Ugh. I’m already tired of thinking about 2020. I’m trying to enjoy my 2021, so the last thing I want to do is revisit the tribulations of yesteryear. Let’s just get this over with.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Dénouement 2020: The Best Stuff”
Note that in a couple of weeks, Paul is going to be away. I don’t know if I’ll get a replacement host or if I’ll skip the show. We’ll see. In the meantime, enjoy Paul getting once again angry / incredulous at a game.
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Show notes: Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Diecast #331: Dyson Sphere Program, Per Aspera, Huniepop 2”
Cal finally beats Trilla into submission and recovers the holocron. Then Cere shows up, and makes another appeal to Trilla for redemption.
Cere’s speech is actually really good, particularly the line where she says, “I know the choices I made took all of your choices away. And I have failed you, Trilla.” It’s a wonderful scene, well-written, and the actors perform the hell out of it. It’s a good line, although it trips over the fundamental problem with using torture in this game.
Trilla didn’t get a choice because she was tortured, and breaking under torture isn’t a choice. I agree. But Cere only made those choices because she was tortured. So therefore nobody made any choices and nobody in this story is at fault.
Regardless of what you think about how much responsibility a torture victim has for their own actions, the morality of this situation is inherently contradictory because both of these people are grown adults that took actions in response to torture.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Jedi Fallen Order Part 22: Darth Cameo”
Last year was not a particularly fun year. For the most part, I did not have a good time. A lot of the games I wanted to play were either disappointments, or delayed to the next year.
But I can’t claim it was all bad. I did manage to find a few titles that amused me. So here is the list of titles that kept me going…
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Dénouement 2020: The Good Stuff”
Cal finally won a lightsaber duel against Trilla, but he managed to lose the holocron anyway. Since the holocron contains a list of a bunch of young force sensitives all over the galaxy, we can’t really let the Empire keep it. The Empire will round the kids up and stick them in the giant alignment-changing torture machine and turn them all into Sith.
Cere knows where Trilla went. There’s a secret Imperial base where they run their torture factory, and that’s where the inquisitors are based. So the only way to fix this is to assault the very heart of Sith power.
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Jedi Fallen Order Part 21: The Slog”
In a normal year, I’ll play a few dozen games. The top few will make the “best of” list and the bottom few will make the “disappointment” list and everything in the middle will be forgotten. But this year is weird. If you stick the two lists together, you’ll have basically everything I played.
But before we talk about that, let’s talk about what I didn’t play.
(I only bring this stuff up because I know someone will ask “But what about Game X?”.)
Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Dénouement 2020: The Disappointments”
At the top of the show we joked that this is the “second or third” time Paul has been on the show. I just looked it up, and we’ve done 130+ episodes together. Time flies.
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Show notes: Continue reading ⟩⟩ “Diecast #330: Big Tech Rants, Mailbag”
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