An interesting example of non-protagosexuality imo is Wenduag in Wrath of the Righteous. She is canonically bisexual before you ever meet her, and as a female protagonist she has lines specifically talking about this and even stating it's what she prefers.

the most basic prerequisite for being able to write star trek is you have to imagine a better world than the one you live in today, which disqualifies 95% of TV writers immediately. "yeah we did that capitalism shit for a while and grew out of it to become better" is the whole point

Star Trek Discovery having a character talk about the great geniuses of human history and mention Elon Musk alongside them, a line that was deeply pathetic and stupid at the time and only got worse every passing day.

BOTH urshifus at 14 along with the cheerleader. Insane.

wait fuck i meant River Ward.

Takemura not being a romance option but River Song being one is crazy. Straight women deserve so much better than this. A straight guy friend of mine said that the River Song scenes made him empathise with women more than anything else because of how insanely uncomfortable they were.

yeah Lann is a total creep whose romance is asking you to duel him 1v1 with no armour or weapons or magic (he's a monk) and if you win he gets so pissed off the romance ends. meanwhile the guy straight women actually want to fuck in wotr is the centuries-old fascist gnome.

at new years i stayed with a friend, a few others up visiting from overseas, and we watched all of hellsing and hellsing ultimate back to back. hellsing 2001 is so much better its unreal.

the clip of someone playing it with their monitor off just mashing one button and killing every enemy really felt like the final statement on that kind of shitty asscreed combat system

dude is actually this real dialogue from the fallout show i saw this and almost died from secondhand embarrassment

There's actually bad designs to show that would illustrate the point, too! All you need to point to is the main alien guy who looks like they found him working in Tesco to go 'this is why this game was too sauceless to make it', but instead it's right to the most racist choice they can make.

i dont think there's a better summary of the previous decade of politics than "putting a non binary gender option in call of duty"

"That you Jynx? I see Smogon roped you into this too."

"A lead's job is never done. But we can talk more later. Tauros should be just in the back."

"I thought I heard something critting..."

"Focus, S. Tauros has Hyper Beam, and you know what that means."

"Yeah. trouble."

All of which is leadup to the funniest reveal as a second Nine Ball attacks you

Repost to delay Silksong Sea of Sorrow

if you hate chaingunners, you should definitely play Plutonia on UV so that you can kill lots of them and vent your frustrations

Metroid Prime 4 really doesn't have enough dialogue. Would benefit from more characters, maybe some one-liners to really spice up exploration. Perhaps a wise-cracking sidekick on comms giving advice.

Always funny when you can pinpoint the exact moment a YouTuber articulated a specific criticism because all of a sudden every discussion has it come up with identical phrasing when no one has mentioned it before.

unimaginably countless hours of work and polish put into producing a game that is just empty and sucks shit. and then they made it a second time.

Typing this up and I realised I forgot the new Katamari and Look Outside and Sudokovania and The Roottrees Are Dead and a bunch of other real good games. Gaming is so good! Also some stinkers like blue prince and miside but you can't win 'em all.

Stuff I played this year that was really really good: Pathologic (cant believe it took me this long to get around to it, I adore this game), Reverse Collapse (best tactical rpg I've ever played), Metal Slug (played a bunch of them and MS1 is my fav), Yu-No (foundational work for VNs). Going Down.wad

Thats just for games that came out this year, honourable mentions to Deltarune ch3/4 or Hades 2 (good overall, but a shite ending), Abiotic Factor, Logic Bombs and Ender Magnolia.

Silksong was the most overhyped running joke of a game and somehow far better than ever expected. Promise Mascot Agency was a delight. Of The Devil ch1 was a great start. 100 Line, which I still need to finish, is a staggeringly ambitious VN. Silent Hill f was an actually good silent hill in 2025.

DECADES OF WORLDBUILDING yet NO REAL-WORLD REASON FOUND to add GNOMES to a fantasy setting

it imagines a world where the most important thing is 12 year olds playing football and everyone is suffering from different levels of Football Trauma, and it's incredible. 7 hours in and you haven't even played a real match yet.

When a major story beat in Ghost of Yotei was labeled "The Cost of Revenge," I felt relief because I am glad a Playstation game is finally covering this topic. I hope we can get some answers re: revenge, and whether it is a bad thing, and maybe even causes a cycle of violence

one of the best movies ever made