Yup, it’s the reason you often hear of yearly franchises taking skipping a year or deciding to go every other year; yearly releases can stunt the evolution of the series, drop the quality, or both. We’ve seen the EA lengthen the UFC game development to two years, and Ubisoft slowed down on the AC games as well. We…

I’ll add “This boat runs on happy faces,” but really all of this is pretty cringe.

I think Far Cry just kinda suffers from a bit of sequel-itis like your CODs and Assassin’s Creeds. In a vacuum and taken on their own merits, there are definitely things to like about a lot of individual entries, but the constant stream of entries just casts a veil of staleness over the whole thing. I think there are…

Excellent post, basically breaking down what people consider guilty pleasures. Sometimes that guilt comes from knowing it’s bad, sometimes it comes from people insisting it’s bad, and sometimes (probably most times) it’s a mix of both. A lot of people like to present themselves like they only enjoy ‘good’ things, but…

Powdered Toast Man alone makes it better than Smash. All it needs is Billy the Beef Tallow Boy so we can deep fry some mofos 

I’d struggle through it mostly because Cheesecake Factory’s cheesecakes are like 80% sugar with some cream cheese loosely involved haha. Not that they’re disgusting and I wouldn’t eat them (I don’t think I’ve ever turned one down in my presence haha), but it’s never a place I think of when I want cheesecake because I…

That’s nonsense, nobody out-pizzas the Hut.

Pretty much spot on from what I’ve gathered. Not sure I understand the last part about the lack of “Simple and Clean” though; aren’t they using the orchestral variation of it that they’ve adapted as one of the main themes in this video? I didn’t really expect them to use Utada Hikaru’s version.

Wow, so Square Enix tried to...kill Chaos? 

Yeeeaah that was what almost ruined it for me haha. Almost.

Glad you brought that up; I think Sinister is pretty underrated and it definitely stuck with me. The music was a notable part of it, chilled me to the bone at points. Far from a perfect movie, but it definitely kept me thinking disturbed thoughts for a while haha. 

Right there with you on nearly all of that. Even initially thinking Paranormal Activity was kinda lame (though the very last scene did disturb me, but that was the same case with Blair Witch and The Turning: thought everything was meh at best but the very end haha) but it stuck with me for the same reasons. Had the…

Yeah for me most horror movies don’t get me going while I’m actually watching them. Jump scares do nothing for me and my heart rate probably stays relatively steady throughout. I’m all about the ones that plant a lingering disturbance in me, and leave me thinking about it long after the I finish it. Give me movies…

I don’t personally own an iPad, but my housemate has a few and their damn nice. He does illustration demonstrations on it and gets some really good quality stuff pretty quickly. Like you said, it’s not replacing any of the setups in animation studios anytime soon (especially since WACOM has ongoing relationships with…

I honestly couldn’t tell you as far as their far-reaching reliability reputations go, since like you I haven’t really looked at the market intently (seeing as how I just tend to have access to WACOM stuff haha). From working as a teacher I can tell you that a lot of students I encounter have started going to…

But your expression of control still mostly depends mostly on you, doesn’t it? The thought in the comic is “You upgraded your tablet, so that equals an upgrade in the quality of your product, right?” Well no, not necessarily. As you yourself said, it’s practice. Better tools can make practice easier, but they don’t…

Oh don’t get me wrong, I agree that they’re very reliable. Of course I’ve moved on from it, but other than a frayed wire that can sometimes make the USB connection iffy (which is just from wear and tear), my Intuos 3 works just fine 15 years later.  I’m just saying they’re not the only reliable choice these days.

Corpse Run is on point. A lot of people do have the perception that upgrading your tablet means you’ll make better art, but the tablet is just your tool. It can help you work more efficiently, but that doesn’t necessarily translate to a better end product. I’m not automatically going to become a better swordsman just b…

Exactly. Though WACOM also gets a lot of help just from that brand name and recognition, because some alternatives are essentially just as good today from what I’ve heard from a lot of other artists and my housemate, who used to work for WACOM (and he was saying this even when he worked for them). When a lot of…

They’re right in my case. I didn’t even know about ‘latest’ until fairly recently, and would just begrudgingly slog through the mess of a main page, thinking about how it used to be laid out better and more coherently (though I won’t lie, that mess did turn me on to some interesting articles that I probably wouldn’t…