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From The Archives:
The Plot-Driven Door
You know how videogames sometimes do that thing where it's preposterously hard to go through a simple door? This one is really bad.
Bowlercoaster
Two minutes of fun at the expense of a badly-run theme park.
The Game That Ruined Me
Be careful what you learn with your muscle-memory, because it will be very hard to un-learn it.
The Terrible New Thing
Fidget spinners are ruining education! We need to... oh, never mind the fad is over. This is not the first time we've had a dumb moral panic.
Fixing Match 3
For one of the most popular casual games in existence, Match 3 is actually really broken. Until one developer fixed it.
“Not desperate enough to read that thing just yet“! Which means he is considering the possibility, no matter how remotely. Success!
The way Aragorn’s holding that sword, I think he’s still on the fence between reading that and beheading himself.
I seem to be a lot less patient with lore in the last ten years or so. Except for more lore in universes I already know about.
New universes though? Lore dumps are TLDR. Particularly if they read like that monologue in the original Ghostbusters. Pages of:
X (who I don’t know and don’t care about) did A to Y (likewise), which caused (unexplained phenomenon) and….
Is this not the one with the “CliffsNotes of your own biography”?