on the steps of the shadow palace, you're greeted to this really haunting backdrop that really looms as you approach it:

turns out there's a really clever trick going on with the models here:

there's a flat plane, but in front of that is a super simple mesh that pokes out! it's the same texture on both objects, and the models themselves are really just a handful of vertices, but in game it causes a subtle difference in the rates of movement between the back-pane and front-pane.

for something so simple, it's a great effect that really sets the mood of the final confrontations of arc2/khrysalis!

what kind of fucked up and evil dish can i make without buying too many ingredients?

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this day and minute? go put kiwi in the microwave and see a gunky kind of bitch unfold

they really did that