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Cake day: June 15th, 2023

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  • I love how he sneaked in swastikas into the building on the right.

    Where? In an interview, Blume said that the building on the right was meant to symbolize a British building during the Blitz period when London was being bombed by the German Luftwaffe. It would be kinda weird to put swastikas onto the building in that case without putting it on a weapon or otherwise making it obvious it’s not meant to be a German building.

    Source Interview. The full interview nor transcript are accessible online, because it is 14 hours long, or 195 pages respectively. However, if you go in person or request access via Reference Services, they may provide it on a case by case basis online.


  • “Bro just one more post processing technology, trust me, just one more and all the clarity issues are going to be fixed, just one more. One more and that’s it, it’s going to look native, just one more. Just let me do one more, please.”

    Literally Digital Foundry for the last like, 10 years.

    Every time a new scaling tech or TAA method or whatever comes out, they talk about how it is so good and has next to zero flaws. Then a new one comes along and suddenly they start talking about all the flaws the previous one had and how the new one is “nearly perfect.” And then you look at the footage they are showing and its literally best case scenario, minimal to no camera movement, and little to no large or close objects moving at a high speed. Footage designed to minimize the flaws and maximize selling you on the tech, regardless of how little that is actually going to happen during real world gameplay for literally anybody.





  • You should play Policenauts. Its a visual novel adventure game from Hideo Kojimas early days in 1994-1996 following a private eye investigating a disappearance on a space station.

    When you load a save file, the game gives you a summary screen of the events in the game that have happened so far (at least it does in the SEGA Saturn version that I played). Its the first instance I recall of this happening in video games, and I do wish it could return in more games. Its possible that other games had this before, but if there was a game that did, I dont know it or remember it.






  • I hate Ubisoft, but I actually do think this was decided to happen before they unionized and is just bad timing.

    Decisions to close studios like this never happen so quickly and usually take multiple months between the time the decision is made to the time the actual closure takes place.

    It is possible that the studio caught wind that they were being closed and decided to unionize in order to capitalize on the bad PR. But this is all speculation since we don’t know every detail, and both sides will leave out various details to give themselves an advantageous position in the conversation.