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i can't really speak for much of it besides the lighting effects but god damn they're kinda iconic.

you ever see pumpkinhead?

he calls himself a centrist.

verisimilitude

i mean for the sake of your own health it does kinda end up having to be a mind over matter thing sometimes. i know you don't want to do it. but you know that you should.

had their ticket punched
kicked the bucket
went to the airport
ate shit

if i asked you to find cats but i also posted a bunch of airplanes, could you?

I acknowledge its garbage, but it's yummy garbage.

correct.

the rule of taco bell is that talking about taco bell means we have to get taco bell

you're god damned right there should've been a video game

how'd you like the watchthrough?

'traveler' used to trip me up

i'm sorry, number of souls?

What a depressingly accurate topic. Ugh. Almost everything sucks.

i want to ask if you've tried the sound of running water or crickets for your tinnitus.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYT7rN3VaGk

i was looking for background noise for myself and noticed that i could still hear the eeeeeeee over the singing crystal bowls that were on concert. so i searched specifically for tinnitus relief. i just really wanted to run this by you.

let me just dig up the topics people started when they noticed you were gone

how many breads have you eaten in your life?

Gold. Sure it's a good semi conductor, but in an apocalyptic situation you can't eat it.

i think little tiny chunks of it are okay, look at goldschlager.

you had to actually practice and learn how to do that and your talent as an artist developed because of it.

an ai doesn't develop talent, it just takes passes until the unacceptable ones are weeded out, and while it's doing that it is likely encroaching on spaces for artists that artists have used to launch careers.

C doesnt scale with amount of enemies/attacks. Just the amount of damage you take.

i would say that the amount of damage you take is somewhat determined by how many enemies/attacks you receive, so, uh. there's that.

it also tells us that we're looking at something that could be somewhat unpredictable, too. you might have a laugher round against those five enemies, but they also might decide to focus down your wizard.

that's because you know it looks good, you just don't like it and you want to call it bad even though it isn't. good talk.

i feel that i've already defined it and that you ignored that post because you're trying to fish for something and that you're not really looking for a discussion.

if you want anything more out of me you're going to answer my question first.

like it makes a difference throwing fucking darts get outta town

there are also objective ways to measure quality

you kind of lose me when you say this and then list things like unique frames and adherence to model. i think you can have all the things you listed and still be animated poorly -- it really is about how all of them work together. like, no, you want to set subjective terms to art like you can score animation as if it were a boxing match. that's not how that works.

(i feel like that may actually be the thought process by which people remake scenes in 60 fps and think they've improved them)

let me ask you this, by what measure do you think dude being nailed into the ground looks bad and not just out-of-place or tonally inappropriate?

I always wondered as a kid........why wouldn't Rita just bring to life the entire shelf and send them down? The rangers would be fucked.

rita's only got so much magic man.

i'm perfectly willing to concede that there's tonal whiplash but tone is a different beast than animation and he looked damn good being turned into a looney tunes nail.

That's just the most popular example, you want to tell me that all the other goofy looking shit in that episode is good?

i'd like you to approach this in good faith and not call the things you personally dislike 'goofy looking shit', but as you said you don't have the mental capacity to debate this, and that's fine.

i've explained why i like it and all you can do is call it names. you don't have anything for me, you just wanted to post mad.

I will never see how anyone can defend it. The animation is fluid...I guess?

shortest character arc ever.

so here's the thing with animation, what makes it neat: it doesn't actually have to follow rules. you're allowed to contort and stretch your subjects to express a point. you can model someone taking a punch to the face after a water balloon, for example.

i think the scene everyone points to and complains about - where the dude's face warps and looks really ugly, especially if you pause it - as he's punching the ground is fantastic. i think it conveys force and momentum exceptionally well and it uses style to do that.

i want to ask you to point me to another fight in the series that you consider as well-animated. honestly, i really do think that people hating the pain fight is a function of the style being too early.

i have to admit to not having the episode-to-episode perspective and i can see the argument. but i'll actually move onto that hill where the pain fight people go to die and set up a weird little shanty.

like, isolating that out from the rest of the show, it's really something that leaned out of by-the-numbers really often and had even some legitimately cartoony things going on. that one part with dude running across water. i can see that being jarring and dissonant to the rest of the series and i wonder if i'd be wrong to think that sakuga as an idea gradually got more comfortable with being as - for lack of a better word - distinct.

they have little animated ponies all over derpibooru

oh god

The anime kinda butchered it though.

i really don't feel that way about the animation. at all.

there were a lot of people who complained about jjk season 2's animation back when it was all still shots - because it was low-detail - and i feel like people are confusing low-detail with low-quality.

there's a time and a place for detail. it doesn't make a scene better-animated just because you can pause it and spot single-frame hidden things. animation is about conveying a sense of motion, weight, and life. i think the pain fight was pretty ambitious.

I'm ok with this

ow-ife doesn't really have the same panache

derive "Ket Shee" from "Cait Sith" [...] people here are suggesting everyone should have

i don't think anyone is. okay, maybe post #26 at a reach, she kinda did, but maybe not.

i don't think anyone is trying to refute the idea that the way it is written doesn't follow standard pronunciation.

English pronunciation of "Cait Sith" is not "Ket Shee".

those are gaelic words. you might as well say that the english pronunciation of aoife is not eefa.

i remember the versus guide having the correct pronunciation

The animation is just as bad as the stills at points (starts at the 20 second mark):

so this made me go and watch the actual scene again because that was cut to try and make it look worse than it really was.

i acknowledge that there could have been problems with staffing and whatever but i think it's animated really well anyway. it's a different style and people didn't like it but it's gorgeous in motion.

honestly i kind of look at it as being maybe ahead of its time. that was 2007.

Lazy animation.
Long stills on characters standing sitll or barely moving while long conversations play out.

the animation is really the only part of it with which i have any kind of familiarity at all, and it looked perfectly fine from what i saw. just people took screenshots of in-between frames (like the 'your pain isn't as big as mine!' shot or whatever).

long stills are bad animation, though. wendy's wouldn't serve that shit.

i've never watched it or naruto (been told i should and hey maybe i will) but the only thing i know about it is people complain about some of the in-between frames of the animation

1/5th is good damage for poison. like, really good damage. but you can still just heal through its effects or skip the turn. you get more control over it and more ways to resolve it.

straight up, a isn't relevant once you get antidotes or the ability to cast spells that restore your HP. it's the kind of early-game obstacle that used to define poison, where it's like they realized it wasn't really a threat so they stop bothering with it about 25% through the game.

b is ffx style, afaik. and that helps it retain its punch deeper into the game - you get five turns. but you can still heal through the damage or avoid taking it.

c's style of poison doesn't seem like much on paper, but there's no way to heal back the HP you lose from it and it occurs on damage, meaning there's no way to prevent the damage or to heal it back. there's just the one way to deal with it. another issue with it is, unlike poison, you're not practically immune to repeated applications after the first one. the example here is of an enemy chunking you for 50%+10% of your health, but that's just one enemy and one swing. if you're dealing with, say, a swarm of enemies that all apply it, it can end up being much more impactful because you're looking at it happening like five times a round.

you can literally just pass the turn or heal through b c'mon that's actually the one you have the most control over

c obviously as there is only one way to mitigate it

you can heal through the other two