To be honest I disagree with you about this:
When I think of Blockland, I don't think of little kids playing with cheapass toys, I think of the lego figurines coming to life and acting of their own will. The laser set is supposed to be futuristic, and given enough time to advance as a race and build a society, who's to say that they couldn't one day create something like the Shining Laser themselves? I know what you're going to say, "that makes absolutely no loving sense whatsoever", but it's a loving GAME, have some imagination for once.
first:
'it's a loving game' is never a forgetin answer to anything. we are all playing this game and we are all actively arguing about this game, so clearly we all are interested in where it goes and what it's outcome will eventually be. adding 'this is just' in front of anything renders it immediately dismissive, acting like it doesn't forgetin count, which is not something you are allowed to suddenly render things on the fly. people get banned for this, it's forgetin with the basic ground rules of the argument like WHOOP I AM SPECIAL, YOUR ARGUMENTS ARE INVALID WITH NO DISCOURSE OR REASONING AS TO WHY
'you have no imagination' is even
less of an answer to anything. if anything it's actively hypocritical because it's definitely in the top ten and likely in the top five things that people say when they have no explanation to their artistic actions and have backed themselves into a creative corner. there's no way people are going to forgetin imagine the same image you are if you don't have an image to begin with, and there's certainly no way they're going to want to if you forgetin imply that they're less creative then you for not coming up with forgetin
nothing'that makes no sense whatsoever' is not what i was going to say, and in fact there is nothing in particular i can say and still remain in the right about having a different concept of a backstory if it were just a sheer backstory, cause that'd be hating on sheer creative property. it'd be like getting mad at someone for coming up with a story that not only had i never read but had never been published and never even actually been written down. however, in this circumstance, the backstory does not actually matter at all, and whatever ridiculous fanfiction you write up about blockland's lore won't change the fact that there is a pre-existing aesthetic in existence and you're clearly flying in it's face while people are telling you that you look like an idiot while you fly in it's face
but more to the point, what do you mean you disagree that blockland is a bunch of toys
that's a toythere's no way that can't
not be a toy
that's like pointing at a tyrannosaurus and saying I DISAGREE THAT IS A TYRANNOSAURUS
what the forget like even if you do disagree that doesn't change the fact that, objectively, that it's a forgetin tyrannosaurus
I understand where you're coming from but seriously, the Shining Laser is literally the worst example you could've used here. It's coated with knives because it's based off of something that is also coated with knives; I was intentionally going overboard with it and aiming for a very specific aesthetic that's entirely different from the rest of the pack, it's supposed to stand out and look really loving menacing because it's by far the most powerful and most dangerous weapon in the pack.
All of the other weapons in the pack are a lot more down-to-earth and blocky. And yeah, they're still pushing the envelope, some more than others; that's the futurism shining through (remember these are lasers we're talking about). A little bit of variety is an absolute must in any game, otherwise things get really loving boring.
Really? Really?? You're actually loving trying to tell me that my work is outright stuff? It may clash with YOUR interpretation of how Blockland should look but that has absolutely no bearing whatsoever on the objective quality of my work and you are no better than me for suggesting such a thing. Seriously, am I missing something here, or are you actually telling me that your opinion is it has nothing going for it even when taken outside of your imposed context of the game?
i do think your weapons are stuffty actually because they're basically just a big dumb deviantart-tier thing (as previously stated) but that doesn't actually have anything to do with the statement. like you can take it as me saying that your stuff is stuff but i was using stuff as an extreme example in order to facilitate the metaphor
like, it's not that i think your stuff
isn't stuff, it's just that i was not using the term 'stuff' to actually refer to
your stuff
as stuff. i was referring to stuff in the general sense, as in the thing that comes out of your butt. literal feces.
actually, here. if the issue is that you think that the blockland aesthetic is wrong then let's focus on your idea of the blockland aesthetic and i will tell you why i think it's flawed (and, actually, why i'm suspicious that it's something you made up on-the-spot so you'd have a good excuse as to why you are being such a hardheaded douche) so that you may better yourself while continuing to be 'unique' and hang out with all the other 'unique' guys in 'unique'town 'U'.S.A.
garishly colored but relatively uninsulting, actually has a pretty OK name
getting into too much detail, still garishly colored, why would blockheads make perpendicular RYNO-grip if they canonically cannot forgetin bend their arms inward
(plus, it sounds like someone went through the forgetin greek alphabet to find a letter that had a cool-sounding name)
ridiculous overly-precise detail work that pushes the suspension of disbelief that a race with hands that are constantly locked into a C-position could even attempt to approach the finesse necessary to fabricate
(plus, it sounds like someone went through the forgetin english alphabet to find several cool sounding letters that they could mash together into a cool sounding 'abbreviation')
that's a fuc
kin LASER KNIFE ARE YOU SERIOUS WHY WOULD ANYONE INVENT THESE
IT WAS ALREADY STUPID COATING A GUN'S FIRING CRYSTAL IN NORMAL KNIVES WHY WOULD YOU GO THROUGH THE EFFORT OF MAKING A KNIFE MADE OF forgetIN MAGIC SCIENCE LASERSyeah it does. what do you think determines what is good? your opinion? lol
yes, night fox.
people typically think that their opinions are good, night fox.
that is why they maintain their opinions and do not find another opinion to adopt, night fox.
you can't just pass by people and stamp 'doesn't count' on their shirts, night fox. you have to explain why, night fox.
I thought I was being consistent with the art style by using simple curves, blocky shapes (octagons and hexagons), bevels, notches, grooves... etc. Granted, I'm using them in a much greater volume than any of the stock weapons, but to me that's certainly not a bad thing. It would be different if this were a game like TF2, or Wind Waker, or Halo, but Blockland is a sandbox game, the entire point of it is to create and interact with other real people, it's not like it's trying to tell a story or immerse you or anything like that, and that gives cause for some extra leeway in my opinion.
I'm harassing you?
and don't call it "default-style," your weapons couldn't pass as default
you guys are just complaining about the fact that people like things other than the things you like. there isn't any sense in trying to say it's more than that because it isn't. it doesn't affect you. you don't have to use the add-ons
Also, this is a really damn good point, you're kind of being a hypocrite.
no, i am not being hypocritical by making guns that are simplified and toy-like in order to fit in with other guns that are simplified and toy-like. they look
different, but they fit within the same aesthetic. sky blue looks different then teal, but they're both types of blue. same principle. in fact, the one time someone made guns that look precisely like default weapons, instead of taking reasonable creative liberties, people got forgetin mad at him (i'm pretty sure the person in question was Treti)
the fact that you're not even attempting to lie within even the grounds of 'creative liberties' and just are doing whatever the forget you want is why people are reacting so badly. it would be fine if you even attempted to fit in but not only was there no attempt at all you're making as big a scene as possible that you didn't try at all
how did you even get to this point? did you just decide to start throwing bad-sounding adjectives at me until you could find one that stuck? i didn't realize you could reach any harder then out-and-out unannounced ad hominem but here we are, looking through forgetin dictionaries to see if any of the words fit
update to 12th edition oxford, night fox. maybe you'll find something
really showstopping, like 'noob'.
