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Thew
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Gamedev, mostly in graphics programming. Day job working on surgical simulators, night job crafting artisinal Posts ostensibly still making AEROBAT: aerobat.thew.nu artwork/graphics stuff: twarchive.thew.nu/art The JRPG Threads: twarchive.thew.nu
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sickass language that normally sounds really pretty but if you get mad enough you can turn half the consonants into furious spit/phlegm sounds, and also if a girl does this it's unbelievably hot somehow
clair obscur and wakfu are the only french-language media I've played/watched, and my conclusion is that French Sounds Cool As Shit
happy to report that Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 features correct game design
okay so gustave and lune and sciel all have skills designed around building up powerful attacks over the course of multiple turns, with like stacking buffs and debuffs and charges, and then maelle's role is just "kill everything on the screen instantly" lmao
contacts have a lot of annoying issues but glasses only focus correctly if you're looking dead through the center of the lenses. can't move your eyes to look at things so you gotta turn your entire head like a parakeet. Not Enough People Are Talking About This
haven't worn contact lenses since like 2020, but I just got a new prescription and god damn I forgot what having peripheral vision was like lol
the original PC port from 2003 messed up a few of the shaders, and then those issues made their way into a bunch of the later ports/rereleases/etc. I THINK this was eventually fixed in the anniversary/mcc version? but it took like 15 years or something lol
haha remember the incredibly iconic sniper level where you're in an alien desert at night and everything's lit by planetshine from the gas giant in the sky, and then you hit the Worse Graphics button and it adds more lights and puts grass everywhere and replaces the alien plants with speedtrees
haha remember the previous time they HD Remake'd halo 1 and they included a button to switch between old and new graphics and the new graphics just looked Worse every time
also they made a whole engine for Infinite! it had a bunch of really impressive rendering tech!! oh nevermind we fired everyone who knew how to use that, haha just use unreal and fill the default first-person sample project with megascans until it's vaguely halo-shaped
jesus I knew it was gonna be bad but replacing bungie skyboxes with the fucking default unreal Volumetric Cloud Actor has got me Enraged
not to start Parry Discourse again but it's extremely funny that you can win any fight at any level if you hate yourself enough to press R1 for 15 minutes straight
idk if it's actually gonna be A Thread or not; so far I'm mostly just playing it and enjoying the game
- yes this is an unbelievably stupid solution to an absurd problem

- yes the scheduler should be able to solve this by itself that's supposed to be its literal entire job

- I believe there are workarounds where you can manually assign cores to specific exes but the whole situation seems jank
worth noting that AMD's extremely popular "X3D" cpus sort-of require the xbox gamebar for obscure reasons lol

they have a weird architecture where half the cpu cores have much faster cache than the others, and they use the gamebar to make sure games get scheduled on the special cores
i don't think translating french into english should give you italian. thats fucked up
music + weirdass art direction + confusing surrealist in-medias-res plot had me 100% on board within like the first 15 minutes lol
anyway I started playing Expedition 33 and wow everyone was right this Extremely Fucks
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it doesn't attempt to emulate an existing fruit, and therefore doesn't taste like same six or seven artificial flavors as every other diet drink. it mostly tastes like its own distinct Thing (excepting the universal artificial-sweetener aftertaste)
Pokémon Instrumentality
*nintendo direct voice* pokemon unalive
you would think accidentally releasing a game named pokemon mastersex [real thing that happened not a shitpost] would have represented an inflection point of some kind