Hatsune Michael

OnlyCans:Thirst Date (2021)

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Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

FYI for fellow narrative designers/game writers: the studio in question is Sentona Games and it’s my understanding they are currently interviewing to replace me. Be very careful with them. They were very nice to me and easy to work with right up until I needed the money I was promised.

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

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Heads up if you play an hour of Beyond the Citadel and then follow that up with an hour of Resident Evil: Requiem and then go to sleep you will experience some of the most unsettling dreams you've ever had without chemical assistance.

(I don't actually think they're that bad barring the James subplot but they are a step down.)

The title card for the episode after they solve the mystery

I love TTRPGS.

I hadn't seen any of Leon's gameplay prerelease but the moment I saw his UI I KNEW

Only got to play Requiem for about an hour last night but my initial impression, to my own shock and horror, is that the central design question seems to be "what if we made RE 6 again but this time good?"

RUNT on Steam RUNT is a rural gothic visual novel mystery where you play as Runt, the youngest of five brothers, surviving a monstrous post-apocalypse.

🚨 my pick of Next Fest so far 🚨

🐻 RUNT

Gripping from the get go. Just download it and thank me later, even if you’re not a visual novel enjoyer. The writing and mystery and characters and world building and hidden object puzzles and investigating and

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This graphic seems to imply they're all for Leon so, uh, congrats on defeating a different kind of T Virus I guess.

Not like the curator's system, I mean a few people professionally vetted for their ability to cover different genres in meaningful ways, whose selections would be presented chronologically without algorithmic assistance.

I really wish more digital games stores had something equivalent to Bandcamp's new and notable section, i.e. a few people are paid by the store to look through each days' releases, play what speaks to them, and highlight the ones they personally found artistically interesting.

That one RE9 article makes an awkward pivot (especially as it's cut to highlight said pivot) but also: why are we pretending genre fiction can not and does not reflect real life history/atrocity? Imagine getting this up in arms about someone saying the Zach Snyder Superman movies use 9/11 imagery.

after reading that polygon article I'm gonna be honest: I have no idea why anyone is mad about it other than "someone on here cropped a picture in a ragebaity way"

This is something I expected but it's funny that 1) everyone keeps giving me this look like I've got a bit announcement and 2) in this case I tried to preempt a lot of this response by saying I wouldn't propose on a trip they planned because that felt like I was hijacking their romantic gesture.

Something they don't tell you is that when you reach a certain point in a relationship, every time you come back from a nice dinner or weekend getaway a non-zero amount of your friends and family will assume one of you was going to propose.

anyway

Screenshot of Leon from Resident Evil 4. The subtitles read, “Diane, 11:30 a.m., February 24th. Entering the town of Twin Peaks.”.

I post a different response to this question each time it's asked and I stand by every answer I've ever given.

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The Name of the Rose turned out to be the funniest pick for a vacation read. I'm drinking wine in a hot tub, eating steak and seafood, and I'm reading about a bunch of monks going "Christ never laughed so neither should you."

Crow looking behind himself with a full vertical 180° head tilt cause he's a talented boy yes he is omg just look at him so good.

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insanely sick demo just showed up my replies

IMO: it's a pretty standard level of debut film quality, i.e. not great but enough good moments that my main takeaway is "if he keeps at it he'll make something really interesting someday." Ending is really cool, though, for the spectacle of the absurd volume of fake blood.