The description in the article makes it sound more interesting than the actual movie. I watched it, and immediately forgot about it until this article. I watched it because someone told me, “Oh, it’s way better than the trailer looks,” and while that may be true, it’s not so good that it leaves any impact on you.

Not to mention that, like most polytheistic traditions, they were highly syncretic, picking up new gods from trading partners. Not quite to the same extremes as the Romans, who collected gods faster than they collected new territories during the imperial period, but fast.

I sit on my couch and game with a laptop. I prefer controller, but for games that don’t support that well, I’ll go keyboard/touchpad. I don’t like mice. Oh, I do put the game up on my TV, because my spouse likes watching me play, so whether I use the laptop screen or not, it’s also on the TV. Honestly, the laptop…

You’d think, but even with the shitty control scheme, the game was so well done that it was still a blast to play.

When I was a kid, my mom clipped the fuck out of coupons, and that’s why we had Fruit Loops for breakfast for months on end. No matter how much you like a food to start, overexposure always ruins it.

So, here’s a weird thing: when I bought a Mac circa 2003, THPS2 came bundled on it. It’s not a game I had thought about purchasing on my own, but hey, bundled game. Sure, I’ll give it a shot.

I haven’t gone back to it, but my initial reaction to High Fidelity was that I hated it: the asshole protagonist loses his relationship for being an asshole, mopes about it, and then his “timeout” lapses, and he’s back to his relationship.

I mean, “I don’t want to associate with this person because I find them awful,” doesn’t seem immature to me. Like, I can enjoy media and personalities that are problematic or toxic to varying degrees, but I have to take them in context. The context here is that it’s 2020, and Doug TenApel was involved, so within that…

> Who gets the friend group?

> Do you pay for netflix? cable?

All I’m saying is its an overwhelming quantity of things. So much that it doesn’t sound like fun at all, and instead sounds difficult to keep track of. I could just donate to good causes and buy the games I want when I want them, which seems much much easier.

I mean, I have been.

Wouldn’t I be doing a better thing if I just donated money?

Even if they’re not terrible, it’s such a big pile that the idea of sorting through it for the bits I want (and there are bits I want) is annoying. I’d honestly rather just donate directly and skip the bundle because the cognitive load of that much stuff just… oy.

But Oxenfree was terrible and I hated it so much. Mostly the characters. I’m sure they developed as the game went on, but they started so annoying that I couldn’t take the thought of playing more.

> For example, if you’re sending a multi-sentence message, the periods are neutral, because they are being used to separate the sentences.

Surprised to not see Buried on the list, which features Ryan Reynolds in a coffin. That’s in, that’s the movie. He was buried alive.

I just get very frustrated by lazy comedies that try and get by on little more than a premise and likeable actors who can basically improv. That cast and that premise could have been much better.

> and directed by the guy who did “This Is the End?”

At the risk of this sounding like “git gud”: the RNG plays a relatively small role compared to positioning and cover destruction. Any time I’ve gotten fucked by the RNG, it’s because I was taking a risk I shouldn’t have taken. I mean, yes, it sucks when you see 90% to hit and miss. But knowing that you had a chance to…