• rosa666parks@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      I played the very early single player Fortnite when I was messing around with unreal 4 back in the day. I thought “this is cool” and never played it again, and now it’s one of the biggest games in the world I never saw it coming.

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      We’re back boys (somewhere I’ve never been and will never go)

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      It should be studied in film classes as a perfect example of non narrative based storytelling.

      I’m serious.

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      have you actually tried watching? I keep seeing complaints from people who never gave it a chance just because it looked weird

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        I’ve seen a number of people who I know for a fact enjoyed Salad Fingers 20 years ago just unthinkingly dunking on skibidi toilet

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        Right the meme is well aged and starting to smell a bit funky, it’s time for the geezers to look at it. 👴

        I’ll give it a watch.

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          That’s the spirit I thought it was weird until I dated a teacher and we watched like ten episodes and I was like yeah ok it’s good.

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            I have watched Skibidi Toilet - Season 1 [FULL SCREEN] my main thoughts are “cool use of source engine”, I then watched a random one and at least it has different content so i’ll watch some more of it later.

            For me the initial clip is a bit meh, but the world building of the random episode looks interesting.

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              The lack of any dialogue kinda makes me feel like I have to pay attention otherwise I’d have no clue what’s going on.

              Yeah I initially wrote it off as absurdist source engine 2010 yup engineer videos. But there’s quite a bit more nuance than that.

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        Isn’t it absurdist horror?

        These kids seem way more into horror than I’ve ever seen. I was really surprised to hear how my cousin’s kids adored a freaky one called Poppy Playtime.

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      How is different from Crazy Frog or Billy Bass? Dumb memes turning into toys or dumb meme toys have been around for forever.

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    Similar target audiences right? I’m ok with this, I’m glad that kids have games to look forward to like when I was young. Just because ST isn’t for me doesn’t mean I can’t be happy for the people who will be happy with this.

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      This video from tale foundry touches on this.

      Let kids be kids, and enjoy their lore like we did when we were young. It’s just getting wierd because people can cash in on it easily.

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        It’s just getting wierd because people can cash in on it easily.

        Yep, I remember the old South Park episode about “Internet Dollars” something like 15 years old, and suddenly, people are figuring out how to do just that.

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      Seems like the best strategy don’t you think? There are no real pros to pushing a pointless copyright claim and only negatives would come from doing so.

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    I, on the other hand, would like to happily inform everyone that I still don’t know what this is beyond seeing those words together, and if I play my cards right, I might never!

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      Skibidi Toilet is a series of short form videos using assets from Garry’s Mod and/or Source Film Maker. It features the camera heads (protagonists) fighting the toilet heads (antagonists). The toilets can be defeated by flushing the toilet. The series features an escalation of violence and weapons on both sides along with at least one additional faction joining.

      It’s actually pretty good. Like a lot of things the youth are into it’s their obsession with it that’s annoying moreso than the content.

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    Internet is weird for people who only stick to message board type social media like lemmy and reddit, and avoid account focused social media like tiktok, Twitter, Instagram, threads, etc.

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      One could argue that this is the weird part of the internet now since we are the minority

      We are like the BBS, IRC, and Usenet users of the late 2000s who refused to be swayed by Digg, Reddit, and (SMS only) Twitter.

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    That animation is shit, it’s slow and doesn’t have the weirdness the OG has. You ruined a shitty meme fortnite, well done.

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      It would require them to individually custom animate every face’s 3D mesh to it’s absolute extremes.

      If it were to be implemented properly it would probably have to be available only for the default skins and a small selection of popular skins. And that’s if they even have the tools ready to push facial animations like that at all, idk if there are limits to the current rigging that would need to be addressed, idk how they’d do it tbh.

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        If they can spend the time making sure the stupid dances are right, they can spend the time making this shitty meme right.

        If you’re gonna do something, do it right or don’t do it at all!

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          I’m getting the impression that your name isn’t exactly misleading.

          But I do agree that a limited implementation of a more well executed version would be more interesting. Even if the whole meme is dumb.

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            I chose my name for a reason.

            It’s more the speed of the movement that ruins it, it’s too slow, speed the animation cycle up a bit and it wouldn’t look as bad.

            Just put skibidi toilet as a random NPC enemy in the game, I think that would be better, have it be like a random hord that runs through the map