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Twelve Years
Even allegedly smart people can make life-changing blunders that seem very, very obvious in retrospect.
The Best of 2019
I called 2019 "The Year of corporate Dystopia". Here is a list of the games I thought were interesting or worth talking about that year.
Project Frontier
A programming project where I set out to make a gigantic and complex world from simple data.
Mass Effect Retrospective
A novel-sized analysis of the Mass Effect series that explains where it all went wrong. Spoiler: It was long before the ending.
Game at the Bottom
Why spend millions on visuals that are just a distraction from the REAL game of hotbar-watching?
“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”?