Darc_Requiem

2 minutes ago, elliephil said:

Friend and I used to call the Nintendo support line to prank call them but they ended up being really chill lol

I've never had any issue with Nintendo support. I remember when my Wii's GPU started going bad. I called Nintendo and even though it was out of warranty, they fixed it for free. They sent me the Fedex label, I shipped it off, I got it back in week. Only service nightmare I had was Sony with the PS2 and I wasn't the only one. 

@RSG3I see Norm MacDonald. I hit thumbs up. I had forgotten how much he used to shit on OJ.

@MillionXI wonder if you told AI that you wanted Thundercats in Space and Thundecats underwater would it spit out Silverhawks and Tigersharks? 🤔

9 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

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.

My best friend has been 3D modeling for decades. This situation annoys him more than it does me. He thinks it's being done on purpose. Given his experience and expertise. I'm going to take the his word for it. I've known him for 33 years out of the 44 years I've lived on this Earth. So I'll trust him over some dude on Twitter/X. That aside, I'm thinking of things Quantic Dream did to 10 to 15 years ago. It didn't seem to be a problem for them.  So I'm to believe that more advanced hardware and more mature development tools makes this more difficult? And only for one gender? We got mysognistic development tools now?

7 hours ago, RegH81 said:

Emma Frost

 

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watching the Scott/Maddy/Jean drama:

 

 

Which is even more hilarious because...

As for Episode 5....

How they packed so much into one episode and still have it be exceptional is beyond me. Beau DeMayo can write his ass off. That man has serious talent. I'm glad he got season 2 in the can. They need to find some way to get him back unless he's done something criminal. I can't see anyone else coming in and doing this good of a job. 

6 hours ago, DangerousJ said:

Million,

 

Have you watched X-Men 97?

If not, you're missing out!

I was homesick yesterday. I watched the episode 5, was left speechless, and then watched all the videos of every losing their shit after watching it. Unless Beau DeMayo commited a crime, they need to bring that dude back. X-Men '97 is absurd levels of good.

29 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

Edit: @Darc_RequiemYo for like a solid month my favorite way to pass time idly was to look up black people reacting to Ram Jams Black Betty or Wild Cherrys Play That Funky Music White Boy and losing their shit when they see both those bands are white as fuuuuuuuuuuuck 🤣 

I did the same thing with Bobby Caldwell when he passed away. I watched a bunch of people watch his "What You Won't Do For Love" video and flip out when sings "I came back to let you know" stands up from the bench and you see he's white. One dude actually stopped the video and called his mom on his cellphone to ask her about it. 🤣🤣🤣

Okay, I want to make sure I'm not in The Twilight Zone or something. I keep seeing story's and videos about "Natasha Ramos claiming" to have sang Jenny From Block and people being shocked. I know for a fact that this all came out more than decade ago. Did I miss something?

19 minutes ago, RSG3 said:

Only one believing fake shit here is you to push this stupid idea that videogame characters being made ugly. They aren't, they just aren't pandering to your bishoujo pvc women statue fetish like Stellar Blade is.

Female characters in Western developed games are being made less attractive than the models they are scanned from. This isn't even debatable. You can debate why it is occurring or the rationale behind it. Unless they explicitly say so of course, however you can't say that it isn't occurring. Also rolling out Stellar Blade is just weak, at least roll out a woman with an actual unrealistic body type. Or pick someone from a fighting game, most of us here play or have played them at some point. Plenty of options there. I mean if you going pull something from Shift Up's catalog use one of the numerous female characters the lead developer's wife designed for their other games. It can runs counter to the general narrative that assumes attractive female characters only designed by dudes but hey didn't stop the Bayonetta criticism. So have at it. At least Bayonetta's body is actually unrealistic.

10 minutes ago, Hecatom said:

 

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

I'm not. He's an idiot. The worst kind of numbskull. A modern social media moron. The type that doubles down even when they are clearly wrong which only accentuates how dumb their initial take was in the first place.

8 hours ago, TheInfernoman said:

Dat Ratio:

 

 

The utter lack of intelligence modern gamers display is astounding. If a "physical" copy of game can't be played without an initial internet connection, then it isn't a physical copy of the game. It just a digital copy that requires a disc check. Given the numerous issues that have occurred over the years, some very recently, if you can't see what the problem then you are just stupid. Show some modicum of deductive reasoning for God's sake.

20 hours ago, ShockDingo said:

Always happy to see what's left on the cutting room floor. Redhead Aki looks good, but feels like an entirely different character, I love the crazy,  creepy, cute design we got with the snakeskin pants and mushroom hair. Echoing the points about the other characters, but I really dig that 4th Akuma at Peace one.

The A.K.I. design we are all marking out over has snakeskin pants as well.

