To the secret lab!

I’m playing Ex Astris! I can’t believe I slept on this game. It’s so good.

You’re wrong! He’s not shitting the bed!

He’s simply filling his trousers at random intervals.

When she cries, and Emilie cries, I cry. This game is near-perfect.

That expression she has with her head in her hands is horrifying and perfect and never seen twice.

It’s why we got so many games!

Lea!

Final Fantasy XIII and Detroit Become Human hit me so hard they both permanently altered my wardrobe and aesthetic.

I’ve probably got some weird takes, but let’s go:

1. Chrono Trigger is at the way top. The greatest game of all time hasn’t been bested in 30 years. Telling the best narrative I’ve heard in my life, and packing it into 20 short hours, with timeless art and amazing music, and into FOUR GODDAMN MEGABYTES, this is one many try to beat, and none have succeeded. Not even Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.

2. CrossCode comes right behind it. This game is much longer, but that’s okay. It’s essentially a single-player MMO with all the trappings of life within. A wonderfully smooth action combat system, more amazing music, and some of the most memorable facial expressions I’ve seen. It’s also written in freakin’ HTML5.

3. Zachtronics Solitaire Collection. Going purely by hours played and wins scored, this is on my favorites whether I like it or not. Every solitaire game from every Zachtronics title, right there. Special shout-out to Fortune’s Foundation.

Honorable mentions: Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 for the worldbuilding and music, Final Fantasy XIII for exactly the same reasons, The Talos Principle 2 for simply giving its NPCs the agency to say “nah, I don’t wanna go back, I’m staying home,” and Chaos Rings 2 for creating one of the most high-stakes yet viscerally unpleasant stories I’ve witnessed, wherein to proceed through the game, the protagonist ritually sacrifices his ever-shrinking party of people.

I remember I was in summer school at some joint when I was 14. It was my first day and I showed up a bit late, and they didn’t have anything for me to do cause I was too late to join the class, and so one of the teachers sat me down at the computer they had and told me to learn about Ancient Rome with this software.

And I started playing Caesar 3 and it felt vaguely like a punishment. Eventually, it stopped feeling like a punishment, I bought my own copy to play at home, and eventually I bought the GOG version, and I’m still here, 26 years later, wondering why the prefect always turns left at that goddamn intersection, and as a result, entire neighborhoods burn.

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Sex: no

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And if someone does?

Someone had to live in that room, and it just happens to be OP. If someone busts out their mad geoguessr skills, then what? Rob OP? They could rob anyone even without sleuthing.

Trans lady here, appalled by AI! A lot of the middle management I work with are eager for it, and since I work in M365 administration, my boss keeps compelling me to flip the CoPilot switch to “on” for people.

I hate it.

Folks still do that.

I mean, the moon landing would have been fake, were it not for Stanley Kubrick demanding to shoot on-scene and in-camera.

Back in my day we’d use gimp or photoshop to do clever editing by hand.

Fucking AI slop. Hate this shit.

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That’s the one. I don’t have a script so I make do with what I’ve got.

I’m 40 and start my day off with a white monster. It calms my mind and lets me think.

Probably not the best for my heart, but who among us is the picture of discipline?

I’m just here to enjoy good art. I just wiped your opinion off of it first, before I stood back and looked and it and thought it was well done.