Notices by :meru_B: b e a r d (beardalaxy@gameliberty.club), page 46

@hindudindu and the AI will get you a steak. it might not be cooked exactly to your liking, but it'll still give you a steak.

@matrix dammit, where's my girl with a robot fetish???

It's 2024 and Steamboat Willie is now Public Domain.

@SnugSmug i do like it when they draw intact hymens

@SuperDicq @coolboymew half life 2 rtx remix

@matrix yeah the steam game awards are total trash. I'm looking forward more to the /v/ ones

@xianc78 Yeah, back then they had pretty much nothing to work with and the series was still in its infancy so they could do pretty much whatever they wanted. At least we know that those aren't canon in the slightest and are securely in their own containment vault, which makes it easier to enjoy them for what they are. It's honestly the approach I wish these new games would have had.

It really makes you wonder what part of Tears of the Kingdom was supposed to be DLC and what pushed it over the edge into turning into its own game.

If it's the gameplay mechanics, that would make the most sense because there's no way any of that would have functioned on the Wii U (sometimes it barely functions on the Switch). Still, it's hard to think that they would have actually wanted to go back through the entire game and add all these new things you could do which would break the game entirely. Maybe it was conceptualized and they just figured it would be easier to make a new game instead.

If that's the case, then it would explain the story feeling super tacked on because they felt like they needed to have another story if they were going to make a brand new game. The Depths and the Sky Islands can feel pretty tacked on from time to time too, and actually I found the most enjoyment (especially over a long period of time) still exploring the overworld with how it had changed, rather than the new zones because it feels like a lot of the same stuff over and over again.

The story contradictions aren't just Aonuma's fault, Fujibayashi (the director) also said that all the ancient Sheikah stuff just magically disappeared and nobody knows why... but then why are the ruins of the Sheikah tech also gone? Like all those dead guardians? What about the one dead guardian that's still on Robbie's lab? It's a bullshit answer. If he just said "oh, we just didn't want to include any of that stuff in this game, there's no lore reason for it" it would have been 100x better of an explanation and an honest one at that. Either everyone calling the shots on the team is stupid and doesn't know how to write a story, or they're incredibly dishonest and are just trying to bait people. It's probably a bit of both, to be honest, because even the basic story of Tears of the Kingdom is probably the weakest one that actually has a coherent story.

They really did the Sheikah dirty, and the Zonai are just kind of boring too. For hell's sake, we only get to meet TWO of them. There aren't even any others in the flashbacks as far as I remember. These heavenly beings that brought "secret stones" with them that apparently can have absurd amounts of power, and there's only two of them, and they can't do anything to stand up to Ganondorf? Because, what, he's evil or something? It's just weird, man.

Then you get to Ganondorf and even though he's been wreaking havoc all across Hyrule with these massive pits that suck life away from you, and more deadly monsters on the surface than before, and puppeteering a phantom Zelda around, he's weak as shit. The dude straight up retreats and then you have to go fight him again at "full power" but even then like... you're just Link with the same old Master Sword that Ganondorf already destroyed at a much lower power level. You couldn't have like, made Link need to go to some ancient Zonai ruins in the sky and go through a whole dungeon to get some add-on to the Master Sword that would power it up with even more powerful Zonai shit? I guess even then, you'd have a power creep problem, because all of the sudden the Zonai are more powerful than the gods they descended from. They're already maybe able to circumvent the power of the Triforce itself, so who knows man.

@xianc78 I had just assumed that whatever Ganondorf had was something so powerful that it completely destroyed the Master Sword and we would have to not only repair it but also reform it in some way. But in the end, you use the same exact sword at assumedly its same level to defeat him anyway which also doesn't make sense. Bathing it in holy light for who knows how long was only supposed to make it regain its strength, it didn't make it any stronger than what it was after completing all the trials to restore it in BotW. Unless we just weren't told about that, but then why were we not?

You could say that the secret stone (bad name BTW) which was being corrupted by Ganondorf's evil magic and together they had more power than that of the entire Triforce, I guess, but then why does that not apply for any other stone, and why did the same stone do literally nothing to save Sonia?

The story is a hobbled together mess with very poor delivery even by its own merit, and it only gets worse when you think about the rest of the franchise. It's not thought out whatsoever, the writers just thought "hey this is cool" and put it in.

this is a fantastic video that explains my disdain with the lore in tears of the kingdom.

"They didn't think of it, and they don't care."

Tears of the Kingdom Lore Is Not Interesting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdUXa6lV8A8

oof

@Mr_NutterButter that's not rumored, that's straight from the modders themselves lol. many aren't modding it because they just don't like the game, some aren't modding it because what they want to do is literally impossible because of engine limitations.

@Pawlicker @Mr_NutterButter i don't think i even know if that's the case. there are waaaaay more problems with the game than just the engine. if this game was in unreal and you could fly planet to planet and there were more randomly generated structures to explore, yeah it would be better, but it wouldn't solve fundamental design decisions that plague it. it's not like they'd spend any more time fixing up bugs if it was in a different engine, you know? it's not like the story would get any better, or the variety of *anything*.

plus, people are still doing crazy things with skyrim's iteration of the creation engine that bethesda just chooses not to do. idk if you've seen skyblivion or not, but it's a remake of oblivion in skyrim and the amount of passion going into it is crazy. it's not even just a remake of oblivion at this point, it's a functional overhaul with a lot of attention to detail. and it actually looks really great too, graphically. same thing with fallout london, they're doing insane work at a much faster pace and with much more soul.

if bethesda can't make shit like this on an updated version of their engine over a decade later, what good are they as a studio? quite frankly they should be dissolved and their IPs should be handed to someone else because i don't know how much of their culture can be salvaged at this point.

i think bethesda probably suffers from a lack of good management as well as, though i hate to say it, a lack of good talent. those things go hand in hand too.

rumor that a new xbox is coming out in 2026. i'm thinking, damn. already??

then i realize... the current gen consoles came out in 2020. 3 years ago. still seems like they're extremely new. 2020 does not feel like it was 3-4 years ago man. 2016 feels like it was 4 years ago xD

@matrix

One of my coworkers today was telling me that she doesn't like to have candles in her house because they're made with runoff from oil refineries and that you are essentially breathing in oil and it ruins your lungs. I joked with her that smoking is better for you, because she smokes lol.

I was curious though, so I looked it up. Turns out that there are multiple kinds of wax that candles are made out of, the only one being derived from oil being parrafin wax. All of mine use soy. Apparently, parrafin wax isn't all that bad for you anyway as long as you're not exposed to it burning for over 8 hours a day.

It's just really funny the things that people latch onto, like my other coworker getting freaked out that Lucky Charms uses a "cleaner" as one of its top ingredients (literally just trisodium phosphate). Or, my obese roommate trying to tell me that it's possible to get too much nutrition when I was putting spinach onto my wheat bread sandwich. I undoubtedly have things like this too, as I'm sure we all do, I just think it's funny.

@matrix girls will set up their gay friends with gay guys but not their straight friends with their straight friends :feelsbadman:

@matrix good ol' Dr. Pizza effect, my favorite

@matrix if you can get him back that's great

@matrix fucking hell man that's brutal...

@matrix you're a monster