticed from the very first trailer reveal. I was talking with my friend and saying stuff like “this is the blurriest game I’ve ever seen. Objects just kinda melt into each other and have no clear start or end; and the execution of the particle effects just makes everything worse”

I believe that if this game wasn’t a Zelda game, it would get shit on for its visuals. I mean, there will always be people who are fine with anything, and there will always be fans of anything. But I find this Zelda to have the worst visuals of any Zelda ever, and the landscapes don’t save it for me.

I mean, there are different kinds of cel-shading. There aren’t a lot of games that really capture the look of traditional animation— but it’s totally possible. Hypothetically-speaking, would you have liked a game that looked like gorgeous traditional animation à la Disney or Don Bluth? (Don Bluth made The Land Before Time, All Dogs Go to Heaven, The Secret of NIMH, etc.)

On one hand, yeah, your opinion is perfectly valid.

On the other hand, if I were to challenge someone on a statement like this, I’d say “show me a screenshot of an expensive game with worse cel-shading”.

On the third hand though, I’ve discovered over time that sometimes people are just currently blind/tasteless and they just can’t see what’s wrong with some visuals. No offense at you or anything. I mean, I was blind and tasteless in my 20s. My good taste took time to develop.

Also I think I need to go back to chemo for that third hand.

Yee. I imagine if the Wii U didn’t flop, they would have had more time to work on their engine so that they could still render long-draw-distance viewscapes beautifully, while also not making everything so blurry and undefined. What they did with Skyward Sword was astounding for the Wii, and a lot of modern games don’t even look that pretty. Just because Nintendo had good artistic direction for that game.

Oh, okay, yeah. That make sense. Gotta love that spineless, landlord-during-COVID-style victim-blaming speak. : /