Finished Silent Hill F. An incredibly strong story and aesthetic that's dragged down by over-reliance on repetitive combat and keeping too many cards to it's chest. Having spoiled myself I'm torn on the multiple playthroughs to unlock and synthesize the various strands of theme and symbolism.

Fudge Jenga is brilliant.

Might be best to push on TBH so you can get the point of understanding what's going on. The end is a pretty mind-numbing combat gauntlet though, I get the point of it but it's fairly one-note

The first ending is incredibly upsetting and ambiguous but in ways I think are pretty consistent with the horror genre. I'm not particularly interested in how the subsequent playthroughs change the story but they do retroactively strengthen the meaning in the initial story.

Finished Silent Hill F. An incredibly strong story and aesthetic that's dragged down by over-reliance on repetitive combat and keeping too many cards to it's chest. Having spoiled myself I'm torn on the multiple playthroughs to unlock and synthesize the various strands of theme and symbolism.

New notebook means new stickers!

Likewise, I didn't really have the patience (or friends) for the traditional Monster Hunter structure. Having a story framing and motivation would certainly help push me through it, but it's still a substantial commitment to learn it's systems.

Started watching The Sopranos and now we're here

Crimson Desert is a game built on the idea that it's better to give someone 10,000 Twinkies because oink oink fuck you piggie rather than sit down to make one single made-to-measure cake. It fundamentally thinks the player is a moron.

I think I accidentally tuned into the frequency where all ads are made by AdultSwim

Alien Isolation! Replayed it for Halloween last year and it definitely holds up much better than Bioshock.

I've regularly referred to Instagram specifically as a game I refuse to play (meta's politics aside). It's partly the frustration of the ever-changing rules, but mostly the psychological hijacking of our values, warping our creations in chasing fulfillment from likes rather than the creation itself.

We have learned of a website (which we are not linking to) that is charging people to pay to play knockoffs of popular board games like Catan, Wingspan, Agricola and more - different names, crappy art, same mechanics.

A timely reminder that parasocial indies are not a replacement for job security, for industry stability. Their recent Kickstarter made me wary of how it plays into this cult of personality that insulates them from scrutiny.

Just played the third scenario last night. Love it, but it does still feel a little susceptible to spending 5 minutes at the start trying to math out the optimal placements, it's hard to live in the moment when there are stickers on the line.

I'm way overdue to rewatch Tampopo, its an incredible representation of the universal reflected through the specific, in how we experience food. Except for the egg perverts.