{"id":53959,"date":"2022-03-08T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T11:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=53959"},"modified":"2022-03-06T07:37:30","modified_gmt":"2022-03-06T12:37:30","slug":"resident-evil-5-5-will-you-be-my-valentine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=53959","title":{"rendered":"Resident Evil 5 #5: Will You Be My Valentine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m finally getting the hang of this game, which means it&#8217;s time for the series to come to an end. <a href=\"https:\/\/everytimezone.com\/s\/de8a960d\">Tonight at 7pm<\/a>, Chris and I will be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/ramblepak64\">streaming the finale of this game<\/a>. To really understand the ending, please watch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZPUPaxgIo98\">this clip of the Red Letter Media Crew watching the end of Resident Evil: Afterlife<\/a>. It&#8217;s three minutes and twenty seconds of concentrated joy \/ insanity.<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I hope to see you there tonight. Here is the VOD from last week:<\/p>\n<p><table class='nomargin' cellspacing='0' width='100%' cellpadding='0' align='center' border='0'><tr><td><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.twitch.tv\/?video=1413099492&amp;parent=www.shamusyoung.com&amp;autoplay=false\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" frameborder=\"0\"scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n<p>The Jill reveal is actually a huge relief for me. The first 4\/5<sup>ths<\/sup> of this game gives us the following setup:<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Chris has this tortured<img \/> past about losing Jill, a person that we have no reason to care about.<span class='snote' title='1'>No reason in THIS story. I realize that returning fans might care for reasons of callbacks and fanservice.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>Chris now thinks she&#8217;s alive, and is pointlessly dragging us through the seven layers of hell looking for her.<\/li>\n<li>Jill is VERY OBVIOUSLY the woman in the robe. Not because it makes any sense in-universe, but because the basic mechanics of storytelling dictate that the mystery woman must be the woman we&#8217;re looking for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So most of the game is the pursuit of a character we don&#8217;t care about, and the setup for a twist we can see coming a mile away. The writer seems to think they&#8217;re being clever, which makes the entire thing insufferable. Once Jill is revealed, we won&#8217;t have any more scenes where Chris shouts, &#8220;Who are you?!&#8221; at the robed woman while impotently pointing his gun at her, and I have to shout, &#8220;THAT&#8217;S JILL YOU DULLARD!&#8221; at the screen.<\/p>\n<p>Also, I managed to find my old comics from the Escapist! Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"images\/sp209.jpg\" align=\"left\" width=\"350\" height=\"1138\" style=\"margin:5px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>I lost a backup drive in the early teens, and a lot of work vanished with it. I lost the high-res originals of <a href=\"?p=612\">DM of the Rings<\/a>, which is a shame since an HD &#8220;remaster&#8221; would be pretty sweet. I lost most of my Stolen Pixels originals, some backups of my pre-Twentysided website, and a few coding projects. <\/p>\n<p>I had all of this stuff backed up on a DVD, and also on a hard drive. Then we moved three times over the next decade, and when the dust settled my backups were gone. I have several dead hard drives here, and I can&#8217;t tell which one (if any) held those old backups. I have a spindle with 30 or so burned DVDs. (Most of them are family photos. We took a lot of pictures when the kids were young.) I&#8217;ve gone through the entire spindle twice, but none of them are the backups of my work. <\/p>\n<p>The comics were at least available online, and for the last several years I&#8217;ve been feeling like I should go through the Escapist archives and download my old comics before the image links all broke. Well, I waited too long. The old comics are no longer linked anywhere, and the navigation links are broken. And even if you find the URL, the images themselves are gone.<\/p>\n<p>BUT!<\/p>\n<p>Last week I remembered that I used to submit my work via email, using my gmail account. The Google oracle remembers all, so it was easy to find the old attachments in my Sent Mail folder. <\/p>\n<p>This gives me access to my old Escapist content, although as far as I can tell the DMotR stuff is gone for good. These days I use automated off-site backup, so hopefully this sort of thing won&#8217;t be a problem in the future.<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"all\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, I hope to see you <a href=\"https:\/\/everytimezone.com\/s\/de8a960d\">tonight<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.twitch.tv\/ramblepak64\">Chris&#8217; channel<\/a>. We plan to play until the closing credits, and I&#8217;d love to have a good turnout for the end of this game. Things are going to get ridiculous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;m finally getting the hang of this game, which means it&#8217;s time for the series to come to an end. Tonight at 7pm, Chris and I will be streaming the finale of this game. 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