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It sounds obvious in retrospect that you should just play 0 first anyway but I wasn’t expecting them to insert much from 0 into the remakes given how closely the actual story cutscenes stick to the source material
Saturday, 15-Jul-23 14:40:57 UTC from web-
@zeldatra I started with 0 as it is basically the beginning of Kiryus story, even though it was told much later after the Yakuza 1 release. 0 has some minor spoilers for 4 and quite some references to other installments. It didn't bother me. I rather liked it because I got an 'aha' moment and understood the reference retroactively, making the scene a little bit richer and due to the backstory aspect more understandable. The problem one can see more is making the decision when to play 0. When it comes to real downgrades Yakuza games 3 is the one that aged the worst, as it didn't get the Kiwami treatment and modernizing the controls and gameplay feel. Looking back on it it has some endearing retro aspect of the PS3 era when looking past those flaws. Generally starting with Kiwami 1 isn't bad either gameplay-wise, as the other games feel much more open and there are more areas besides Kamurocho.
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I was advised by a friend to not play Yakuza 0 first if I’m planning to go through the rest of the series because the gameplay in Kiwami is a serious downgrade from that, and the plot points in 0 don’t matter until like 6, but Majima is repeatedly referring to stuff that happened in 0 every time I see him so I’m starting to think I actually should have played that first. Will probably play that before Kiwami 2.
Saturday, 15-Jul-23 14:00:00 UTC from web -
Starfield will be Bethesda Game Studios’ first game since 1999 to be released without any involvement from Donald Trump or his business entities. No, this is not a joke.
Friday, 14-Jul-23 14:13:27 UTC from web -
hooray, I’m being included! http://rainbowdash.net/url/876384
Thursday, 13-Jul-23 19:40:24 UTC from web -
Not that I think this is a bad thing, but I got whiplash upon learning that Kiryu, a Japanese man in 2005 approaching middle age who in the lead-up to Yakuza has been in prison since the 90s, and before that having been in a criminal syndicate since the 80s, is not homophobic, and is perfectly pleasant and even supportive of his cabaret date upon learning she’s a lesbian.
Tuesday, 11-Jul-23 18:34:34 UTC from web-
@zeldatra Kazuma Kiryu is the most based and good-hearted yakuza who uses violent methods. There is a sub story in 3 where he meets a trans woman https://i.redd.it/339rcr2v8nm61.jpg
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OK well Moho keeps basic, fundamental necessities like "manipulating bezier handles" behind their $400 edition so I think they can mango themselves just on principle alone
Monday, 10-Jul-23 22:58:33 UTC from web-
@adiwan Like, I can get that over the scope of a 3D or even 2D "world" that the *absolute* position of a player character's sword swing is much less relevant than the (...well...) /relative/ position of the sword to the character. God, I wish it could just snap, or use guidelines, or snap to guidelines, or *any* kind of precision that's been available in draw programs since at least 1995. Ugh :shiver: I can't abide loosey-goosey, nosiree, not in this context at least. :p
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AITA for repeatedly jumping my (38M) friend (37M) who just got out of prison to help him re-learn his fighting style?
Tuesday, 11-Jul-23 12:36:58 UTC from web -
Anybody online who might maybe be able to talk me down from self-inflicted head trauma, please?
Monday, 10-Jul-23 06:00:45 UTC from web -
man you go to one John Mulaney show during COVID and now you’re on every Republican’s mailing list until the end of time
Monday, 10-Jul-23 00:35:25 UTC from web -
Man you go to one John Kasich rally in high school and now you’re on every Republican’s mailing list until the end of time
Sunday, 09-Jul-23 18:42:25 UTC from web -
I tasted mead recently but it tasted more like acetone and couldn't stomach more than a few drops. But it's a "me"-problem. It was good and not spoiled. I just have a different taste. Even normal wine tastes like some kind of acetone to me. Grape juice itself is alright for me. I guess the fermentation products are causing the putrid smells and tastes that my nose and tongue cannot deal with. Also beer smells like wet and half-eaten bread with vinegar. Pure vodka also is very nasty as it creates a very strong burning sensation in the esophagus.
Never gonna be drunk because of that alone.Sunday, 09-Jul-23 09:33:25 UTC from web-
@adiwan Gene Simmons has famously said that the very smell of alcohol has always turned his stomach, some people taste cilantro as soap... Literally different tastes for different people
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A bit disappointed that the final plot twist in Tears of the Kingdom ISN’T that
Wednesday, 05-Jul-23 20:54:25 UTC from web -
I think a big part of it is in bad practices in Corel and/or Inkscape with my SVG vectors
Wednesday, 05-Jul-23 19:01:03 UTC from web-
@scribus my CGI models are all built in an incredibly stupid way that would make any other 3D artist pull their hair off so for this pilot I’ve had to go in and clean up some things in the event that somebody else has to look at it.
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Graham Linehan has been left financially destitute from his obsessive anti-trans bigotry which, in theory, means that I could probably buy the rights to Father Ted off of him for five bucks and a Sainsbury’s coupon so that nobody has to feel bad about watching it, right?
