Of course they look better. Back up on the other side of Uncanny Valley.

Re: 09:04
sorry, that was to go under 22:49 in the thread below…

@21:30:
Wrong, an analogy has to line up perfectly. A comparison on the offer hand can compare two entirely different things.

@21:30

So if I decide to be a hitman, am I innocent of the murders I commit? I mean, it’s my clients who create the demand for murder, right? Right?

Again, invalid analogy. The correct one would be a “hitman” who gets paid to kill himself. “Pictures of naked people (children or otherwise) are not pornography. [...]

13:13 No. If you take out the shading you also have to apply some stylization to the faces. Just tracing everything exactly where it is while simultaneously abstracting other aspects is pretty much the definition of uncanny valley. Suppose I shade it photorealistically, what do you think would happen? Exactly, it’d look like a detailed [...]

03:58 uncanny valley, look it up. And then take a look at some of the 2D vs 3D comparison galleries here. He is entirely right because these designs completely lack shading (which here is actually resulting in distorted proportions for some character postures due to lack of sense of depth), and are therefore farther removed [...]

“The original premise gives context to the response.” Assuming I interpreted 18:04′s intended meaning correctly, how does this invalidate 19:59 arguing against a point 18:04 did not make? “Surely you mean the opposite…” No, I was just mixing up anon posting times. That was supposed to be referring to 18:04. “something is popular because a [...]

>10:10 “No it’s not.” Yes it is. A straw man argument mis-represents the opponent’s position so that it’s easier to argue against. The original premise holds no relevance, as 19:59 was specifically responding to 18:04. 19:59 argued that it’s popular because a lot of people think it’s good. This is somewhat semantically ambiguous and might be [...]

> 19:59
“Justin Beiber is popular. The argument that popularity=quality fails right there.”

This, dear anon, is a prime example of a straw man argument in its purest form.

04:45 I’m through with “gaming laptops”. They superheat during summer. The GPU burns out after 2 years on average. Upgrading next to impossible. No thanks.

@ 03:11 You mean nationalism solved a problem that wouldn’t have existed without nationalism in the first place?

Face it, most ‘isms aren’t good, because by their very nature they encourage extremes.

Laptops are almost obsolete by now. A powerful desktop PC for gaming and serious work and a good tablet for everything else is perfectly reasonable. You don’t have to make the PC seem like it’s the main focus of your room… and even that should be fine as long as the room’s tidy and clean [...]

And that is bad how? As long as the animation is decent (or just the art, in case of the manga), I love me some 90s style. I don’t think most people mind either.

His style seems to be diversifying a bit; not that many cut&paste faces anymore. That is definitely a plus. So even someone at his level can still get better. On another note, pathetic as the PSP’s hardware might be by today’s standards, those outline-less cell shaders look great. Low poly count aside, I doubt the [...]

You should. There’s actually at least a hint of yuri in most episodes. Often more than just a hint.

Doesn’t have much to do with feasibility, and a lot with lack of motivation.

I’ve been able to do that for nearly 2 years now… and even before that my Q9650 could still handle all the PS2 games I was interested in in a satisfactory manner.

DEM HIPS DAT THIGHGAP and even DAT ASS (a little) She’s got the figure, and of course her face won’t look as polished without makeup (I don’t think she needs much in the way of photoshop). And non-professionally done photographs tend to exaggerate little natural irregularities into full-blown flaws, which are usually nowhere near as [...]

Star Citizen. And won’t need the PS4 for it either.

Given that it’s basically a PC it will be gloriously easy to write highly performant emulators for it. Apart from encryption, the best they can do to make the life of emulator writers more difficult is to use a new proprietary graphics API. Which I highly doubt they will considering that AMD would have to [...]

Want to speculate some numbers and do some maths how many PS3 games you’d need to possess for the BC chip to amortize, anon 23:27? My guess is not many. Certainly a lot less than any serious gamer has in their collection. Why? Because Sony is as bad a cut-throat ripoff as any company in [...]