Thank you.

Skynet doesn’t hate humanity, it attacked as a direct counter to the threat of being destroyed. Which is interesting, because if it could fire some version of itself into space, or the moon, or some other planet - the threat of destruction is gone, which means the threat of humanity is gone - would it keep fighting or…

The representation of Par Vollen does seem to change from writer to writer though from misunderstood to pure evil slave owners, so.... that could use some work....

but being angry and bitter that people are now able to make art more easily without “putting in the time” is classist as fuck.

“Five years after that it’ll just be called sad/happy, a formless emotional slurry of random live feeds accompanied by AI-generated music which alternates between auto-sad and the Inception horn blast.”

He also likes to sign off as, I’m pretty sure, ‘professional sh*tbag’ and his show is called ‘Mother’s Basement’ so, you know, sometimes humor is intentionally self-deprecating and self-aware. You know, for fun!

I mean with Neir: Automata it was supposed to be disempowering. It was supposed to be wierd and offputting and bizarre and uncomfortable to have androids in a filthy destroyed future dressed up like flawless fetish dolls. An immediate visual cue that implied the whole narrative.

You’re right with that second point.  For the sake of historical context, there should be a permanent asterisk appended to Titanfall 2 that mentions its release date in any discussion of its commercial success.

insane in the membrane

If you’re in this mood, try Gary Paulsen’s Winterdance. Great book about his first Iditarod run. Looking forward to this game.

As someone with a history of Big Dig level orthodontic procedures, you have my sympathies.

Finally hitting the endgame of Ghost of Tsushima. Really enjoyable all around, surprised how much I liked it.

Yes please.

I went to Japan a couple of years ago with some friends. It’s more affordable than I had been worried about - we stayed in a lot of small, business-class hotels that were really lovely (especially the one that served breakfast). It was really easy to see a lot in a short amount of time.

Sony has always had a problem with the concept of non-proprietary memory, there was a whole generation before the Vita of all kinds of their stuff with a proprietary memory stick.  Really awful.

Pendragon is the newest one by inkle, the Heaven’s Vault, 80 Days and Sorcery! devs. Usually some good storytelling happening there.

Ghost of Tsushima, Spiritfarer and the beach.

The soundtrack on Rapture is... just, absurdly beautiful.

It’s a wonderful bit of ludonarrative synergy.

Panhandling would usually have to happen more than one night a year to be effective.