bauwerks.net
Writes for software companies, and sometimes the VFX/animation industries. Also an amateur animator and hobbyist photographer in my free time. #art #animation #photography
Site: https://bauwerks.net
Twitter: https://twitter.com/_bauwerks
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(Speaking about PCE dev in general, not just this game.)
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*pulls up videos on YouTube because I'm not familiar with this title*
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That's enough for me to put it on my backlog and seek it out. Even if I can tell some of the limitations (I work in tech but I'm not a dev), it's immersive enough to make me forget those limitations, which is the point.
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I mean...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_vw...
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And I think I read that the PCE CPU was still faster than SNES's despite being 8-bit. I've always been fascinated with the system since I never had one or knew anyone with one growing up, but as I play more games and read about the tech specs, I'm constantly blown away by what it pulled off.
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Having just completed Private Eye Dol (and dabbled with Densetsu Sapphire), I totally agree. Kinda wild that the SNES didn't take more cues from NEC to work around CPU limitations (animation-based graphics, full-screen dialog sprites, etc.), and especially if the PlayStation add-on came to fruition!
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Anyway, who's to say why Hollywood's success in China was hit-or-miss! 🫠
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Speaking for myself, my "assessment" usually amounted to "Uhhh, is the celebrity attached an A-lister? Do they have intl. appeal? If yes, then it'll probably do well!" 😑
I'd bet my co-workers had similar approaches, at best, and I'd bet these experiences were hardly unique in Hollywood.
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Keep in mind, script reading is usually an unpaid intern's job, but some studios or distributors offer paid freelance work, though the pay is usually just beer money. Also, this distributor wasn't seeking readers w/ any expertise in China's markets, so you can imagine how (un)qualified we were.
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Fun fact: I did some script reading work for an international distributor during the peak of Hollywood's pursuit of Chinese box office money, and in addition to providing the usual coverage summaries of the scripts, we had to write what we thought the Chinese B.O. potential was.
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Ironically, years later:
www.bbc.com/news/world-a...
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@bursterror.bsky.social I played the hell out of that game as a kid, I'm definitely watching this one! (My siblings and I had a few other Tiger games as well.)
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The replies already answered it but worth noting the version on Netflix doesn't have that song in the end credits due to rights issues, in case you were thinking of giving it a (re?)watch and wanted to hear the song. (Those songs are on YouTube anyway.)
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Also, IIRC Xi wasn't a big fan of Trump because Trump wasn't as easy to read/predict as previous presidents, so the chaotic nature put him off. To say nothing of the anti-China sentiments in 2020, among other things...
Point is, I don't think Xi was going "Oh goody" when he heard Trump won again.
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Speaking of personal attacks, this name butchering...😖
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Not to mention what it says about a studio constantly reviving a heavily Asian- and Indigenous-coded show made by two white guys instead of letting Asian or Indigenous creators have their crack at something new.
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I'm not even a big fan of the series — it's fine, I enjoyed watching them but I've no urge to rewatch them. I just think it's sad that two guys who've been in animation for 20+ years are known for just one overarching franchise that they keep reviving while barely making (publicly) anything else.
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Since then they worked on that live-action tv adaptation of Avatar for Netflix that they later abandoned because, well, it's Netflix, and now they made a dedicated studio for Nickelodeon that's just gonna churn out Avatar stuff exclusively.
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Mike at least tried by publishing some YA books a while back, but at the same time Bryan was working on some kind of comic, even making a promotional poster for it to hock at SDCC, but then...nothing ever came of it. Never was officially canceled either.
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Subscribed (via RSS). 👍
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As to the easter egg, I haven't watched either film in a long time, so I'll look out for this on my next rewatch (ditto with the rubber knife bouncing off Arnie's chest at the beginning of T2 and other production errors).
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I don't expect you to read that, it's a long one. 😅 But animation shots mimicking the handheld look stand out to me now, both good and bad examples, w/ how the movement is spaced. This was a good one (as was the End of Evangelion shot I mention in the previous article):
bauwerks.net/2024/03/bebo...
