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Feb 28 4 tweets 1 min read
Who gives a fuck about graphics in a Pokémon game?

I still replay Red/Blue/Gold/Silver and there isn't even animation for the Pokémon when they appear on screen.

Give me worse graphics.

Give me a retro-style Pokémon game in that old style but with new mons and a new story.
Legends Arceus, which is an AMAZING game that I love and am really enjoying, has a lot of white outline on my character whenever I go in a cave. It has pop-ins. It has stuttering Pokémon in the distance and shadows popping out of existence when the object casting them is off...
...camera and I could not give a crap about any of that because I'm having so much fun PLAYING.

I am baffled by people who get angry about things looking neat because they don't look photorealistic.

As long as I'm not falling through the floor, I'm happy.
Plus, you know, this is the series that made a legend out of a random scramble of pixels caused by a glitch, so maybe graphics are not everything.

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Feb 5
See, this is what I was asking about last year and everyone was just like "He's a voice actor!" and I'm like "He's 40 years older."

Honestly, I don't mind using this tech the way they did it here - for a brief cameo from a living actor that obviously has a raspier, older...
...voice currently and thus can't replicate how he used to sound. It'd be something entirely different if they were to try to COMPLETELY recreate him after he died (especially since he still got residuals for it). At that point, just recast with a voice actor.
The more terrifying use of this technology is illustrated here. It's fascinating and amusing that it can do this... but you can tell it's off because it's not a PERFORMANCE.

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So I'm going through the HOPR script for Time Force, making the modifications and whatnot for the redo of it, but ummm... maybe I'm just having a tough time remembering, but... is there ever an explanation where the Time Holes from End of Time... came from? Or what caused them?
Because I'm skipping through the episodes and whatnot and all I'm seeing is "there's a big battle and time holes are opening up," but not an answer of "this is why time holes are happening."
Okay, yeah, finally found the explanation - that the special crystals powering Frax's zord and the Q-Rex first seen in the clip show beforehand were causing them.

...Here's the problem, though: the time holes started appearing BEFORE the crystals were being used here.
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Ugh, just watched the movie "The Lodge" while editing.

I like slow burn, but the thing about slow burn is that you need a good payoff for the wait. This took way too damn long to get to the point, the performances and writing are shallow and way too restrained, and the...
...lack of music for most of it (while probably intended to evoke isolation and silent horror) just ends up making the slow burn take that much longer.

The payoff is frustrating and lame and a bit nonsensical, since I don't know what the endgame of the plan was. I thought...
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Jan 13
"Aren't you upset over superheroes and the MCU ruining cinema?!"

...No? One, I fucking love the MCU. I love keeping track of this stuff. I'm a comic book fan, FFS - and I don't mean I just like all superheroes, I mean it's easy for me to keep track of all this stuff after...
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E-mail weirdo hasn't e-mailed since September 2nd, but he did decide to post on the new episode to try to hurl insults. Forgot to grab a screenshot before I blocked them (I know it was them because of the "Cindersexual Jones" username).
Maybe he figured "Well, he says he forgets about me whenever I don't e-mail him... so I'll be a dick in the comments and he won't know it's me!"
Took him almost a month to realize I blocked him on my youtube comments.

And hey, their spelling and grammar has improved so it's "identity politics" instead of "identical politics." I mean, it's still shit, but progress is progress. Image
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