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Interesting thread from a VG modeler on the real person scan discourse

I suspect that some will likely read through it and at some point just stop and go "nuh uh" and that's fine but this is some insight into what it takes to get some scanned models into the game and then tweak accordingly.  The thread even goes into some of the changes made to real scan models as well.

Apparently John Cena posted an 8 bit Link on Instagram and DID NOT FUCKING ELABORATE.  So....you already know where the speculation has headed.

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5 minutes ago, AriesWarlock said:

 

1. WTF does DEI have to do with this?  2. This woman is clearly having a shit day and taking it out on the passengers which she definitely should not be doing and I don't doubt that she lost her job over this.  You're costing the airline money unnecessarily and creating a hostile environment unprovoked.  She could have been sitting in the cockpit dressed like that and I don't think ANYONE would have been the wiser for it and just flown the fucking plane.  And then you decided to bring politics into it lol.  Yeah I'd be feeling pretty fucking uncomfortable on that flight cause this feels like "I'm on a downward spiral and I might just fucking take you with me" mentality.

13 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

Wait I thought the Dead Space 1 remake was a bug success....did I hear wrong?

Dead Space 2023's only issue was that it came out in 2023.  Looking it up it was the 2nd best selling game in Jan 2023 but nothing else numbers wise seems to have been mentioned about the game sales wise.  So the legs may just gotten cut off quick on it or this could be another "corporate expectation" versus reality scenario.  We might never know.

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That's disappointing if true...not surprising though.

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Also throwing this out there but the new tower defense stages are FUCKING INSANE.  Played a couple last night and it was so intense.  The first time, the team I was with was on point.  We were knocking down ships, calling down stuff explosions, pointing out Hulks and Tanks.  They managed to push us back a bit but we fucking HELD.  The 2nd time with my crew and 1 random we got overrun halfway threw.  They had a 5 ship drop on us at one point and it was just a see or robots, mechs and hulks all over the place.  I might have to try to clip what happened off my twitter page cause maaaaaaaan...

6 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

 

I am more surprisef by how he leeps replying with nonsense to every reply 😂

There are def some other people in the comments that are ok with this and don't seem to see what the long game issue is and its pretty disheartening.  10 years from a game like CoD: Russian Conflict will be out and it'll be like the most praised game in all of history (unbelievable I know just work with me here) and it'll break sales records over how amazing it is.  And then 10 years later nobody will be able to play the game (legally) who hasn't already because the game released either fully digital or half the game wasn't even on the disc and the servers don't have the rest of the game up.  But OH WAIT...ActiBlizz/M$ have heard your cries so they decide to port the game to whatever platforms are out now but they end up changing the content for the worse and/or they know you can't get the game any other way so the price is fully jacked up because of it.  Can't do shit about it (again...legally) so if you wanna experience this masterpiece in some way you're gonna have to fork over the jacked up price point busted port that you don't technically own anymore.   Sounds awesome!  Can't wait!

Day 1 patches are kind of 1 thing but if you are shipping a 1 player game out into the wild on a physical disc and it can't be played from beginning to end without requiring to be connected to the internet then thats an issue.  Really defeats the purpose.

I take issue more with that than the VG company spending unnecessary money on a model for a face that they were going to change up a little bit and they could have sculpted from scratch themselves and maybe saved some money.  I'm not going to lie.  Its weird that companies are hiring models for their face and then making changes but I'm also not going to pretend I fully know the full ins and outs of how much something costs to do versus just getting a model and scanning as a shortcut.  They could definitely just use their artists to create a face model from scratch but that could potentially take longer to do versus paying a model who looks close to what they are looking for and then tweaking it.  The whole discourse surrounding the face is extremely small potatoes in the grand scheme of things cause attractiveness is always going to be subjective. 

Apparently there was a post that got put up and then shortly deleted lol

I'll prob rewatch Solo Leveling in English after the first season is done cause Aleks looks like he's cooking in the booth

I'm getting spoiled on some stuff regarding Rebirth since My wife is playing it and she has surprisingly taken a lijing to Queen's Blood after initially planning to ignore it.  This shit involving Red XIII is so unserious lmao.  I love every bit of this!

More Zelda Lofi in coming with "Zelda's Lofi Kingdom" from Mikel and and Jokabi this friday

Apparently is going to be more BotW/TotK focursed with more of a lean towards TotK.

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Looks like the Automatons want more democracy

Year of Shadow officially announced complete with a website....that for some reason doesn't have Sonic Movie 3 on it but hey....that Shaodow bike replica though?

https://sonicthehedgehog.com/yearofshadow/

This is...a weird way to officially announce the year of Shadow.

