a goofy movie is about how goofy and max are both cool in their own ways and learning to see that in one another. an extremely goofy movie is about goofy dunking on his son in every department. balls too hard, skates too tough, bitch too bad, fuck them kids
this is unironically one of the hardest matchups out of all of these. a trickster god vs a goddess of compassion. mythologies are built on this kind of thing
If you want a fully immersive "postmodern design hellscape" themed dining experience I highly recommend dinner at The Cheesecake Factory
from a design perspective that place is fuckin wild and I'll talk a little bit about why
Colin Trevorrow says ‘JURASSIC WORLD: DOMINION’ "asks a single question. If dinosaurs lived amongst us, would you be safe? And the answer is no."
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not the trigger anime rehabilitating the reputation of the cyberpunk 2077 game, leading to a huge spike in sales, meaning cdpr will face absolutely no consequences for shipping a completely broken product born from an extremely unethical and crunch-heavy dev cycle
To conclude:
There is nothing more quintessentially "American capitalism" in flavor than The Cheesecake Factory
Wealth run wild. Chaotic visual fantasies realized w no aesthetic discipline. An obsession with appearance of luxury. Gross excess that excels at feigning its quality
watching the "a little" variant overtake the original "little a" variant and being powerless to stop it reminds me of how insignificant i truly am on this earth
i love how the recording industry was ordered by us congress to visibly flag albums with explicit content and they went "fine we'll just make that shit look cooler" and then dropped one of the hottest graphics human eyes had ever seen
let it be known in the 6 years since this tweet, the seldom-seen BIG CHALLENGES has re-emerged in Hello Kitty: Island Adventure for iOS/iPhone! they gave him a lovely backstory/questline, which he deserves.
he is now canonically the oldest known living thing in the sanrioverse.
can't wait for reddit to burn itself out and for the internet to lose the last parseable source of reviews/recommendations that isn't an SEO mill fake website; googling "[insert recommendation subject] + reddit" is so common now it might as well be boilerplate.
if we're talking about things that get "lost" in ps2 ports...
final fantasy x on the ps2 actually had very detailed facial/performance capture, generations ahead of its time.
when new models were created for ffxhd, that old capture data couldn't be used... and got thrown out!
i just found out about a particular breed of sheep called a border leicester and !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
sheep!!!!!!!!!! but also bun!!!!!!!!!!!! but also sheep!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yall don't understand. this motherfucker was literally the sans undertale of the 2000's. he was a living, walking meme. and those crazy motherfuckers made him hot again. god help us.
Before Tobey & Sam were bid adieu by Sony, work actually had begun on SPIDER-MAN 4, and I visited friends who were working on the Vulture's costume intended for actor John Malkovich. Once production shut down, all materials were turned in. I've sat on this for almost 15 years.
mid-menu advertisements for the RESTAURANT YOU HAVE ALREADY CHOSEN TO DINE AT are frequent and deliberately make you lose track of your spot
here's one, w/ an entire page of flavor text
this thing feels like a god damn playbill. all the tcf's a stage, and we are but its players
The interior is a world of aesthetic chaos that feels like a mix between a Fry's Electronics, an overgrown Panera, and a laser tag arena. It's /sensational/.
Palm trees sit aside 2000's-chic glass lighting fixtures, French limestone floors, mosaics, fresco-like murals...
i use this image so frequently still that i asked myself "what is it that these men were losing their shit over again?"
and then remembered it was the fucking 2004 trailer for twilight princess
The Cheesecake Factory essentially grew out of a Los Angeles bakery business. Then, in 1992, they brought on hospitality designer Rick McCormack and shit went off the rails
We're talking VICTORIAN-EGYPTIAN-ROCOCO OFF THE RAILS
-"Quick Bites"
-Appetizers
-Glamburgers
-Specialties
-Pasta
-Sandwiches
-Steaks/Chops/Fish/Seafood
-Pizza
-"Super Foods"
-"Skinnylicious" (???)
are all separate sections. there is no rhyme or reason to them. this menu is not your friend. it is actively trying to mislead you.
thinking about this late 90s/early aughts anime aesthetic that looked so good and was in vogue for so short a time.
desaturated, urban, cool colors w/ minimal shading and lots of fine background detail. a far cry from the high saturation and heavy post-processing in modern work.
Pseudo-Egyptian faces top columns with hybrid palm frond/lotus blossom designs and pseudo-heiroglyphics. It's unchecked white exoticism/orientalism run amok w a huge budget. Some elements like the face's "third eye" and the Sauron-like sconces borderline on occult flavor.
It feels like a relic of another era, one where such a vision was sold to the American public as a utopian concept. It, like the brief period of neoliberalistic prosperity that made it possible, is a fever dream made manifest. Enjoy it while you can.
TCF blasts you w/ a "luxury dining" aesthetic while cutting some /bizarre/ corners.
They serve you water in tankards, seat you in wicker chairs at marble tabletops.
Then you realize your tankards are plastic, your wicker is plastic, and your table is vinyl-lined particle board.
The unchecked frenetic design doesn't stop there. Look at the goddamn menu.
Or should I say FOUR MENUS - menu, "skinnylicious", drinks, cheesecakes (not desserts, that's different!)
It is the most intentionally obtuse culinary document I've ever seen. It wants to DISORIENT YOU
Both ostentatiously gaudy and consistently cheap, from the fake plaster walls to the fake wicker chairs, TCF is almost reminiscent of a theme park. The more you stare at this and see elements like the tacky booth cushions and glass dividers slowly emerge, the more surreal it gets
And then, at the end of it all, in a cold lonely counter cooler, the cheesecake.
my location placed it near the lobby/exit, far from the dining area. alone.
The namesake dish feels utterly inconsequential by the time you reach it.
Perhaps it meant something once.
lotta misunderstanding on the tl today - the ps2's transparent rendering isn't some "lost technique". the ps2 was simply a genetic freak, and it is not normal.
ps2's gfx hardware configuration made it /real easy/ for devs to spam a ton of alpha blended transparency on screen...
after wandering the menu a while, helplessly, you order and the food arrives. it's good. not bad, not great, but good. better than an applebee's, better than a friday's. i wanted to say i hated it, but in truth, i couldn't. that was probably the most disappointing part of all.
i feel like i'm going insane watching everyone just integrate NFT, the most meaningless mark of value since the tulip bulb, into as many aspects of our daily life as possible. just a constant state of jaw on the floor. and it just keeps coming.
Unbelievable moment in the new Call of Duty campaign, where, stalking through a trailer park, the game tells you to de-escalate a situation, and "de-escalating" means pointing your gun directly at civilians
America has entered a pandemic-inspired baby bust.
Guess not even locking couples up and obliterating their social calendars could convince more Americans to have babies.
ALSO! If you're interested in reading more about the actual design history of The Cheesecake Factory, this article does a far better job than I did at breaking it down!
shoutout to family video, the last crusader in the noble field of video rental stores, complete with the highly innovative concept of an in-store window to an adjacent marco's pizza
fun video game UI trivia:
i am 99% sure that the "tile flip transition" effect from the Mario 64 file screen was inspired by the menus from SGI Performer, which would have been preloaded onto the SGI workstations that Mario 64 was developed with
here the two are, side by side!
it's important to humanize artists so here's a picture of mf doom making what you damn well know is probably the best mac n cheese you'll never have a chance to eat