I don’t really know how to post gifs, but maybe someone could help me out and post the sentinel sprite from MvC.
I honestly don’t even want to Google it because it’s tied to a pretty embarrassing memory…
I thought this particular sprite idle animation was _so cool_ in fact, that for no particular reason I decided to look it up on our lab PC when I was working in a virology lab in college. This was by all accounts a completely innocuous thing to do, but I happened to time this brief moment of pixelated escapism _right_ when the PI of the lab was walking behind me (he wasn’t a bad guy, but kinda frazzled and also kinda a hardass…and with a not-unfounded skepticism toward the level of commitment a typical undergraduate would bring to his lab). He made some remark along the lines of “playing video games, huh?”
He probably thought nothing of it after that moment, but needless to say, I was mortified and still think of it to this day, even unprompted by the sight of that lovely jumble of purple mechanized pixels.