Bixels 🍉

Ask before reposting. Bisexual | 🇹🇼 | Artist/Boarder/Designer |🚫AI | ❤️ @t_ulliok

[Bixels 🍉 @BixelsWixels]

@AndreSegers It doesn't matter to most people, but I'm annoyed at how all the locations and buildings look like some variation of a modern Starbucks. It feels so corporate and spotless, not a speck of wear or age or history anywhere, which makes Wuhu such an uninteresting setting.

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@ParistonNig ?

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I stick by my girl but am personally disappointed in how little her character has to do with a really important and interesting era for Chinese-Americans. The Chinese Exclusion Act was repealed in 1943 and is probably why Violet can live in the US (she mentions a green card).

[Deadlock Intel @IntelDeadlock]

VIOLET PAINTS THE TOWN!

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@Dante56E ?

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@lonGhostDL Definitely agree and sympathize.

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@TzuyuBestGorl I also don't think the game needs to make references to real world politics or events. But the era this game is set in was really important and interesting for Chinese-Americans. I think it's a shame if Violet didn't reflect that or incorporate it into her lore.

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@TzuyuBestGorl They literally included a Chinatown district in the game's new map, which would not be as large and developed without all the historical changes that were happening. So yeah, it's kinda relevant to the game's worldbuilding.

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@TzuyuBestGorl Either way, Violet's explicitly a Chinese immigrant, and the CEA's repealing reshaped her community and these ethnic enclaves, allowing them to become multi-generational cultural hubs. I don't think it's unrealistic to want that to be seen in a 1940s-themed world.

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@SwagLor41123585 For sure. Game's in beta and they've revamped characters before, I'm still here for Violet.

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They did add a Chinatown to the map, I think some voice lines where she references it would really help IMO.

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I’m really happy with her Chinese roots, but feel like a lot of lost potential to historically represent my community during this time. Her going to therapy and smoking weed and having disappointed parents cuz she went to art school is fun but also really anachronistic.

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this guy makes art history/media analysis video essays btw.

[Solar Sands @Solar_Sas]

I'm sorry but when artists go like "my art is better than this AI slop" and then post art that's not like super impressive it's just really embarrassing.

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guy will refuse to touch how art history and politics and theory intersect (which is why his videos are so substanceless), but will go on twitter fights about how radical honesty is an constructive ideology that justifies him being a disreputable dick online.

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@Polardoxical Deadlock is currently missing the funny gib explosions that TF2 has. This could fix that.

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@xivEmirin I agree with you, but she's not wearing a qipao, she's wearing a modified tang suit jacket/tangzhuang. A qipao's a one-piece dress with a (usually) asymmetrical opening.

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@pibblepip Guess what race I am, buddy.

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Every design is so phenomenal, but I do think Violet's is the weakest of the bunch. Her model still feels unfinished and the costume and hair could feel more unified (beret + tang suit + shorts is a weird combo).

[‎Gabe Follower @gabefollower]

Six new heroes are coming to Deadlock:

The Rat King - Scrappy, Regal, Tenacious
Baba - Cackling, Beady, Hexing
Deadman Danny - Reckless, High-Flying, Explosive
Nurse Harrow - Strict, Terrifying, Savior
Violet - Expressive, Nimble, Creative
Solomon - Strategist, Grandmaster, Checkmate

#deadlock

[Bixels 🍉 @BixelsWixels]

@pibblepip Won’t someone think of the conventionally attractive Asian girl. 🥺😢