The human body, in video games, is often nothing more than the promise of its gore. With the smallest nudge, these digital bodies erupt into ecstasies of blood and guts and giblets. It creates a pervasive sense of human disposability — which is, sometimes, the point. https://youtu.be/EnYNaNcPYfU
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I work in video production so a jib is a piece of a equipment. Giblets be damned. It's the 'Jif/gif' thing but for cooler nerds lol
This essay made me think of that whole TLOU2 controversy about whether artists purportedly being forced to watch executions in order to make more convincing bags of digital meat.
Digital bodies are weird.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nEJOkTjJqk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6JFTmQCFHg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD4jRK5j2Ow
(We will also accept J-Cobbler)