This past week, Ukraine started hitting closer to cities again, there was some propaganda going around about a school getting hit by a Ukrainian strike and Zelenskyy being another civilian murderer. So yeah, there’s always a need to press on the “I did try to talk peace” angle over and over.

Hamaguchi confirmed that each character will have 4 fits, which are apparently used as both costume and job. FF7 allowed anyone to be any job with the materia set you give them, and the fits will apparently give them unique abilities to focus on a job. Time to list all the jobs that exist and spread them across the 8 characters? Mystic Knight / Dark Knight for Cloud, Time Mage for Red XIII, Monk and apparently Black Mage for Tifa, Berserker and Blue Gunner for Vincent… Cait Sith can have the White Mage and be actually relevant now.

That’s just Doomslayer.

They expected to use Reunion for part 2, I think, but then the Crisis Core remake team stole that from under them without asking.

He’s a Republican because he fell for the Reagan bling, he’s said multiple times he got in it for him. I think he never really understood what that actually meant, and he did side with leftist ideas more often than against, and he did do a bunch of things that are more leftist than he understands, but he still had some pretty entrenched ideas of what a Republican is that he never managed to question despite having reality shoved in his face, so he’s still a Republican by religion and lack of reckoning of what that really does.

It was specifically about that movement getting big. Like, around the years following the period where some guy in a car ran through an anti-far right protest and killed a woman, and where a neo-nazi protest marched through a town with tiki torches. This was about them.

Biggots are trying to shoot that down by making payment processor companies like Visa and MasterCard threaten to cut off Steam if they don’t take down evil, satanist, socialist games that recognize that minorities and LGBTQ+ even exist. Can’t shove that down the throat of good Christian kids.

Just LGBTQ+, I wasn’t talking about LGBTQ+ porn as separate from “regular porn”. I’m saying biggots will censor non-porn LGBTQ+ too. I am separating loli porn from “regular” porn.

Free speech for the maker of loli porn but not for the platform that has regular porn or lgbtq.

Examples given in the article are:

Historically, Valve’s policy has only banned games that are “illegal or straight-up trolling,” but that has opened the people running Steam to an endless series of subjective value judgements. For years, sporadic reports emerged of developers making anime-style smut getting ghosted by Valve – presumably for the genre’s association with high school settings and underage characters. Similarly, Steam took direct action to pull a cheap, trashy visual novel called Rape Day from the platform in 2019.

Fuck that article BTW, pretending Steam is in the wrong and the quack would have “saved them some headaches”.

Asura’s Wrath, the button masher QTE on rail and DLC true end drew a lot of hate at the time, but I loved the storytelling and the visceral characterization.

The first Hyrule Warriors is based on the premise that all Links and Zeldas through time and space (being basically reincarnations) are destined to be together

I don’t recall any romantic spin of this in HW, they are tied to each other and will pop up at the same time, but not to fall in love. This is just the continuation of the OoT/SS curse of Demise / Ganondorf, “I’ll follow you both every time you show up”.

The Link-Zelda ship problem is that all Zeldas are each other’s blood daughters, and all Links are the same “soul of the hero” despite being different people. So they don’t want to have any incest story baked in this reincarnation stuff, and it stays platonic most of the time. This was a retcon (kinda) introduced Skyward Sword, probably to justify why they’d been avoiding it the whole time, previous games like LttP and OoT would only say that the various Links were just from some royal knight families or “the last of the families of knights”.

Skyward Sword is the very first incarnation of both of these characters (Zelda being the first human incarnation of Hylia, and we don’t know about Link), so they can be in love - it goes out of focus, but it’s assumed to still be there at the end. And then BotW is the very end of the timeline, tens of thousands of years later, so that’s fine, they’re very clearly in love there by the end, and live together in TotK.

There’s also some hints in the Wind Water timeline (I think in Spirit Tracks but I never played it), because that timeline insists that this is a new hero unrelated to the previous soul of the hero.

When Horizon Zero Dawn was first revealed, it played really hard on that Turok appeal of hunting giant “dinosaurs” with a bow, even if they were metal.

Too depressing and a whole other genre.

Also, everything is CGI.

It isn’t, they did a shitload of stopmotion for all the monsters.

Black already has a white square queen too.

The funny part is when those texts included “prophecies” of what that guy planned to do, but then he fucking died, and a few hundred years later, the people were like “oh those prophecies? Yeah no, they’re for… this guy here! See, it was all true.”

I mean, France does eat cheese, that part is accurate.

“Cheese eating surrender monkeys” was a well-known insult during the 2000’s for several years after France refused to help the US attack Iraq. The whole freedom fries period.