Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:47:04.000Z
[detroit become human] random thoughts while watching this....
latest #82
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:47:44.000Z
*the best thing is watching letsplayers who have lived in Detroit because they're all "yooooo this bit is near my house! "
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:49:33.000Z
*Connor constantly sounds like he's been either screaming for days or has just recovered from a painful sore throat, and the actor doesn't seem to sound like that normally (nor do other androids), so I can't stop wondering why the voice director made that decision??
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:49:50.000Z
*Kamski is UTTER SCUM
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Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:50:54.000Z
*the most important part of any game: you get to pet the dog<3
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:53:02.000Z
*it's really interesting to compare the animation with bg3; the latter is so much more open-world, while the former integrates cut scenes with moving-around scenes much more seamlessly
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:53:35.000Z
*(and also doesn't have the aesthetics issue of the inside of the mouth being too visible/lit)
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:54:27.000Z
(which is not a criticism, just something that bothers me specifically)
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:55:50.000Z
*dbh does reward exploration in each mission area, but the game is so linear that most areas are exclusive to one mission
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T03:58:30.000Z
*North doing the Great Escape tennis ball thing
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T17:00:25.000Z
*Hank: "so do you plan on staying in that elevator?"
Connor: [exactly the opposite of Flynn's "yEaH?"]
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T17:00:58.000Z
????why is this a question did I miss something
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T17:10:17.000Z
What I get for missing out on Spongebob: everyone keeps saying they can't unhear Hank as Mr. Krabs (same actor), but I won't be able to unhear Mr. Krabs as Hank
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T18:22:50.000Z
*Ironic that humans use it/its for androids but literally all androids are designed to look masculine or feminine
Hooded Figure
2024-04-14T18:23:33.000Z
(and swiftly revert to gendered pronouns after deviating)
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T01:09:33.000Z
help people In The Comments are arguing that Hank (canonically a millennial) is a boomer because he's old and then doubling down that millennial and boomer are age categories rather than birth-decade categories
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T01:19:48.000Z
was going to say something about how inconsistently death is handled when people can just be repaired and reactivated, but tbh the fact that restorative technology exists doesn't help if you can never expect to have access to it
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T05:30:04.000Z
If Connor had just stepped to one side and deviated the guy nearest to the elevator, 60 would have been too late to do anything, but nooooo, Connor had to walk all the way to the middle of the room first because he's that extra. And that's where 60 was waiting for him because 60 is identically extra.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T20:34:02.000Z
Hilarious that I primarily know Lance Henricksen (Carl) from Aliens, where he WAS an android :-D
'Sail
2024-04-15T21:56:37.000Z
so someone pointed out something a little... interesting? baffling? that the game might have the grumpy "you technokids get off my lawn" character's age be such that they fit right into the Grumpy Old Technoincompetent Guy stereotypes, but logically, he is a millennial... so the chances of him having the particular tech-grumps he does would be low.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T22:23:50.000Z
Yeah, there are definitely some... choices... made in some of the characterization XD
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T22:25:56.000Z
I wouldn't say millennials won't be technophobic, because there's always a new get-off-my-lawn I-like-the-familiar-one-better technology and there'll definitely be some more by the 2030s.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T22:27:47.000Z
He doesn't seem that technoincompetent to me, though; he just has issues with android technology and the way it's been deployed into society (and the universal experience of being annoyed at having to set passwords), and tbf a lot of those issues are what we're experiencing with today's "AI."
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T22:31:14.000Z
Technology being deployed to cynically tap into behavioral psychology in ways that maximize profit while "incidentally" increasing dependence and class inequality, stuff that would be legitimate issues even if the androids hadn't developed sapience.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T22:32:45.000Z
I wouldn't mind reading those remarks if they're public, though; I'm an observer from outside the fandom and it's always interesting to see people going in-depth about characterization!
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T22:35:57.000Z
They do lean into grumpy-old-Hank and I'd love to see what people say about how they did/didn't include his being a millennial.
