my friends and family will like me again if I can finish this VN but it never ends

Chapter 5 of Higurashi Eight returns to R07's strengths before getting intermissions of "sympathy for th bioweapon."

yeast of theseus

I think Higurashi 8 (2006) is wanting me to empathize with a eugenics supporter which could make Higurashi a spiritual sequel to Gundam SEED (2002).

I've seen a lot of people claim Higurashi is a Christian text, but the theme of Higurashi is that good people can be corrupted. Christianity's bedrock is the concept of original sin, so the two don't mix.

the trick is to have cool boxart and promotional images of a guy on a motorcycle as the zeitgeist image

My thoughts 2/3 through were: The central conflict being "all the bad guys are best friends who have no disagreements but don't want to upset each other" may sound boring, but that's only because it is. A corny screed about peaceful protests that rings flat in 2025. Au au au.

There's a video making the rounds called "Wikipedia is awful for learning math" where the guy smugly misreads the first sentence of an article 10 seconds in

I cannot overstate how much I hate the change from arc 3's theme of "sometimes the system is set against you, neither the police nor gang violence nor vigilantes can stop this abuse" to "both the police and organized crime rings will divert gobs of money and resources to a little girl for no gain"

Higurashi commits what is known in my heart as the Forbidden Kingdom Heartsaroo: the act of making a huge deal out of something that turns out to be a lie or irrelevant at the nearest convenience.

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I've been bummed out by the switch struggling to keep a steady 25 fps since 2018, so it's a little annoying to see Nintendo Fan channels talk about "games actually run ok now" is the secret selling point of the switch.

Umineko really makes Higurashi more interesting.

"I'm not their fan, I'm a fan of their work" as some type of preemptive "what if they're a bad person" defense is soulless. I want to believe in people.

In the era of slop, quickly identifying if some writing is worth your time is valuable.

For the Xbox platform division, hitting 30% profit margins has required a drastic rethink. For individual games, it's not a completely unrealistic target... except they're all released day-one on Xbox Game Pass, cannibalizing sales. Much more in the story www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

despite everything, it is still all about having fun on the computer

これは昨日の悪いことをしようとしているとろちゃん #Blueskyねこ部

I don't care if you fear demonetization; if you say "Unalived" or "pdf file" I'm not taking you seriously. If you're too chickenshit to use real words you're too chickenshit to take the subject matter seriously and need to find something else to talk about.

2022

the key to happy console gamer's success is that he brings a feeling of energetic whimsy to the world but also the feeling that he can kick your ass if you act up

"zelda is proof the switch hardware is good and ___ developers are lazy" no sir, on the day of judgment both you and nintendo will stand trial for encouraging the dev's use of blood sacrifices and dark magic to get totk to run

Just confirmed the Higurashi translation is bad and fighting the urge to get side tracked at how much the tone is dampened

xenoblade chronicles

Akasaka going full Battler in episode 4 at the exact moment I recognize Daisuke Ono's voice.... There is beauty in this world...

the ffxv-ification of final fantasy is here

LOOK AT HOW BIG MY FOREST IS

you can never experience it for the fourth time a second time

where have all the good games gone and where are all the gods

the fallout of die-hard nintendo fans losing their joy was unthinkable for a while, but every day you'll see a guy who spent $580 on mario kart wishing there weren't so many slanderers on the youtube frontpage

the new bit will be pretending that Americans are incapable of intent in writing

xenoblade is revolutionary because it's the first mecha series to not focus on the characters or story

the tragedy of G-Reco is that you can have a compelling premise and great character animations and luxurious animation and inspiring character designs but that all can be forgotten if you forget establishing shots and get too excited about jargon and have a half-baked protagonist

I've got a lot of trust in Tomino so I'll try it again at some point. But on a first watch, this is completely overwhelming with nonsense stakes. Characters constantly switch alignments and their lack of coherent color and costume choices means you can't quickly tell who is aligned with who

bonkers that people who would yell at you for giving jk rowling money (as they should) will bring out the "no one should ever shame you for purchasing anything. just do whatever you want with your life" when they give the lawsuit machine $90 for an 8-year old game.

ZZ Gundam making one of the franchises' best characters, putting him on the bench by EP 12, and then returning for the finish line as a diet version of himself is one of several crimes that makes ZZ a slog

books should have an accessibility mode. this is going to upset the "bookers" but there are people of employment that may want to experience a book for its story or themes who are not interested in tormenting themselves with lots of reading or seeing big words or turning pages over and over again

When a hideaki anno work doesn't land with you, getting someone's opinion on the internet will make it worse.

G-Reco is crazy good... Bellri never accepting the truth in front of him by externalizing his sins, the crawl towards fascism from a frontfacing steward of peace, a character who looks like Lala named Not Lala Monday... this is next level writing

Starting Reconguista in G which feels relevant given the sex negative slop from true freaks

I thought a lot about the Greater Zelda Lore when I played botw, but it's because the characters and world were so bland I could only wonder why the Rito and Zora tribe were on screen at the same time.

super good thoughts from Kyle Bosman that describes what ryukishi does to you in the final chapter of umineko youtu.be/nNHZlFcevZ4

in the aftermath of The Most Expensive Nintendo Direct, I'm seeing a lot of kids on Twitter say "us Mario fans sure have feelings about Sonic." Utterly bizarre. Self-describing as a Mario fan is like calling yourself a fan of bread.

Future generations will look back on us and say ok, but your kart racers leaned on saxophones a little too much

what I can make of the recent days of hysterics is that people have translated Not Reading a Book But Pretending into not watching an internet personality but claiming they aren't unconscionably racist

before god brings you eve, devil will offer you a monkey