It’s one of many very sad instances where a visionary creative had a cool story they wanted to tell, and then after they finished and left the studio stepped in and said “Okay, now how much more can we wring out of it!”

On the upside, the first season serves a full, complete perfect story, with nothing further that needed to be added. Also, not all of the additional stuff sucks. Production IG brought Gen back to write the movie, and it was OK.

In some fairness, I can understand fans being a little disappointed that in such a choice focused game, none of their choices ended up mattering in the larger picture.

I’m not really sure how Bethesda could rectify that though. It’s not like they could make it so that all of the contradictory choices happened at once through some kind of cataclysmic break in time.

because the alternatives are unconscionable. Consumerist capitalist mono-culture is going to eat its own tail and kill everyone in the process.

I do think theory is a very good way to recruit people. When the facts are presented fairly, rational people will not choose capitalism.

We’re seeing it in New York with Mamdani; stop voting for these old dinosaurs that don’t care about you, support DSA candidates and third party leftists who actually want to help you. It takes a shitton more work than just voting, and includes working for their campaigns as well.

This is kinda a weird choice. I don’t think the setting of Sekiro is that vast, so I imagine this will kinda have to follow the plot of the game. The thing is, Sekiro was already a heavy story-based game, at least compared to most other FromSoft titles. Your character has a voice, there are story cutscenes, it’s not quite like a Dark Souls where you can complete the game without knowing anything about Kuro or his goals.

If the anime is really just going to be a beat for beat retelling of Sekiro, that seems like a waste. It’s also not like the story of the game is even that compelling? It’s a lot of Macguffin collecting, the overall theme is a pretty basic “power corrupts.”

¿Por qué no los dos?

One of the few studios where I’ll watch whatever they make, no questions asked.

I mean, good creators don’t? There are still AA and indie devs pouring their heart into stories they want to tell?

This article is basically just bemoaning that AAA develops for the lowest common denominator, which I can understand as a gripe, but it’s a very old gripe. If you start really digging into AAA, you’ll get other similar ones like “Why are these gameplay loops made for people who don’t like gameplay” or “How come perfectly serviceable story focused games get mandatory crafting systems added onto them.” When you’re trying to make something to broadly appeal to as many people as possible, you stop making art, so I don’t know why people keep expecting AAA to produce artistic experiences.

can we get much higher?

First season of Psycho-Pass. later seasons got a bit too muddled and had some repetitive antagonists, so I wouldn’t recommend continuing it. Shinya Kogami and Shogo Makishima’s rivalry is the real meat of the story, and getting rid of both characters at the end of S1 just killed all of the show’s momentum. Gd, what a rivalry though.

Oh yeah, and the animation, visual style, and music all slaps. There’s also great side characters that get a few moments to develop and stand-out, and most of them didn’t get brought along to later seasons either.

Y’all is just too nice of a contraction. “You all” is too harsh of a statement, but y’all gives it enough fun flair to be okay. I tried ditching it when I was a teen, but eventually came around as an adult.

tbh, any system can accommodate this. It’s on you as a DM to create/use the various larger factions/entities. You can really make a world feel alive by writing up a few basic opposing factions and having the results of their conflict intertwine with whatever your group is doing. Wanna run a Shadowrun game? Focus on the megacorps going at each other, have the party work some of those jobs, but maybe have another group of NPC runners crash a job. Wanna do D&D? Well, they added factions like the Harpers so that you can have some big players pushing pieces behind the scenes, and have your players stumble onto a wider conspiracy.

I think the biggest thing is that you can’t be afraid to give your party a challenge you know they have no hope of defeating. If they’re small fish in a big pond, they have to encounter a big fish and learn their place in the hierarchy. If your group is smart, you can give a lot of hints that they need to flee and escape the bigger fish. If they’re dumb, have em get wiped out in combat and barely survive.

Where would you go? This trend is not unique to Canada, it’s happening all across the West. Every liberal democracy will eventually end up like this.

I don’t really care too much about which slang words we decide to carry forward. I’ve long since adopted rizz and -ussy, and like delulu being added here.

I am a little bothered by the fact skibidi doesn’t have a definition. I feel like words should have a meaning if they want to be added to our official lexicon. It seems like skibidi is just a sound children enjoy making.

Y’all were thanking service people? Like just walking up to them and saying “Thank you for your service of enforcing neo-colonialism abroad?”

I tried to do a run of Elden Ring without visiting the Roundtable only to accidentally kill Varre, which prevented me from going to the DLC. Also, not visiting the Roundtable prevented me from entering Leyndell. The modern wrong warps didn’t seem to work, so instead of finding a workaround, I just gave up on the run and haven’t played ER since.

I dunno if I like the way and position he’s holding her. it feels…lewd

Ah yes, we should all think like the fascist, and give our obedience blindly.

The thing is, the alternative is a wire that inevitably gets tangled up in my spinning chair. what we really need is the ability to transmit electricity wirelessly.

I mean, yeah? duh? Are people forgetting the U.S. put him and several others on trial for it as well? The U.S. justice system is just so broken and corrupt that nothing came of it.