I’d argue if people *can* play another way (exploring every room) then there’s very little room for criticizing that playstyle as somehow invalid/unintended. Especially considering one of the most famous recent roguelikes (Hades) implemented a system to prevent players from doing just that.

Air Force One still rocks. I miss the era of non-over-the-top action movies that had just a slightly weird premise to them (obviously spurred on by Diehard).

I’ve bought many dbrand products and have enjoyed them, but this email is just a poorly done attempt at humor. When possible, it’s best not to inadvertently insult customers (e.g. if I like my white plates but am in NYC and was first in line to get vaxxed when I could, what should I feel? Should it conveniently be a…

That’s a great point. It’s all possible it’s just a nothingburger before that scene, but once it happens it is an all-bets-are-off insane train ride into the supernatural. It certainly made me feel sheer terror at what was unfolding on screen, as if the movie had just broken some rule that things would be spooky but…

Eh, I’m sure plenty of teens or kids searched for it and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some urban legend going around schools saying you can mod it to play games or something like that. I’m an old now but I sure remember how dumb me and my peers were when we were 15.

Verification can greentext is typing...

I think so. I mean, Hayashibara is definitely more famous, especially given she’s recorded a lot of music as well. But the show starts with Spike and Jet from episode 1, and Faye doesn’t arrive until episode 3, and even though the crew comes to feel very cohesive, at its core it really is Jet and Spike (and has been…

The Woman in Black’s house being separated by rising/falling tides is suspiciously similar to the houses in the The Elementals...

That’s an interesting assessment and a fair take. I saw the Japanese version first (before the American version existed) and *that* scene still feels so much more full of dread to me in the Japanese than the American version, which felt punchier and more jump scare-y.

“The blood usually gets off at the second floor.”

Yeah, came here to say the same. Kind of weird that either this article of the release it’s based on left this fact out. Unsho Ishizuka was arguably the second most prominent voice in the entire series...

I’m curious what Amazon’s approach will be and how much they have assimilated/taken over Twitch’s culture. From an outsider perspective, everything I’ve heard about Amazon is rather... ruthless.

Man, it is going to be a bad day for Twitch employees. Best of luck to them.

Well of course they do. But, for all their flaws, one thing consoles do have going for them is that all users use the same hardware (for the most part), which allows a developer to develop against a known processing capability.

Fascinating. I’d kill to see the business planning analysis around this given that chip shortages don’t seem to be going anywhere any time soon.

Heft Pesos

Amazon is beginning to feel like the China of tech giants.

Well said. I am also happy for the devs, but based on the shows Netflix puts out, I find it hard to believe they’d even allow Oxenfree to be made, which bums me out. Hell, even I wouldn’t blindly suggest Oxenfree to others--which is part of what I loved about it, that it was a lovingly-crafted experience for a certain…

I’m not done yet (still early in, Chapter 3) and I actually read Alva as being older, like significantly older in a quirky-old-person way. She seems to have knowledge of the past and how things used to happen and there’s something about her art style that made me think “shrunken old lady”. I guess I am way way off...

I always wondered how she put on that jacket. Like was it one boob at a time or what?