So I’d like to talk about a Pokémon introduced in Gold & Silver named Jumpluff. It’s incredibly cute, a giant dandelion seed that floats through the air without a care in the world. But, you see, Jumpluff has a problem. It’s attack is rather bad, it gets few moves that draw from those attacking stats, and those moves…

Having just finished the book recently ‘estranged’ maybe feels like the appropriate word.

In the same way you’d be really bothered if someone would use, say, a title card that says “Nevada” before cutting to a slow aerial pan over Las Vegas?

(the book is too dreamlike/abstract anyway).

Good question. Garland identifies the compound as “Area X” with a title card. Just one of many deviations from the book, apparently.

Fallout again, but the SimpleGreen mod for FO4 on the PS4.

A mention for an 8-year old game? This calls for a celebratory PUBG video:

So, uh, yeah; Prey’s really good, isn’t it? To be honest, I haven’t played it since this weekend, and I’ve only just made it back into hearing the full message from my Morgan (and by extension, no psychic powers so far). The sound is especially great, and I love its world building - even if it’s nuts that its version…

Huh, I’d never speculated too much about the ‘meaning’ in Limbo. This doesn’t mean that I don’t think there is an underlying meaning - the theories I’ve heard pitched here in this thread alone are quite compelling - but rather that I kind of assumed that the game was occurring in a post-death, Purgatory-esque space…

Hehe, those forts do remind me of the rickety places I explored as a kid! Thank goodness I survived :)

Limbo was probably the game that got me into the indie scene. Hm... well, that or World of Goo. I recall enjoying Braid but thinking that it was just OK at the time (much of this was likely down to playing it on a laptop that ran slowly). In any case, I loved it and don’t know why I’ve not yet gotten around to Inside.

I always took Limbo as the children having both died in a car crash and the little boy stuck in a loop trying to reunite with his sister. Never considered the Tree House... That’s much more Stephen King-y and suburban. I like it.

I think in the league of “WTF” endings, Inside is definitely in the top half of the table.

PUBG Update:

Salutations~!

Civilization VI: Rise and Fall

Hidden Identity board games are pretty common, from the “one player is the traitor” format of Shadows Over Camelot and Battlestar Galactica to the Mafia-like (or Werewolf-like, if you prefer) games with multiple roles. This latter type is the kind I want to talk about. “Bang!” is the game in this genre I have the most…

What Have You Finished This Week?

I mentioned this a few weeks ago, and now that it’s a few weeks later, I’ve finished the Giant Bomb Endurance Run of Chrono Trigger.

So I picked up the newfangled Doom at long last today. Damn it is indeed good. Fights are intense and chaotic and I am not entirely sure what I’m doing but when you win it feels pretty dang awesome.