Julianna 💎

The best thing Red Dead Redemption ever did for open world games was the treasure map collectibles, which reward you for actually taking in the map and terrain.

Every time another game does it, I smile

Also, quite a few bushes in the world are solid objects, and it feels janky in the moment when you collide with one, but it helps the game emulate the feel of a dense forest better than any other game I’ve played

I’m not really playing a stealthy character, so, when I am being stealthy, it’s because I literally need to as I’m outnumbered. Which is much closer to how actual stealth games work vs, say, stealth in Fallout where you can still power through if your cover is blown

Kingdom Come (1) a good example of jank not necessarily being to a game’s detriment. Like, combat against multiple enemies is a cluster fuck, but the fact getting ganged up on is a death sentence is kinda key to how the game flows

Kickoff at 9 PM local time is deranged

Shit, I missed that, what the hell?

Keir Starmer must resign

Yeah, a lot of my fellow Anglo lefties hear “Reform doing well in Scotland” and fill in the blanks without looking further

An observation (by Arthur Chu, IIRC) on the metaverse that’s stuck with me is it was all inspired by 80s and 90s science fiction, but a lot of that was just visual representation of what computers and the internet would end up doing, or already did, more efficiently

I like all of them :(

The what and the what?

I forgot about that, lmao

That Paul Krugman quote about the impact of the internet got trotted out so often, lmao

It got overshadowed by companies getting excited by something with a degree of substance, but that year or so, where tech enthusiasts would act like you were a Luddite for questioning the value of virtual reality shopping, was mad

What the fuck?

Andrew Lloyd Webber jumpscare on Strictly

sorry but they should actually be screening the first 40 minutes only of a VHS taped off the telly to respect *my* childhood

(I.e. a subtle dehumanising)

This feels of a piece with the increasing use of “trans” as an abstract noun

“They’re concerned their rights are being taken away. Their anger should be directed at those snake-oil salesmen who sold them the fiction they had rights that have been taken away, and not ever explained that rights are balanced. And that in some areas, such as discrimination law, the rights of biological people hold.”

Kishwer Falkner in The Times talking about the rights of "biological people". As compared to trans people, who are, of course, non-biological.

Yeah, I don’t mind RR in and of itself, but I don’t think it was the right call to make a pitch to casual viewers. Particularly the singing part

To be fair, Last Christmas is in a weird place given Jenna deciding to stay last minute. As originally written, it’d be a much more meaningful coda

Genuinely think Ruby Road was detrimental to people checking out Season 1. Like, Space Babies was a bad opening, but at least there was something else a week later

Think it’s because it gets more people watching the show than usual, but, given the specials are rarely a great advert for the normal show, it does feel silly at points, yeah

Disagree on Capaldi’s era, I liked the first two specials acting as epilogues to the preceding season. Though Dr. Mysterio and Twice definitely have a “just to exist” feeling

“Every Christmas special is about Christmas in increasingly tortured ways” is much more of a Moffat thing than a general NuWho thing

Assuming they want to make TOW3 and are given the green light, I would prefer not to be waiting until I’m in my 40s to play it

Also saw someone saying they hope that, whatever Obsidian’s next project is, they pool all their resources into it and, yeah, great, another studio releasing one game every 5-7 years is exactly what we need

Obsidian: “We aren’t making a new Fallout, we want to work on our own stuff instead of something controlled by others”

Gamers: They just mentioned Fallout, surely this is a sign

Perfect