I always considered Dead Space 1 and 2 to be the true spiritual successors to Resident Evil 4. While it places a lot more focus on the survival-horror aspects, I’d put this remake in that lineage as well.

Ooh. I finished both playthroughs without knowing you could kill Lickers with the knife. My approach to killing lickers with Leon was that I didn’t. Same with the G-Adults.

I think so. God, I forgot about delirium. That’s the one that tops my list with Keeper.

Aw man, that capra demon isn’t even that hard. He’s just RNG bullshit. Sometimes you’ll just get a bad pattern with the dogs and be screwed.

As most of the characters, I’d say that’s true. Even with The Lost and The Keeper, it’s possible to get massive damage that limits your exposure to danger. But against Hush and Ultra Greed, that goes out the window since they’ve got caps on how much damage hits do to them. So you’re stuck in bullet hell.

Well, it sure wasn’t the undead parish.

Forreal. They look like poultry burgers, rather than beef.

Who the hell has been calling this cultural appropriation? I thought we were all laughing because she got the tattoo wrong, twice. Getting ‘charcoal grill’ tatted on your wrist  is in no way belittling japanese culture, nor is it playing down the influence of the people from whom she’s trying to take inspiration.

Only the particularly good ones. It’s nice to see any kind of animators making good money these days, though. Porn or otherwise.

Not many people had one, so it often gets forgotten in these discussions, but the Saturn had a great startup as well:

I grew up thinking I hated cabbage. After taking a trip to Japan, I’ve now realized what what I actually hate are boiled cabbage, saurkraut, and coleslaw. A fresh cabbage salad is actually pretty good.

McDonald’s will never be fast casual. For better or for worse, they’re too big. McDonald’s is fast food, and anything they change will be fast food by nature of being McDonald’s.

“but will it be equally pleasant when applied to coffee?”

And then I start on my 700th hour of Binding of Isaac: Rebirth.

Yep. Intellectual property laws are enforced to a comical degree in Japan. Renting video games is also very illegal over there, and a number of ‘barcade’ type places have been shut down for charging customers to play video games.

Yeah, I can’t see a playthrough being more relaxing and informative than ResearchIndicates’s. It was one of the first video Let’s Plays I’ve ever watched, and engrossing enough that I watched it all the way through.

Phew. I’m glad I’ve only bought Resident Evil 4 a reasonable number of times.

I sure hope not!