Wednesday, 05-Jul-23 17:38:36 UTC from web -
Jesus. mangoing. Christ. I think I might have finally managed to get the bastard to import the already-created vector graphic for frame 1.
Tuesday, 04-Jul-23 20:56:13 UTC from web -
That is definitely something that should have taken two godrotten calendar days
Tuesday, 04-Jul-23 20:56:44 UTC from web-
@scribus That's the life of a developer/maker. Easy things taking way longer than anticipated.
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@zeldatra Know anything about Cartoon Animator by Reallusion? Looking for something that isn't OpenToonz or a massive monthly subscription for mostly one-off, here-and-there kind of little things.
Monday, 03-Jul-23 18:35:32 UTC from web-
@zeldatra One major thing I've got is just a simple geometric pattern I want to have rotating externally and counter-rotating on the internal designs, which tbh I could probably write in like eight lines of COBOL or something equally outdated in concept, lol
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@scribus Moho or Blender would be your best bets probably, with the latter you could just prep the images in Photoshop or something like that beforehand you could just import each element into Blender as a plane and just have the camera looking at them flat from above, with a sun lamp pointing straight down for uniform lighting.
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@zeldatra 2 days into the demo and I think I may end up saying that I hate moho as much as opentoonz and I could have just made 360 god damned individual batcaveing exports from CorelDRAW by now for apple's kiwiing sake
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Some guy from New Zealand just tried to rip me off at work. They aren’t all polite down under it seems.
Monday, 03-Jul-23 18:38:28 UTC from web -
Since we’re doing sequels to old movies now where’s the Forrest Gump sequel where Forrest has to run from the FBI after loaning Mohammed Atta a box cutter?
Monday, 03-Jul-23 00:10:27 UTC from web -
I have been trying to get this AI to understand that murder is bad. ChatGPT agrees to a point but suggests that we really shouldn’t hold that against Tony. I think Terminator is only a few years away.
Monday, 03-Jul-23 05:34:34 UTC from web -
I just got ChatGPT to outline a Kingdom Hearts world based on The Sopranos for me and it quite distressingly does not to seem to think that murder is bad enough to preclude Tony Soprano as a Kingdom Hearts ally.
Monday, 03-Jul-23 05:33:27 UTC from web -
*sits down on airplane* Momma always said life is like a box of chocolates…
Monday, 03-Jul-23 00:12:33 UTC from web -
Still, if you're better at this than me send code that works.
Saturday, 01-Jul-23 21:22:06 UTC from web-
@ceruleanspark I'm still trying to figure out how to make a simple math form work, man
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to farm clicks Potato Knishes I’ve ruined it all of my therapy is undone
Saturday, 01-Jul-23 19:53:09 UTC from web- Macpony55 likes this.
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and isn't, you know, made up to dark clicks for a monetized right wing outrage machine
Saturday, 01-Jul-23 19:50:29 UTC from web -
I thought this site was dead for the last 6 months cause I kept getting this error. I tried different browsers and devices and same thing but today it finally worked. Anyone else have this issue? http://rainbowdash.net/attachment/876377
Thursday, 22-Jun-23 02:11:30 UTC from web-
@macpony55 I always get this with almost any browser I use. Only way I can get it to load conisistently is by using this macos app called fluid. Other than that it’s almost inaccessible for me lol. I don’t mind though, adds to the charm :)
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@macpony55 Concerning. Looking into it
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@thelastgherkin this is unfaithful because the thing being alleged is actually happening
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When I first started animating, I always looked at stuff like Futurama and thought “man I’d love to incorporate 3D into what I do and make it look so seamless like that” and like I basically was always trying, My Little Brony 2 of course having that awful CGI castle set, but the technology is at a point now where I can get it actually looking BETTER than what Futurama and Invader Zim could achieve back in the day with consumer-level hardware and software. I’m gonna do a full like tour of the CGI sets I have built for this pilot at some point because it’s really something. There are not very many painted backgrounds at all, they’re all renders, and they all look fantastic and fit right in with the character animation thanks to Blender EEVEE.
Saturday, 01-Jul-23 04:33:04 UTC from web -
where’s the dating site for people who understand that Starfield comes first and you will not see me from September until the end of the year
Friday, 30-Jun-23 19:17:11 UTC from web -
I’m a bit late to the party here, but seeing as how we saw the material live, I’m actually probably a bit early. John Mulaney’s “Baby J” is probably more accurately described as a radio drama than a standup special. Bar the intro, which is a mostly unrelated set of jokes about his childhood, the entire film is one very long story about Mulaney’s drug addiction, but more specifically his intervention, stay in rehab, and road to recovery, as well as musings and side tangents about possible causes behind his addiction, his drug fueled escapades including a reading of an interview he gave which he claims to have no recollection of, and stories about his doctor “Dr. Michael”, who sexually harassed him and sold him a lot of his drugs in the first place, all circling back around again to his childhood. This does not sound like a very funny show, but it manages to be as outrageously funny as it is introspective, and very much worth a watch/listen.
Friday, 30-Jun-23 13:11:49 UTC from web -
So I guess smog is just a thing I have to deal with now huh? I thought that that would come AFTER I moved to LA, not before.
Thursday, 29-Jun-23 17:14:03 UTC from web