'Sail
2024-04-15T23:11:16.000Z
oh, it was ages ago. I just thought it was kinda hilarious and stuck with me - especially since I haven't gotten into DBH myself. I think it might've been in a piece about the guy that made the game and how he certainly does make some choices, all right....
Hooded Figure
2024-04-15T23:28:23.000Z
XD That definitely tracks.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-16T22:41:55.000Z
man, I bet there's so much fic based on how Kara can recover her memory if Zlatko succeeds in wiping it but she escapes and finds the relevant clues in time.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-16T22:42:52.000Z
and I bet there's an equal amount of "but that's a jury-rigged basement machine, regular wiped androids wouldn't be able to do that."
Hooded Figure
2024-04-16T22:43:11.000Z
ah, being in fandom long enough to anticipate the currents. XD
Hooded Figure
2024-04-18T00:02:37.000Z
Heroically resisting the urge to go down the how-they-could-have-fixed-it doomspiral. I wouldn't be able to find the same trove of meta critiques I read back when it was new and scrolling through algorithmic content would just be depressing.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-18T00:05:50.000Z
It's out there already; I don't have to rip my head open to lay out what was badly done.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-18T00:06:38.000Z
on the bad holocaust metaphors front, I did that already for Tron Legacy
Hooded Figure
2024-04-18T00:11:04.000Z
Back in the day, we had to wade through communities IN THE SNOW UPHILL BOTH WAYS to find the discourse. It's much more accessible now, despite the drawbacks of algorithmic sorting, and I don't have to be the instructor. Enough to hold space for what I don't know and keep learning.
Hooded Figure
2024-04-18T01:02:45.000Z
Some nights you just have to swan-dive into the animatics.Better Than You - (Camp Camp/Detroit: Become Human)
Hooded Figure
2024-04-19T21:23:39.000Z
not cool that the second yk500 was only seen in order to Make Kara Conflicted and then Kara just walks off and leaves this other child alone and we never find out what happened to her
Hooded Figure
2024-04-19T21:25:23.000Z
same with the prone kid Markus saw earlier in the game; he was solely there To Make Markus Sad and then the actual problem of a kid shutting down was never revisited (tbc this happened to a bunch of adults too but it was just egregeous to do it with kids)
Hooded Figure
2024-04-19T21:25:39.000Z
did they escape the explodey sinking boat full of armed hostiles? We Just Don't Know
Hooded Figure
2024-04-19T21:26:00.000Z
(unless they show up in a later scene and I don't know about it!)
Hooded Figure
2024-04-22T19:33:29.000Z
SUMO IS THE BEST USELESS DOG<3
Hooded Figure
2024-04-22T19:33:44.000Z
Hank: Sumo, attack!
Sumo: bwoofs, tailwag :-D
TRON
2024-04-22T20:45:12.000Z
Sumo sounds adorable
Hooded Figure
2024-04-22T22:00:13.000Z
he IS~~
Hooded Figure
2024-04-22T22:00:31.000Z
he's a St Bernard and he's ENORMOUS and very chill
TRON
2024-04-23T01:08:19.000Z
That sounds delightful!
ΔΕΞΑI
2024-04-23T01:24:00.000Z
https://images.plurk.com/1tNCV6OBIpbF7ZtTTvfW9p.png
ΔΕΞΑI
2024-04-23T01:24:36.000Z
(julientel on tumblr)
TRON
2024-04-23T03:20:52.000Z
Awww, what a friend!
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T00:36:20.000Z
beautiful and extremely accurate
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T00:36:26.000Z
<3
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T00:36:40.000Z
if anything it undersells how HUGE Sumo is<3
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T00:37:27.000Z
all the letsplays I've seen so far have had Connor learn his name before meeting him; I wonder what would happen if he didn't
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T16:47:11.000Z
man, the number of letsplayers who initially aren't sure how to pronounce Io (the Galilean moon) because the font makes it look like 10
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T16:48:04.000Z
and a lot of them didn't focus their nerdery on Solar System objects like I did and didn't know Io was a thing
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T16:48:53.000Z
always good to remember that there is so much to know that it's very easy for peoples' spheres of knowledge to just not overlap here and there
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T16:49:24.000Z
they are that day's lucky 10,000th person who is now learning about Io~
Hooded Figure
2024-04-25T16:50:01.000Z
(IO HAS SO MANY ACTIVE VOLCANOES AND IS VERY NEAT :-D)
'Sail
2024-04-26T05:41:06.000Z
(AMEN.)
