Going by my understanding of what Kojima refers to as strand-type game, Dark Souls would fit that mold if it wasn’t for the pvp/coop. Though you are not creating physical structures, you are often leaving messages interspersed throughout the game, and what messages you see will depend on where and when you are in the…

I didn’t read past the spoiler warning, but this is basically my take away as well. Not to say that constructive critique shouldn’t be dished out where it is needed, but relevant context need also be taken into account when doing so: you can compare an indie game to Skyrim, especially given The Forgotten City’s…

Alita Battle Angela was surprisingly good if you can get past giant CG eyes.

Hahah I’m aware. I just meant that there’s a spectrum of anatomical correctness related with ANIMAL anthropomorphism, which seems to determine whether the character in question IS actually a furry or not.

Is that not what it is? Me and my friends have always been using it as a catch-all term for anything with anthropomorphic characters with a relative amount of human anatomical correctness. Like Donald duck and Sonic might not be furries in my book (despite vast amounts of fan porn labeled as such), but the old…

It’s harder to let people go in that if you fire them, in thatthey might file a complaint, and then 2-3 years later the NLRB might wag a stern finger at you

Yeah they might be. I’m honestly not super informed on the nitty gritty details of the whole effort. Though since there is an ongoing walkout it might also be legally ambiguous at the moment, since it implies the potential presence of an ongoing worker’s movement. This is probably why Blizz hired a union-busting firm.

Sort of, I was told that when you are in the unionization process, it’s harder to let people go without garnering scrutiny for your intentions. The main protection you can have, ironically, is to actually be in a unionization process. If higher ups were to find out you wanted to unionize before publicly declaring a…

Realistically when you are hired for one of these jobs, you have to sign an NDA: Non-disclosure agreement which over the course of 2-10 pages basically says that you can’t leak any company data or secrets or your ass is sued. Words often used in these contracts include “liable”, “company reserves the right”,…

Not necessarily: at least in my union, we basically hold a democratic election every few years for a board that votes in decision making along with a president to oversee the member meetings. These people also appoint other non-industry staff to work at offices, answer emails and ‘deal’ with the companies (member dues…

Thanks for sharing, this is so relatable. Though my RPG analogue (probably due to being a bit older) was the original FF7. I think the moments that really hit me was young Cloud and Tifa sitting together on top of a water tower talking about their dreams and future. And then, much later in the game, when they spend…

So you’re telling me the entire fucking movie climaxes in Mario sponsoring a product placement for a Mario-themed packaged rice condiment? I’ll stick with my gritty American version, because I trust the fungus thankyouverymuch.

As stupid as it sounds, I often think about the possibility of being able to pass on my Steam Library after I, well, pass. I like the idea of a ridiculously large, unmanageable digital library that grows out of proportion across generations. If climate change or some other catastrophe doesnt kill us all first. Maybe…

You’d probably need to take it to some sort of art/cel appraiser, though I wouldn’t count on every-day cels going for thousands of dollars. Something like a Ghibli film has way less cels in existance than the entirety of the DragonBall/Z franchise (which ran like, what, 300 episodes at least?), which has something to…

Eiiii, progress!

It was, sadly, pretty bad. To even compare it to Diablo is too much of a compliment. I went into it really wanting to like it, and to its credit it had some really cool on-brand ideas (like randomized spell selection based on a deck of cards you could customize), but the combat just fell really flat. The saddest part…

Ohmygosh this is awesome! I love that it keeps the same chiptune instruments without the garbled acoustics of the GBA! Thanks mate!

This is exciting because it gives others a chance to listen to Circle of the Moon’s Awake in-game. That tune rocks, but the Smash Ultimate OST vresion may be more palatable.

I recently grabbed something called “Tiny Metal” from Steam which is basically a cute little 3D Advance Wars clone . It’s a bit rough around the edges and the story is VERY anime (also they might have too many unit types), but it really scratched that itch for me.

This is arguably less fucked up than a lot of mainstream games like Grand Theft Auto.