Right. I have the same feeling about roguelikes vs. conscious level design. I love Binding of Isaac and enjoy plenty of other roguelikes, but there’s no replacement for the perfect level design of a game like Dark Souls or Badlands or Super Meat Boy or Link to the Past. Open world and procedural generation dwarf that…

There’s a reason that no “choose your own adventure” books are literary classics. :)

• FFIII (none of this “FFVI” retcon for me)
  

It could be that they get that data back, although it also could be that William is one of the control units Hale/ores smuggles out at the end. She had five control units, so perhaps she took William and Emily to (a) enact an eternal torture session or (b) bring back the William she once knew?

He was definitely more sympathetic to the hosts, but he was also pushing them to save the guests. I have a feeling that his story from S1 to and through S2 won’t be one of the things that holds up well on rewatch, though I’d be happy to be wrong. 

Related to “who’s where in the Forge”: Did we see a second Bernard in the Forge when Hale-ores and crew returned in the present-day plot? Or was that just my imagination? I thought we saw his profile (his glasses, mainly) watching them in one shot.

I assumed he was a host after there was a weird timeglitch when he was with Ghost Nation. But I’m not sure “Stubbs as self-aware guardian of hosts who can tell Charlotte is Dolores” is consistent with, you know, anything we saw of his character in Season One, unless there was some serious reprogramming off-screen.

My guess was that two of the control units Charlores (Haleores? Dolores/Hale? IDK) brought with her were William and Emily, and she’s running an eternal simulation to torture him. But I haven’t read the EW/VF articles, so that may already be disproven.

Agreed. Whatever they do with her, though, I don’t understand why they chose to sideline the best character (and omit her always enjoyable posse) for several episodes. Just so... so they could torture her? Really strange and unpleasant choice.

It’s not as good as just HDMI-ing it to the TV. Back when I had a game-able laptop (now I have a Chromebook and a decent desktop), I just left a long HDMI cable snaking to the couch all the time. Might not be an option depending on your partner/roommate/cleanliness situation, though.

Ha wow, Steam Link is down to $2.50? If you mostly play singleplayer games, that’s a great deal — it’s sometimes glitchy and you have to walk to your computer more often than you want, but otherwise it’s great if you prefer PC games but want to play on your couch/TV.

There’s maybe a teeeeeeeeny bit of difference between doxxing and facilitating lobbying of a political official.

It blows my mind that Walmart is even stocking something as niche as Gloomhaven.

It blows my mind that Walmart is even stocking something as niche as Gloomhaven.

I’m jealous — we’re probably a dozen scenarios in and haven’t unlocked any yet! But we’re apparently about to fight the devil, so that’s something...

I’m jealous — we’re probably a dozen scenarios in and haven’t unlocked any yet! But we’re apparently about to fight…

I believe we saw William’s wife in an earlier episode this season, played by a different actress; but since that was in a flashback to the Jimmi Simpson time in William’s life, I guess it makes more sense to cast someone new for Juliet as well. (Ward is good in a role that could’ve easily disappeared.)

Exactly that, plus a bad road event. It was pretty hilarious.

Yeah, switching up the weapons does help. I just finished my playthrough and don’t think I used the same combination more than 3 stages in a row.

Same — we’re probably 7 or 8 in, and finally starting to win consistently. Except for that one scenario where I died before we took our first move...

That must’ve been an amazing D&D game!

Funny, Transistor is the only one that hasn’t held my interest. It just felt slow and clunky, although I’ve heard I didn’t get far enough for it to speed up.