to elaborate, the real power of zbrush is its ability to push around extremely heavy (million+) meshes and some other specialized tools that you do not need to worry about when starting out. the company that makes it is great and i have a perpetual commercial license from them that has gotten me years of free updates with no maintenance fee.
zbrush core is also an option, which is zbrush with a generous feature set that omits most of the power user features that a beginner would not need. it’s very reasonably priced! (please don’t steal their software, i like them)
For one I’m not that vain and two, there’s no fucking room at my tiny ass desk at work. Apparently we’re lucky they even give us dividers between them, other parts of the building are pure panopticon.
every time I think about my diploma I get nervous that it’s a piece of paper somewhere in my house that could be taken as valuable in itself and which I’ve dedicated 0 effort to properly preserving because I have mental hangups w/r/t myself as a student
I’m certain that my undergrad diploma is just lost, my wife probably knows where my master’s is
i noticed my partners dad put them up at home (he works from home) and then i saw that depression comic with a diploma on the wall and i couldn’t stop wondering
my mom got my diplomas framed for me and i have them hanging in my bedroom because it seemed like what i should do, i guess. idk, i didn’t give it much thought and i don’t give them specifically a lot of thought, and had she not done that, i guess they’d be in a box or something.
i have my tenure certificate on that wall, too, though, and that one actually means something to me because i really went through hell to get that.
Let the university hang on to it for me for 6 or 7 years because I forgot to fill out a promissory note before I started paying my loans back. One university merger/regime change later, “Hey we’ve got your diploma in a filing cabinet, you want it? Cool where should we mail it?”
My diploma is the only remotely respectable thing I’ve achieved thus far in my life, but I haven’t done anything with it yet. It’s framed but I don’t know when/if I’ll ever hang it.
Nope! The split didn’t happen until 2014 when Marvelous (who bought up the original developers in 2003) started releasing the games as Story of Seasons instead. So far there have been 4 of those on 3DS and Switch. Natsume meanwhile decided to make their own farming games and just put the name Harvest Moon on those for branding’s sake. There have been 5 of those released on 3DS, iOS, Switch, PC and PS4.
As for why the Wii games sucked, just a casual glance over the various game credits the big change that happened was probably that the Wii games would be the first games being developed entirely under the new ownership of Marvelous Inc. (previously Victor Interactive Software were independent). The Gamecube one as well as the GBA Friends of Mineral Town were both released the year that the merger happened and were probably mostly done by then. A lot of the original dev team was likely shifted around a bunch which led to the new direction.
SRPG baby here. I’ve played Fire Emblem, Advance Wars, Knights in the Nightmare, FFT, and Disgaea: Hour of Darkness. I loved FFT and Disgaea’s mechanics the best.
I need more please. What are your favorite complicated grid combat games? What are the important SRPGs to know? My favorite strategy games are the small-scale single battle ones with colorful isometric art and monsters and beautiful adults instead of boring army men (oh my god xcom) or appeals to pedophilia (looking at you Disgaea).
You know, now I’m thinking, what would people have said if I didn’t qualify that I don’t like army men and pedobait. Is there some beloved tactical game that I’m screwing myself out of on aesthetic grounds? Hopefully an army man one?
Gonna particularly call out Into The Breach, although the way they refined the genre trappings might be too much of a simplification for you. I feel like you’re probably also someone who might appreciate the changes in Final Fantasy Tactics Advance and FFTA2.
tactics ogre: luct, langrisser 2 (megadrive is the challenging version with good fm tunes, snes version is easier and has awful audio but branching paths + more #content)