They can make a profit, but with randomized loot box micro-transactions, they can make profits with no ceiling and take advantage of people with addictive personalities and gambling tendencies. Its greedy bullshit, and I feel like people like the other poster here buying into the industry’s excuses are what allows it…

Have you seen the episode of Malcolm in the Middle where Hal rewrites the Game of Life to make it realistic? It’s basically that.

Indeed, I love coming here on WAYPTW and Keyboard Geniuses, at minimum. I admit I’ve not been very inspired to comment on articles very often this last year or so (even before we moved I was failing to find anything constructive to add to the conversation), but I still enjoy reading everyone else’s great stuff.

I’m glad you’re enjoying Stardew Valley so much! For my 2¢, what I’ve liked most about life sims in the past is the controlled routine of it all. I can determine the pace and the focus of that routine, and I maintain it at my volition.

Also...I think we need to talk a bit about the new Super Mario Odyssey trailer.

Yepper. While he was kind of annoying at times, well... kids can be annoying. I adored the father/son relationship they showed throughout the show, continuing as Jake grew older. Even when he was 18+, and even after he moved out of their quarters, Ben never shied away from hugging or kissing his son. It’s so rare to…

What about “Gattaca”?

Beck was, like most anime, originally a manga and the story goes much further than the festival performance. I thought it was great, but you can kind of guess the trajectory that they become world famous artists. Anyways, if you liked the show, check the manga if you want more of the story.

The ultimate problem with this article is that it fully admits that Anime is a medium and not a genre and yet sits in one genre lane for the most part. There are lots of quiet, low key, low stakes slice of life anime that I think would’ve been more fitting for Sean’s taste. Beck was one I immediately thought of when I…

Beck is fantastic.

Anime’s not my thing, but I really loved My Neighbor Totoro and would recommend it to someone with a low tolerance for fantasy, because at the heart of it is a realistic, grounded story of two sweet young girls dealing with their mother’s illness. I don’t mind saying that the “final crisis,” so to speak, moved me to…

The use of proto-matter in the final Genesis Device was what made Genesis unstable. It was a shortcut David Marcus used that made the full-scale Genesis Effect unstable.

Maybe I’m high, but one of the worlds she visits I’m pretty sure was the one from The Menagerie.

All of the prophets’ children are flawed, so we should have patience with them. Having lots of time to absorb new narratives (big chunks of negotiation downtime lately) I have a high bar for writing and am more bothered by flawed characterization. Was absolutely everyone in Starfleet mentally unstable in those days? A…

I’m looking forward to your report on Essen! It’s always a joy to hear what weird new games you’ve found there.

Salutations~!

I mean, Corvo was born into a lower class mining family and joined the Guard, which eventually led to him becoming the Empress’s bodyguard. At least in the first game, I wouldn’t exactly call him a member of the aristocracy.

Calling the main character Michael is in line with the rest of Bryan Fuller’s female protagonists: George Lass, Jake Tyler and Chuck Charles.

Completely agree. It was a visually beautiful tale, professionally put together, well-acted, demographically right-on. But with a disturbing ethic at its core. Captain Phillipa sticks to the “the Federation doesn’t shoot first” principle and is punished for it, while Sarek and Burnham come across as pragmatic,…