Why are we interviewing rapists?

A few months late to the party, I’m playing through AI: The Somnium Files. It’s such a fascinatingly weird game, full of jarring tonal shifts and very contrived plot elements, but also boasting some truly incredible twists and written with a dose of sincerity that keeps the experience from feeling luridly…

Broke and The Beauty and the Baker look awful. Network comedies don’t need to be edgy or super-topical, but they should at least be somewhat inspired.

Still making my way through Ori and the Will of the Wisps, which is shaping up to a real gem, just like its predecessor, Blind Forest. The platforming is complex without being full-on masocore, and combat actually feels somewhat flexible. It controls really well and is actually the rare 2D platformer that’s better on…

Aw, I’d call Onward better than “so-so.” The trailers and overall aesthetic made it look a lot hokier and less emotionally complex than it actually is. I wouldn’t put it on par with Coco or WALL-E, but it’s definitely in the top two-thirds of Pixar’s output, if not the top half.

Probably not, but I hope it gets released in some fashion soon, because it’s quite charming.

For real, what good are fancy scripts that give you user metrics if those same scripts cause readers to get frustrated and stop visiting your site?

It took me literally seven refreshes to get the comments section to load. FIX YOUR SHIT, KINJA. This is absolutely ridiculous.

My guess is that they were hoping to stay open until at least mid-April to get a sales boost from the FF7 Remake.

I know it’s just the cum icing on the fecal cake, but they misspelled perimeter as “parameter” in the image in that Tweet, which should give you an idea of how seriously they’re taking the pandemic.

Because Kinja is a broken piece of shit. Disabling AdBlock made comment loading more consistent, but comments still only load roughly 40% of the time, and about a quarter of the time, the CSS doesn’t load, so comments look fucked up and unformatted.

Doug Judy is always a treat.

Murder By Numbers, a mash-up of Picross with a detective visual novel, has its hooks deep in me. Picross is an addictive puzzle format, though I wish it came with an “Undo” button that kept track of my move history, because things can get pretty hairy when you move to 15x15 grids.

I’ve felt that the show was a little toothless up until now. Having it dive full-on into black comedy was an excellent choice.

I actually liked this one a lot, especially in contrast to last week’s, which was too cartoonish and also borderline retconned Rosa’s life. This week’s episode was both funny and touching, without being mawkish.

Planning to finish off Lair of the Clockwork God this weekend. I just reached the part that is [SPOILERS INCOMING] a game within a game. It’s been a fun, if kinda glitchy, ride so far.

The fact Rosa was disowned by her parents, went to juvie, and apparently re-established a relationship with them in adulthood raises a lot of questions and makes the whole arc about her coming out make a lot less sense.

Squeenix has this weird split personality where they’ll let their Japanese developers throw millions of dollars and many years at a project, but their overseas developers (both in-house and contract) are expected to churn out a new game every other year and sell, like, ten million copies.

Still winding my way through Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep, which gameplay-wise I’m preferring to KH2. I like that the game gives me most of the relevant combat abilities from the get-go instead of burying them under Drive Form upgrades. Terra’s kinda boring as a character, but he’s not totally unappealing.

I mean, I get that. But I’m not a Disney+ subscriber, and neither are most of the people who will end up watching any given MCU film.