Shan, Rik and Gus, hanging out on the Tower of Bats.
Nice view up here.
@ConanExiles
Lars was on fire back then.
Then Black Album happened, and he lost his hunger.
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The late 90s and early 2000s was my favorite era for game art/graphics. Everything hand-crafted/drawn. No "Material Maker" or "Substance Designer". Just raw human talent and imagination and hard work. Some samples from Lineage 2. A 2004 Unreal Engine 2 game.
@ACarmackArtist
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🚨: NASA released a new Mars image showing real clouds 250 million miles away. These include rare iridescent clouds seen for the first time on another planet.
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There's a saying on American social media:
"Be the American that Japanese people think you are."
I'm Japanese. I've lived in Tokyo my whole life.
So let me tell you what we actually say about you, when you're not in the room.
"When someone falls down on the street, we pretend not to see. We're protecting their pride. Americans run straight at them. They don't care about the pride. They care about the knee." (Office worker, 38)
"An American will stop four lanes of traffic for a family of ducks. And then everyone in the cars claps for the ducks." (Taxi driver, 61)
"If you lend an American a pen, you will never see it again. If you need a kidney, they'll ask your blood type." (Nurse, 45)
"At kids' soccer games, they cheer when the other team's kid scores. The other team's parents look confused. Then they cheer too." (Youth soccer coach, 52, lived one year in Ohio)
"A man sneezed on a bus in Chicago. Eleven strangers said 'Bless you.' He said 'thank you' eleven times. Nobody on that bus thought this was strange." (University student, 21)
"At an airport in Texas, I watched a soldier try to pay for his lunch. The cashier said someone already had. He asked who. She said, 'Somebody who didn't want you to know.'" (Retired teacher, 70)
"American fathers cannot braid hair. But they will watch a video at midnight for an hour so their daughter's hair looks right on picture day." (Hair stylist, 33)
"I ran the Chicago Marathon once. Strangers stood in the cold for hours holding signs for people they will never meet. At mile 20, a man I'd never seen read the name off my bib and screamed it like he'd raised me." (Runner, 48)
"When Americans get lost, they ask a stranger. If the stranger is also lost, they become a team." (Tour guide, 39)
"They ask the waitress her name. And then they remember it." (Restaurant owner, 66)
And one more. From my father. He's 76. He doesn't say much about anything. This is the longest thing I have ever heard him say about another country.
"Every time something terrible happens in America, I watch the news, and I look for one thing.
The people running toward it.
There are always so many."
So, America.
You don't have to become the Americans we think you are.
We're not imagining you.
We're remembering you.
A video game history lesson, cortesy of Christina.
If you ever felt like the original Castlevania was an interactive horror movie, it’s because that’s exactly what its creator intended!
When Konami released Castlevania in 1986, creator and cinephile Hitoshi Akamatsu brought his love of classic horror cinema to the 8-bit world, dropping players amidst the ultimate crossover of classic monsters. Approaching development with a film director’s eye, Akamatsu used cinematic staging techniques to introduce bosses.
The “movie” begins as Simon Belmont, who is basically Van Helsing meets Indiana Jones (Akamatsu told his former mentee, 360leo, that he was inspired by Raiders of the Lost Ark), enters the castle armed with a whip to destroy Dracula, while channeling Frank Frazetta's The Norseman.
The castle’s eerie interior evokes the White Zombie and Dracula films while the opening stage sends an onslaught of enemies reminiscent of Plague of the Zombies, and fish men straight out of Creature from the Black Lagoon.
Next, Medusa awaits in a tower guarded by ghosts and bone pillars, recalling the horrors of 1964’s The Gorgon.
Then you face not one, but *two* mummies, much like Lon Chaney Jr’s The Mummy’s Tomb and Boris Karloff’s terrifying 1932 The Mummy.
Speaking of Karloff, the fourth level brings us Frankenstein’s lumbering Monster accompanied by Igor.
Yet the infamous fifth level is even more diabolical. If you survive the unforgiving Hallway of Death, you encounter the Grim Reaper himself, perhaps a nod to Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors and Metropolis.
Finally, Dracula materializes. Inspired by the legendary portrayals of Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee, Dracula transforms into a monstrous second form known as the Curse of Man after you knock off his head. Or, as fans affectionately call him, the Cookie Monster!
If the movie references weren’t obvious enough, Castlevania’s credits feature hilariously disguised names paying homage to horror legends like Lugosi and, Karloff, Barbara Shelley, Lon Chaney (Sr. and Jr.) director Terence Fisher, and more.
WHY TIM SWEENEY NEEDS TO RESIGN🔴
Under his Leadership as Epic Games CEO:
🔰Epic moved primary focus to consoles in 2006–2012 because Tim believed age of PC gaming is over, abandoning PC while Valve stayed to evolve it
🔰Tim Sweeney before release of Epic Store emailed Valve saying: “you assholes are telling the world that the strong and powerful get special terms, while 30% is for the little people.” while Gabe replied: “You mad bro?”
