video games are not music, books nor films : technological evolution has a big impact on them. Most people will be ok playing today a mid ‘90s 2D game, but the vast majority of people will not play a 3D game from 2001 in 2022.

Gotta plug Typeset In The Future for some awesome essays analyzing the usage of typography in sci-fi.

Just watch their next two two-tone controller be bright green plus pink and a bright pink plus white.

BR is being developed by a different team (UT team, if I’m not mistaken).

FFVII is most probably as mechanically deep as mainline FFs get (beat only by the Tactics games), as Materia combos could get really complex, be tuned to automate several aspects of gameplay and emulate/replace aspects of other games (like weapons and armor with elemental properties and/or added effects, for instance.)

Came here to say this. Modern state of the art cargo ships can be crewed with as little as 13 people (usually it is 20+ for safety) at full capacity, working 24/7. If you remove the redundancy, you could crew it with 5 or 6.

The expansion is very, very good. Quite a bit of a challenge, too. It’s meaty and you’ll definitely get about 15h of gameplay if you try to 100% it.

The story elements, while not as deep or significant as the base game’s, do flesh out some aspects of the world, both past and current. Characterization is much better…

Typefaces, not fonts.

I just don’t understand how America is a superpower with this sort of education.

Her quips can be really funny: I’ll never forget running into two Thunderjaws and, when they both noticed me and charged at once, she went “oh boy... OH BOY!”

Just free yourself and buy it. It’s awesome.

I’ve done this way too many times to Watchers. It never gets old.

The setting is anything but bland and, once you get the gist of the story, you’ll see that the robots are justified within the setting. The story is actually pretty good sci-fi, the kind you only see once in a while in gaming.

It’s more interesting TO HIM, probably because either it resonates better with his life experiences or he thinks there are more interesting story opportunities.

Nah, you're spot on. Unintentional repetition is either a problem with semantic repetition, as you put it, or poor textual flow. You don't fix it by changing words for synonyms, you fix it by rewriting the whole thing so you'll avoid repetition altogether.