Aether (moved) @Taylor@awoo.space

An article on the state of user-hostile software design.
https://den.dev/blog/user-hostile-software/

There's a tweet going around of a hyper-realistic close-up of Horizon 2 protagonist's well-rendered teeth, comparing PS4 and PS5 graphics, with a difference in the roundness of said teeth.

Why the hell do we need games to go this hard on realism and detail if we're all playing on 20-25-inch monitors with the camera pointed at the protag's back anyway? How often are we going to be centimetres from her lips?

Why is so much money going towards tongue bump-mapping. To fucking teeth textures.

I played the new Kirby game demo recently, Neo TWEWY yesterday, and I await the release of Soul Hackers 2 and Live-A-Live. Can we please have more games with an actual art direction instead of trying to make things realistic, my aversion to looking at faces can't deal.

It's almost like Japan isn't afraid to go all out with style and direction visually, and the only time the western side of things does anything different is indie games and Tim Schafer.

This isn't to say there won't be some design language to Horizon 2 or whatever. Deus Ex Mankind Divided had a metallic colour palette to everything despite being generally a realism-fest. You can have a visual personality and realism.

But it really does remain quite tiresome.

dragons.

The only problem with trying a new name (pronouns, too) is that English doesn't necessarily lend itself to those things being used in one-on-one conversation.

I'm dragon. And vinyl. And space.

I hate how I feel like I'm pleading for attention on stuff nowadays. A picture I spent weeks on has got little response, meanwhile a random comment I made in reply to someone with 100x more followers has got like 5x the reaction.

god twitter fucking sucks for art can we please use normal websites again

"the Dragon" in the same way you'd address a storybook character.

I'm Aether the Dragon.
Maybe if I say it enough, I'll start to feel it.

Anyway now that I've watched that I really should get to watching Wolfwalkers.

I watched Matrix 4 last night and it was incredible how on the nose it got at times, it was hilarious. The rest was good too, of course.

That said, wasn't there that one theory/essay video about the third movie that, re: Neo using his powers in the real world, suggested the next movie would include recursive matrices? Because they kind of did that in the end, only inward instead of outward.

Pondering.

My new year's resolution is to be more dragon.

For an inflatable dragon toy I sure don't deal with heat and humidity good, blaaaargh.

drrrrragons...

Rrrr-raar, and such.