He’s not really given a chance to make up for it - in that same sequence of events, he’s possessed by the spirit of Grahf, who is actually the soulless intelligence of Lacan, who is Fei’s previous incarnation. He’s basically able to drop Fei off with a stranger, and then goes off to be Grahf for a while.

Later,…

Of the games you named, only Murdered by Numbers and Golf Story are only on Switch. The other games are all available for PC.  Part of the problem is that porting games from one console to another takes time and staff-hours, and for independent studios that can be a pretty high cost barrier.  If you feel like the…

“Little did he know”

Yeah, I see these kinds of comments, but people don’t get how harsh and unforgiving other planets are - even the worst climate change projections leave Earth a better place to live than Mars or an orbital habitat for the time-being, and any technology developed to help people merely survive on Mars or in orbit is…

Lenny Bruce said it best.  “There’s nothing sadder than an old hipster”.  It’s worth knowing when it’s time to stop trying to be cool and start sticking with what you’ve got.

There’s a wide space between throwing a teenager in prison for 20-40 years and giving them a stern talking to after molesting several children. It should have been reported to the authorities, there should have been therapy and medical intervention for his victims, and he should have been prevented from coming…

Speaking of someone who lives in Oklahoma, I’m not sure how true this is.  Texas Republicans seem to be more effective than Oklahoma Republicans, but I think that might be more about competence than moderation.

c’est magnifique

Mine is related to depression. When I’m having a hard time, it’s hard for me to start something new - even something I’m interested in, a sequel I’ve been looking forward to or something by a studio I love. Instead, my impulse is to go and play one of a handful of games that have gone beyond being familiar.

I think the…

It happened two years ago, before Covid-19 was a thing.

Of course he’s not going to do that, because if I was an Amazon warehouse worker and I got that amount of money, I would likely quit and go back to school, or quit and learn a trade, or quit and just look for a better job than work in an unsafe warehouse under strict conditions.

Keeping people in poverty is how you…

Sixty years ago they were firing and ostracizing communists, forty years ago was the Satanic panic, twenty years ago they were blasting anyone who criticized the majority-Republican government as unpatriotic. They’ve always been fine with what they’re calling cancel culture, they just don’t like that it’s been turned…

Rocket candy. I was in college, and I was poor, but I wanted to build model rockets. Dry heating the mixture went fine, but it blew up during the static fire test and scared the hell out of me. I bought all my rocket motors from Estes after that.

One time I tried to make rocket candy from scratch.

One time.

I wish I had something funny to say about this.  This is just such a dumb and senseless way to die.  I just hope this doesn’t create a hardship for everyone who survived, including the kid who is going to get sat down one day and told “Your biological father died building an explosive device to celebrate your…

What’s more, Lancelot (Galahad’s father) was a French character added in by a French poet, who wrote him to be the best swordsman in the court and also to have an affair with King Arthur’s wife.  C’est l’amour.

Yeah, I’m torn on loving it the way it is, and thinking it’d be great to get a remake which actually goes through and fleshes out the second half of the game.

Oh buddy! That’s rough! I used to do a playthrough every year (and after any break-up I happened to go through) and at some point, my friend and I decided to grind our way to level 99 before the end of the first disk. It let us breeze through the game, even in Gears, because there were enough gears like Billy’s and…

My favorite game of all time, Xenogears, came out in 1998 but I didn’t play it until 1999.  I had been planning on getting a playstation to play the Square catalog but that was the game that made me buckle down, scrounge up the cash and go buy a second-hand PSX.

I know they didn’t come out that year, but my original SNES gave up the ghost pretty early, and I didn’t get another one until 1996 when they were almost on the way out. I was finally able to play games I’d picked up from my cousin which included Final Fantasy II, Final Fantasy III, Secret of Mana, Illusion of Gaia,…