Fable NPC system is so sophisticated the devs are calling it a "life simulator" You build reputation through your actions in the game, then each NPC has a different opinion of you based on your reputation. You might have to become a rich business owner to impress and date one of the NPCs in the game, but another NPC will hate you for being so rich. As a consequence, that NPC could increase the prices on their merchandise when you visit their store. Even small actions such as giving money to the homeless or evicting people out of their houses will impact your reputation, and this can be done at a very large scale, because you could: - Buy every home in the world of Fable - Evict everyone out of their homes - Have every NPC now live on the street Possibilities are quite literally endless here

“”””Stardew Valley”””” is pastoralist Wehrbauer propaganda. When you play it, Heidegger smiles, and his greatest disciple, Adolf Hitler, smiles with him.

Some asshole wore a banana costume to an End It show in Toronto. The lead singer called the guy up to the stage & then called him an asshole & told everyone to rip his costume off lmao. It took like 30 seconds. "You wanted the attention & now you have it" 😂

Seeing the way people have been talking about TADC and Backrooms has convinced me that “lore” is the enemy in storytelling right now, people demand you focus on needless worldbuilding and not just tell a meaningful story with themes and symbols you can apply to life itself.

BREAKING: Hunter Biden has a 14% chance to run for President as a Democrat in 2028

god i'm honestly happy i'm mostly into movies and anime nowadays cause the video game industry is so fucking cooked it's not even funny. and the worst part is that so many gamers seem completely fine with it, they call YOU a moron if you don't like the shit being put out

Reading reactions to The Backrooms complaining, “this movie is just people walking around aimlessly and nothing happens” is really frustrating. Subtext and themes mean nothing to the average moviegoer, everything has to be explicitly explained or shown instead of actually requiring thought. Really sad to see how literacy has taken a dive in the younger generations. It’s not a perfect film, there are definitely critiques that I have for it. However, the themes of past trauma, not being able to save everyone, letting go, reliving nightmares in our minds are all there and presented in a thought provoking manner. The film makes you feel like you’re literally stuck in a nightmare of a memory of a memory. I guess people just want jump scares every five minutes and everyone to be happy at the end. Not everything needs to be explained, surrealism in film often times is meant to simply make you FEEL and THINK without really offering explanations. That’s something the film does well. Artistic films that prioritize atmosphere, subtext, and emotional immersion over plot momentum will always frustrate audiences expecting conventional storytelling. This tension has existed for decades, films like 2001: A Space Odyssey or Eraserhead, The Backrooms leans heavily into liminal-space dread, psychological repetition, and unresolved unease. Complaining that “nothing happens” misses the entire point of the movie and is either a bad-faith argument or an ignorant one.

people hating backrooms because it’s “poorly paced” and “has weird dialogue”

Zohran just cited Minneapolis, Austin, and Auckland as cities that lowered housing costs via upzoning certified ball knowledge, Auckland is a deep YIMBY cut

crazy how just a little bit of reading into postcolonial game studies reveals how often games will casually reproduce imperialist attitudes; stuff like fog of war mechanics, resource extraction loops, civilized vs barbarian binaries, etc... it's everywhere

Haters mad

ngl this was an insane thing to make me witness at the start of an expansion 😭😭

RPG developer Josh Sawyer says Obsidian Entertainment is not against romance systems like the ones in Baldur’s Gate 3. He explained that these features take a huge amount of time, money, and work to create properly. “It’s not like an opposition to their existence,” Sawyer said. “It’s just that I don’t know if we’re going to be able to do it.” Sawyer said romance systems need a lot of extra writing, voice acting, cutscenes, and character reactions. Because of this, Obsidian would rather focus on other parts of a game instead of adding romances that feel incomplete or low quality. He also said players now expect romance content to be as detailed as Baldur’s Gate 3, which raised the standard for RPG games. Sawyer added that Obsidian still cares about emotional stories and character relationships.