Assets are usually created in higher resolutions and then downscaled for the game. Easier to stay with higher fidelity and downscale to what the engine and hardware end up being able to handle than going the other way. Especially when you are just taking something pre-existing anyways.

Yes, the market definitely also needs to be protected from mega-corps for whom the next dollar is most productively spent on lobbying. In general I’d greatly be in favor of some kind of progressive taxation for corporations based on market power. We need more old corps to fold and be replaced by more agile…

On today's news: Gamblers upset casino closed.

Is a gay person who never had sex gay? Who am I to say?

That’s not unlinke how humans operated much of the time. Almost nothing we do is original work. It’s all combining learnings based on things others haber researched it created. Even researchers focused on COVID get much of their own knowledge on the subject from other researcher’s work and not from first principles.…

So, no threat to artists then...

What do you prefer? Making everything high art, but making it unaffordable for most? Should we withhold an option from consumers because they’ll choose it despite not being good enough for them? Similarly, properly tailored clothes fit a lot better than anything you can buy in a store. In essence nothing you buy in a…

Either AI-generated art doesn’t fill the same need as human-made, “real” art or is a threat to artists. Both things cannot be true for a given area of art.

Oh, that’s an autocorrect typo and should have been “softer features”

I am unconvinced that the game’s art style matches the ancient Greek beauty standards got women. If you look at the Venus of Milo for example, she has much sistere features than any female in Hades.

I don’t think this is a fair depiction of anime in general. Just thinking of two of my favorite anime immediately brings characters to mind that don’t fit. Major Kutsanagi in Ghost in the Shell is very strong, determined and attractive. Neon Genesis Evangelion has several strong, female characters like Asuka and…

No, hips and cute faces that look like they need protection all the way

I grew up watching anime and reading manga and definitely find many anime characters appealing and in RL like “cute” women (there are cute older women as well). I find Megaera, especially her facial features, to look quite harsh. I wonder if conditioning through different animation styles impacts what one finds…

People kept saying about true first game as well how hot the characters are. Somehow I couldn’t relate to that at all. Same in this tailor. Not a single character I find remotely attractive. I wonder if it’s that I in general don’t jive with character style in western animation. Anyone else feeling similar about Hades…

What is “this”? Layoffs?

What’s their profit/loss? What’s growth looking like? Were there severance packages?

This! If gaming news was full off cash, we’d see much more competition to the existing outlets that frequently are being described as getting worse and worse.

The game obviously couldn’t be sold exactly as is, since it’s a Gamecube game. So work is needed to port it to Switch. Do you know if Nintendo is working on the right now? If so, how would you handle that case in a reasonable way?

To be honest, I did read (on Kotaku?) about the QAnon radio host and how frequent it gets played and that drove me away from the game, despite being interested due to the PNW setting. I’m sure I “could take” the guy looking at his girl’s butt no problem and I’d also survive the QAnon radio, but it’s a game. It’s…

None of these things are normal market pricing but government services and have nothing to do with a normal transaction between two private entities.