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Would you say character design is still good if you need lore and backstory to understand it?
I’ve been wanting to dissect some Warframe character design, but a lot of the designs, especially for the frames themselves very much require textual knowledge of the story in order to understand what their going for, and I wonder if that’s a mark against them.
Well, I mean, ALL design needs context in order to be understood, always. Genres and forms of media all have their design conventions, which are readable and understandable mainly to the audience of that genre. Think of the ahoge hair strand poking up from an anime character's head to indicate that they are an airhead or stupid in some way, for example. That's not a visual signifier that can be understood intuitively, it requires a contextual understanding to parse.
So it's not really a matter of "if you need context to understand it, the design is bad" so much as you, as a critic, have to form your own critical opinion of how much context is too much context to ask of the audience.
For example, if a Warhammer 40k character is designed with a bunch of design elements that only make sense if you've read fourteen books of the Horus Heresy series AND several army books and codexes (or w/e they're called) and you have to have played a AA licensed video game that came out in 2009, then I think a reasonable critique to make is that that is alienating and hostile to a general audience. It is design which is uninterested in communicating its meaning to anyone but the hardest of hardcore fans, it is design which is inward-looking and insular.
But things look very different from the perspective of the hardcore fans to whom this insular, inward-looking design is pandering. To them, it might be absolutely fucking awesome and deeply evocative or even emotionally engaging.
Both things can be true at once. It's a matter of where you stand.
So the Warframe designs being hard to parse from outside is ABSOULTELY a valid thing to critique them for, but in order to make that critique you have to take the standpoint of an outside audience, and be able to defend that standpoint.
Personally, I share your feeling that Warframe designs are hard to parse from outside. To me, knowing nothing of Warframe lore, they all just kinda look like all flash and no substance, they look like designs which are first and foremost concerned with looking like cool badass robots, and don't seem to be trying to communicate anything else.
But I also don't know very much about them. I've not engaged deeply with them, and I haven't looked at very many Frame designs except whatever shows up in trailers and advertisements, so from me, that critique of Warframe's design wouldn't be particularly strong or well-founded.
You, being much more well-versed in the lore and universe, probably have a much stronger standpoint to form that critique, and express why you feel that Warframe designs should be more accessible to laypeople.
Sorry we really went from free the nipple, take back the night, slut walks, and ending gender/sex segregation in sports being fucking milquetoast feminism 101 concepts to fucking girl dinner and "I just worry about fairness if we let trans girls play against cis ones" and "it was right of that woman to call the cops on a black man for existing near here in public during the day time because men are all violent monsters" and "radical feminism isn't transphobic we just need to kill all men including trans ones those oppressive traitors" and I will legit never be able to be normal about it. What the FUCK happened. I'd say I wonder what the feminists of my youth would say about this but I'm one and lemme tell ya I want to throw up. Go fucking read bell hooks or do something else useful please because all of this learned helplessness, gender essentialism, and transphobia dressed up as feminism is actively holding us back.
i think when we used to point out that a story didn't need a sex scene what we meant was "this story reduces its women to mere sex objects and gives them no interiority so the sex scenes are gratuitous and geared towards the male gaze" it wasn't the sex that bothered us per se it was the objectification of female characters while givig them little to no consequence to the overall story but nowadays people mean "sex is icky and gross and has no merit to ever be portrayed in our arts which should be good and pure and never ever make ME feel discomfort" and it's like. i bet a bowl of unfrosted flakes looks real good to you rn
being so staunchly anti generative ai while everyone around you is "i used chatgpt" and "i asked grok" and google search is useless and every company is implementing ai and every single celeb is taking ai money and partnering with ai is like... it's so jarring. why can't you see the harm like i can? why are you so lazy? why are we making society this stupid? can we please stop? it's killing people does that not matter to you?

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"I love you but you're doing wrong in a way I cannot condone" and "I hate you but you're being wronged in a way I cannot stomach" are top tier and I need more of them.
do you ever start writing a comment on the internet and then think “oh what the fuck am i going on about” and delete it
I also enjoy writing an entire paragraph, thinking "you know, I don't actually need to be involved in this conversation," and deleting it
late summer / early fall thoughts
No matter how suspicious you might find the neighbor who never opens their blinds, they will never be as suspicious as the neighbor who wants free reign to peek in through people’s windows.

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ISAAC "FELIX" GATES from Red vs. Blue
"Riiight, and I'm the charismatic mercenary with a gruff exterior, but a heart of gold. A little too romantic, don't you think?"
Heard y’all like memes ‘round these parts
BREAKTHROUGH!!!! (they haven't slept in weeks)
i was giggling the whole time drawing this
ok.
i promised you 🦋
(crossposting from x, bsky, & ig)

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— Ganymede, Jericho Brown, in '100 Queer Poems, an anthology' (2022)
[text ID: I mean, don't you want God / To want you? Don't you dream / Of someone with wings taking you / Up?]
"I am Elgar'nan — First of the Firstborn, Last of the Evanuris."