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I never understood that either. Patching unfair advantages in online multiplayer games, that's fine and understandable, but who cares whether or not it is possible to "cheat" in singleplayer games?

Plus, any time they patch it, someone discovers a new way anyway. It's a couple hundred Nintendo employees VS. literally millions of players of which thousands hack for fun and see it as a challenge to break the game in the most creative ways. They can not win this.

also don’t forget that placebo work even when you know it’s placebo

This right here. I've had problems with pain relief medicine simply not working since I was a child. A couple years back I started drinking caraway seed tea whenever a headache was JUST going away, and even tho I know dang well that caraway seeds do jack sh*t against pain, my body now somehow associates the taste with "ok, headache time is over" and I can drink that stuff to MAKE headaches go away.

100% placebo, 100% aware about it - still works.

PS: why caraway seeds? Because it is the least likely "tea" you can be offered in everyday context. If I had used something as common as charmomile or green tea, I think the effect wouldn't have had a lasting effect.

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Ohhh nice! Thank you for the link ^^

That's been done by someone else already =P

Strictly speaking, Hylians are their own race and just happen to look like what we would consider elves. ;)

The humanoid, pointy-eared people in Hyrule are Sheikah, Gerudo and Hylians. The umbrella term for all people living in Hyrule (including Gorons, Zoras etc.) is actually "Hyruelans" but barely anyone uses that term. It appears in some item descriptions in-game tho. Example:

Knight's Shield - A shield favored by the knights who served the Hyrulean royal family.

Just to add another factor to the ongoing discussion: artistic talent isn't uniform and never was. Just because only/mostly "immature" art survived from a certain century of human history, doesn't mean that there literally was no realistic art present at the time. Since you mentioned the statues already...

These are from the same era (around 200 BC), but as you may have guessed, made by different artists =P The statue is called The Dying Gaul by the way.

As for painting examples, I guess the Rothschild Canticles^1 book illustrations represent best what most people nowadays would call medieval art. Not exactly realistic, a little goofy ... perspective? Never heard of it. Proportions? Who cares. And who needs shading anyway?! As long as you can still distinguish a human from a cupcake, it's "eh good enough".

I guess that was also what you meant by "immature" art, because it is the same art style as those goofy weird pictures of knights fighting giant snails and rabbits riding cattle into battle and the like.[^2]

That book is dated to be around 1500–1520 so it would be easy to assume that people at the start of the 15th century didn't have a realistic art style yet. But you know what else was made in that same era?

The Mona Lisa (1503–1506).

One dorky meme-esque style, and one realistic, modest and easy-on-the-eyes style in the same century, probably even the same decade. But they were used by different artists.

Now you might be thinking that those art styles might have been intended for their respective purpose or something along the lines: that the goofy, simple art style was used for nothing but amusing little pictures, and the more realistic style was for "proper" art, because noone in their right mind would spend 100+ hours painting highly detailed nonsense just for sh*ts and giggles, right?

May I introduce you to Joseph Ducreux?[^3]

I guess most of you will have seen that meme by now, but this is a real painting made by a real artist - and it is far from the only one. Ducreux created an entire series of similar self-portraits in ... unusual poses and situations.

... so yes, at least that one guy DID indeed spend dozens if not hundreds of hours (plus material costs) painting amusing nonsense for his own entertainement. He was, in a way, the victorian era equivalent of a shitposter (and I mean that in a good sense!)

Long story short: one can't just claim that "they didn't have X art style in Y century" because the truth is much more facetted than that. It is way more likely that each and every era of human history has had people with insane talent who were able to create art as realistic as possible with whatever tools their lifetime had to offer, and also a bunch of "eh good enough" art or stuff that was deliberately stylized for fun. How we percieve said art today depends mainly on what artworks have survived up until now, and/or how popular the surviving art is. (Everyone and their grandma knows about the Mona Lisa, but how many of y'all knew about the Rothschild Canticles?)

If we don't know about any realistic art from a certain period of time, it doesn't automatically mean that there was no realistic art. It may have been lost, forgotten or it exists but it's just not popular enough to be well-known.

[^2]: https://imgur.com/gallery/medieval-marginalia-dump-bKY5h just some delightfully awkward examples [^3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ducreux

Sorry for the late reply, I wasn't online for a few days ... but I see you figured it out ;) I can't speak for other instances, but at least on lemmy.world, the thumbnail is blurred and the post marked as NSFW.

Wikipedia claims they're quite popular.

whoever handed those out is probably a bigot

That explains so much. Their usual mental gymnastics have a similar "order" to them ....

I have no idea, sorry. I just found that picture in an imgur dump.

Thanks! I was sure that I had added the NSFW tag initially and wasn't aware that it wasn't showing.