UBON'S PROFILE

politics are just weird like that. and people like the concept of freedom so much that they're very quick to name their philosophies after it.

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author=jin69
I just wanted to point out that I do know how to shade. It might not be the best but this is my style of shading, take a look.

It looks great when more colors are added onto a sprite but to me I prefer plain old-school sprites.

shading isn't about adding more colours -- it's about how you use the few you have. your sprite on the left is basically made of gradients, because you've added way more colours than are necessary for something of its size and just laid them all out in a row without thinking about the underlying form.

shading is all about light and shadow -- it's difficult, but as you get better at it you'll grow more familiar with how light and shadow fall on objects from different angles. try studying things in real life -- find an interesting shape on a sunny day, or someone who doesn't mind being stared at, and take careful note of where the sun highlights the shapes that make up the structure and where the structure itself leaves shadows.

the tutorial I linked also covers the basics of shading and colour economy -- it could be handy! give it a look sometime.

you cannot build a society of any appreciable size on the principle that the unfit will perish. if you truly believe in social darwinism to this extent, feel free to run out into the wilderness and live free of the many ways in which the government regulates your life without your knowledge. people upholding a "surival of the fittest" perspective of life are usually shockingly unaware of just how much they take for granted, and would fall to pieces without the various social structures of modern society to hold them together comfortably.

oh yeah, fuck libertarians.

(countdown to a heavy idealized account of some feudalist society from the time when men were men and etc)

he's right, though. cool your bizarre rant about COD that doesn't have anything to do with anything and listen: most rpg maker horror games are very bad, not because they're 2D but because horror is the hardest genre to do correctly and most people using RM are relative amateurs who don't yet have the necessary skills or experience. if your experience is different, that's fine, but from your examples I'm getting the feeling that you're very easy to scare.

... also, did you seriously list Zombies Ate My Neighbours and Ghosts n' Goblins as serious horror games? do you... do you know what horror is?

(Ao Oni is a joke of a game that people mostly like because it was LPed by prevalent youtube personalities and they feel like they need to be in on the next big thing. it's memetics, not quality.

and it scared the crap out of you "literally"? I think you should see a physician.)