Undine

I'm a Venezuelan Videogame developer who created an account to try to speak my voice without fear thanks to Charlie Kirk. I was a nonpolitical person before.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

@YorchTorchGames @MeowWoof87 So it didn't split the entire fanbase. It split you.

Another example of a games "Journalist". Diarist more like.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

@MikeyNohMore Notice how they always block their comments.

ALWAYS.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

What's most annoying to me is how technically competent these artists are, they would kick my ass on a sculpting-to-production ready character competition. What baffles me is how a character art team with thousands if not hundreds of thousands of hours of design practice under their belts can look at that lineup and say to themselves "yeah, those are good designs, they definitely don't look like they are wearing intestine armor".

I would be embarrassed to even put those in my portfolio. I would honestly prefer to say I went to jail for a few years rather than say I worked on Concord characters.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

I'm seriously considering doing an actual journalistic investigation on whether western studios buying an in-house photogrametry set actually rots their art department's brains.

I'm starting to see a serious and crippling lack of artistic creativity that is translating directly to loss of sales. The asian devs know how to push and pull the models they get from their photogrammetry scans to maximize appeal because they want the studios they are working in to succeed so that they keep getting paid. Maximum beauty, zero political correctness.

Western devs are either just portfolio aura farming for themselves or signaling political alignment with their art, I swear I've seen this exact linkedin message written by western devs copy pasted almost bit by bit every few months, as if I was stuck in a groundhog day scenario for the past 6 years:

"Hello Linkedin, Look at what I did while working at *insert any high profile US west coast studio here*. I know how to do 3d photogrametry, look at how crisp the pores look and how good the eye shaders are. Please hire me when I inevitably get let go because our game focused more on making a diverse ugly cast to appease Blackrock and Sweet Baby extortionists rather than paying customers and it didn't meet financial expectations (who could have guessed), did I say already that I know how to do 3d photogrametry?. Hire me plz, my cancer has cancer and I have no savings because I live in fucking california".

[Mr Melancholy @chakravartiiin]

The eastern approach to designing female characters in games seems to be diametrically opposite to western studios, interesting.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

I'm seriously considering doing an actual journalistic investigation on whether western studios buying an in-house photogrametry set actually rots their art department's brains.

I'm starting to see a serious and crippling lack of artistic creativity that is translating directly to loss of sales. The asian devs know how to push and pull the models they get from their photogrammetry scans to maximize appeal because they want the studios they are working in to succeed so that they keep getting paid. Maximum beauty, zero political correctness.

Western devs are either just portfolio aura farming for themselves or signaling political alignment with their art, I swear I've seen this exact linkedin message written by western devs copy pasted almost bit by bit every few months, as if I was stuck in a groundhog day scenario for the past 6 years:

"Hello Linkedin, Look at what I did while working at *insert any high profile US west coast studio here*. I know how to do 3d photogrametry, look at how crisp the pores look and how good the eye shaders are. Please hire me when I inevitably get let go because our game focused more on making a diverse ugly cast to appease Blackrock and Sweet Baby extortionists rather than paying customers and it didn't meet financial expectations, did I say already that I know how to do 3d photogrametry?. Hire me plz, my cancer has cancer and I have no savings because I live in fucking california".

[Undine @UndineImpera]

@BigBoris_2 I'm a game developer, and let's be honest for a second here: Some of them are fucking weird man. I wouldn't put it past one of them to have modelled the character after a crush they had under the guise of "I need help with reference pictures, can you help me out?".

[Undine @UndineImpera]

Indeed, and take this from someone that follows and usually agrees with Mark Kern, content creators like him: NikTek, Jon del Arroz, etc etc... They have opinions. But they are still individuals, just because they have big followings doesn't mean that those followers all agree with every single opinion they have. Sometimes they can say retarded things like calling the latest Lara Croft design ugly and everyone calls them out on it in the comments.

Screenshoting a heavily disliked opinion of them and using it as an argument on how "this is how gaming chuds think" is not just wrong, it's downright low IQ behavior, like an old person that has never used the internet before, but these are not old people, they tend to call themselves independent gaming "journalists", and it makes you question their information gathering integrity if they can't even read the first 5 comments of a post before using it as a gotcha. All NikTek had to do was read the comments of that post. But Alas, look, he deleted it because people were calling him out for being disingenuous.

