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Still need to figure out her phase 1 outfit

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More phase 1 concepts

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Might have some place for Lilith to go after all

hmmm

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F U C K

I swear if Sans is in the next Smash I’m gonna fucking punch someone

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Thoughts on any of the previous games? Like platinum or Black/White?

Funnily enough I rather thoroughly enjoyed Gens 4 and 5, specifically Platinum/HG/SS and B2/W2 respectively (I also really liked B/W with the exception of that final act and its bullshit level spike). In most cases you were forced to hoof it to progress anything, which sounds inconvenient (and to some extent it might be), but it feels like agency is lost when the game’s story plucks you out from what you’re doing and railroads you into something else for the majority of the game. But I suppose the feeling boils down to reasonable pacing; cutscenes being somewhat rare and therefor not stopping everything you’re doing to make you sit through it for 10 minutes each time, villain motivations are either well defined or just vague enough to be interesting until the ass-pull twist.

As far as performance goes, even X/Y was decent in that regard. Though there was that one bug that screwed over save files if they saved in Lumiose City.. which ONLY happened if the player had sloppily generated/blatantly cheated Pokemon on their file, which is still the funniest shit to me imo

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Popular =/= good. I found it rather dull since it felt like I was spending more time watching cut scenes than actually exploring or playing; cut scenes where most of the time the screen fades to black because they didn’t want to animate a character moving from one area to the next or repositioning everything only to do it again later. Same thing happened on the overworld. And no, I don’t mean the black load screen as the game tries to load in another room/zone; I’m talking about opening and walking through a damn gate. Honestly rather shocked in hindsight that they didn’t cut to black whenever your Tauros rammed through rocks. 

And I’m not denying previous in the games haven’t been buggy (though general performance feels far worse in Gen VII since the inconsistent framereat actually fucks with the touch screen recognition). What I am saying is that in exchange for ‘higher production’ everything else feels cheap as a cost. It’s why I don’t plan on touching Sword/Shield; just add more polish, trade in a new gimmick, phone in everything else. It’s rather depressing. 

Got Ultra Moon a few days ago

Haven’t played a new Poke’ game in a while and I got it at a solid discount. People sure weren’t kidding about Gen VII being lackluster, and that speaks nothing of the poor design decisions and performance issues: fps chugs when there’s more than 2 pokemon on screen at once, the constant cuts to black to skip on animating anything (once you notice it you can’t NOT notice it), the constant railroading and forced cut scenes to pad out the play time, dullness of characters.. Just to name a few off the top of my head. I don’t recommend it.

But I managed to have my fun. So sumthin’

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Got Ultra Moon a few days ago

Haven’t played a new Poke’ game in a while and I got it at a solid discount. People sure weren’t kidding about Gen VII being lackluster, and that speaks nothing of the poor design decisions and performance issues: fps chugs when there’s more than 2 pokemon on screen at once, the constant cuts to black to skip on animating anything (once you notice it you can’t NOT notice it), the constant railroading and forced cut scenes to pad out the play time, dullness of characters.. Just to name a few off the top of my head. I don’t recommend it.

But I managed to have my fun. So sumthin’

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Yesterday I was 20-something 

Today I'm 20-something else

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Trying to shake off the aches. Warmed up with some concept shiz

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Trying to shake off the aches. Warmed up with some concept shiz

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hmmm

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I should stream at less horrible hours

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Here we go again!

Attempting to go live!

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Got a batch of last night’s streams posted! 

I can’t quite share them here, however, on account of some lewder nature.

But I got ‘em here!

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Well that was a thing that happened. My audio is horrendous. Hope to get that addressed sometime. Plan on streaming Friday tho