• FALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      In a way it’s the perfect game for our time. No artistic direction or passion, just an endless stream of pop culture being sold and resold to wring every cent possible from each IP.

      Related question since I’ve played fortnite maybe once, but have they had a chance to double back on themselves and start selling cosmetics from earlier years and “vintage” or “throwbacks”? Like selling default skins that are no longer available, stuff like that.

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      I guarantee this involved getting CAD files and shit like that from Tesla, painstakingly creating a game asset, and going through multiple rounds of reviews and edits to “honor” the look of the cyber truck, for both the shape and surface appearance. Probably a few times someone heard, “Elon played the patch last night and he loooooves it, but yadda yadda.”

      At least that’s how it was when we had to add a Motorola Razr to a movie with talking cows.

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          Sorry, I know. I’m just mentioning that your joke is actually MORE cogent than the alternative, which is artists and producers in North Carolina who are feeding their families by inventing this bizarre “maximum effort” they must pretend is warranted for this ridiculous contraption.

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    4 months ago

    perfect vehicle to run kids over in real life in Fortnite.