ok one last thing. it was revealed today that "yuki's revenge: the lost chapter" is not referring to a FORTNITE chapter, but a chapter of kill bill that was never made.
theyre going to air a short based on a cut sequence from kill bill, IN fortnite...?
it's unclear if this is what was shown at the theater? unclear if this is meant to actually be part of the upcoming full cut of kill bill? that sounds SO stupid, but genuinely no one has a straight answer for this kill bill stuff, and it's kind of bizarre that tarantino is shilling so hard for fortnite at all??? peely the banana will be joining uma thurman in the short though so it's not a self-contained thing that will simply happen to debut first in fortnite???? does quentin tarantino like peely the banana????????
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Thank you for the report. You're doing god's work.
It's kind of insane to me that in a Fortnite Season with both back to the future and stranger things content, properties that I feel have been far more relevant in the past decade, that kill bill of all things gets the focus. I have to imagine fortnite approached quentin with something basic like "hey man you wanna give us kill bill license? you get comical sacks of cash in return" and he just got like, really jazzed about the idea instead??? Cause there's no way the minds at fortnite's crossover team had all this in mind when they thought to put uma thurman in the game.
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It's kind of insane to me that in a Fortnite Season with both back to the future and stranger things content, properties that I feel have been far more relevant in the past decade, that kill bill of all things gets the focus. I have to imagine fortnite approached quentin with something basic like "hey man you wanna give us kill bill license? you get comical sacks of cash in return" and he just got like, really jazzed about the idea instead??? Cause there's no way the minds at fortnite's crossover team had all this in mind when they thought to put uma thurman in the game.
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The whole "they remade an unfilmed scene of Kill Bill in Fortnite and will show that in cinemas as part of Kill Bill coming back to theatres" is like, really sending me because of the self seriousness through which Tarantino has insisted For Years that he's only going to make ten (10) movies ever, so he can guarantee that all 10 movies are quality, with the corollary how he's had to insist the two Kill Biil movies were only one movie this whole time.
So like. This re-release is him "proving" that Kill Bill 1 & 2 were one movie but like. It also includes the fortnite short movie? Will he double down and say the fortnite short was always part of his vision? Was this his Alita Battle Angel, while James Cameron spent decades trying to make an woman with anime eyes in real life, Tarantino needed Epic Games to invent Peely before his vision could truly be captured on the screen?
So like. This re-release is him "proving" that Kill Bill 1 & 2 were one movie but like. It also includes the fortnite short movie? Will he double down and say the fortnite short was always part of his vision? Was this his Alita Battle Angel, while James Cameron spent decades trying to make an woman with anime eyes in real life, Tarantino needed Epic Games to invent Peely before his vision could truly be captured on the screen?
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the kill bill stuff is nakedly transactional, but it's hard to say in which way. did tarantino approach them and put a lot of money into this for promotion for his magnum opus even if it meant making a short film with peely the banana? or did epic games say "we will do anything for the sake of uma thurman being in our game" and court him by promising they'd do this animated short for him? i feel like it could kind of go either way.
this season is a dud by the way, and i don't really plan on playing it after i get marty mcfly and i'm probably putting fortnite down until the spectre of harry potter content stops haunting the game. they got rid of the bus and instead you surf into the map...?? the storms have "irregular shapes" instead of being circles that close in on you, now. and also the new map feels very, like. barren. bad weapon pool. fortnite does these unnecessary overhauls now and again. it's the same vibe as when youtube changes its UI for no reason other than that they can and it drives engagement. it's not good, and no one wanted it, but it IS new!
this season is a dud by the way, and i don't really plan on playing it after i get marty mcfly and i'm probably putting fortnite down until the spectre of harry potter content stops haunting the game. they got rid of the bus and instead you surf into the map...?? the storms have "irregular shapes" instead of being circles that close in on you, now. and also the new map feels very, like. barren. bad weapon pool. fortnite does these unnecessary overhauls now and again. it's the same vibe as when youtube changes its UI for no reason other than that they can and it drives engagement. it's not good, and no one wanted it, but it IS new!
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The "Ghibli Style" Marty McFly spray(?) and also people getting really upset about explicit genAI stuff in that game is really interesting to me because in my mind Fortnite is a game that has figuratively been genAI since they remade the whole thing to be PUBG instead of a horde survival game.
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To give them credit, the Marty McFly spray is probably not actually AI generated. https://www.instagram.com/andthankyou/ The artist for it posted their layers and whatnot. However, in a way I almost find it more upsetting that they had an actual artist mimic Ghibli Style Anime Prompt.
The textures used on the actual map are undeniably AI generated though. The yeti toes in that one poster are unbelievable. https://kotaku.com/fortnite-season-7-ge ... 2000649103
The really harrowing part, for me, is that Fortnite's aesthetic is basically what AI art is often gunning to replicate. I am not convinced that this is the first time AI has been used, at all, but it's a bit of a chicken-or-egg thing? To say nothing of the fact that Fortnite has no problem with "creator-made experiences" using AI, and thus, there will be garbage all over the main menu regardless of anything Epic actually does.
I think the reason it's a big deal now is because a lot of things about Fortnite are coming together to suck ass all at once. The AI assets, the threat of a Harry Potter crossover, and the fact that this season might be a new low gameplay-wise. Capital-F Fortnite fans will doompost at the drop of a hat, but I would say this is the first time cracks have actually formed in the armor. It's pretty easy to quit Fortnite right now. I was already feeling disinterested as someone fairly plugged into the game both for fun and as a social experience. That won't really mean anything in the end - this game is always going to be around as long as there's little kids to buy Fifteen Dollar Underwear Homer. But while it's probably going to be a gradual process, I think there's a very real chance they're going to have a dropoff with the adult playerbase starting now.
It feels a bit kneejerk to be saying something like that, but it does actually feel to me like they are making several large "brand withdrawals" at once, and they don't really seem to have any big deposits lined up at the moment. It will be very funny if we can look back and say that The Simpsons Fortnite Season was the last hurrah of Fortnite.
The textures used on the actual map are undeniably AI generated though. The yeti toes in that one poster are unbelievable. https://kotaku.com/fortnite-season-7-ge ... 2000649103
The really harrowing part, for me, is that Fortnite's aesthetic is basically what AI art is often gunning to replicate. I am not convinced that this is the first time AI has been used, at all, but it's a bit of a chicken-or-egg thing? To say nothing of the fact that Fortnite has no problem with "creator-made experiences" using AI, and thus, there will be garbage all over the main menu regardless of anything Epic actually does.
I think the reason it's a big deal now is because a lot of things about Fortnite are coming together to suck ass all at once. The AI assets, the threat of a Harry Potter crossover, and the fact that this season might be a new low gameplay-wise. Capital-F Fortnite fans will doompost at the drop of a hat, but I would say this is the first time cracks have actually formed in the armor. It's pretty easy to quit Fortnite right now. I was already feeling disinterested as someone fairly plugged into the game both for fun and as a social experience. That won't really mean anything in the end - this game is always going to be around as long as there's little kids to buy Fifteen Dollar Underwear Homer. But while it's probably going to be a gradual process, I think there's a very real chance they're going to have a dropoff with the adult playerbase starting now.
It feels a bit kneejerk to be saying something like that, but it does actually feel to me like they are making several large "brand withdrawals" at once, and they don't really seem to have any big deposits lined up at the moment. It will be very funny if we can look back and say that The Simpsons Fortnite Season was the last hurrah of Fortnite.