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Bit of a tangent: I clicked your T2 tag to see the other neat finds in that film and ran into your article about flashy camera moves (fxrant.blogspot.com/2007/06/rata...). I liked it! I've had similar complaints w/ animation camera moves, namely handheld shots. (bauwerks.net/2023/07/came...)
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Link for that last point:
www.npr.org/2023/07/19/1...
I misremembered the anti-mask justification, it wasn't smiles it was being able to communicate. Either way, it's a bullshit excuse.
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Specifically for In-N-Out, good reasons to not give them business is the owners, long known to be conservatives, were against the Covid vaccine mandates, are anti-LGBTQ, and later insisted employees not wear masks so customers could "see their smiles".
datebook.sfchronicle.com/food-drink/s...
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I know the clip of the kids playing "Country Road" with the old fogies is clichéd easy social media clickbait by now, but I don't care, I'll watch the shit out of that scene and bliss out every time.
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☺️ This film's like a rich mug of hot cocoa for the soul, it warms my heart whenever I watch the whole thing or clips online. I'm a card-carrying member of the WOTH Is Ghibli's Best Film club.
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And obviously, not all Chinese animation studios are apeing Japan's styles. For example, I'm quite keen on what Wolfsmoke Studio whips up:
www.youtube.com/@WolfSmoke
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(Setting aside the issue of using terms "anime" and "manga" as points of reference for all Asian animation and comics, instead of learning the countries' native terms, or just simply calling them all "animation" or "comics" if they're gonna be selective about whose terms to appropriate and when...)
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There's also the dynamic of Chinese animation studios or companies being heavily influenced by Japanese animation and comics — MiHoYo being the latest and maybe biggest example — but also western fans not responding to Chinese animation unless it looks like Japanese animation ("Chinese anime").
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FWIW, Bluesky's had problems showing all of a person's posts in timelines. I've found mutuals' posts by visiting their page when the posts wouldn't show up on the Following or Quiet Ones tabs, for example.
I assume that's what you're troubleshooting. If not, nevermind!
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I suppose a crumpled ear would be a curd?
(Not mine, but my sibling's. One of the other cats swiped and injured his ear that left it permanently crumpled, but he's still a handsome loaf.)
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I also never knew what the Konami code could do for that game.
youtu.be/MNnv6M_8PhQ?...
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I don't hate Saturn Snatcher's graphics.
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Last year I got on an X-Men kick and dug up my collection, and found this New Mutants annual he drew the cover for. I forgot I had this and didn't realize he worked on it.
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Also, "irrelevant" might not be the best word — what I mean is that when the form factor hits that "can't improve upon it" point, hardware design stagnates, and so the hardware and its designers take a backseat to the software, and that becomes boring.
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"It" being both modern cell phone form factors and the Switch's design, to be clear.
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Since the Switch 2 design got confirmed, I wonder if Nintendo will go the same path Apple and other cell phone makers have gone down, too.
On one hand, it's a great design! (Accessibility issues aside.) Not much to improve on it! On the other hand...the hardware eventually becomes irrelevant.
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The Disney Family Museum in SF had most, if not all of those originals on display when they had a Tyrus Wong exhibit way back in 2013 (couldn't believe it's been that long after I looked up the date). His kites were neat too! He'd fly them at Santa Monica beach but I never saw him when he was alive.
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Obviously private accounts stay private, but tweets appear chronologically with no ad gunk or whatever Musk's been doing to the UI since he took over.
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I just learned about xcancel last week!
xcancel.com
You can't log in with it, so it's read-only, but very handy if you want to track accounts without logging in. The UI's an older design that's more pleasant to navigate, too. Replace the "x" or "twitter" in the URL w/ "xcancel" and it should work!
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Ah.
...Not sure why I thought you meant MGS, the Wii is backwards compatible with Gamecube games, now that I think of it...
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Oh god, someone hacked MGS onto the Wii? 😂 Aiming with the control sensors would be an obvious-but-fun choice!
(Actually, Snatcher could do that too, for the shooting sequences.)