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What’s better: physics freakouts or beautiful food?Jarring or juicy?
Jarring or juicy?
Last time, you decided thata really big unreal place is better than going undercover. Good. Very good. Great deciding, reader dear. I’m wholly impartial, of course, but I am glad you haven’t forced me to come up with some contrived reason to jam a really big unreal place back into the running. We can continue. This week, it’s a question of jarring vs. juicy. What’s better: physics freakouts or beautiful food?
Physics freakouts
Video games are full of fun physics freakouts. It’s always a joy to watch a ragdoll physics corpse get stuck inside an object and vibrate furiously. I also enjoy any time aGrand Theft Auto Vcar or plane ends up somewhere it shouldn’t be and slowly, violently shakes itself to pieces. Destruction physics can freak out in fun ways too. I’d also include glitches like the HL2 speedrunning technique of jumping atop an object in midair like a magic carpet; you can’t tell methis palletisn’t freaking out with overwhelming physics. (Though I wouldn’t include games which are built upon silly physics; that’s the game working as intended.) And the very, very best of all is when the physics on my own cyberbody freak out and somehow launch me halfway across the world, hopefully to burst against a wall.
Beautiful food
Food, glorious food! Hot turkey and sweetroll! I know you already decided thatfruits are not better than NPCs saying your custom namebut today I present a different thing: beautiful food which artists have clearly cooked virtually with serious effort and love. Beautiful, beautiful cyberfood.
With food so important to our daily existence, I am always glad to see it respected and venerated in video games.
But which is better?
As much as I appreciate a glistening dinner, I think those typical Source engine sounds of ragdoll freakouts are etched into my ear canals. PRLRLLPLLPRLPLPFLPFLPFPLLPRLPLRPPL. But what do you think, reader dear?
