Good thread. I get *why* a dev might look at the "Welcome to Corneria" joke and say "How can we improve immersion?", but LLMs are not the answer. (Also for reference tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik... )

Video game makers, please, if I’m not responding to an in-game conversation, there’s probably a reason. Maybe I’ve been interrupted by an actual person. Maybe the dog has a knife. You don’t know. In short, the NPCs should keep their traps shut. I don’t need cutesy interjections about my silence.

Oh no

I feel slightly less bad about getting rejected after an extremely stressful design test.

Okay what the actual fuck this actually looks hilarious youtu.be/ZfNLApPCa8E

“try water fox or ice weasel” try chill penguin. install flame mammoth. you just download bubble crab. literally just use boomer kuwanger. sting chameleon has a search bar, use it to find toxic seahorse.

I started playing Expedition 33 and this has been my experience with the dodge/parry system so far. An intentionally poor UI/UX is not the right way to make something feel challenging. 😒

There are so many ways I want to answer this one, but in terms of personal investment it has to be Cave Story.

Me: "I love this thing. This thing is amazing. I want to spend money on this thing for the rest of my life." Reality: "Oh, ok, we'll make sure it gets discontinued then."

Is it weird that I have never been able to muster much interest in non-2D Metroid? Even FOMO doesn't seem to be giving me much beyond mild curiosity.

I just want to give props to whoever it was in the anime industry that greenlit a series where "incest is bad, actually" is a significant plot point. 👍

Prey is the one game I wish I could forget entirely just so I could play it over and over and feel the excitement and surprise of discovery again and again.

Grizzled white male protagonists.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

As the year comes to an end, I'm reposting some of the comics I made this year, including this ridiculous thing.

Seriously considering switching to a different pharmacy after CVS replaced its phone system with something clearly AI based that kept glitching the audio, couldn't recognize number keypad inputs, and ultimately couldn't find my prescription to refill it.

Artists sure are obsessed with Orange County for some reason.

Being a pokemon noob, I don't know how typical this is of trainers, but I swear every single trainer in Lumiose is like "Hey in this rock-paper-scissors contest I'm ONLY going to throw scissors and I'm telling you this BEFORE we fight so you will understand how awesome a scissors-only strat is."

I wish boycotts were still something people organized. This modern "I won't shop there and will judge anyone who does" method not only retracts business so slowly the business easily adapts, but it also means if a real boycott gets organized nobody will be left to actually hurt the company's profits

Dear Person Who Animated Heliolisk in Pokemon Z-A: You have brought me more joy than anything else in the game.

Arceus was the first pokemon game I played, and I did not know how good I had it being able to evolve all of my pokemon without having to trade any of them.

I haven't played enough previous titles to know if there's any existing lore about cell phones in the Pokeverse, but I want to know how Lumiose city is 'finding' enough Rotom to make every phone a Rotom phone.

malware!! I forgot about that word! good time to resurface

I think I just have to come right out and admit that I don't at all understand the sickos meme.

I'm not a shipper but I've realized that the one thing that can get me to ship two characters beyond or against what's in canon is if the ship name is an amazing pun.

Just reiterating my promise to cancel my subscription next season if Crunchyroll doesn't turn this around completely.

For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.

One of the most important jobs of a designer is understanding that there are some things that everyone says they want, but then absolutely hate if they get it

Okay, took another pass. Added “hands” and “feet”, printed the black with filament instead of coloring the eyes and mouth, reshaped the arms to hold better and for proportions. Little passenger feels good and done 👍🏼

Writers in the US, the UK, Japan, and everywhere else in the world, I beg you: many many people in this current age need stories that say it's possible for a villain to be defeated and stay defeated. Please stop loving your villains more than your heroes.

A little bit of a Frieren spoiler for anyone who hasn't watched the series: I still think the Frieren-copy should have been defeated by them hauling a mimic down and shoving it through the door.

This really is going to be the catharsis series of 2025.

This Monster Wants to Eat Me, strangely, gives me hope that it might be the rare anime to treat depression and suicide ideation in a healthy way rather than just including it because the author romanticizes angst.

I'll give them a chance to course correct, but if @crunchyroll.com subtitles aren't back to the previous quality by next season I'm definitely cancelling my subscription.

I think this is probably pretty close to what's happened to me with trying to find a job.

Between this and the subtitles, @crunchyroll.com seems to be batting zero this season.

My first time watching My Next Life as a Villainess, week by week as it aired, I didn't dislike Geordo, but man binge rewatching it really made it clear how many red flags the guy has regarding consent.

One, that's not how copyright works and there will be an entire battalion of IP lawyers who will be happy to correct Open AI of this misapprehension, likely to the tune of billions of dollars, and two, fuck this shitty thieving waste of proteins and lipids

I feel like Overwork-kun is starting to overtake Truck-kun in frequency as an isekai instigator.

Me: "EA can't possibly get any worse as a company." Saudi Arabia: "Hold my beer."

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.

Half the internet is saying Vaccines And Tylenol Are Bad Actually while the other half is saying Rape Fantasies Are Good Actually and more and more I'm just ready for this world to be over with.

My advice to people, as it has been since the USENET days, is simply this: Everything that can be made public on the Internet one day will be made public. Say what you want and what you feel is necessary, and remember it will be found.

You have been isekai'd into the most recent video game you played, but as a background character instead of a protagonist. What is your life like?

I made a new plushie. His name is Cordy.

It wasn’t always this way, felt like we made some decent progress here until many developers started getting too much abuse online to want to bother putting themselves out there at all.

Video games aren’t just a hobby or a form of entertainment for some folk. They help people through some hard times. It’s sad that some people will never understand that.

Me when I originally found out Portal was in the same universe as Half-Life: "That's really cool and awesome!" Me now: "I really really don't want to have to wait for Valve to make up their mind about HL3 before we have even a chance of getting a Portal 3."

Saw the Superman movie. It was... ok? I was entertained. Very glad it wasn't another origin story. It didn't match the level of hype I've seen about it though.