Isekai has been a big thing in Japan... forever. Olds like me remember watching Fushigi Yuugi and Escaflowne some... *checks calendar* ...jesus christ, 30 years ago.

Never felt like 2nd fiddle to me, more that it was less Bowie’s song than Freddy’s song and Bowie played the support role, if that makes sense. IIRC Bowie didn’t even perform the song live until he did a Freddy tribute concert in the 90s

But why meow models?

My issue with it is that—like most of TikTok and modern social media—it’s a big “look at me!” circlejerk where people are performing for the algorithm more than they are as their authentic selves. Do I believe lots of people love The Fourth Wing? Of course. Do I think people are exaggerating their love on BookTok…

Writing and writing profitably are two very, very different things and it’s a vicious lesson to learn. It’s much all the harder that to learn the marketing skills necessary to be profitable as an indie author, you need to research a ton, read a ton of what you’re writing and—hardest of all IMO—release a lot of work so…

As someone who hasn’t seen WfM but saw (and very much enjoyed) Gundam Wing back in the day, is there a reason Wing didn’t make the cut? Is it a pariah or something and I never knew it? It always seemed pretty popular...

Instead, what it does, is opens the combat system to extreme flexibility. This is where the true “RPG” hides, within the game’s combat system, and the style of action you want to create, and the freedom to express yourself with the move-sets you set up.

I have next to no desire to do the crafting in TotK, which has kept me from playing more than two hours of the game so far. The Depths do seem interesting though and the idea of buffing Link to survive and explore them is one of the things that has most made me want to pick TotK up again. I’ve heard they’re generally…

The ethics debate aside (which is a huge one) is that it instantly looks like AI. It has that flat, cheap feel with selective levels of detail because current image AI is really just approximating some mishmash from training data. It’s kind like any of those meal delivery/prep services—at first you might think “wow…

I got 5 seconds in before Twitch showed me an ad. But I did hear the phrase “bigly paperbag”, so I’ve got that going for me, which is nice.

The projection is unreal. The CEO and executive class are exactly like landed gentry and their ability to buy out competitors, keep passing generational wealth down without giving back to society, and by operating on endless debt to get loans at absurd prices are all insane privileges they have because “they got there …

this API change is affecting are a very loud, yet VERY small minority of Reddit users, much like MAGA idiots IRL. Reddit(and CEO boy, who has def put his foot in his mouth a few times over this) doesn’t care, because those people are likely not seeing ads to begin with

Is that Vera Farmiga?

Im much more excited for what Control’s sequel could be. Control has surpassed Alan Wake in my opinion.

Certainly the best nobody watched.

Unpopular opinion ‘round these parts but I really hope the next Zelda moves away from the BotW formula. Or if they do another open world, they experiment with balancing away from crafting and towards large, intricate, clever dungeons, which were always the heart and soul of Zelda for me. But between Elden Ring and…

Wind Waker does seem like a good way to make the movie appear kid-friendly, though the Illumination 3D style feels like it might turn the Wind Waker cell-shaded style into something kind of drab.

I guess they couldn’t do a “Hi fellow kids” emote so they did this instead?

All I ever wanted was a full-length movie based on the style of Bumblebee’s opening intro. That’s it. I don’t care about the humans, I don’t care about the MacGuffins, I just want some cartoon-level brainless fun.

-Roko’s Modern Strife