So I was listening to a podcast with Doug Bennett, one of the animators who worked on on Wreck-it Ralph. They were talking about how the crew made the animation have that staccato 8-bit effect within the Fix-It Felix game, and this comment was my favorite part:
DOUG: In that world, Ralph is fully animated. And the idea was that he is so fed up, so done, so jaded… that he doesn’t even follow the rules of his own game anymore. And the Nicelanders are all like *toot*toot*toot* totally into the 8-bit thing and Ralph is like: “Pshhhhhhhh whatever”
The idea that Ralph was literally too done for this limited motion BS makes everything better XD