Haha, this is like the opposite to Luke’s Animal Crossing experience with his kids. https://kotaku.com/my-kids-are-fucking-up-my-animal-crossing-island-1842851190

“Hm, this seems like a post about something fun and amusing that someone made to celebrate their love of a franchise! I know, I should post a comment taking a shit over currently-popular-to-hate parts of that franchise, that’ll earn me some internet points!”

Only if we get to call you an incel piece of shit Trump cock sucker.

I still would have preferred if both examples of “losing the thing which you love most” weren’t “woman thrown from cliff”. I mean, these are stones that represent all aspects of the universe. You’d think that there would be room for metaphor instead of dropping things off a high rock, or at least that someone’s…

Same, didn’t look interesting at all. Looked goofy, childish and shallow.

I got to play it for a few hours and I really liked it. When they have the server issues sorted I think it’ll be a really good time. I like how they solved one of the more consistent issues in Survival MMOs though which is population density and since each Oasis is a generated instance that only exists for a limited…

Nah man they’re just Japanese. You wait until his son reaches the last day of his 59th year (probably on 15 years time), then it’ll suddenly catch up to him overnight.

Personally I hate Animal Crossing. I hated it when the first game came out, I hated every single game in the series, and I hate this one for all the same reasons (as well as some new reasons).

First people didn’t few esports as a real sport. Now esports is the only sport.

I’m assuming there was a bungie, or a inflated landing pad...

Wasn’t the tagline for Sea Bass “You again?!” in one of the games? Or was that just what my family and I screamed every time? Even odds.

That’s because the secret ingredient that makes Animal Crossing’s mundanity so much fun is the element of random chance. It’s a rush to spend months looking for a specific, elusive piece of furniture and finally see it in Tom Nook’s store. But if it doesn’t work out right away, there’s no punishment, either. With no…

Played ably by Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Major Kusanagi herself!

I think we should additionally take the time to recognize the series MVP: Dr. Priyanka Maheshwaren, the heroine we always needed.

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That wasn’t the point. I’m sure they would have considered AI upscaling regardless, but no matter what you’re aiming for clearly you want to start with the best possible quality material. The AI upscale might have looked twice as good had they had the original video to upscale from.

You only realize how difficult this type of art really is when you try to do it yourself.

Designing that city for example required an astounding amount of research, architectural knowledge, imagination/futurism and only then you get to the actual art part where you need to be extremely precise with lighting,…

Someone who isn’t in the business may look at these and think they look nice. But someone in the business looks at that city concept art and thinks holy fuck. That shit is really hard to pull off at that level of detail.

This isn’t some scrappy, unproven start-up we’re talking about here...it’s friggin’ Google, they essentially own the internet and have more money than they know what to do with. Were they so inclined, they could be doing exactly what Epic is doing with the EGS in ponying up for exclusives or timed exclusivity for…