Buglefingers

What about “Whoah”?

It’s always too soon for the leaf on the wind to settle on the ground

I was going to say Pi to 124 decimal places from Pi day at school.

I also have “Ickle me, Pickle me, Tickle me too” by shel Silverstein memorized. Same with “These woods” by Robert Frost.

I have lots of random facts that I usually only remember when the topic comes up, but all are equally useless

I went on a date for the first time in a long long while!

The graphics are good in the artistic sense, but not in terms of what’s considered conventionally good graphics. Zelda BotW would be conventionally good graphics, as that’s what would make most people think of it as visually appealing and therefore enjoyable. Undertale, a great example, does not.have conventionally good graphics but the total theme and portrayal makes the non-cenventional good.

Most of what I was speaking to was the use of conventionally good graphics at the expense of story or enjoyment factor of the game/gameplay itself

I want a Fun game. Art (graphics) can help and be supplementary towards making a game fun, but it is not the end all be all. Some fun games I’ve played use intentionally shitty graphics to add to it, other games are so unfun because all they do is try to wow you with the images.

I’ve found lately the indie Dev sphere has been more focused on fun games and AAA studios have more focused on graphics alone. I think this mostly happened because early on when (video) games where becoming popularized hardware was increasing at such a rapid pace and graphics genuinely could be made better, not necessarily as just a stylistic choice. You could show off the new hardware capabilities with good story for more appeal. This also made them lazier over the years as those big hardware and software leap allowed them to focus on the consumer draw utilizing showcase imagry over story. As hardware advances slowed and graphic leaps became smaller the gains just aren’t there. And you’ve left many consumers with nostalgia over the fight for when graphic improvements meant something, in a time when good story/gameplay was also pretty necessary.

Yep! I’m currently training a coworker and we have Wednesday off, he took Monday and Tuesday off so I followed suit. I really don’t get a choice to take my vacation time while he is training, so I figured I’d join in on the long weekend.

I’m visiting a relative Saturday. I have work off until Thursday next week but unfortunately as much as I’d like it to not be the case, I have no plans really otherwise.