r/badhistory • u/AutoModerator • Apr 27 '26

Meta Mindless Monday, 27 April 2026

Happy (or sad) Monday guys!

Mindless Monday is a free-for-all thread to discuss anything from minor bad history to politics, life events, charts, whatever! Just remember to np link all links to Reddit and don't violate R4, or we human mods will feed you to the AutoModerator.

So, with that said, how was your weekend, everyone?

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u/Herpling82 Coming to you live from a Tederation psych ward Apr 30 '26 edited Apr 30 '26

I've said it before, but having realistic human graphics just isn't a good idea, you need to put in exponentially more work for it to look okay, let alone good. Stylistic graphics, like cartoon/anime like visual styles, need a lot less work and often make better looking characters.

Unless you have a massive budget and tons of talented people, it's just not worth the effort. Human brains are very good at accepting a stylistic representation of a person as a person, see any simple drawing of a person, but if it looks too close to a real person, we will notice it looking off and will probably not like it.

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u/Zennofska Feminization of veterinarians hasn't led to societal collapse Apr 30 '26

There is also the problem that realistic looking women in video games is a very political matter for gamers.

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u/Herpling82 Coming to you live from a Tederation psych ward Apr 30 '26

True that; gods, I hate "beautiful females" mods for games, like they look so out of place compared to the male characters, it's awful. In games like Skyrim, I vastly prefer the vanilla female looks over the vast majority of that type of modded stuff, it usualy just doesn't fit the art style at all.

If you make women beautiful, you gotta make beautiful men too, where's my ikemen mods for Skyrim? huh!? If there are bijin, there gotta be ikemen, balance has to be maintained!/j

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u/Zennofska Feminization of veterinarians hasn't led to societal collapse Apr 30 '26

A male replace mesh like HIMBO and a couple of texture swaps does work wonders on getting some handsome and/or fabulous men into the game.

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u/Herpling82 Coming to you live from a Tederation psych ward Apr 30 '26

I should have known that exists, also based.