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wow I still have an account here huh?

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ive been playing this game for a week straight

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me: Princess Zelda’s a pretty cool character and is way more than just a damsel in distress.

some nerd: source????

me: 

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CONFESSION:  

If Liam and Jaal are both only Sis!Ryder options I will honestly be so disappointed with bioware, they say there are a bunch of diverse relationships in the game and they better not give us the short end of the stick with only crew members to choose from like in ME3 (besides Kaidan and Liara)

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What's your take on the whole Mass Effect Andromeda animation debacle?

I’m back, I’m jet lagged, and people are being stupid on the internet. Whee.

Off the top of my head, here are a few thoughts on the matter:

#1. It is never ever EVER ok to harass somebody personally

This whole thing about a bunch of people harassing that former EA employee is horrible and should never have happened. It is never ok to go after somebody personally for what they may or may not have done in a professional capacity. There is no justification for it. Ever. If there’s a problem with the product, everybody shoulders the blame - that includes the publisher, dev team, marketing team, everybody. Even if there was one person who worked on one feature completely solo, that person still had a boss, who had a boss, who had a boss. There are so many people involved and so many moving parts that you really can’t blame any one person except the executive producer in charge of the entire project. The person in question is most assuredly not that executive producer.

#2. People comparing ME:A to the Witcher 3 are oversimplifying

There’s a meme floating around about how the Witcher 3 was created by a couple of Slavs as if it was done by a couple of dudes in a garage somewhere, compared to ME:A, which had a huge team from EA. That’s incredibly shortsighted and utterly ridiculous. The Witcher 3 cost over $80 million to develop, which is probably a bigger budget than ME:A had. CDPR had an internal team of 240 full-time professional devs and another 1200+ contractors working on it. The Witcher 3 is “indie” in the way that Star Citizen is “indie” - they didn’t work with a separate billion-dollar publisher because they had enough money to fund the project already. 

#3. From what I’ve seen, Mass Effect Andromeda has animation issues in general

From the cursory footage I’ve seen (I haven’t played the game yet since I’ve been out of the country), it looks like there’s a bunch of problems, most of which aren’t related to the facial animations at all. The characters have that weird slightly hunched-over broad-elbowed walk similar to how they walked in Dragon Age: Inquisition, and there’s something about how the elbows don’t quite sit right to me while the characters are idling. I also spotted a character in a T-pose in one clip which was a rather clear bug. The facial animation probably stands out most because players spend a lot of time in cinematic conversations, and that features the faces quite prominently. 

#4. Bioware is certainly aware of the issues

From what I’ve heard, there were team members who raised the warning flags internally as well, but the decision was ultimately above their pay grades. It’s really hard to say why they decided what they did without knowing the full context, and that isn’t likely to happen. The scope of the new Mass Effect game is different than before - this is the first game of the series on Frostbite, with a new lead studio helming development (Bioware Montreal), and with new team leadership (after the departure of Casey Hudson, Mass Effect’s former executive producer). There’s a lot of moving parts where things could have broken down during development, and we’ll likely never know. They’ll never share that information publicly… nor should they. Bioware the studio shoulders the blame for it, just like Bioware the studio owns any praise they get. 

Animation issues are often some of the hardest and most expensive problems to fix. Building animation rigs (skeletons) takes a lot of resources. Utilizing those rigs to build animations takes a lot of resources, even when you’re using motion capture data. Building animation systems to blend, layer and play those animations under the correct circumstances take a lot of time. Animation is one of the most expensive types of content to create - that’s why so many games reuse so much of their animation data. That said, Bioware also developed and released the extended ending to the last Mass Effect game for free in response to the fan backlash about the ending, so who knows? 

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matching horrible The Mountain shirt boyfriends as thanks for all the zine support

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The Cinematography of The Incredibles Part 1 & Part 2

Shot Analysis

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[Drawing of a blue fish with purple fins saying “It’s okay to have fun. You don’t have to be serious all the time to be responsible.” in a purple speech bubble.]

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Was feelin’ down a day ago, so I decided to fill a canvas with casual Lúcios to cheer myself up <3 I wanna believe that Lúcio is the kind of adult that constantly wears Heelys around. ;w; 

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I need cute Lúcios to keep me from murdering someone today...

feel the healing beat ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ

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Thankfully Marvel released Iron Fist so I can isolate myself from this realm of existance and I’ve been binge watching it. (Even though I can only isolate myself when there are loud sounds, that’s how bad shit is rn fuck my life)

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Note: Please disregard that last one aswell.

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HOLY SHIT I CAN’T

IT’S 23:47 HERE AND  THEY’RE STILL TALKING SHIT RIGHT OUTSIDE MY DOOR IMMA FUCKING MURDER SOMEONE THIS WEEKEND

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Warning: If you are a decent person ignore my last post and keep on having a nice day.

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So I usually don’t write anything here but I have nowhere else to talk about this stuff and honeslty, it also makes me feel less uncomfortable when I’m not using my language. I balance my life between my rented apartment and my aunt’s house, and I do it mostly because I love my little cousin, but it’s always tense when my uncle is around because he’s too radical and it is so frustating to keep quiet but I manage to do it, just like I’ve done in the last few years with my dad. It’s always a sacrifice coming here, but this week everything has gone to shit. My uncle’s ultra conservative asshole fucking mentally torturing parents decided it was a great fucking weekend to quit their houses and spend some days making my life an absolute living heel. It is literally impossible for me to count on my fingers how many times they’ve made my lil cousin cry because I only have 10 fingers, and they keep trying to fucking discipline me or some bullshit like that. His mom says that I should be blind for using the computer and called me an addict because I was watching Atlantis (WHICH BTW SHE KEEPT COMING TO MY ROOM WTHOUT FUCKING KNOCKING EVERY TEN SECONDS TO CHECK IF I WASN’T SHOWING MY COUSIN “INNAPROPRIATE MOVIES” EVEN THO IT IS A FUCKING 2001 DISNEY ANIMATION). I don’t even know my fucking point anymore I’m just ultra tired of all this bullshit and it’s been only two days and the worst part is that from my room I can hear anything they say in the living room SO I HAVE TO LISTEN TO RACIST, HOMOPHOBIC, XENOPHOBIC AND WHATEVER-THE-FUCK-ELSE-PHOBIC THERE IS IN THE WORLD 24/7 AND I CAN’T EVEN SAY A FUCKING WORD BECAUSE MY UNCLE IS LIKE A RICHER VERSION OF MY DAD AND HIS PARENTS ARE FUCKING ASSHOLES AND IT INFURIATES ME THAT I CAN’T DO SHIT TO HELP MY LITTLE COUSIN THROUGH THIS SHITSTORM AND I CANT EVEN SAY ANYTHING FOR MYSELF EITHER THIS IS FUCKING TORTURE. FUCK THIS SHIT. FUCK THESE PEOPLE. FUCK EVERYONE WITH THEIR SHITTY SELF CENTERED MINDSETS WITH THAT BULLSHITY “I DO THIS CAUSE I LOVE YOU” EXCUSE AND FUCK PARENTS BECAUSE THEY ARE THE ONES SUPPOSED TO PROTECT FROM THIS SHIT YET THEY ARE 99% OF THE TIMES THE ONES CAUSING IT. /end huge fucking rant