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Any time someone talks about how films look better when sets and effects are practical someone chimes in to let them know how actually the horizon was composite

• TheGRS 2y ago
  Bigger tendency of discourse to draw quick association lines instead of looking at the product holistically. A handful of bad video games released with poor micro-transactions, so micro-transactions leads to bad games. A lot of bad movies released with over-reliance on poor CGI, so CGI leads to bad movies. But in both of those cases I can see where the underlying methods could be a net positive for the product - if implemented well and with good intent. In the case of Fury Road, tons of great choices that are a net positive on the product. Including practical stunts and CGI and lots of artfully done color saturation. A lesser movie will try to ape everything Fury Road did just to make a quick buck on its success, but not really taking into account how the color saturation or the stunts enhanced parts of the story and theme. People with an opinion on a piece of work: judge it how it should be judged on the whole! These little shortcuts in discourse are boring and tiresome.
  • lupusreal 2y ago
    > micro-transactions leads to bad games. That claim is true. It was more than "a handful" of micro transaction games that are bad, it's virtually all of them. Micro-transactions, even if initially implemented with a "good intent" are intrinsically corrupting and any developer who implements them will get dollar signs in their eyes blinding them to taste, tact and good game design.