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I have to say I found the dating sim elements in Three Houses so absolutely goddamn tedious and pixel-hunt-y that they dragged down the game significantly. I felt much the same about similar elements in Midnight Suns, which also had them. In both cases it was because those elements were not, in...

I think in this case kind of neither instead it pushes them into a crippling fear that at any moment all their stuff could be taken away which means they have to fight the urge to hoard for the rest of their life.

It might have been that you just happened to see it just before a whole bunch of faux-K-Pop Demon Hunters stuff got taken down. Or that they called it "K-Pop DnD Hunters" in the ad, expecting you to click directly, but they don't use that actual terminology to describe the game in any of their...

I honestly can't think of a better class for a one-class loosely D&D-based RPG.

Sadly I do not and never did, even as a child. I did, however, have a Jetfire, which I felt was pretty much the best Transformer ever made by some margin. Of course later I learned that was because it wasn't really a Transformer but basically from Macross but there we are. I don't have him...

And talking of the dating/sim RPG crossover, one of the most fun games for me, for like a month, at least, maybe two was The Sims Medieval, which was very much "What if the Sims 3 was fused with Quest For Glory" (i.e. not quite a proper RPG, but on the way there). It was a very far from perfect...

That is the most "23-year-old" ass line I've heard in my life lol. Every slightly edgy 23-year-old believes that, I swear to god, and they're all fooling themselves. Nailing the character they're going for at least.

Brosnan Bond has by far the highest on-screen kill-count of any Bond, but maybe that was overcompensation? Also Moore was the least believable in terms of "will kill you at the drop of a hat" for my money, especially once he got into his "handsome grandad" era (For Your Eyes Only and A View To A...

Quite. It sort of redeems the entire concept of "subverted your expectations", shows it can be done right, and is absolutely thrilling when it is!

Yeah, and you can do the opposite of hedging your bets, which is betting on something that seems very likely to fail, and fail expensively, and that's where Ravenloft sits. Sure, an amazing writer + director team + the right budget (not necessarily the most insanely huge) might somehow unlock a...

That's a non-sequitur and also seems to not remember how long ago the 1990s were, nor how many bestselling novels there are every month. Bestselling is, I'm sorry, an incredibly low bar. You may think it means something, but let me assure you, it does not - and never really has (though it means...

I mean, probably not one designed for tabletop RPGs, I'd say. TTRPGs don't want the same things from a setting that a linear narrative like a film or a book does, I'd suggest. It's much easier to try and adapt from a film or a book to a TTRPG (which usually involves a huge amount of...

I feel like the original article is just wrong because, even just totally ignoring politics and anything a politician from anywhere did or said, the last 5 years are so insanely stupid, that time travel kind of has to exist, and has to being used to mess with us by jerks from the future. Like, I...

They're deeply interrelated factors, that are basically impossible to separate without the OP specifying more parameters. Movies that aren't really "feasible" tend to get very low budgets, usually a lower than what they "need" to do what they want to do. @Morrus is spot-on in saying "Why...

Yeah I don't get why beyond that it's very "topical", very pandemic/post-pandemic, and maybe they've never read one of his books that asks the same questions but better? It's genuinely accidentally hilarious at the end because it's downright "The Scary Door"-esque.

I'd blame the pandemic but it was released in 2024, and Ogres, which was released in 2022, much closer to the pandemic, is also much better. Maybe he has a long tail of books he's working on? He is very prolific. And yeah it's striking because it's common themes for him, but just really not...

If only! System Shock is, as fiction, quite superior to this. And System Shock is not exactly amazing, story-wise. Re: SHODAN, The whole thing was wild to me because he told a story with similar themes ("What is humanity, which humanity deserves to exist?") with Ogres (which was also short...

Oh god the yachting crews. That was so implausible I'd mentally put it as being in another book. Yes I found that out later and it did make me ask questions. Technologically most of what's going on seems to be like 1700s at latest, but then luxury-wise, it seems like there's a lot of stuff...

I feel like this is an un-usefully overbroad definition of "use a platform", I think you should have to have at least actively used it in say, the last six months. Like, I have a Facebook account, have I posted on Facebook in the last five years? No. Have even looked at Facebook in the last six...

I must sadly kinda disrecommend Adrian Tchaikovsky's Saturation Point. It's the only book of his I've read that I would say was actually "not good". Not like "average" or "mediocre", but like, not worth your time. And it's not even long! It's sad because the fundamental concept of the book is...