Glad that asshole in the 2nd video got jumped.  You wanna feel brave enough to just random slug people then you can catch hands  and feet from 8 dif directions too.

NYC def needs to find some  reform in keeping the clearly mentally ill off the streets or put them on a path to get some helpe because despite the fact that 43 women getting Die Hard Arcaded is a very small percentage its still too much and could lead to the thought process of "well if I do this and I'm going to jail for an hour...then what else are the cosequences relatively small for?"  Unless they want to give people Batman licenses for brief periods when they see this happening in front of them then they gotta do something.

"You are not even Earthrealm's champion!"  God damn Ermac!  You didn't need to cook Kung Lao that hard.

Just now, AriesWarlock said:

 

I didn't know she was that stacked 😮

 

yyyyeahh...pitched tents in the comments.

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3 hours ago, axeman61 said:

All I know is that that Grummz guy (Mark Kern) is sad. Bear in mind, I don't know him, but... looking at his feed, it's next to nothing but screaming woke and DEI at shit all damn day while the game he's supposed to be making might never come out. If you're the only dev on that game, you need to stay your ass in the studio and stop crying about all this other shit on twitter.

I don't know much about this dude other than his constant hunting down of Community Managers at the moment that he senses some sort of DEI stuff from them or if he feels they're too woke.  I didn't even know dude was working on a game to be honest lol.  Apparently dude stirred up controversy before by having a fairly shit take about Starfield's title screen that he has deleted.  Despite how anyone feels about Starfield in general...that's a wild statement to be putting out there from a supposed dev and he got his ass cooked for it.  Apparently he's now saying he's being forced to show his game because DEI Journalists are out to get him.

Glad he cleared up that his project is supposed to pronounced "Ember" cause I def would not have gotten that out of "Em-8er" without being told.    I'm looking through this dude's tweets I"m just now noticing the blue checkmark and dude is posting like 10 times a day about DEI shit...probably even more if I look at his replies.

This is kind of interesting...

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Controversies and departure from Red 5 Studios

Kern faced allegations of overspending on promotional campaigns for Firefall. Notably, he devised a marketing strategy involving a Firefall-themed e-sports bus intended as both a mobile promotional tool and a server for LAN competitions during the game's beta phase. The project, estimated at $3 million, also included the establishment of a dedicated video production team with costly equipment.^[7] Red 5 employees described Kern as being prone to extended absences and having an "erratic, impulsive, and very disruptive" leadership style.^[8]

In 2013, Kern was removed from his position as CEO by the Red 5 board of directors.^[9] He referred to his time at the company as his own "Kobayashi Maru".^[7]

This dude has also been crowdfunding for Em-8er since 2019 so here's hoping something actually comes out of it!

3 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

 

They have been banning people asking for LBG stuff to be added to the game and people attacking people asking for LBG stuff.

 

So basically, banning both sides.

The 1st people to get banned on discord where some people asking for trans flags to be added that started harassing the devs on discord and twitter.

So not just "transphobic" people, lol.

 

Plus, is clear the devs don't want to deal with the obvious shitshow that would be people killing teammates with rainbow flags.

We all know people will do it for shit and giggles and the rainbow mafia will claim harassment because of it.

That probably goes with them restricting conversation on those topics which is what the CM said.  The CM also flat out said they didn't want deal with the bs that comes with it.

23 minutes ago, DoctaMario said:

I haven't played the game and only have been reading about it, but....

 

Hasn't the dev of H2 basically told people that want dei stuff in the game to fuck off? Maybe that's what people are talking about when they say it's "anti political?" It doesn't have any characters, designs, or storylines that a lot of other dei influenced companies are using? If that's the case, then mentioning the story seems to be missing the point.

 

Again, could be wrong, but it would make sense especially since there seems to be a backlash against games with a lot of dei stuff in them brewing.

They haven't told anyone really to fuck off regarding DEI stuff because the community manager that Grummz is attacking actually mentions about the different people that are involved with HD2.  Based on what I've read (which is actually in the tweets above the Grummz screen capped), they banned some transphobic people and it seems to have been somehow confused with them banning people for asking for LGBT items in the game.  They restricted topics having to do with anything like that in their discord in general just to avoid the hate garbage that comes with it.  

It'd be kind of weird for them to tell people that that want DEI stuff to "fuck off" when the community manager actually mentions about the diverse people that helped make HD2.  Regardless, saying HD2 is anti-political even if he's potentially trying to say that it's anti-political in one aspect is still a false statement since the game in its design in what it's doing is still very political.  It's like saying X-men is anti political because it's not making a direct statement about the Israeli-Palestine conflict.