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Are Reviews the highest makerscore you can get outside of special events?

Looking at kamen rider has me thinking; imagine there's like a power ranger / kamen rider series where there's a group of cool outfits. Like they have cool biker helmets and awesome visors and then they last guy has like this stupid head of a horse with a big neck and everything. He is so stupid looking but turns out to be seriously awesome despite his weird japanese sense of humour.
All his moves are killer, total powerhouse badass, but looks so stupid haha

author=GreatRedSpirit

This needs to be on this page too.

I think the problem with criticism today for video games is how we viewed games in the 90s, and how we view them now. Back in those days making games had a lot less restraint, and allowed ideas to flow, but nowadays companies & gaming communities alike try to restrict things, and play it safe (Nintendo is a good example of that). Another good example is the fanworks of megaman games, you will be surprised how pissed off they get when it is not like the official games, and this kills any experimental work that could be done.

Besides video games, it is reassuring there is experimental anime like One-Punch Man that tries to break the mundane despite the criticism I'm sure it got back when it was just stick figure drawings.

author=Kaliesto
I think the problem with criticism today for video games is how we viewed games in the 90s, and how we view them now. Back in those days making games had a lot less restraint, and allowed ideas to flow, but nowadays companies & gaming communities alike try to restrict things, and play it safe (Nintendo is a good example of that). Another good example is the fanworks of megaman games, you will be surprised how pissed off they get when it is not like the official games, and this kills any experimental work that could be done.

Besides video games, it is reassuring there is experimental anime like One-Punch Man that tries to break the mundane despite the criticism I'm sure it got back when it was just stick figure drawings.

I totally agree with this. I have a hypothesis as to why this is the case.

Nowadays, most people tend to like it when a game,tv show, or story immediately grabs his or her attention for being unique,and also like when something immediately and repeatedly appeals to his or her personal preference, so much so that if a work doesn't do one or both of these things; he or she won't buy,try,or look anymore at that product or anything related to it.In response to these tastes, popular entertainment tends to be event-driven, as opposed to character or setting-driven. what I mean by this is that any given game company or anime studio or corporate production or what have you will just take a random premise and/or tropes proven to be popular, write a sequence(or sequences, for open-world games) of over-the-top dramatic events in order to get an arbitrary end-goal, and then slap characters and a setting on to it, without determining who or what the story or game is truly about.This typically results in a game or show wherein shit just happens in-world without any logic or reason and characters do and get things without any type of natural motivation or reasoning behind them. But the peoples don't care, unfortunately. They get enjoyment from the surface-level aspects of the game,show or book, and that's all they need.

"Wow, this dude's badass!"
"OMG, the hottest characters just kissed!"
"So many exciting things have happened. I love it!"
"That sorceress is so awesome for doing that for the MC!"

Media en masse has been trying to curtail the length of the creative process to meet higher demand, but they've curtailed the depth and personality of their output en masse as a result.

That's probably why you like one-punch man Kaliesto, because the story isn't driven by events, but rather by the characters and the setting behind it. Spectacle is nice, but It's better when a character with actual motivations, dreams, tribulations, and inner turmoil is responsible for it.

I feel like shit.

I just lost three of our most valuable clients.

The reason? They found out i'm Mexican. It slipped mid-conversation. Big mistake.

These guys used to give me so much work over the year.
I thought they were satisfied with the quality of my work.
And yet, for such a stupid fucking reason that i have no control over, they decided to cut ties with me, suddenly and unceremoniously.

They even PM'd my Argentinian colleague to get him to work for them.
He told them that when they hired our services they were hiring both of us, that it was either both of us or neither. So they simply went on their way, taking our prospects for November-December's batch of work with them.

My morale is on the fucking floor. This always happens. Every time.

I feel almost as bad as that time they refused my visa because i have arabic names.

Aww, that sucks Mirak. Why do people have to do shitty things like that?

Would it be okay for me lighten up the mood with silly images I had on my comp?




And the full version of my profile pic:



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