Just watched They Will Kill you again and am now once more declaring that the whole entire world seems to have slept on this film. Zazie Beetz (who is basically a goddess, let's be real) kills--in so many ways. Campy and insane film. Watch it!

Finished Borderlands 4. Liked several things: movement is genuinely better than even Destiny--but I've been saying for years that all Destiny classes by default need a ground and aerial dash/dodge (if only BL had Destiny gunplay...) Even the BL4 grapple hook is super smooth and intuitive.

You know, I can't quite put my finger on it, but I find the idea that any given main character from Final Fantasy XII was trans to be rather compelling. Oh man, if they were literally all trans it would explain so much.

I dunno, I'm a relatively healthy 30-40 year old person, if I had a late-night crowd event on a Sunday straight into an international flight for board meetings then an international flight back at the end, I think the jet lag might kill *me.* So like...

Ya girl just tried that Mistfall Hunter beta on PS5 and, oof, not for me. Besides needing some polish (totally cool and not unexpected), I just don't feel this marriage of soulslike/fantasy action and extraction looting. It's Caramel and Jelly, not PB&J. I can see why, but it's not doing it for me.

Re. the new Mass Effect successor Exodus: You want to know if you can romance crew members regardless of whether you chose a male or female main character. I want to know what that octopus do. We are not the same.

Just my compulsory reminder ahead of SGF: fuck the CEO of Lords of the Fallen, he's an anti-woke grifter nazi apologist, fostering a toxic work environment, glazing the likes of asmongold, and turning a cool game into bottom of the barrel gooner chud bait to cover for his bad management.

Finally get to see Jesse and Emily in Control 2. God, they got even gayer. God, look at Jesse's outfit, and her HAIR. A fucking NECKERCHIEF. LET ME PLAY AS HER

BL4 is tonally good and fun, like just about all of it, but the only misfire for me so far is the open world. Like most open worlds, it feels condensed and small, a theme park version of its setting. All western vibes are gone w/ wide open spaces, now it's a garbage dump of STUFF every 2 feet.

Couldn't stick it out with Destiny 2, even with the incoming final update. No joy in the world for me, good as the gunplay remains. Tried Borderlands 4 and it's nice (it always has been) but the gunplay doesn't compare (it never has). If it felt like Destiny--hoo boy, what a time that would be.

Spicy (?) take: Witch Queen and Final Shape are ill-fitting gibberish nonsense that don't feel like Destiny. The satisfaction of their landing is conflated with 1. finally a chunky campaign with missions that aren't 10 minutes, and 2. oh thank god the plane landed it's over.

Uh-oh, Lies of P devs appear to be actively hiring for AI usage. Big yikes.

Excited to announce that my very own TTRPG, Sellsword, is now available digitally, with a physical option on the way! It plays like a blend of Daggerheart, Nimble, and plenty of OSR and PbtA inspirations. I'm so stoked! saga-ward.itch.io/sellsword

I could really do with another big Fromsoft soulslike. Gimme, I dunno, Rune Souls or whatever. Oh, another castle/library with a crystal motif? Don't mind if I do. A sewer dungeon that gives way into a poison swamp? Oh, you spoil me. (just improve the casting please I beg of you)

Look, I'm always gonna be real suspicious of when men design women characters (born sexy yesterday trope and all that), so when you tell me she wears a bikini to breathe through her skin, or that robot that looks like a child for some reason is barefoot to recharge battery... Nah, I'm good.

With the news of the Bloodborne movie, rumors of at least a remaster have again swelled. Everybody has their ideas for what tweaks to make. Tell you what, I'd give Maria the lifesteal from Malenia. Best fight in the game deserves to really sing.

I've owned every Playstation system there's been but the PS5 was the first time I ended up feeling like I didn't need to. Now I'm really unconvinced of the worth of a 6th. Suddenly I'm like, "Oh... That Steam Machine thing sounds neat, huh?" despite having never played any games on PC.

HOW have I not heard more chatter about They Will Kill You yet!? Just saw it and GIRL, same. Zazie Beetz (a literal goddess, I mean, LOOK at h--) is great, the soundtrack kicks ass, one of the most audacious films I have ever seen. Instant classic.

The new Mortal Shell 2 video looks dope as hell. All the things that drew me to the aesthetic vibe of Lords of the Fallen--just hope that unlike LotF it's got none of the cringe anti-woke lunatic vibe behind it. Plus that shell is thicc and spiky which has ya girl salivating.

I haven't played Nightreign, I just really think the time limit isn't for me, but I just saw footage of Revenant and her awesome claw slashes and all her ghost flame and I'm like, "Well damn, how do I get that in Elden Ring?"

Lords of the Fallen rumored to be free on PS+ next month. Reminder that CEO marek tyminski is an anti-woke grifter who likes the smell of asmongold's smelly balls, he gutted the studio, ruined his first game, and is turning the second into slop, to court the nazi crowd. I'll keep hating. Fuck him.

Hey, I liked Firefly as much as anybody, but the fact that Adam Baldwin is an anti-vax anti-woke freak and they brought him back no harm no foul doesn't sit well with me. Have some principles.

I was walking the dogs today and Destiny 1 music came fluttering to my mind, and I got all wistful, and oh, god, is that the itch? Do I wanna go back before the game shuts down? Oh man oh man.

As an extremely hardcore Tsushima: Legends player, I must say, I'm kinda disappointed by Legends 2. Outfits, customization, and even gender are all class locked, which was also true then, but they had 5 years to identify that was something nobody liked (we were LOUD about it!) and didn't.

