He/Him Jack of all trades, master of none
Proudly banned from lemmy.ml for a) being critical of the CCP and b) being against the unlawful deportation of American minorities
It’s not necessarily a social faux pas to misgender someone, that’s a myth made up by conservatives. It’s a faux pas to intentionally misgender people.
Sorta like if you call someone Jeb and they correct you and say it’s Jed. It only becomes an issue if you insist on calling them Jeb.
Largely because it has such strong art direction. They really make use of the high resolution to make the humans look more human, and the non-humans look more alien
That said, if I have one criticism about the game, it’s that there isn’t really a lot of cohesion between character/creature designs. It’s the same thing that bugged me about Stellar Blade, as opposed to something like Nier Automata or Gears of War. The nevrons don’t really look like they belong in the game the way locusts do in Gears.
But I am only in Act 2. Maybe this criticism will wane as I learn more about them
Same word, different meanings. It may not be the technically correct definition of the word, but typically when people talk about “good graphics,” they’re talking about photorealism. In MrMobius’s comment, “graphics” = high resolution, photorealism, the kind of thing the comic we’re commenting under is talking about, and “design” = art direction, aesthetic.
ETA: That said, higher resolution can make already strong art direction even better. I think a large part of what makes Clair Obscur look so pretty is the juxtaposition of the surreal elements with the photorealistic graphics. Esquie sticks out to me in particular, because he looks so physically real, and also so alien.
I’m not trained in media criticism, so I’m sure someone else can phrase that better than I can
ETA more: Also, games that are designed to look as real as possible also take a lot of effort and talent. Just because Bodycam doesn’t look like a comic book or a surreal painting doesn’t mean it doesn’t have strong art direction. It cannot be easy to make a game that looks so indistinguishable from actual body cam footage.
The Lawful Good version of “bitches, bros, and non-binary hoes”
Speaking only from my own experience, I’ve never associated “pal” with masculinity. “Gal” is, to my knowledge, the feminine form of “guy”
Back in my day, finding a corpse by the spillway made for a good Tuesday afternoon
2000 pages of Fallout/MLP crossover fic
New anime is largely garbage, much like old anime. The difference is that time has filtered most of the garbage out of old anime so it’s easy to find the good shit
Plus it’s always a good time to rewatch Gurren Lagann
Bro it’s catsnraincoats from my favorite Tumblr post
Damn, 2020 looks good. Whatever we did that year saved a lot of lives!
Not just the trailer. That scene in the game still makes me cry
I like that it has bezels, a physical home button, and an apparently 16:9 display
I’ve never met a person in real life who got upset because someone used the wrong pronoun once. Assuming people’s gender is fine, as long as you don’t double down on your assumption when someone corrects you
People who live their entire lives on the internet have no idea how humans actually react to things in real life. They’ve been trained to assume that literally anything they do or say could be considered offensive to someone
Is this that polish Canadian girl?
A communist, a socialist, and an anarchist walk into a bar, and make a podcast about engineering disasters. I was convinced to listen to Well There’s Your Problem when I heard that the episodes about the Titanic were a combined five and a half hours. My favorite episode is probably the one about the Byford Dolphin
Angela Collier makes a variety of sciencey videos. Less Kyle hill, more Sixty Symbols. If you’re the kind of person who reads a title like “alkaline water …with lemon” and immediately laughs out loud, and also doesn’t mind listening to an explanation of exactly why, scientifically, that statement is funny, you’ll probably like her
CJ the X isn’t so much nerdy, but by God does he share about his interests. Here’s nearly a half an hour about how skipping the first 5 minutes of Tangled makes it a better movie. Here’s a video essay about Bo Burnham’s Inside, that’s nearly twice as long as the actual special. His channel’s banner reads “im not talking 2 fast ur listening 2 slow,” and I think that’s a perfect description of his energy
Adam Savage runs Tested, and I don’t think I need to explain why it’s nice listening to Adam Savage talk about literally anything. If you were a fan of Mythbusters, he has endless stories about the show, the people who made it, and how it impacted his life. That’s not all he talks about, but it seems to be the main draw to his channel
Crimes against TERFs aren’t crimes
I mean it wouldn’t be every social interaction. Not even a majority. Something like 2% of the population identifies as something other than their assigned gender at birth, and the majority of those are transgender individuals who make it very clear how they want to be referred to.
Understand that these people will continue to have the same gender identity whether you understand it or not. The alternative to apologizing to people when you misgender them is… not apologizing for it.