Aesthetics Of Hate Puns

I honestly hate playing the new map because of the dark yellow aesthetic.

Its more fatiguing tracking dudes when everything is too dark. The evening novelty is already worn off. I don't understand the design decision when everyone hated the dark aspect of KC in the dark.

I want a neutral color temperature and the ability to see clearly. Evening mode should be a event, not the core game.

This twitter quote from a thread really hit the point here

Basically all the respondents were presumptions about his perceived character than meaningful policy differences. Many of them say "he's basically a republican' which is rose-twitter speak for "he's not Bernie'

But I think the hate against him is based on some very surface level characteristics that they infer as a proxy for character and policy. Mayor Pete is pretty buttoned-up, cerebral, well-spoken and educated, went to Harvard, served in the military, worked at McKinsey briefly before becoming mayor, openly religious, talks about uniting and bringing people together, and just overall has a calm, cool, and collected demeanor It seems like that may confer a sort-of mainstream respectability. Also being a white male confers some privilege that he must have experienced.

In contrast to someone like Bernie. He has the disheveled look with the messy hair, and he's loud, railing against billionaires, they trot out that picture of him getting arrested at a civil rights rally back in the day. Those surface-level things about him give off a "radical" aesthetic. That he wants a fight. And the people that like him see these things and make it seem more authentic to them, while they see someone like Pete or anyone moderate and see a "phony", "not gay enough" "neoliberal corporate sellout" etc.

I'm leaning toward Mayor Pete and these attacks never resonated with me and I think the strange visceral hate he gets is because he seems so "normal" if he was a communist drag queen that throws bricks at cops, they'd probably love him.

Does anyone else think that?

They are made in like less than an hour, and its just recycled trash and now its considered an aesthetic and is becoming a norm to anyone who enters 3D and often they don't understand the basic principles (modeling, texture, rigging etc) and jump in straight to how to do it by downloading models and textures, rigging with mixamo. That's just my unpopular opinion.

Nowadays, when people think of fantasy RPGs, the most obvious things coming to mind are Witcher 3 and/or Skyrim, 2 very succesful, modern, AAA RPGs with fantasy elements.

But in reality, they're still very grounded in realism, or even folklore, and less true fantasy- the environments aren't too unlike what we might see on our own planet.

Hell even Final Fantasy XV, is very grounded in realism and modern technology with light sprinklings of fantasy aesthetic.

It boggles my mind that huge Hollywood movies can make succesful fantastical worlds, and environments- but gaming has almost completely forgotten or left behind the trend.

I'm talking about things like floating ruins, giant insects or plants, truely exotic and fantastical or whimsical worlds and creatures- things like Xenoblade Chronicles 1, or other things similar.

It feels like any AAA game is going to be a realistic shooter, a vaguely realistic open world environment with light fantasy, or none at all- but where has all the true fantasy gone?

This isn't meant to insult anyone who does prefer more realistic settings, I'm glad there's lots of alternatives, moreso to provoke conversation.

A lot of people seem to not understand the difference between not wanting changes to be made in the game and wanting to preserve the look and feel of new content. OSRS would die very quickly if there was no new content. This game needs new content, I think anyone will agree with that.

However, new content should be in line with how the rest of the game is designed. Both in terms of gameplay mechanics and aesthetics. New mechanics can, of course, be introduced, but they should have an Old School feel to them. Raids 1 and 2, for instance, both look and play as one would expect of OSRS. This is superb content.

It can be challenging to hold back on aesthetics. I'm sure the art team is incredibly talented and can produce extremely high-quality graphics if they wanted to. But those are not for OSRS. Don't try to find a middle ground either, because then you end up with something like the Dragonstone armor.

He’s now high on the list of people I never want to see again.

The mix of the gothic architecture and the bright red really pops. Kudos to the art team

For me it’s either sherm or bladee. Can’t choose which is better

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