Oh man, I'm obviously stoked to try out the new warlock in Diablo 4 (that fuchsia color palette is so my jam, lol), so I had meant to wait (4-28), but the little mini-season a few weeks ahead of it has a Doom crossover... the same day Yotei's new Legends multiplayer mode launches. Genuinely tough.

Diablo (4) really needs a model viewer and bestiary lore book, mostly because I wanna have a better sense of what the heck I'm looking at! Kill a thing over and over to get a 3d model, lore text, etc.

Well, and why shouldn't I? Why shouldn't I work on a TTRPG called BioPUNKS that's like Resident Evil's campiest globe-trotting outbreak-of-the-week warzones with a healthy veneer of 80's late cold war B-movie schlock?

I think there's an extremely good Resident Evil game, maybe the best of the post-RE4 era, INCLUDING 4, hiding inside RE9, but it's bracketed into an absolute mess and shot through with a few nuclear-bad choices that left me rolling my eyes. A shrugging thumbs-down from me (an unimportant nobody).

Look, Kansas just pulled an absolute draconian move on trans folx, sure, but for me, specifically, the universe could go a long way toward making it right by turning me into Grace Ashcroft from Resident Evil Requiem. I mean LOOK at that HAIR. I am so jealous.

Spread the word to any Bluepoint devs just laid off by Sony: the CEO of Lords of the Fallen is publicly reaching out invite you to work for him, but beware; he is an anti-DEI anti-woke grifter who single-handedly screwed over his last game and excuses nazis. Avoid like the plague!

Okay but, re: Bloodborne's vials. I have it. Just make the special vials you get from NPC's (Arianna, Adella, Iosefka, etc.) be replenishing items that refill on death. You bring special materials to that NPC to upgrade their vial (more uses), but you can slot only one at a time. No other changes.

You know, as my country slides further into fascism at the behest of a bunch of billionaire pedophiles, I find that my primary coping mechanism is indulging in little treat culture. It's my only weakness. Anyway, that's how I am on my second iced latte of the day.

Crimson Moon looks like a pretty cool high/heavy metal fantasy co-op... soulslike, I think? Pretty neat, yes I would like to try it.

Just finished Cairn. What an experience. The ending was perfect, had me in tears just on sound alone. Wonderful, everybody should play it.

Look, I think the new Horizon multiplayer game (not the mobile one) looks cute and fun as hell. I'm excited for it.

Oh wow that HRT really does make you want pickles, huh.

I think at this point we need to really quadruple down on treating/addressing the grummz and asmongold types as the "we fell for the global pedophile op" crowd they are. When they speak, just sneer and say, "Gamergate was masterminded by jeffrey epstein, and you fell for it you stupid freak."

I migrated my website over to Neocities--screw platforms that push AI and keep enshittifying the internet, let's get old school. (thanks to so many community members for helping me build this, my HTML is way rusty) thestorytellergm.neocities.org

Oh, we doing hot gaming takes? Okay. I wish the FF7 remake had been what Ever Crisis mostly is (but not gacha). A full game, compiling the whole 7-verse, in that visual style, and with that combat (but fleshed out more, obviously). I don't like the remake and that includes the combat. Take, hot.

Booted up Shadow of Mordor (well, War) again. Just in the mood to kill thuggish, evil orcs for some reason.

Uh oh, Ted Cruz fled to Laguna beach. You know what that means: "Red sky in the morning, sailors take warning/ Zodiac Killer runs, it's not gonna be fun."

It still baffles me that Legacy of Kain never got another game or even a reboot in the form of a soulslike. We got a soulslike about a fucking crab, and nobody saw what an easy slam dunk that'd be? (for the record, I think soul reaver specifically would make for a great Shadow of Mordor clone)

Oh, is it "your heartbreaker RPG you've been iterating and reiterating and retrying on for ages is in a near complete state and just needs flesh on the bones, better start thinking about heavy reworks" o'clock? Already? Time sure does fly.

Heated Rivalry puts most other romances to shame, like? It's so good. THIS is the amazing queer rep we need so, so much more of.

Elbow deep in designing my RPG and then I hear about this 5e-compatible (maybe convertible is a better word) one called Nimble that adjacently does a lot of the same things I did and now I'm like: What that game do? Why am I like this, lol. I check out new systems more than I play at this rate.

Eliza and Goliath (among others!) canonically had a romantic relationship, sharing an onscreen kiss, in the cartoon, and THIS is why we've yet to see a Gargoyles remake. This is monsterfucker erasu--

Re: Vanity Fair photos. On the one hand, hell yeah, get their asses, but on the other hand, "If you look at this unflattering photo you'll see it doesn't follow the rule of thirds, which is a clever and devastating reminder that--" People are fucking dying, man, what even is this.

What a fuckin' joke. Pathetic dork ass loser. But the right wing chuds don't put their money where their mouth is so I don't think he's gonna get the payday for courting them he's gunning for. Plus it's an epic exclusive. lol, sigh, etc.

"Posting" as a method of communication or expressing policy from ones in power (ceo, govt) should be outlawed. Directly responsible for a downgrade in everything they control. It turns policy into performance, communication into quips, playing to and leveraging the power of an audience of millions.

Catching up on the game (strikethrough: trailers) awards and wow, that Divinity video was rough to watch, huh? Maybe I'm getting old but I genuinely had to look away.