🔰Epic Games Store was made to make PC gaming have a better future, but all it did was:
- remove features that are customer friendly for the sake of Corporations interest
- The most garbage corporate designed basic store ever that took it years to have a shopping cart feature💀
- Paying major games to become EPIC EXCLUSIVE... bringing the console exclusivity idea to PC somehow acting like that's good for gamers taking away their free choice of what platform to use
🔰Tim Sweeney then chose to keep Fortnite off Steam AND remove Rocket League from steam too which obviously heavily harms the player count of both games, and freedom of choice.
🔰Tim Sweeney says age of Singe Player games are over, as games should instead be made under 1 platform similar to Roblox, week after multiple Single Player games get record breaking sell numbers
🔰Tim Sweeney shows how terrible he is with planning how to handle projects, when before release of UEFN, Disney mode, and everything else he kept delaying them atleast 5 times. Why announce a release date at that point?
METAVERSE ERA:
🔰Tim Sweeney wants to destroy everything Fortnite became to turn it from a beloved game, into a roblox like platform
🔰Movement animation was changed into "Motion Matching" Which is HORRIBLE for multiplayer skill based games, only used in open world games, but he could care less since this movement would benefit UEFN
🔰Tim also forces a huge change on Fortnite UI DESIGN, getting rid of Everything that made it Fortnite, to become a generic mess designed for a platform and not for a Video Game, as the UI also was designed mainly for Mobile causing it to work horribly or look terrible on console and PC
🔰Tim also got rid of Fortnite art style for the sake of metaverse so he can do infinite amount of collabs and make the design something that would benefit UEFN instead of whats best for Fortnite BR
🔰Fortnite BR resources specially during ch4,ch5,ch6 were taken away to all be fed into creating UEFN or Metaverse game modes, casuing BR to heavily suffer losing everything that made it awesome, like live events
🔰This taking away resources and going full focus on making Metaverse a reality not caring about what makes Fortnite BR special causes DONALD MUSTARD, creator and the visionary of Fortnite to quit, so he can bring his ideas into reality with Russo Brothers instead
🔰All the sacrifices were for nothing since Metaverse modes all were a failure, many shutting down not much after. As those resources could have gone to Fortnite BR instead but were wasted under his leadership
🔰Tim Sweeney refuses to give up on meta slop even after multiple failures, even recently changing UI design AGAIN, to be more favorable for UEFN and less BR
🔰He also bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to help with metaverse modes, both modes horribly failing, as the original games also got ruined under his leadership, many Rocket League major creators quitting cause of Tim Sweeney
WHAT METAVERSE ERA CAUSED:
🔰Huge amount of players quit the game because under Tim Sweeney it is getting rid of every reason why we play Fortnite
🔰This led into nearly 2000 EMPLOYEES LOSIGN THEIR JOBS thanks to his horrible leadership
🔰Story Director of Fortnite being part of layoffs sadly too
🔰Fortnite cosmetics began to be the most greedy ever seen in gaming, 5k vbucks for cars, 1.5k for tiny shoes to wear in game, having to buy a digital pet multiple times to change styles
🔰Vbucks got much more expensive to the point it genuinely hurts to buy any now days
🔰Battle Pass used to give 1500 free vbucks, now 800 only
🔰Crew Pack has been getting beyond greedy, from 1000 vbucks to 800. No more owning the battle pass if you cancel mid way, just a mess
🔰Tim Sweeney realizes everyone were right, Metaverse is an impossible delusion
SO HE REPLACES EVERYTHING WITH AI
THE AI ERA:
🔰Since Metaverse failed cause of costing too much resources, Disney Mode taking too long to happen, Tim chooses an AI FIRST, MAXIMUM AI ACCELERATION future for the game
🔰This causes many franchises to shut down any possible collaboration with Fortnite
🔰Not just code will be ai generated, but there were talks of even ART or everything being made with AI, specially for metaverse modes like Disney
🔰Tim Sweeney wants to forcefully make all of Gaming follow in his path and turn gaming into AI slop
HATE ON STEAM:
🔰Tim Sweeney begins attacking Steam for giving customers more information about the purchase they are making, like weather the game uses ai in its creation or not and how
🔰He calls knowing what your game is made with a "Political Thing" Saying how its like asking developers to state if they support democrats or republicans
🔰Tim then attacks saying Steam has been holding PC gaming back, but his reasoning turns out to be an absolute lie
🔰He AI Vibe Codes a new Epic Store to attack Steam with saying it opens 2 times faster than Steam, only to get badly humiliated again, cause day before Steam had a normal update that made their launcher open faster than epic store 2.0
🔰This humiliation makes Tim Sweeney go crazy, begin blocking a huge chunk of people on twitter and fighting anyone possible
🔰Tim Sweeney gets community noted 5 or 6 times IN ONE WEEK, so he begins fighting community notes too saying:
- Community notes are political
- Another fake Community note
- Community notes are drunk
THIS GUY HAS DONE NOTHING BUT HARM GAMING AS A WHOLE... GET HIM OFF EPIC GAMES HOLY SHIT💀I could write a whole book with how bad he is at his job
Replying to @therealcliffyb
It is simple. Is AI used in your project? Note it.
Simple.
It's matters to a lot of people & can influence their purchasing decision. It's not difficult to provide that info.
People would only withhold that info because they know it might mean fewer sales. It's all about $$.