Hooded Figure
2024-04-26T12:50:40.000Z
ΔΕΞΑI
2024-04-26T14:26:33.000Z
to be entirely fair to them I only know of Io from my (short and sawed-off) Clarke phase at 9-ish so yeah man, knowledge accrues!
ΔΕΞΑI
2024-04-26T14:27:28.000Z
and getting to be the lucky 10kth customer is such a fun feeling!
ΔΕΞΑI
2024-04-26T14:28:09.000Z
there's stuff left to know in the world, and it's usually beautiful stuff! (I am agreeing at you excitedly because this is affection in ADHD, let me know if I need to stop (heart)
Hooded Figure
2024-04-26T15:28:35.000Z
yes exactly, that one xkcd strip always gives me That Feeling~ and look, I have neeped excitedly at you for exactly the same reasons, you are always welcome to be AAAAA about things in here
Hooded Figure
2024-04-26T15:29:50.000Z
such as: I think I first heard "neepery" from Neil Gaiman but was today years old when I looked it up and found
Trivia or highly-detailed information, especially that which an author includes in a work of fiction as a result of research
Hooded Figure
2024-04-26T15:29:59.000Z
and
From neep-neep, slang for a computer enthusiast, which reportedly arose at the California Institute of Technology in the 1970s.
:-D:-D:-D
Hooded Figure
2024-04-26T15:30:34.000Z
this just in: Flynn and co. definitely knew this word and used it all the time
Hooded Figure
2024-04-26T15:34:12.000Z
but yeah look at this pretty pretty nonsense moon. this is going on up there all the time.:-D
https://images.plurk.com/vTcsIaO7Jdo5EcX0faBfc.png
TRON
2024-04-26T17:08:19.000Z
Neep-neep??? that's so fun oh my gosh
Hooded Figure
2024-04-26T17:29:36.000Z
it really is! :-D
TRON
2024-04-26T18:51:18.000Z
Yeah! 🤭
Hooded Figure
2024-05-07T02:37:25.000Z
ok, my personal Minor Beef(tm) with the animation is the painting scene. The brush touches the palette like a virtual brush selecting a color from a jpg. The paint on the palette is utterly flat with no texture or lumps; it's picked up dry and no new paint is ever put on it and no water is ever used.
Hooded Figure
2024-05-07T02:37:45.000Z
Today in Things That Don't Work Like that, etc.
Hooded Figure
2024-05-07T02:38:29.000Z
It'd be convenient if it did, but it doesn't. XD
'Sail
2024-05-07T02:47:18.000Z
lol....
Hooded Figure
2024-05-07T04:11:44.000Z
I get why the pacing doesn't allow for the paint to be an actual minigame, but so much of the rest of the game is so realistic that it really stands out to me.
Hooded Figure
2024-05-09T22:58:51.000Z
The game does have a bunch of genuine humor. When Connor looks in the interrogation room mirror and the cops on the other side are just ???????? (haha)
TRON
2024-05-24T20:37:10.000Z
This popped up on the Tumblr radar and I thought of our discussion:

Clopina
Hooded Figure
2024-05-24T21:13:33.000Z
Awwwww!
TRON
2024-05-24T22:17:36.000Z
It's so cute!
TRON
2024-07-12T21:05:21.000Z
Another cute goodie from Tumblr:

AliaZen's Art
Hooded Figure
2024-07-14T14:01:40.000Z
Heee, what a good cuddlepile! :-D<3
TRON
2024-07-14T18:36:39.000Z
So good! <3!
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