Simp Fried Rice

25, he/they, eternally tired

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@garythedemon99 @hutchinson Usually you seal the deal with some sorta formal handshake though. We never see hutch reply with any affirmation after Mike clarifies the bet. Two people saying "bet" does not make a bet.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Sure, your eyes aren’t tricking you. That clip looks better than the new trailer, and the reason has nothing to do with talent. The VFX supervisor on Amazing Spider-Man 2 in 2014? Jerome Chen. The VFX supervisor on Brand New Day? Also Jerome Chen. Same person. Completely different system around him.

In 2014, Chen had 50 effects artists at Sony Imageworks, the largest VFX crew the studio had ever put on a single project. They handled about 1,000 of the film’s 1,600 VFX shots on a $255 million budget. The crew shot on real film (not digital), on location in actual New York City, scanned Times Square with 36,000 photographs of over 100 billboards, and built physical lighting rigs on set so the CGI would match the real world.

Now look at how Marvel makes Spider-Man movies. No Way Home had 2,500 VFX shots spread across 12 studios and about 3,000 artists. The budget was $200 million, $55 million less than TASM2 despite having 56% more VFX shots. Digital Domain, one of the VFX vendors, was delivering final shots days before the December 17, 2021, release. They kept reworking shots into mid-January, after the movie was already in theaters.

Zoom out, and the math gets worse. Marvel released 6 films between 2008 and 2012. From 2023 to 2025, they pushed out 7 films and 7 TV shows. The Hollywood union representing VFX workers reported that Marvel pays artists about 20% below industry average and staffs one person where other studios hire three. Artists described 64-hour weeks and breakdowns on the job. Then, in February 2025, Technicolor, the parent company of MPC (three-time Oscar winner for Life of Pi, The Jungle Book, and 1917), collapsed almost overnight. 4,500 jobs gone globally. The studio had been actively working on Disney and Paramount films when the lights went out.

Brand New Day has four months before release, and trailers routinely show unfinished shots. But the gap between a 2014 Spider-Man and a 2026 Spider-Man has nothing to do with technology going backwards. The industry has been asked to do three times the work for less money per shot while its biggest studios are going under.

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@AI_EmeraldApple It was out for 2 hours when you posted this? You were so eager to sell your narrative huh? 😂

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@Betrigansmh I think these current live service flops lack the hook gamers need to stick out these rocky launches. Marvel rivals succeeds cause its core gameplay is fun. The brand helps get new players foot in the door which really helps but gameplay makes them stick around.

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@Betrigansmh Look at destiny, one of the first big live service games. The only thing that kept that game alive was "it's fun and satisfying to play." The content wasn't there, the story was laughably bad and the world building was hidden inside a phone app.

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@hutchinson Better than aquaman??

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@InsiderGamingIG Finally, a game that'll frustrate me mentally and sexually

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@BS_artsss I hope some of the mechanics/design goes into the next soulslike they make. I think the character specific abilities are more fun and engaging than weapon arts or spells. Specifically recluses magic cocktails, that or something similar should come forward

[Gravelord☠️ Comms Open! @ohnojustino]

Dnd aasimar character design comm 👼

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@bleeding_sun You look like the subject of one of your pieces 😍

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@ghostysav It's Australian day time so... yes? 😂

[Shimhaq @shimhaq]

The Night's Tide approaches
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My Nightreign pieces till now. Ill paint separate pieces for all the Night Lord's as a series once Im able to jump into the game
#ELDENRING

[𝙈⁷ @0mmmmm7777777]

Heolstor The Nightlord

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@CottontailVA

[NEZ @NN_EE_ZZ]

Four horsemen of the apocalypse - war

[百々田 @momota_ro5555]

tifa🐺
#FF7EC #FF7ECハーフアニバ

[Simp Fried Rice @PrayTellCaesar]

@ghostysav Where else am I supposed to get my daily fix? 😂

[Tylor Hepner @TylorHepnerArt]

Monster Hunter✨ #MHWilds

[Lita ✧ @llalilalita]

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