Experimental art direction for remakes are so uncommon, despite most arguments for stylistic changes being a fresh new interpretation. It's hard to believe UE5 realism with more basic genre trappings was a new vision born out of anything but creating an easy work pipeline.

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Reform win a seat: The true Volk have spoken and we all must listen. Greens win a seat: Early reports that Muslims may have ‘voted’ (an ancient Islamic practice designed to steal elections). How severely should the franchise be limited in response?

I don't know how many of y'all have read/watched Pluto but I recommend checking it out. Went straight to painting this once I finished the series.

A PS4 game that achieved everything it intended to do really isn't in need of a remake. It's weird how it's become the default way to interact with games. Let me buy it again, but tweaked through another teams eyes cause...new?

And this is how we get the Butlerian Jihad and kill AI

Root of anti-politics in games/media discourse is audiences rarely pay attention to a work's meaning even if it agrees with them. If it is popular people will convince themselves that it contains their views. Even when they overtly don't.

An understate advantage of video games is that even realism can pursue degrees of stylisation that make design appear natural to their world.

Reform election success is still likely. But they're having to balance between overly overt bigotry, and "sensible" tory 2.0. What their base respond well to is nonsensical, they believe themselves reasonable rather than full of evangelical zeal.

New pokemon looked fine, but 3/4 of the last mainline games have been sunny costal areas. Guess this is more tropical than SV, and if you count Legends there is more variety Maybe I'd just like a more strong Pokemon take on this culture like BW. We'll see.

Given that we're told that Muslims as a bloc are communalist, anti-Semitic, misogynist homophobes, you might assume voting for a non-religious white woman, standing for a LGBT friendly party, led by a gay Jewish man, might lead you to stand down all those sectarianism headlines.

Stellar Blade 2 inevitably being stuffed with AI, means we will get an incredibly lame Hogwarts re-run where people sell out their morals for mid

the green MP:

Feel like the people who get so irate about graphs in election campaigns, will all turn around and give the most bad faith interpretations of actual policies. Labour, Green, Reform, the yellow one. Doesn't matter, if they jerk it to the Y axis they have nothing useful to say.

It's incredibly hard to make Dante's design sauceless, but the whole DMC3 crew? Adi Shankar has outdone himself Sadly Trish had to be left out the show cause it's impossible to give her a bad fit.

tragically his sister has been convicted in the court of public opinion - wait a moment, I'm getting a note that it was a regular court.

Yoru vs Denji had her acting like a shonen hero, and I was considering if rewarded sex an extension of it But, is this about the shonen audience? Denji/CSM as an archetype is desired, but not CSM's message. Young men learn to seek sex/violence while rejecting any consequence. Suffer and get back up

Tag/trope being so central to many's engagement with story telling is probably what leads to 75% of bad fandom discourse You get people angry when a story diverts from the idea they liked, and those who feel insulted if any introspection goes on. So little time is given to execution

in the context of games as art, ppl tend to favor talking about visuals, sound, story, or the interplay between those aspects, but even the most well-read and insightful critics are ill-equipped to discuss the virtues of mechanical design and the play it promotes as art without relating it to story

Nextfest cements a feeling I have that a lot of people like action combat, but don't really understand it past a visual level.

Went to the fumiko villa and they all knew you

Seeing people say "Denji couldn't have been thinking of Power when he talked about wanting a sex friend, he saw her as a sister!" Let's just put that one away to unpack later.

"In those days people will seek death but will not find it; they will long to die, but death will elude them."

The crux of the consent issue in #csm230 is even if characters believe what they say, they're acting without consideration for themselves and others. Including Asa potentially wrongly feeling she has to do this, but mainly Denji becoming his worst self to fulfil his most base desires.

People really went crazy that a brand new plot point took about 5 chapters to be resolved. Locust Devil isn't the most crazy amazing writing, pretty standard Fujimoto. But so many went insane for what turned out to be decent set up and thematic parallels.

fami was trying to save everyone, and nobody cared #csm230

So Yoru is still abhorrent around consent, Denji is no better, both driven by loneliness amongst other things act entitled to Asa's body CSM Part 2 is consistent enough on theming that at some point you say the same thing each week. Thing set up few chapters ago (bugs) comes back. It's well written

There's a lot to take away from #csm230 But before I can process all that, you think Fujimoto played Silksong?

I'm not saying economics is fake. But the fact many didn't realise that paying for AI, firing workers so it does the same job, or letting them use it to do the same work. Isn't making more money for anyone but pedo billionaires. Sure makes it seem fake.

Hey folks, its a new version of Neon Genesis Evangelion! No, not the one you had a couple of years ago, its a brand new one! Do you feel 14 yet? You will buy our subscription to watch it right?

The reasons of official release/hardware are especially weird. Native console is one thing, but official is fairly meaningless A good re-release is totally possible, especially one that acts as a museum adding content about development. But I'd only care about official if it meant OG devs get paid

I just completed @sssuda51.bsky.social and @ghmofficial.bsky.social’s newest game "Romeo is a dead man" and I loved it!! If you’re a fan of stylish slasher ultra-violence, body horror, high concept sci-fi and offbeat comedy, this is the game for you!!

EVO used to just be a somewhat bigger tournament. Its identity was always changing, others started to catch up, the influence it had could at times be negative. But it centred the FGC calendar, the prestige was community driven. Something was lost a while ago and it won't come back.

Oh no Barring everything else about EVO recently: This is a very, very stupid idea

The Royal PIF wants to get their hooks into as many events as possible so they can control the community. Do not let EVO take over your scene. Also just as everyone expected, EVO Saudi Arabia is on the way in a case of completely missing the point as they make EVO a constantly running world tour.

Nextfest seems to have a bit more variety again, and while not much is exciting me I appreciate what seems like a lot of first time devs/first big projects giving it a go But man, the ai slop, the slop, slopfest. Fucking Valve.

People say "be gay do crimes" but when its Peter Mandelson you're all suddenly opposed are you

DUNE trilogy:

going to be mad circa 2028 when Peter Mandelson is acting as a key prime ministerial advisor from his cell, like a sort of New Labour Hannibal Lecter

No wait if they get the fetus vote then the right can finally live out their young people like us fantasy.

sometimes something bad happens where there are no malicious actors, no one is happy, and everyone gets the worst possible outcome they don't deserve. social media exists to strip such events of context so we can have clear winners and losers

I hope the new Evangelion unlike most mecha anime focuses on the robots, rather than the characters.

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It's not a universal theory of everything, but a lot of issues I have with game design and gamers can be linked back to blizzard Gamers giving gamers what they want means the dopamine hit becomes king. More of the most exciting as efficiently as possible. Burnout and addiction built into the system

Really don't get the obsession with official hardware/releases. Original native hardware, sure. Directly supports the original staff, absolutely. It's got the company logo on? idc

The internet, and society, struggles with the need for a perfect victim. Which is another reason I find Fujimoto's popularity so odd. In Chainsaw Man, Fire Punch or one shots. Trauma isn't the catalyst for characters bettering themselves, yet so often it is treated as just that in other stories.