I binged the series last night, after only being peripherally aware of the franchise from the commentary on the video games.

I’m sad to hear that Redbox is killing its Game rental program.
I used to rent from them at around 12:01 AM on Saturday so that the Game wasn’t due until 9 PM on Sunday. Then it was marathon time to see if I could complete (if that was possible) the game before returning it.

It seems it was released yesterday on PC (through the Epic Games Store).  I’m curious to see how it’ll be reviewed.

Ahem... “Yo dawg! I heard you like games!  So...”

I’m not trying to pass a value judgement on it, merely to say that code-wise, I think it’s more like a chat bot in structure than a conventional game.  It’s fun to see what it can do, and really impressive to see the fairly natural text it can produce.

The game was made by training the GPT-2 text generator on a bunch of choose your own adventure prompts. When you submit a command, it feeds those back into the model... along with the last 8 or so prompts and responses.
All of which is to say, it doesn’t have a conventional concept of game state. Your past actions have…

I seem to recall a previous Kotaku article detailing the dark side of the anime industry, specifically in relation to Anime producer’s use of the casting couch.

They left her a very easy out in Endgame, I think.
She falls while still carrying a time travel device. So she could theoretically jump back to the “present”, live out the rest of her life, and then jump back into the same spot to perish to meet the requirements of the stone.
This would also conveniently retire the…

Is that... Gordon Frohman at the 10 minute mark?
Cause it kinda looks like Gordon Frohman.

Mr. Mime will not stand for this betrayal.

I messed around with their Odyssey Beta, and I have to hand it to them, the tech is pretty slick.  But the pricing model is... not so slick.

Given the potential implications of successfully developing a general AI... I’m just saying it won’t be the first doom he’s produced, you know?

It could Holdo Maneuver?

This old Dorkly Bits video seems relevant:

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“The basic structure of River City Girls is far removed from 1990’s River City Ransom.”

Does the slime grow to love you, just to twist the dagger a bit harder?

Needs an up close attack... with a pencil.

I seem to recall, from way back when these were originally pitched, that there were going to be 5 of them. I’d been holding off watching them until they were all released.  Is it certain that this will, in fact, be the last of them?

Regarding the backer only version, I would point out that I don’t believe I advanced an opinion in this thread on the matter. “Whatever your thoughts on the exclusivity are...” This was simply another example of 505 being needlessly and pointlessly deceptive. Personally, the backer exclusive content wasn’t a selling…