While going through my directory of screencaps from Read or Die, this caught my attention:
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This is from the opening. Check out the sign behind Agent Paper:
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Hmmmm….
What I like is that I didn’t notice this at all during the show. My eye just accepted this, even though it isn’t even close. There are no gaps in the words and there are an awful lot of less common letters stacked together. I’m surprised it never caught my eye.
Tenpenny Tower
Bethesda felt the need to jam a morality system into Fallout 3, and they blew it. Good and evil make no sense and the moral compass points sideways.
Grand Theft Auto Retrospective
This series began as a cheap little 2D overhead game and grew into the most profitable entertainment product ever made. I have a love / hate relationship with the series.
Black Desert Online
This Korean title would be the greatest MMO ever made if not for the horrendous monetization system. And the embarrassing translation. And the terrible progression. And the developer's general apathy towards its western audience.
The Disappointment Engine
No Man's Sky is a game seemingly engineered to create a cycle of anticipation and disappointment.
Silent Hill Origins
Here is a long look at a game that tries to live up to a big legacy and fails hilariously.
T w e n t y S i d e d


Since it looked alot like a cypher, I decoded it with ROT13 and Ceasar’s Chiffre. Alas, the output had no meaning ;)
Anime does this a *lot*; Digimon is one of the most blatant ones. There are storefronts with the name spelled “Zyyzyy;y” and such, right behind the characters.
Heh. Until I saw the closeup, I was thinking ‘Why is theat sign printed in Russian?’…