In preparation for Nier Automata, I'm working my way through the original Nier. What an odd game. Though apparently I have to play through the game 3 more times to get all the endings? I'm just not sure I want to do that. The game is good, but not something I could see playing through again and again. Automata might…

As usual, the answer is probably "money," but I actually am really curious as to how these actors feel when making these movies. They must just shoot the shit about how awful what they are being paid to say and do is, right?

That came off as really negative, but I didn't really mean for it to be. I like a lot of it as well, but the overarching theme just seems to be "I am very sad."

It does feel unpolished and rushed. I wonder how much of it even existed before like January.

Sort of like 808s but with conflicting emotions instead of just the one.

I liked parts of TLOP when I first listened to it, but yeah, so much of it feels like a bloated mess in desperate need of an editor. Somehow I feel like a lot of it won't really stand the test of time.

Kudos to you for solving the Jindosh riddle. I tried to work it out on paper as well but I am absolute trash at those kind of logic puzzles. The level design is absolutely excellent - you're in for a real treat if you haven't yet played the level after the Jindosh riddle.

I've thought this since I first heard about it. I think it could work really well as animated series, but I sincerely doubt that will ever happen.

Of all the things they could have shown, they decided it was important to have R2 falling over?

Thanks for the tip, I'll definitely try to do that! Unless it's super long, I don't know if I see myself replaying even half of a 60 hour or so game.

Yup, that's what I was figuring. I think I just need some more time to get acclimated to it.

I just started Vanquish, Platinum Games third person shooter, earlier this evening. I've been wanting to play it since I watched the Game Maker's Toolkit episode on it a while back. Platinum putting their skill-based gloss on a different genre sounds promising in theory but I was a little underwhelmed with the first…

Besides the tremendously stupid lyrics, it's a really catchy song. I occasionally get it stuck in my head from time to time.

There's also an absurd number of them - did you know they have a fucking CRUISE?? http://www.311cruise.com/

Amber is the color of his energy.

Yeah, that could absolutely be the case, too. I guess I mean more like, she can play that part with conviction even if she doesn't realize she's being played herself.

I don't remember where I read it, but the best defense of that problem I've seen was that at some point, some dude saw The Narrator beating himself up and thought to himself, 'shit, I could at least get a few shots in' and then it grew from there. The movie doesn't really support that, though.

She seems both incompetent and not. She's obviously playing a game of her own with E Corp and when she's prepared with the facts most of the time she gets shit done. But the whole spy infiltration scenes from this episode and last she looked absolutely terrified. It's just basically going to be a cat and mouse game…

I'm currently re-reading IJ and I'm amazed just how much I missed. The gruesome murder of lone-wolf Quebecois separatists the Antitoi brothers by the AFR? Totally forgot about it. And when Hal is talking to Orin about the microwave incident and there's all that build up to him finally revealing how good it smelled?

I heard about this before and I'm still having a hard time seeing it as a real thing and not some sort of long con joke about how outrageous this whole start-up scene is becoming. They want you to photograph the dog poop? How could anyone come up with that idea with a completely straight face?