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oh shit, it's 3/21/23, 32123, palindrome day
don't worry, your'e still in time for 3/22/23, 32223, palindrome day the second
Palindrome day the third in the USA: 3/23/23
THIS FUCKING VIDEO MY FRIEND JUST SENT ME OF THE TUNGSTEN D20 HE BOUGHT
bonus: some screenshots of our discord conversation about it
Fun fact: We know the size of the Pokémon world because Scarlet and Violet has framerate issues
Video games tend to do this thing called "culling," where they don't render things that aren't in use. In Breath of the Wild, there's no reason for Link to be able to see how many apples are on a tree in Hateno when he's all the way in Tarrey Town, or know how many Bokoblins are running around Hebra Mountain. Link has a radius around himself that spawns in people, enemies, items, etc, so that the player gets the full experience of a rendered world without the game having to keep track of 850 Hearty Radishes sparkling.
This is good.
Scarlet and Violet has really AGGRESSIVE culling. The devs knew the game was framey and did everything they could up until the last possible second to save on resources.
The player has a single square that's always rendered around them, which takes about 10 seconds to run across. Besides that, all that's visible is whatever the camera is facing; if the camera can't see it, it does not exist.
You might think that this would be good for performance, since the game isn't calling as many assets constantly. And you would be right, if the things culled were ALL that the game was trying to render.
We all know at this point about the memory leak problem the game has, where it won't toss garbage data it's not using. This is supposed to account for the framerate drop; however, if it was ONLY the memory leak, it should start out smoothly, then decay over time until it's unplayable.
So what gives?
This is the ocean.
It's pretty. It's got a tiny bit of reflection, some gentle waves, a nice gradient. A beautifully made ocean without repetitive textures is always nice.
THIS IS THE OCEAN.
IT IS NOT CULLED.
Look at the SIZE of this thing! Paldea is an ANT in the middle of this puddle. It's rendering ALL of this, ALL its sparkles and waves, ALL the time.
Now, this is usually the part of the post where I'm like "and because we know the size of the ocean, based on the coastlines and wind direction, we can figure out how big the rest of the planet is by comparison!" like I did with Breath of the Wild over a year ago.
No.
Another video game term you might not be familiar with is a "skybox." Basically, to give the illusion of faraway objects, clouds, mountains, etc, and to hide the black void most 3D games are built in, games will have a texture wrapped around either the level or where the player is standing. For example:
This is a level from Twilight Princess called Sacred Grove. You normally can't see the bottom parts of this, hence why it turns into a gray plane, but the parts you CAN theoretically see by looking through the trees are colored so you think you're looking at a sky. You can see the edge of the void down in the bottom right corner.
Here's another one from Twilight Princess. You can see the different textures that stack on top of each other, as well as the blue skybox that's centered around Link when he's in the area. You, as the player, FEEL like you're in a small part of a larger world, because the devs cleverly structured together elements you CAN see in other areas into the background.
More complicated versions of skyboxes, typically semi-circular, are called skydomes.
They tend to look kind of like snowglobes, because you do not need to render anything that can't be seen. There's no situation in which the player should be able to fall lower than the level, so there's no reason to render the dome into a sphere in the event that that happens.
In Scarlet and Violet, it would make sense for the skydome to end where the ocean does. There's no situation in which the player manages to go past or underneath the ocean, so even if you wanted a gigantic ocean size like they have, you don't need to use more sky to encompass that.
They did not get this memo.
You might be thinking to yourself "wow, that looks like the curvature of the Earth!"
AND YOU WOULD BE RIGHT!!!!!
Why is this here. Why is it so big. I can't even see Paldea anymore. What exactly was planned for this.
Clever readers might have noticed that I labeled this "Skysphere" and not "Skydome."
That's because it for some reason is a sphere. Paldea is sitting in the middle of a fully rendered gigantic sphere in space. For some reason.
Look at Earth. Look at Spain, which Paldea is supposed to mimic.
I overlaid Spain over Paldea and made them roughly the same size. Assuming the two to be 1:1, the OCEAN is bigger than Earth.
If I then take that size and apply it to the skysphere:
HI. WHY IS THIS A THING.
The skysphere is bigger than the PROPORTION OF THE SUN TO THE EARTH:
I will be taking this as canon sizing until the Pokémon Company comes out and either CULLS this monstrosity and stops forcing our Switches to render THE SUN, or until the Pokémon Company comes out and gives us a canon planet size.
@cungadero u cannot leave this in the tags
time loop that’s set to end when you’ve completely fucked your life up in a blaze of hedonistic glory under the assumption that it’ll all just reset at the end of the day
time loop with an arbitrary end condition that’s supposed to only be achievable by learning a lesson and growing as a person, but you keep escaping after like four to seven loops without changing or improving anything but your ability to do weird shit that the wizard didn’t anticipate
#timeloop but instead of finding the victory condition you spend your infinite time learning wizardry and then break out of the lop by force (via @nadja-855)
time loop where you trap the wizard in a time loop instead
time loop where you’re trapped until you stop making self-deprecating jokes on my funny time loop post.
"why are people who do cool things always so weird"
i have a startling truth to keep from you... about the relationship between cool and weird
:3 like you've never :3d before and you'll b more powerful, trust me
Al sobre
out of all the script changes they could make for re4 the one i want most is leon is cutting poor ashley some slack and just railing her like she wanted. she witnessed so many scanners style head explosions under your escort the absolute least you can do is dick her down
She was a MINOR in the original what the fuck are you talking about?
she was in college are you dumb
obsessed with this actually because not only did they not play the game before saying this but 1 google search wouldve told them this is false. i love the sheer aggression that comes with being wrong on this site
Leon Kennedy belongs to the set of characters where it’s just funnier to claim they don’t know what sex is though.
well hes gonna know what sex is when i get my hands on him. sorry. i didnt say that
people in okami when a wolf wanders into their town: oh hello doggy…what a majestic lovely coat you have…are you here to do some shopping for your master?…would you like something to eat?…hmm something seems unique about you…were you perhaps sent by the gods?…oh silly me, rambling on while talking to a wolf…
people in twilight princess when a wolf wanders into their town: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
[>] prime objective making excellent headway
[>] assimilation continues as planned
cool trans girl at the skatepark that just fell and crotched herself on a rail: owwww... >_< the pain...
other cool trans girl: oh no! that looked like it hurt! do you need anything...?
cool trans girl: yeah... i need someone to kiss it better. =( preferably another girl. like, right here in the open too. and sloppily
deep throating the dr pepper bottle to make sure i dont lose a drop of that shit
this got notes alarmingly fast are you all like okay?
gonna take that as a hard "no"
i promise you shouldnt
ah no can’t hang out today i’m gonna smoke weed and jerk off yeah it’s gonna be an all day thing sorry actually wait do you want to watch
Dunno if y'all knew this, but I like yoyos.