Great article, Ash. I can relate, maybe not to the same extreme, but very similar, with some games absolutely changing my life for the better (I remember the day Breath of the Wild launched - I could *feel* the change in my attitude and outlook over the next few days). Seems silly to attribute it to video games of all…

As a fellow human, I’m glad you found something that could bring you such joy in such a dark moment for yourself.

i mean, he was fighting the plague by slaughtering everyone afflicted by it

How dare you say such a thing, I’ll kill you for this!

If you are the type of person who thinks a death threat is an appropriate reaction to a delay, you are just a total piece of shit. 

Schreier also came out with claims that the devs are working 100 hour weeks, which is just fucking barbaric.

Being 100% honest, that there are no real consequences makes its easier to choose the ‘dangerous’ option. If real me were presented with real Astarion and real Gale, I’m choosing Gale and immediately calling the cops on Astarion on sight.

As a completely boring human in real life, let me tell you, it makes me feel very good that people would sooner romance me than someone trying hard to be an interesting character.

Yeah but under that robe Charon is sporting a gigantic beautiful duck

What are you talking about? Charon is smokin’.

skelly can get it

Not mentioned:

I don’t remember when exactly this came out, but I remember one story about how Sakurai San had chest pains and heartburn for a few days that he ignored, and I recall, someone finally made him go see a doctor. And the whole time, dude was having a fucking heart attack.
I get that he is incredibly dedicated, but Jesus…

I’m genuinely amazed that this video was allowed into the world. Nobody at Nintendo’s marketing side was like, “Jeez, this really doesn’t make us look good...you know, maybe we’ll just have one of those eternally happy Treehouse millenials make a three minute video about the Minecraft fighters. Go take a nap,…

in times like this I remember that he made the first Smash concept as a quick side project on his spare time. I wonder what he thinks of that in moments like this lol.

I prefer to think of Sakurai as a being of pure chaos, untethered by the limitations of normal people. But yes, he does deserve a break and then some.

My favorite detail is that after like 40 runs Zagreus decided he was going to use a nickname for a boss, and thereafter the game uses that nickname for it in all the UI

That gets even better: if you have his butterfly and Thanatos shows up in one of the rooms, he’ll notice and say “stay back and let me handle this and you’ll get a boost”.

re: the detail, there are so many great examples, but one of my favorite examples is a very simple one. I took Thanatos’s Butterfly with me on a run through Tartarus once. That keepsake gives you a permanent boost to damage for every room you can clear without taking damage, so I was dashing around my third easy room…