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Will Fulton
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"Toy Box" didn't sound remotely disco—it was mid-2000's Britney Spears, if anything. I found that quite jarring.

(Bambaataa, Flash, and Herc are generally agreed upon as the Holy Trinity—Caz was just a hugely important early MC)

The lack of Invisible, Inc. on any of these lists is surprising and disappointing. It's easily one of the most tightly designed, tense, and satisfying strategy games of the year, if not since at least XCOM.

I also like the music quite a bit, but I also recommend turning the music off sometimes, especially when you're not doing main quests. After playing a while longer it can get a little tedious and be randomly overwrought when you're wandering around the wilderness. It's kind of great to just hear the diegetic sounds

It's not nearly as bad as the first one, and there are some genuinely great female characters that are self-motivated and decently dressed (a blacksmith and an aspiring queen of the vikings, for instance). It also has a few too many random naked prostitutes and otherwise normal characters with comically expansive

From the episode title I thought immediately of The Tower in Tarot. It's associated with swift and sudden destruction, chaos, collapse—generally one of the worst cards to see anywhere in your reading, and entirely appropriate for Finn's recent loss. In building the tower Finn was choosing to carry forward that

Ugh, Munchkin… I played that game to death with my friends, and once you get over the initial humor of seeing the cards for the first time, it rapidly becomes apparent that it's a flimsy design with one of the worst endgames I'm aware of (everyone poised to win, burning through all their screw-you cards to stop