[Han 🤠🦅 @IamTheEagleHTM]

Do these morons not realize that the fact this game, along with tens of thousands of other games with female protagonists have been released over the course of 40 years and they've been successful in a male centered hobby proves the problem has never been w/ female protagonists?

[Undine @UndineImpera]

@LOCONGAMER01 No es el mismo estudio, el último juego del estudio de Until Dawn 1 es Directive 8020 que salió solo hace un par de semanas, se ve de la misma calidad que UD 1 porque es la misma gente.

UD 2 es de una subsidiaria de Playstation que se dedicaba a juegos VR. Equipo diferente.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

@WeskerIsRight It always amuses me how every single game studio can seemingly replicate Debra Wilson perfectly, but the second they hire a conventionally attractive actress the artists get a stroke and lose the ability to copy their likeness. Not Debra Wilson tho, she's always a 1 to 1 copy.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

It always amuses me how every single game studio can seemingly replicate Debra Wilson perfectly, but the second they hire a conventionally attractive actress the artists get a stroke and lose the ability to copy their likeness. Not Debra Wilson tho, she's always a 1 to 1 copy.

[Albert Whiskers @WeskerIsRight]

The Japanese just get it

[Undine @UndineImpera]

Same thoughts here!. Even in the Last of Us I was expecting that the logical continuation of the story would be one focused on Ellie as the protagonist. But then they went and split their story 50/50 with a roided woman and a trans kid and I rolled my eyes with how unauthentic it felt.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

It's not the lighting that is the issue, it's the context in which it is put in. If it was a game based on a sort of synth-like 'Drive' (the film with Ryan Gosling) modern aesthetic and setting, that game would probably look cool. But for some reason they insist on putting it in fantasy games where it just. looks. generic. I don't know if that genre of purple high fantasy has a name, but I kinda hate it.

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

For the New National Hospital, we hired 3,200 people: 3,000 Salvadorans and 200 specialists from other countries.

Why?

I explain it here in 1 minute.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

@Mangalawyer I don't know what it is with the generic fantasy artstyle that modern games have. And i'm a game developer, I should know the answer but I don't. Forspoken, Avowed, Dragon Age Veilguard. Add this one to the list. They all have that generic concept artsy fantasy style. It's awful.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

I don't know what it is with the generic fantasy artstyle that modern games have. And i'm a game developer, I should know the answer but I don't. Forspoken, Avowed, Dragon Age Veilguard. Add this one to the list. They all have that generic concept artsy fantasy style. It's awful.

[LearningTheLaw ✝️ @Mangalawyer]

You can clearly see how God of War was abducted by women.

It went from a gruesome, dark atmosphere to a palette of vibrant purple colors, effeminate talking cubes, and animals with faces like this 🫪.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

@ShitpostRock2 Hmmm... Perhaps Johnny Silverhand was right all along.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

I never said anything for or against palestinians mate.

All I said is that communist developers ALWAYS have palestinian flags in their bios next to their hammer and sickle and gay flags. The Ukraine flag is optional, some have it, some don't, and I support Ukraine in that war. Are we living in the same reality? Have you been living under a rock? Have you not seen these people yourself? It's not like they are hiding their existence, they keep advertising that they are communists.

Again, just detach the palestine emotional bias from it. And just notice the pattern that communists have. Anti fascist, palestine flag, commie flag, gay flag. Every. Single. Time.

I don't care who people support in their bios, be a gay palestinian supporter all you want, except for communists, fuck communists.

[Undine @UndineImpera]

Do I have to show every single video and tweet bio of AAA game developers declaring that they are communists for you to acknowledge that they exist? In massive numbers and work in the AAA games industry even while being openly communists? Do you not see the hammer and sickle that they place along with the palestine flags and their gay pride flags? Have you seriously never seen the clip of the Disco Elysium devs thanking Karl Marx when they won game awards?.

Communists are everywhere, and they keep making anti capitalist anti corporate exploitation games and films while ironically working for those multi million dollar corporations and drinking pumpkin lattes while on their iphones.