I at least like that a few pieces of Sonic media lampshade this.

In one episode of Sonic Boom (a show designed to be watched high by adults) he’s kidnapped by an aardvark that’s a rabid fan.

“Oh! N-no, I wasn’t trying to escape, I was just…reading some of this fanfiction! Ooh. Sonamy, spicy!”
“Oh. Yeah, I don’t really even care for it, but it seems requisite for the readers.”

This was how I first got Factorio, but the post is really about things you can’t discover on Steam.

Definitely felt this with Dead Space, and with FFXIV expansions.

Tom Holland as Nathan Drake. Gawd, the visualization of Hollywood power and nepotism.

Realistically, this is also true of the Dualsense on PS5. It has a clear, dedicated LED button to disable the microphone, and that mic is rarely used for anything but online chat.

Funny enough, moving to Linux meant I discovered a lot of cool tools and games that I wouldn’t have otherwise…and then eventually learned they had Windows releases anyway, so it wasn’t strictly necessary to ditch MS for them. But beneficial anyway.

I’ve been playing a lot of Gyakuten Live. It likely can’t be officially monetized because it infringes upon “Love Live School Idols” as well as stealing a few assets from the Ace Attorney games. But, the game has quite an impressive amount of production value, with many emotive character faces, a full custom soundtrack, numerous cinematics between cases, and a lot of artwork to help visualize the scenarios. It centers around what seem like relatively innocuous cases, like a missing treasure, or fraudulent tickets, but (aside from the intro case) tends to dive into some complex character emotions as the motive behind each incident.

The other game that made me think of posting this is Hytale, which looks to basically be an indie, non-Microsoft, pro-modding version of Minecraft.

Can’t wait to get 20 Fortnite ads. And then an error message that Fortnite doesn’t run on Linux.

We used to have that adage about how anonymity made people worse on the internet. It always made me feel uneasy. We hit 2025, and I was dismayed to find it was wrong - the internet was a warning bell for how evil the average person is.

The New Order is a reboot that doesn’t rely on any other knowledge. Old Colossus is a direct sequel to that.

“I’m giving you a choice; either put on these glasses or start eatin’ that trash can!”

Very few of them, which annoys me. 90% of fictional universes are dystopian, on the edge of collapse, and only savable by a smaller group.

The Trails games kind of stood out for having a world that’s usually on pace, and isn’t even aware of whatever sinister plot your detectives/adventurers are looking into.

Razor blades. Much better to go with a single-razor housing, even if occasionally the multi-razor shaves feel like a smoother result.

I have a super old model with such old connections it’s not even useful for anything.

I’m paying for HIDIVE, but now that I comment I’m sure someone will point out some horrible genocide AMC is responsible for…

Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney.

Some Capcom exec saw that and thought “Wow, so people really don’t like it when we change up the protagonist! Let’s give up on forehead boy, and go back to the classic Phoenix Wright!” When, ironically, the biggest issue with that game was that Phoenix himself was frequently upstaging Apollo through xanatos gambits.

Ace Attorney is a great formula, but it sort of needed to divorce itself from the name “Phoenix Wright” since it’s very character-based, and you can only tell so many stories with a single person. It managed to do that with the Edgeworth and Naruhodo games eventually.

Why would enemies of America hate Trump, when he’s helping them destroy it?

This thing is plastic-wrapped, but the thing we can’t easily compare is produce. I think it’s likely that fruits and vegetables just don’t have as much nutritional content as before thanks to aggressive agriculture and worsening environments.

Something sad but interesting I’ve found is, if you ever explore some adult game spaces, you can find some people who are certain that liberalism, “DEI”, and “wokeness” are to blame for the rise of censorship.

It seems intentional that the efforts of censorship are hidden behind many finger-pointing centers of blame, rather than being associated to common political parties. Most politicians don’t want to be associated to raunchy imagery at all, and so they don’t make any direct statements, and communities end up drawing their red strings themselves.

I don’t even know how you’d legislate on this one.

The Switch is a weak console. The only way it was ever going to run games like this was via a cloud stream system. There was no possible solution for ensuring Switch owners could permanently play this game to the end of time.

I’d be curious if any Switch gamers were at all grateful for getting the chance to play it, or if the game was mischaracterized to them in this case, and they’re upset to lose it. Either way, I don’t for this game I don’t see a great solution, laws or not.

I’ll still support SKG in general. I wonder if it means a future game like this would need to be frontally advertised as “5 year access to this game via streaming”.