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They didn't shut Ftoid down yet!

It'll be down forever soon.

It's a good question. I think they'll keep it since it's not some old code made in 2015 that no one knows how to maintain anymore. Even though it doesn't get a ton of use.

The system. Is down.

So, today? Normal-ish day. Had the day off. Got some bloodwork done.

No one will notice me... ha ha ha!

Well, well, well, look whose back.

I can't even poop the same anymore!

Ah mah gah it's down again what is life!?!?

Hi. Uh... meme, am I right? lol gross comic strips?

I'm reviving this thread! It's some Mozart this time. A kind of playful piece and yet also a little daunting. The harpsichord is just too dang powerful.

It's not that writing in video games can't be good, it's just that writing in video games isn't good. Some games have deep moments, some games are technical marvels, some games are like art installations and their experience outside or beyond the writing are very good and effective in the...

This is tough because most male character models are rendered like Ken dolls while the women's crotches, asses and chests are hand sculpted by horny men who haven't seen their wives in months over worked developers.

@RiffRaff Yeah I feel like the moments that were effective were like short story moments. Joel's interactions with Ellie and their fear and pain of potential and then actual loss is all well executed in a microcosm. What I'm feeling, day by day, slip away from me are the bigger details about the...

I wouldn't say I agree with Ebert. I thought his point was "games can't be art", which isn't my position. Only that as currently produced, many games until recently are just not well made stories. I feel like I need to clarify I do think some games have very well crafted stories. I think Inside...

Agreed, games do not need to fill all of the criteria. They're clearly interactive. Dear Esther isn't a movie, it's much closer to a videogame and it's sold on game consoles... it's a "game". If you can give it praise, then it's a good "game". If we want to get granular about genre and...

The arguments are actually not in disagreement. What I'm generally saying, and Jim says it too in his video, is that games which try too hard to be a movie fail to be a good game. There are plenty of well written games, they just don't tend to be the big cinematic ones that are trying to be...

Jim Sterling recently released a less favorable take on the game, or at least it's a discrimination between this game and other pieces of media that it has been compared to. Some people REALLY gushed hard about this game, and even if it's some after-glow honeymoon shit, I'm not too worried about...

You haven't at all? I got a lot out of this experience not knowing just how far they were willing to go. I'd personally recommend not reading any further details, but that's up to you.