didn't know that. poro means reindeer in finnish which makes those little things funnier

@@iwillcry They are from the Freljord which is based on Ancient Scandinavia so that tracks. The Freljord was also the snowy region Jayce and his mother Ximena Talis got frostbite in in Episode 2.

Reminds me of how in the late 90s everyone thought the internet would bring an age of reason to humanity.

I like how the giant fist is almost too heavy to hold, but powering it on somehow allows your biceps to lift things 100 times your weight.

I mean you could hit someone with a hammer just as easily. Heavy industrial scale construction equipment in general tends to be heavy, dangerous and easily misused. Google the "Killdozer" for just one example. The Gauntlets could be weapons, sure, but almost anything could be. Jayce's issue isn't that he didn't consider they'd be used as weapons, thats the wrong part of the scene to focus on. Jayce's flaw lies in the line "mining colonies in the fissures can work faster and without fatigue". That's not what would happen, what would happen is quotas would just double or tripple and/or the employed workforce would be downsized to cut cost. Jayce is operating on the assumption that his devices would be used to benefit the people in need in UC, when the entire system their city is built on ensures the only people these things will help are those who already have power.

I mean... if you think about it there are tons if useful thing that could easily be used as weapons

@@NowaboMusic I mean, it is literally magic...

The backgrounds are also almost entirely 2D and layered and warped in such a way that makes it look 3D

NO SOLO LEVELING HAS THAT HONOR BUT I WILL SAY THIS IS A VERY CLOSE SECOND

yeah I definitely agree. but it’s a REAL HIGH standard. maybe a little too high even, it’s impeccable but way too risky to make. fortiche and riot got lucky but i doubt that we will see that kind of project before a few years. they nearly shut down the project while production as seen in Arcane : Bridging the Rift (the BTS)

@@masekyn5480 I'm of the view that if you're going into the business of storytelling through art you MUST not only be tolerant to taking high risks, but actively counting the cost of it or risk swimming amongst a sea of mediocrity and noise.

​@@ilikeknives1000go away troll

​@@masekyn5480i agree, what they did is just too much for most projects to be able to manage

That music video hits so much different now after Arcane lol

And she learned from an absolute unit of a Chess Master.

Understandable. But they are racing head first into things without considering consequences. That's basically Jayce's whole story. Good intentions, clueless about consequences.

You'd think an immortal scientist would be well aware of that

@@28starwarsfan yes, but too much caution and delayed time allows Silco to grow his influence. Sometimes racing head first is the correct thing to do. If you never help because of fear of hurting, then you'll never help. Thats how Silco grows his strength, providing solutions that help zaun whilst piltover provides nothing.

Personaly I despise Heimerdinger. He founded this city and has been on the ruling counsel for 200 years. Yet he let the situation deteriorate to the point were half the population lived underground in miserable condition, breathing toxic air. At any point in history he could have acted but he never did, he does't even seem to consider there might something wrong with the situation. Even the "words of wisdom" he give to other are just common platitude and as a leader he is an utter faillure.

​@@28starwarsfan People use deadly tools in their trade all the time. It doesn't take 10 years of research to figure out a protocol to safeguard those tools. Of course no protocol is perfect but even without protocol the stones will eventually find their way out of the lab. I mean the gemstone was stolen the same day they showed it to Heimerdinger for the first time xD So what good were the ten years of research then? Heimerdinger has some valid concerns but he never actually take the right steps to address them, instead waiting for a "perfect" solution when there will never be one. And in the meantime he allows things to degenerate just like he did with his own city.

Cait and Vi Jace and Viktor Grayson and Vander Marcus and Silco Heimerdinger and Ekko There's a surprising amount of crossover in relationships between the two halves of the city.

I don't know how often they watch or what the lag time is getting the reactions to KZfaq, but don't you think that comment was a bit premature? Just couldn't wait to post it, eh?

@@No1Knows ...are you serious? It's at the beginning of every video (0:39). They're 3-4 episodes ahead.

@@jonathanbaird Completely serious. I quite honestly had never looked at the text of any of those inserts, thinking they were just some "advertising." And now I know. Thanks for your insight.

also they are there to be shipped heavily by the LGBTQI+ crew 😃👍

plushies too in case anyone is interested

Well you can see the shimmer leak out of his eye, so I guess he needs to release any excess shimmer build up.

She always does, it's kind of crazy at this point. Definitely someone that has watched A LOT of media and picks up on patterns well.

> It's harder than you'd think though, it's much easier making a realistic metal texture than it is to make a stylized one. Ain't nobody doing original realistic metal textures in 2024, time is money and often people making games/animations don't have any time. You are also overhyping Arcane's animation, it's amazing for sure but it's nothing groundbreaking. Just look at any Studio Ghibli movie or Spiderverse movies. You are practically insulting amazing stuff other animators are creating right now or have created prior. You can't possibly think Arcane holds a candle to any Studio Ghibli movie. I guess you could say Arcane is groundbreaking being made by fully Western team.

​@@MartinWasTaken No offense but you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about... Every studio has plenty of texture artists, I am one myself. I'm just saying that making realistic materials is much easier than doing stylized but you wouldn't think so considering one seems simpler. Also majority of game studios goes for realistic materials, stylized is still the minority but it is becoming more popular recently especially among FPS games. No clue where you got the "no one has time" from. Any proper studio does everything by hand, all textures, models etc. I think you completely misunderstood my comment.... Also Into the spiderverse does not have better textures than Arcane, not even close. It has impressive animation and editing though. Comparing it to anime is also nonsense considering Arcane is 3D models painted to give a 2d feeling. Anime isn't textured, it's drawn.. Not sure where you think your expertise comes from but you don't understand the difference between animation and textures so seems pointless even discussing this with you.

