nebulous

to be fair they're often just intended as decoration rather than story telling though

could you provide an example

@PilotBland literally any bio that uses the formula of take a screenshot, crop it and toss it in. Bonus points if theres also no effort to take out UI elements like performing.

Also you posted on my profile and its not something toxic, I'm fucking ecstatic right now.

@Subeh But then even as decoration they're just used so much that it becomes just a saturated and underwhelming way of attempting to make a bio more artistic

i'm not even a toxic person

yeah i don't like the immersive breaking stuff and for IC documents i try to replace the 'TYPING' with like, names and stuff like for example https://nebulous.cloud/threads/barman-to-war-correspondent-in-a-week.37506/

but outside of that, what's the issue with having say these dudes in africa looking like conscripts in a bio with ex-conscripts or current conscripts. i think the cropped part where he's looking into the camera is cool?

https://i.imgur.com/KyebJRp.jpg

maybe i don't see it cus i've been away from them for so long dunno, don't personally see the overuse myself

Maybe I am just a minority, I just don't find anything engaging about a screenshot - when there are better alternatives to give narrative like posing or using scene-setting (real) images. @PilotBland You do it well in some areas, but when theres healthbars and stuff :smh:

and this is obviously just pure subjective opinion, I'm sure there are many people who think differently

@Subeh Also, welcome back. I forgot to say ^^

I tried my best to do away with health bars but I didn’t know good alternatives, I left some typings in