Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Fair enough, and I guess I was overexaggerating a bit. Sorry, did you say you had spent time in the UK at some point? If you did, did you ever pay attention to our politics?

@ComfyAko Eh, better to be safe than sorry, right?

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Ah, right that explains it, and here I was thinking you had some kind of traumatic backstory. Well, basically I'm just trying to say the USA isn't the only place with stupid politics, we had Brexit and then as my mum called him, Trump's illegitimate son (Boris Johnson, not actually Trump's illegitimate son) who broke his own rules whilst in office.

@TeaCatherine Yeahm I try not to beat myself up over every small mistake I make though. It's unhealthy, mentally

@ComfyAko Yeah, there's nothing worse than basically having a inner monologue trolling yourself.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika It doesn't seem likely but two similar looking idiots at the same time, people couldn't resist. Also, you said somewhere the only way to find out a certain person from Nier Automata's backstory was via a fan translation, right?

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Okay, just asking because that's next on my list after I've finished XC3. Any idea where I could find those things?

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Right. I suppose you probably aren't the right person to ask for this but do you ever find the difference in artstyle between western animation and anime jarring? I mean if you did it would probably be the opposite way round from my problem.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Yeah, you have a point it's not really the animation that matters, it's the content. I just have problem ignoring it sometimes.

Very unpopular opinion about animation: Hannah Barbera cartoons were horrible in ways of technical delivery, even though they were not ugly on purpose

@ComfyAko Well, they were made with limited amounts of time and money. The olden days of animation were not pretty for animators (and sadly still not).

@Kermit1 That's really true. I just see many people singing praises and calling it the superb animation studio, even though the animations were very lazy (characters running to the side, scrolling backgrounds, etc.) Idk maybe I'm biased against them because they were my least favorite as a kid.

It's really true that animation is a very heavy slice of bread. Always has been. People see the finished product only, they never really appreciate the effort.

@ComfyAko I mean look at the current CGI problem, it's used everywhere and people don't realize that some animator (this even applies to game devs) somewhere is working 12-day weeks and is missing time they could be spending with family because they don't want Bob to have to fill in for them while they take a break.

Crunch culture, I hate it.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika The trailer for this came out. Looks pretty decent, if it's on Disney+ I'll try it out.

@Kermit1 Crunch culture is one of the worst things in the workforce altogether. Especially when it's sciefintically proven that people work more when they have 5 - 6 work hours/day instead of 8, and some people have to go through 12h/day work because the bosses don't understand basic logic and think that humans are robots. It's especially bad in animation and games though, as you said.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Oh the one with Scooby Doo? I liked that one. I hated wacky races, flintstones, jetsones etc.

@ComfyAko I've heard some game-dev horror stories where they slept in the "studio" almost every night under their desk by their computer to keep warm just to meet a deadline.

@ComfyAko
I don't think Hanna Barbera cartoons was that bad. Used to be I watched some Hanna Barbera cartoons such as Jetsons, Flintstones, Peril & Penelope Pitstop, Wacky Race, etc when I was kid. Even I have a full set of Qubix Tazos of Hanna Barbera characters.

@Kermit1 Out of many things that are not okay, this one is nearing the top of not okay things

@Anti-Matter That actually reminded me of some of the cartoons I hated seeing. Yeah, definitely not my style.

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika honestly, I probably wouldn't mind using Disney+, it's just that I don't tend to watch a lot of stuff normally. If I were to sub, then I'd feel obligated to use it a ton just to get in my money's worth. Which would be fine if I didn't have so many hobbies and interests.

That description of the Octo Expansion is intriguing I admit. I might give it a try at some point in that case. I always figured the story modes in those games only has about as much substance as the Smash titles.

I weaned myself off of soda several years ago. I avoided it entirely until about the last year or so. Now I'll very rarely have a little as a treat, usually mixed or paired with something. (Floats, harder alcohols (I rarely drink this stuff either), the saintly popcorn/soda combo, etc.)

@EaglyTheKawaiiShika Funny how both your examples were of films with blue people in.