@@MartinWasTaken Fortische artists were doing this style (2d hand painted SFX, hand painting/stylizing on top of 3d and a non-standard way of lighting) quite some time before the Spiderverse movies were even a thing and like @Quzga pointed out in regards of you mentioning Studio Ghibli, comparing fully hand drawn Anime to Arcane just doesn't make sense. It's totally OK if you're personally not that impressed, but Fortische got a lot of praise from other studios for Arcane and the show probably didn't win 9 Annie awards just for doing what has been done for years...

​@@MartinWasTakenyou got cooked

do you have any examples of games that uses a painted-3d look? One game that comes to mind is the Dishonored series

He was totally right about hextech though. Jinx stealing the gem stone does not change that. And he will keep getting proven right the further the show goes.

@@itsgonnabeokay9341 His course of action is only bringing about exactly what he feared would happen. Had he worked with Jayce from the start, he would have been in a position to directly guide and shepherd this burgeoning technology. Instead all he did was stand by and passively try to block its development, which he failed to do at every stage. He failed to prevent their original experiment, he failed to prevent the Hexgates from being built (which themselves are actually only ever shown to be a netpositive for the city, its only Topsides monopoly on their use that is bad for UC), and he failed to prevent them falling into the wrong hands. Once a technology is invented, it cannot be uninvented. You cannot put the genie back in the bottle. If it wasn't Jayce and Viktor that created the tech, it would just have been someone else that Heimer would have had absolutely no involvement with. His own prejudices against magic blinded him to the fact he had practically the best case scenario possible fall right into his lap as his own proteges were the ones to bring this tech to light.. and he squandered it because he is so disconnected from the problems of the people around him that he can't see why solutions are even needed. It's also worth noting that while Hextech is Jayce and Viktor's baby.. it's not actually their goal itself. Jayce and Viktor only care about harnessing magic to begin with because they believe it is the best way to improve the lives of those in need. Had Heimer actually offered a meaningful alternative to help salve the suffering in his city, any meaningful alternative whatsoever, they likely would have pursued that instead. But Heimer doesn't have anything to offer but vague warnings and roadblocks, because his nigh immortality lets him just coast through life with the belief things will just kind of solve themselves even if it takes 100 years all the while being blissfully unaware of the suffering around him.

@@troikas3353 Wait, you cannot be serious. Wdym HE failed? Do you think he has like 10 clones and he can do everything at once? Like, is he the only one there who is supposed to take care of everything? What a load of nonsense. He wanted to destroy the hexcore, but was stopped, which led to Skye dying. It also led to Jayce creating the hextech hammer which also led to death. And finally, it led to Jinx creating a fking hextech rocket launcher and firing it at the council. Yeah, for sure it was his fault. You act like he is omniscient or something.

Whilst I agree, I think "usual business person" is also pretty shady. It's inherent in the trade.

That is why

Seize the means, brother.

It's not the common people that are dangerous, it's the cruel, the selfish, and the ruthless. Those who don't care who they step on to ensure they're the next to reach the top. After all, it isn't really progress if you depose one group of oppressors only to let another take their place. Most people aren't like that. The ones who are ruin it for the rest of us.

😉its just well educated guess

that little? interesting

@@Diegesis I thought they said it was 7?

Right....

Marcus saved her in that moment predominantly to assuage his own guilt, but then chucked her in there just to wash his hands of her. It's unlikely he ever even gave her much thought after that, let alone would have likely cared much if she died there. In short he did it for himself, not because of what might happen to her.

​@troikas3353 no he was down there because he needed someone to take the fall for the explosion jinx caused. It was gonna be Vander but he was taken by silco. He couldnt go back up top empty handed. Especially after losing all those men. They talked about it a lot, guys

@@zethwhippy3929 The show tells us in dialogue that Vi was put in prison with no record of her name and no description of her crimes, no hint at all as to who she is or why shes there. He tossed her in there completely anonymously just to get rid of her in a manner that would hide what he did from both Silco and his superiors. He did not actually turn her in for the explosion, he just washed his hands of her entirely.

According to a tweet a while ago, its about 6-7 time skip at most. Powder was about 11 or 12 at the start of the show and vi was about 15 or so. Not to be all pedantic or anything but ye

2,5D usually means 2D characters over 3D backgrounds or vise versa, this is heavily stylized textures on 3D with some 2D SFX, not genuine 2,5D.

But its not the real world, and he is the head of the council, plus he has a plethora of knowledge. I'm not saying he's right, but that's why the characters listen to him .. well.. until they don't .. 😅

@@bigwezz Oh, I meant reactors. Jayce obviously looks up to Heimendinger so he values his advice even if he doesn't understand it fully.

@fredrice8650 I get you. But I think the audience can get swept up like the characters and feel like he's right due to his station and age. Plus, most reactors are watching it for the first time, once watching it a few times, we catch more and more. Which is awesome as the show just keeps giving, such a good show.

@@bigwezz I feel like Mel being on the opposite side of Heimendinger puts people off too. They think that because she is motivated by personal gain she must be on the wrong side, giving some sort of credit to Heimendinger.

@fredrice8650 true. It also taps into our own perception of how people behave, ie, if someone seems to be doing things for personal gain, they aren't the greatest of people. However, like most characters, she isn't one dimensional, and is understandable. That's what make this show so good, noone is absolutely right, or wrong.

Caitlyn was like 15 in act 1 while Jayce was 24 😬