@RegH81Episode 5. Damn. Just damn. This episode was pure utter and awesome insanity. Just fucking wow man. Just wow.

1 hour ago, Dragonfave723 said:

I didn't think this movie needed a sequel and this does nothing to change my mind.

2 minutes ago, Sonichuman said:

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!

There is one thing about Red XIII that caught me off guard and I still can't get used to it. Won't way what it is just be safe, but when you get that point, you'll know what I mean.

@HecatomNot surprised. They are clearly doing this on purpose. People will still find some way to defend this nonsense. How can you honestly say they aren't purposely making female characters less attractive at this point? It's either willful ignorance or just being disingenuous.

6 minutes ago, Lantis said:

Seems like we're getting mindless Ermac instead of Jerrod Ermac from story mode

 

As long as he doesn't abuse the "We are many you are but one" line I'm OK with that

 

Damn Jerrod can't catch a break. Dude comes back life and his damn near immortal wife dies like 5 minutes later. Finally "playable" in MK and it's not even him.

@CESTUS IIIposted this in the story thread. The right picture with her current default color scheme is perfection.

51 minutes ago, CESTUS III said:

That third image....

37 minutes ago, DangerousJ said:

Diddy's Autobiography Title

 

Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to stop worrying and love Daquan's Bussy

I thought it was Take That Take That!: I Thought I Told You That We Won't Stop

6 minutes ago, Sonero said:

 

ItzPookie was an SRKer whom was a regular in the lounge thread for SF5.

 

You'd think that forum raised people to do better but then they show off their ass like that.

 

😭

You know I was about to post that Pookieblades gif I always used to....but I've realized that imgur has deleted a lot of my older images. Which wouldn't bother me so much but I had a photo of me with long hair that I lost when of my hard drives died that's just gone. And I'm bald now....so 😭 

42 minutes ago, CESTUS III said:

Yeah that's my fav too 😁

 

Only thing i'm not sold is color scheme, would have prefered something like this to be the standard palette

Give her the same color scheme as her current default look and keep her albino just with that design aesthetic.

That 5th A.K.I. design with the red hair is perfection. I wish we would have gotten that one. Some of the other ones are good but they don't have "iconic" look to me. They seem to derivative or similar to designs for other characters. The 10th one is cool but it makes me immediately think of classic Ashrah from the 3D era MK games. Don't really have much to say about Rashid's nothing really stands out. Ed's, I just don't have anything good to say about them. Akuma's, sans design 4, look like joke memes.

Damn, everyone was worried about Capcom's mod policies. Namco really said hold my beer. WTF are they doing? They are speed running their villain arc after getting so much goodwill with Tekken 8 initially.

@AriesWarlockAs for as AC Oddyssey goes, if there was a version of that game without the ridiculous bloat added, it would be a classic. I truly mean that. I used to be on a Bioware centric fan forum that will went by the wayside as Bioware did. Those of us that were still there when AC Oddyssey dropped remarked at how it gave us a classic Bioware vibe. Unfortunately I got just got burned from all the damned bloat. They put so much unnecessary padding in that game. It should have been like a 30 hour exprience that was say 50 hours if you had to do everything. It think I had like 70 hours in that game when I tapped out and never beat it. 

Edit: @RSG3I agree with you. Did you ever play Rogue? I heard that it was lot like Black Flag. Never got around to it. Thought about picking it up on PC. It's like $20.

MVG apparently has a solution for the Wii U/3DS online issue. I haven't had a chance to watch the vid, but I got an notification for it.

3 hours ago, axeman61 said:

What games have DEI affected that would have been SO AMAZING if it wasn't a factor though? Most trash games wouldn't have NOT been saved had they ducked diversity. Hell, there are plenty of games that are trash with no diversity.

 

I'm not well read on DEI in general, but this overall feels like yet another thing those annoying anti-woke fucks are beating into the ground for relevance.

DEI isn't just games. It's integrated into corporate culture as a whole. It supposed to foster a diverse and open work environment. It doesn't. Companies like Ubisoft and Activision have DEI departments. How's that work environment working out. DEI is the corporate equivalent of the NFL being all about "player safety." They don't care about player saftey, they care about limiting their liability in any future lawsuits. That's what DEI is at the end of the day. It's something major corporations can point to when their department head can't keep his hands off the female employees, or someone does something that's racist, etc. They can point to DEI program they have minimize their liability in a lawsuit. "We have an extensive DEI program and it's unfortunate that (insert asshat here) didn't adhere to it. Please review our DEI a policies linked below." You'll get a corporate email sent out with a link to some pretentious video, that you have to watch every year. Meanwhile you can't get the headcount you need to get actual work done because your company's footing the bill for a bunch of people that do fuck all and pat themselves on the back for it. 😑