Fascinated by this new method of coding a character as transfem (game The Mermaid Mask on Steam, well worth your purchase)

I know it's got his review of North, which is unforgettable

lmao no it is not. It just isn't. It is fully within the norm for a negative review where the writer feels strongly. This is Roger Ebert.

Only thing I'll say about Emily Wilson's Odyssey review is of course she confirms he did cut Penelope's dream about the geese. Of course he did. At least somebody noticed.

does sum it up

What did I tell you guys

Every time I see people in narrative talking about how to "raise the stakes" I think about this

But the thing that made the true ending compelling was all the themes about friendship and mercy. And once you've hardened your heart to the characters and treated them as lines of code to wring every drop of content out of the game, you can't ever fully get that back quite the same way.

The route is positioned repeatedly, in all sorts of ways, as something you do after you've done every other thing you can do in the game in every possible way, and this is all that's left.

Have you seen the incredibly sick illustrations from the library book where I learned the whole Arthur cycle as a kid?

Little bit weird for a prominent feminist who cares deeply about women's rights to not think the "gender Taliban" is in fact the regular Taliban. They are notoriously pretty focused on gender

People also keep missing that the original report explicitly said they got similar reports every time there's American adventurism in the Middle East.

Renee Good and Alex Pretti just died for the right to keep their country a multicultural zone

Historically a lot of people who were very intimately aware of what America has historically been and done and still found it useful and inspiring to talk like there's a platonic ideal of America out there to live up to.

That's exactly the vibe tbh

A real win for Birdo today

Look at my dog

Pictured: my consolation nachos

Guy who has never heard of any geopolitical crisis other than Israel-Palestine, watching the new Superman movie: getting a lot of Israel-Palestine vibes from this

Currently selling my Daggerheart GM on a half goblin half katari who looks like a sphynx cat anthro

Imagine the essay CS Lewis would write about science discovering you can't program a robot to be evil in one specific way without making it evil in every other way