linus' 4-heart cutscene

[GIRL]

bruh. can someone please tell me if the implications were intentional or not on a dev's part? i refuse to believe someone put together this cutscene fully believing nobody would think something's up.

linus, i love you man but wtf was this interaction.

[Powerfull]

Lmao hi femboy

[•{Treebucket}•]

I don't understand, whats so bad about it?

[Queen Droxxanna]

what implications?? You become Linus's friend and he shares his bait recipe with you. We always see him fishing at the lake, so what is weird about the cut scene??
If you are thinking something weird, then you need to clean up your thoughts.

[Amberbaum]

Originally posted by soaringfreedom:

what implications?? You become Linus's friend and he shares his bait recipe with you. We always see him fishing at the lake, so what is weird about the cut scene??
If you are thinking something weird, then you need to clean up your thoughts.

yeah. If the sound effects make you think oof something else then that's on you.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by soaringfreedom:

what implications?? You become Linus's friend and he shares his bait recipe with you.

You're right my bad. It's just completely wholesome fun between me and a stranger in his tent who only dresses in leaves. how could I have seen otherwise.

[Nakos]

What do you want? It's a project put together by a solo, indie developer.

Sound resources aren't going to be free, and any developer is going to have areas they're weak on and use readily available free (or low cost) existing resources. Sound Effects may (or may not) fall into that category for CA.

Linus is supposed to be cutting bait and showing you how to do it. Animation would have been expensive and slow (CA would have had to hand draw the cells and probably felt it wasn't a good use of his time). The existing engine isn't well suited to showing something like that.

So instead, CA attempted to use this effect to convey the scene:

(As excerpted from Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud)
https://understandingcomics177.wordpress.com/about/1-2/2-2/

You can argue that it's not very successful and is open to too much unintended interpretation by the viewer, but do understand the limitations of both the medium and of the developer.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by Nakos:

You can argue that it's not very successful and is open to too much unintended interpretation by the viewer, but do understand the limitations of both the medium and of the developer.

"Erm achtually you don't understand the limitations of the developer!"

Don't care, it still sounds like something sloppy is going on and you can't tell me it's unintentional that they chose to not follow the view into Linus' tent. Wouldn't have been hard to at least give Linus a "foraging" animation where he's kneeling down doing some non-specific action with his hands, and have used that.

[Nakos]

Originally posted by Femboy Thighs:

Don't care,

Yep, got it. Have fun with that.

[TakeTwoFL]

Tell me you've never attempted to create media without telling me you haven't attempted to make media of any type. It's hard to appease everyone especially in today's crazy soft society. If you read into something too far or too little that's on you. If it hurts you, move on and learn from an old adage "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger." Get stronger, it helps shoulder the 'scary' world out here.

[GIRL]

Originally posted by TakeTwoFL:

Get stronger, it helps shoulder the 'scary' world out here.

Mate do u think im complaining about this or offended by it lmao?? Always the ones who complain about "today's society" that are the ones to jump to conclusions, it seems.

The point of the thread was to go "haha this cutscene was weird and possibly an innuendo." most commenters on YouTube say the same thing.

man... can't have a joke around here without someone barking at me about game development resources or how I'm apparently supposed to be offended.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by TakeTwoFL:

It's hard to appease everyone especially in today's crazy soft society.

So maybe we shouldn't even try to, then.
Like, I really don't want to see a game like Stardew try to appeal to fans of racing games, platformers or shooters at all. Fans that enjoy games like Stardew would not like that if they tried to appeal to those types of players and fans of those other genres would also not like it for the farming mechanics the game is focused on if that's not what they enjoy, and besides, there's plenty of other games in those other genres if you want them.

See what I mean? Maybe not the best example of what I'm trying to say here, but basically, if you try to please everyone, you end up pleasing no-one.

[Powerfull]

Originally posted by hello:

gross. thank you for carrying out the stereotype that everyone with a name that includes the word femboy are weird sex weirdos. who also relentlessly have to start arguments with anyone and everyone no matter where or when.

That wasn't even the point of his tread. It was for pointing out this silly little oversight from the devs in this cutscene, but you can't make a joke here without someone saying "tHe DeVS iS An INdiE DEv hE cAn dO whaTEveR hE WaNts" or a mod deleting it. And assuming stuff about someone because of their joke name on the internet is very preconceitual of you, feel like I shouldn't need to tell you that.

[Powerfull]

Nah better then watch you ppl simp for dev would be to unsubscribe from this forum. Bye femboy, i guess I'll see you on the DRG forum i guess...

[GIRL]

Originally posted by hello:

not an assumption, he exposed himself as a sex weirdo.

Aww, sowwy I hurt your feewings.

Do you also go, "Ew, you're a sex weirdo!" when someone at works makes a pee-pee joke? Here, let's get you your bottle and tuck you in.

[ChrillBill]

I guess we just interpret things differently. The thought of something naughty going on never crossed my mind when I first saw it, though I will admit I wasn't feeling happy when it happened >.>