“Insomniac’s title aimed to be greater and do for Spider-Man what Rocksteady’s Batman: Arkham Asylum did for that character back in 2009.”

But without, y’know, hating women. (Same amount of uncomfortable copaganda though, boy howdy.)

“It’s like No Man’s Sky”

No Man’s Sky has both ground vehicles and even at launch allowed you to fly your ship around intra-atmosphere.

So, no, not actually like No Man’s Sky, then.

As non-American, your universal ideas of Christians being shaped by such a utterly narrow lens baffles me but I think speaks a lot to American viewpoints generally.

I imagine he mechanics have aged clumsily and I’m not pretending its a forgotten masterpiece that plays as well in 2023 as 2003—but narrative, the setting and stylings of the game are still vivid in my mind: it still feels so ambitious for 2002 in a way Skyrim doesn’t.

“You can almost feel the ancient bones of Morrowind and Fallout 3 poking through bits of the scenery and menus as you play.”

Except Morrowind was werd. morrowind was a weird setting where the local people did not like you and were actively offended that you might be their chosen one. Morrowind felt truly alien: its…

“but they’re all anchored around the controversial replacement of Sawalha as Ginger”

What is the controversy?

Whatever, bring back Prodigy you twats.

“can recite the names of all the world’s countries and capitals”

It’s been how many years since the outbreak in-universe, why is it that nation-states still seem to meaningful exist as some kind of useful touchstone?

What I am taking away from all this is that someone, somewhere, watched the first season. Wild.

Fast & Furious Spy Racers. Aired on Netflix three years ago.

Never heard of this show, which tells you how often I feel the need to check-out what’s happening on MTV.

The book is good but can be a little dense because it dives deep into the financial chicanery. If you’re good with that sort of thing, no problem, but I struggled.

That has to be incidental because SNW doesn’t use logic in its storytelling, though God I wish it would.

Wonder how late in the process someone had to remind the the designer that, yes, Resistance was real and wasn’t a false memory.

And also, as uncomfortable as it makes a lot of people, psychology is pretty clear that most people’s weird sex kinks (even the consent ones) are not intrinsically harmful, and the idea that you’d have this safe space to run around and indulge your weird but harmless kinks on toasters is, y’know, no different than…

Picard Season 1 was all about how people are irrationally afraid of robots who are remarkably down for exterminating all organic life in the universe the moment the idea is suggested to them and come within moments of successfully doing so.

Huh. People trying to sell me on FFXIII always said the exact same thing.

It also runs hard into the X-Men problem in which the group standing in for the Other is repeatedly shown to actually be something it is rational to fear: rather than just being people who have been othered because having an otherable groups serves the people in power, it’s always folks with insanely dangerous…

That’s... not a common opinion.

But the hot blue aliens in MEA suck.