So it's  reverse Lavos from Chrono Trigger: the snakes somehow seeded humanity throughout the galaxy/universe. They develop technologically and eventually return to Kepler-22, where, with the secretly encoded science the snakes also seeded, give birth to a new generation of snake. This has gone on for an incredible…

That’s one of the reasons I’m not wild about how the show handled Will’s sexuality. The discussion of his sexual orientation is mostly in American Hero Story, suggesting that the writers find it of little importance.

It is getting kind of muddled, but I will reserve judgment until we see how the mystery all comes together. Even if Veidt made the video for Redford, why would senators be shown it? Imagine a world where Mitch McConnell had a video from George Soros to Obama about how Soros arranged 9/11 as part of a byzantine scheme…

I’m a little surprised to see no mention of Hollow Knight, a game that shook the Metroidvania genre to its core.

It kinda sounds like the stamina management and climbing of Breath of the Wild taken to an extreme. No idea what to think of that.

I’ll read your post, but my concern boils down to the game being more interested in being clever than being coherent.

Im mostly playing Destiny 2, but I am considering picking up Disco Elysium. Anyone have any thoughts on that one? It’s getting rave reviews for the most part, but Eurogamer’s review highlighted a lot of fears I have about it.

The Goose should be an assist trophy who simply grabs every item it can find and tosses them off the edge of the map. Valuable items like Hearts and fairies are prioritized. If it grabs a mine, pitfall trap, or banana peel, it will drop them randomly on the stage.

Exorcism stories are almost always traditionalist propaganda.

I'll be playing GRID, the reboot of the racing franchise from back in...2007? The original is my favorite racing game ever, and the reviews are that this new one is a return to form. I'm excited to try it after work.

I will be playing some combination of Iceborne and Link's Awakening this weekend. Iceborne is so, so good. I'm at about the 200 hour mark in MHW overall, and I'm nowhere near the end yet. Capcom knocked it out of the park.

There was an Actraiser-like game that came out recently to middling reviews. I’d like to see Vanillaware take a crack at it. Their games often struggle with depth, so two simple game styles bolted together could be a benefit to them.

And for this we lost the Photography Mouse. 

The gag was that it was the bottom half of the girl that they found behind the Not Very Scary door in the first movie.

I said much the same about the first film: more a fun hangout movie than white knuckle nightmare. The sequel is a logical extension of that.

I wrapped up Control. It was fine. An interesting story let down by mediocre gameplay married to bullshit difficulty spikes and a damp squib of an ending.

I kind of hope they just redo the movie portion of the narrative, because my enjoyment of the show has been tempered by the knowledge that the story ends with what is by all accounts a kind of boring, not-terribly-successful movie. That might be fine for existing fans, but for people like me without an existing…

There are some annoying dangling threads that the game teases by having the Board even explicitly mention an expansion. For instance: where did Marshall get to? The game mentions her interest in the Black Rock Quarry, where FBC staff sometimes get entranced by The City. But she’s not there and there don’t seem to be…

I’ve been playing Control, which is very cool.

By episode 3 I had started to wonder if Ford's ease at analyzing the people he interviews is tied up with his internalized view of power. If they weren't beneath him, would he be able to recognize their pathologies? He is always willing, even eager, to defer to others if they have some degree of power and stroke his…