cosmetically-enhanced uncanny-valley halfway house

It’s in the review. Apparently no controller attachments fit her phone.

Gotta agree with you- episodes were paced so quickly that you hardly believed the episode was already over, at least for the heroes vs. villains arc. The aftermath arc was a lot slower. I’m a Class 1b stan, so it was good to see they got some screen time.  Really, I want a 1b mini series.

The entertainment district though was ooof fire!

I feel like it’s rather weaker than the earlier Demon Slayer arcs. Not bad, but not as sharp or entertaining.

Ah, she’s talking about the Bahamut scene! That was always one of my favorite FF moments.

Some of these titles weren’t as popular as people remember. Xenogears, for example, only sold 200,000-300,000 copies outside of Japan. Wouldn’t be surprised if they think it’s not even worth it to try to polish up a remaster.

Stay true brother, Nintendo revealed Super Mario RPG earlier this year and it will be in our hands soon.

Sometimes I swear Square hates money. They have so much low hanging fruit for low cost remakes of cult classics that would guarantee a good return, and instead they keep fixating on lazy remasters, questionable spin offs, and freakin NFTs. Hoping now that their CEO has been replaced things will change a little around…

I’ll continue to hold my breath for Xenogears, no matter how misguided that may be. 

Gonna make this short: Star Ocean 2 is a fantastic JRPG that still holds up today. This remake of it is genuinely great - they converted old pre-rendered backgrounds into 3d areas, updated the music, even the sprites catch light and shadow convincingly.

This is EXACTLY how you ‘update’ a game for the modern audience.…

I think it’s less about “what is canon”, and more about exposure to that canon.  Given the huge influx of new players in recent years (Stranger Things, Critical Role, etc.), and the number of people having BG3 as their first encounter with a D&D property, I suspect that this will be the first real deep dive on Drow…

Probably because the writers are still mostly men, and are now more likely to become entirely AI instead of anything close to gender parity.

I think within this context we have generally moved past the real world.

So interesting that these fantasy+scifi worlds keep having all these “inherently lesbian” races and such, but a relative lack of “inherently gay” male races. (Mass Effect’s Asari)

Because she’s an attentionwhore and we, as a species, shouldn’t just platform everybody. It draws out all the narcisists.

Well, personally speaking I’m more inclined to dislike someone who’s clearly exploiting people who have deepseated mental health problems than to dislike the people with those problems, so that’s probably part of it!

It really cannot be said enough: the internet was a mistake. 

The article acknowledges that explicitly.

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