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I have no mouth, and I must scream

....why did it bold the letter t?

Critical analysis is projection on the part of the reader. That's the point. All art is interactive

My current guilty pressure, by the way, is The Traitors. Always up for Alan Cumming vamping out, and the current season has been an absolutely clinic

There's always Prototype, which is like if you took the GTA experience except you are essentially The Thing, from the John Carpenter film The Thing

Yeah, what I love about Traveller is that you can play relatively simply, stats and skill system and some basic combat when necessary; or you dive really deep into the weeds with tech levels and ship designs and structured debt payments etc.

The funnest fact about this that even if the author didn't mean anything by deciding the curtains were blue, the fact that they chose to make the curtains blue means something, intentional or otherwise.

Yeah I think that was a comparison that I've been holding on to based on faulty assumptions; like I always assumed at least the early Yakuza games (I'm aware of the recent change to turn-based RPG combat) played like a GTA, like I have this genre in mind (GTA, Sleeping Dogs, Yakuza, Saints Row...

My experiences with GTA in general (and tbf, most of that experience is with Vice City) is that it's fun as hell tooling around town listening to the most absurdly hilarious talk radio but that literally every other part of the experience is an exercise in misery. It's a big part of the reason...

I mean, to respawn or not respawn argument really has to do with the question of how much backtracking there is in your game. The more backtracking there is in your game the less I want/am willing to tolerate constant respawning. If there's no backtracking whatsoever, the only reason to have...

Oops, got distracted again: Final Fantasy 2 with Jobs!

They did, and they did: Wizards of the Coast Releases Exodus TTRPG

I can't open that link, but I can guarantee that I've got 20 posts per page on here...

It depends, are we talking 10 posts per page, or 20 posts per page?

Yeah, Mando is absolutely a callback to the whole Western-but-also-Samurai genre that is honestly truer to the origins of Star Wars than any other sub-property in the franchise.