Always annoyingly dull when reactionaries are like "we just want stories not woke stuff" as if a story somehow isn't a story when it's about race, gender, sexuality, etc.
Reading this article feels like Vavra is actively refusing to have the epiphany that's screaming in his face
The idea of Mr. Beast being in the know enough about Channel Awesome lore to have this intention is very funny to me
And by "four older teens" I really mean Robin and Steve, I have no memory of what Nancy and Jonathan are even up to but I don't remember being annoyed by them
Now that the dust has settled on Stranger Things is it a hot take to say Season 3 is still the worst one?
The mall is a cool change of pace but introducing the Soviet plot is the start of really jumping the shark and every character but the four older teens is at their most unlikable
So either they're taking art someone made for real and asking some model to give it back but blue like they're a Sleeping Beauty Fairy, or they're getting tricked by some software slapping the AI label on a tool that's been around forever and isn't really AI?
After playing Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous and making plenty of new characters for each one's Roguelike DLC Dungeon I've still not really tried that class at all
My understanding is Alchemist is a rough class for the first time ever using that game system
They shouldn't and I'm against it
I don't know the specifics beyond I think them saying it's for idea iteration before making the real stuff, which is still bad. On the other hand the fact they work in IP with already defined aesthetics may limit the damage more than if it was for original work.
To RDR2 fans: Overrated does NOT mean bad, plenty of very good things are also overrated
That trendy-ish "About Me: Video Games" grid with the following games for each category: Favorite Game: Outer Wilds Best Story: 1000xResist Favorite Art Style: Transistor Biggest Personal Impact: Disco Elysium Best Combat: Nine Sols Overhated: Avowed Underrated: Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire Overrated: Red Dead Redemption II Needs a Remake: Piglet's Big Game Criminally Underrated: Pyre Favorite Protagonist: In Stars and Time Favorite Antagonist: Knights of the Old Republic II Best Soundtrack: NieR Automata Best Multiplayer: Halo 3 Not Usually My Thing, But...: Age of Empires III Turn my Brain Off: Skyrim Best With Friends: Deep Rock Galactic Best Retro Game: Deus Ex Nostalgic Childhood Game: Super Smash Bros. Brawl Game Everyone Should Play: Portal 2
There are so many good alternate choices for each category because there were, are, and will be so many good video games
I think the Detective would try to take the Cleric under his wing and the Cleric would nervously back away, if they just encountered each other with zero context.
If they were assigned to the same case and met knowing they were each other's partners and saw how similarly they work they'd get along
New video! I liked Esoteric Ebb a lot and also had some thoughts about how closely it adheres to Disco Elysium's example
youtu.be/9tderdH0aMg
I usually try to avoid getting hyped for things since I want to avoid falling into the trap of getting too attached to specific expectations.
That said, I am unbelievably excited for this and the team-up of sunset visitor and Black Tabby blindsided me in the best way possible
Don't panic, but I have read Animorphs
Part of me laments that so much Animorphs discussion is just "hey did you know this crazy thing happens in it" instead of deeper stuff but to be fair there are some real crazy things that happen in it
My favorite Animorphs Lore Fact is that the big god figure is a gamer and his god name is his gamer username, and his species was wiped out by a different group of aliens that saw their Twitch streams of their Civ games and thought the Civ games were real and had to be stopped
Michael Grant and I have concerns that the project is under-resourced. But one of the producers, Sev Ohanian, is a friend, as well as a genuine Animorphs fan. If anyone can make it work, he can. Fingers crossed. variety.com/2026/tv/news...
Weird creature tries to scam you out of 5 bucks...
#indiegame #indie
And hey here's my top 11-20 in no strict order too why not
Dread Delusion
Sable
Expedition 33
Citizen Sleeper 1 and 2
Pentiment
Hades 1 and 2
NORCO
Hi-Fi Rush
Tactical Breach Wizards
Nine Sols
Is it cheating to have both Citizen Sleepers and both Hadeses instead of picking one? Yes
Excited to check out some of the GDC IGF nominees and winners and also Esoteric Ebb to how those shake up the list
I know there's still 3 & 3/4 years left in the decade but whatever here's a rough "top 10 favorite games of the 2020s so far in no strict order" list
1000xResist
Silksong
In Stars and Time
Baldur's Gate 3
Neon White
Wrath of the Righteous
Paradise Killer
Slay the Princess
Cyberpunk 2077
Wildermyth
it's on the list now
"Are you worried about misinformation, climate change, affordability and wage stagnation, art being flattened by business interests, and education disruption?
Here at GenAI Company, we've developed a product that will make all of that worse for zero benefit.
Give us the entire economy. Fuck you."
I vaguely remember there being a lot of drama around Greedfall 2 I never looked into, glad to see it seems to have gotten worked through
The binge drop vs week-to-week dichotomy strikes again
I didn't say it in the video itself but there's a reason I decided to follow up an anti-AI vid with one about a scrappy old parody webseries.
This is what true democratized concept-remixing art can be, not some overglossed "Smash Bros as Crime Drama" Midjourney images
New video about the gritty Smash Bros fan series Matt Mercer made back in 2009.
I've been enjoying Echo's videos for a while now but I felt this recent one on Deux Ex is worth highlighting, because DE a game that has been discussed to death and I wasn't really sure there was anything new to say, but this video far exceeded my expectations when it comes to a fresh perspective.
A screenshot from the TV show Black Sails of a book open to a page in which someone has scrawled "My truest love. Know no shame. T.H." No further elaboration in case of spoilers
Know no shame (for shilling for indies)
I read somewhere that Silksong's platforming was really hard but (once I got the crest that does a straight down pogo instead of diagonal pogo, granted) I didn't find it too bad after playing Wishbind, so thanks for the platformer boot camp @imaginativems.bsky.social
