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There are some crazies who do. Some crazies also romanticize Hitler for that matter. But it's not surprising to see people assuming one side gets special treatment. What about Hitler / Stalin slash fiction? Not quite that, but...

As I said, yeah, RIP. Anyway -- Dylan, Morrison, Joplin...someone into muzik of the sixties. So, who do you guys think was Andromeda initially named after?

So Kotaku keeps kicking Bioware while its down. In short: RIP Dragon Age 4.

I know about "the Dumas franchise" and his pay-per-line loophole exploit, cannot help but like the creative scoundrel. Him doing that was actually why, as a kid, I preferred his books with short, clipped dialogue lines over books of his contemporaries with their wall o'texts, because "that's how real people talk". Haven't read "The Stars My Destination", shame on me, since it's science fiction classic. Will have to remedy that one of these day. Oh. So that's who Chris Avellone's role model.

I tried reading source material and found it too meandering and unfocused compared to pretty tight story of war and loss of First Attempt. I can't even quite remember where I finally lost interest and stopped reading it. Wasn't interested in watching Brotherhood after that. P.S. Oh! Just remembered what else I really loved -- "Gankutsuou". The best adaptation of "Count of Monte-Cristo" out there (what is not saying much now when I think about it, because Alexandre Dumas shares a sad fate with Stephen King -- to be cursed with adaptations of their works being mostly garbage)

I loved everything by Satoshi Kon, it was the most Philip K. D†ck experience I had outside of well, books of Philip K. himself. Miyazaki too, but he's more for warm fuzzies. Oh, and "Fullmetal Alchemist", the earlier one, that was good too.

What about the one with two ladies in love? I thought it was pretty too. I love Black Mirror. My bestest favouritest series of recent years. Reminds me a little bit of "Tales from the Crypt". Only without the Keeper. And tech-based instead of mystical paranormal. And less campy.

Whaddaya mean, "kinda"? FISTO best husband!

Folk/fairy tales are like that. One popular in my parts has a witch twisting out dog's legs one a day and eventually ripping its tongue out and then someone drops into the ember pit and burns alive. Grew up to be a massive horror fan. Sergio Leone ruined the Western genre for me. The very first Western I saw was "For a few dollars more", it blew my mind and since then my reaction to any non-Leone Western was "Seriously, what's with this cheesy schlock?" Have to watch "Yojimbo" one of them days.

For making you feel guilty about stealing it from that barkeep, of course.

Well, peacefully for me. Not so much for the old girl. Anyway, this choice comes with additional benefit of pissing off Rymrgand so I will never not take it.

Not really! I indeed have no murders in my life, but I am perfectly happy with "murder count = 0" situation and absolutely do not want this ever go >0 even if I enjoy a little slaughter in my vidya games. Same with romances, I guess. Just because one wants to experience them in controlled environment, it does not mean they either lack or want more of them in their reality. Them romances-schmances are just another fringe of your bog-standard power fantasy package, just as dude killing is and neither of them resembles their reality counterpart much. As intended. (However, I absolutely do not have enough exploration in my RL, true. Wouldn't say no to some kleptomania either if not for that pesky law enforcement disadvantage)

I'm a little curious about how romances can make such a difference, when the ratio of romance content/non-romance content in those large, sprawling, time-consuming RPGs is rather minuscule. I mean, I like them and use them if found in a game I play, but I also love making builds, exploring, talking to monsters, murdering dudes and stealing their stuff so the whole package is appealing to me, but I'm sure as heck would not plow through hours of, say, racing game or twitch platformer for a few miserable minutes of stuff I do love. (Also, Boeroer, your theory kind of implies I do not have enough murder and kleptomania in my life and I resent that remark. )

It is a bit on the boring side compared to other Telltale's stuff, but I actually liked I could choose between dude in boring suit and dude in goofy suit. Picked boring suit all the time, as I simply cannot take superhero stuff seriously. (My favorite Telltale title would be "Wolf among us". "Tales of the Borderlands" was pretty great too, but it loses to "Wolf" by not having a smoking, freeloading depressed pig hogging your couch).

Me too, and it's a good, atmospheric game. Loved that paranormal horror was more science-fiction based rather than usual mystic-fantasy schlock, and the creepy paranormal entity was IMO very well done. It's also sufficiently short so that you can go for a new game+ for additional layer of spookiness.

Got 12 somehow, mostly by restraining myself from voting IKEA all the time

...if it's any help, you're defending logical reasoning and importance of paying attention to details? Those are good, useful comments of Boeroer and Thelee, I'll prolly find application for their advises somewhere in my game. Not against Nerrie, though - unlike certain Korben Dallas, I never bash a critter I can negiotiate with.

don't know why people have such gripes against disney, honestly. Can't answer for other people, but I blame Disney for the trend of American pop-culture industry slapping often cloying and saccharine "happy endings" onto everything, no matter how unfitting. Plus proselytizing. I am possibly wrong, since I didn't really bother to research origins of the trend, it's just that Disney is an easy target what with adding those to, say, "Little Mermaid" or "Notre-Dame de Paris" of all things. That, and also how carefully, skillfully, but soullessly manufactured their products seem to be. Marketing always appealing to most recent societal fads, nary a controversy or anything bolder ever1, just a string of maximally inoffensive consumables all wrapped in layers of pink, soft cotton candy. And hey, these things have a right to exist, of course....it's just makes me sad, seeing how f†cking influential this trend is -- it's not even a trend anymore, it's bloody norm. (Bambi's mum not on them, though. Done in by the original writer, an Austrian. ) 1 Yeah, I know "Pulp Fiction" technically is a Disney product, but you know what I mean.

Oh, I know the U.S.A. has decent folklore, read a few pieces here and there too. Still does not absolve it from responsibility for House of Mouse, though.

To keep politics out of decent topic and keep a wee moar on topic, lets look at ancestor of fantasy -- fairy tales. Germans gave us Grimm tales, also that modern story where a boy's horse drowns in the swamp. 'muricans gave us, ugh, Disney. Are Germans really that dismissive, I wonder? Isn't that just, like, an aspect of continental Europe's good old collective side-eye at cultural and moral osmosis that slowly but inevitably creeps upon us from the other side of the pond?

Speaking of schmetterling...

On top of my head there were at least two things that could easily give you final death -- the elevator and the fire. Possibly ignominious death by kitchenware too, if you lingered there long enough.

The kids are alright as they always were and will be, but that does not mean we cannot make fun of them. Especially when you're a cynical, thick-skinned boomer who's well acquainted with this internet thing but was young and stupid on it before the age of social media, so nobody can trace all the stupid things you said at age 20 and rub it in your face. P.S.: this derail is way more interesting than the original topic.

Or maybe kiddies that are playing this cash cow du jour of Epic will find another drug before Epic is able to reliably hold on what's grabbed and there will be mass exodus followed by much schadenfreude.

Amnesia Dark Descent called and said "Your mom is cheap, and relying on sound design is awesome!" Anyway, Hell Hotel is indeed less scary on consequent play-throughs, but Grout's mansion holds up. Hoo boy does it hold up. And that porno studio too. ...I'm cautiously pessimistic about this project. Y'know, bottled lightning, blah blah. Just look at Numenera.