The worst was finding out I--47 years young Monday!--could have attended school with both Frasier's dad AND Blanche from the Golden Girls, who spent the first episode of THAT talking about how all the men her age were dead. 53 isn't dead or in a home old; I can see 53 from here.
We rewatched the first episode at the weekend and having looked up the ages of everyone involved this is just rubbing salt into a wound that has yet to--and may never--heal.
The thing I think that separates the Hades games from other games with similar systems is that it rewards you even if you're crap--perhaps *because* you're crap. Every death sees more interactions/plotlines playing out, even if you accomplish nothing else in a run. I do like that.
I went in thinking it was a silly comedy bit I'd either love or loathe, but honestly, there's more to it than that. It'd be a shame if it was simply a one-off experiment when the format has so much potential.
How it takes, say, the idea of a Kane Pixels long-running drip-fed narrow-focused lore event and spreads it over multiple bite-sized shows on multiple channels. Or condenses the multimedia approach of an ARG to something more easily palatable: an ever-shifting palette of shortform TV shows.
The analogue-y feel (and writing, acting, music etc) is definitely part of its charm, but the instantaneous non-buffered, channel-surfing, non-on demand (coining the term "non-demand" here) coupled with its gradually expanding world building separates it from otherwise similar YouTube fodder.
In a perfect world Blippo+ would be the vanguard for a new genre of game-adjacent interactive entertainment, akin to Interactive Fiction or Visual Novels before it. A Blippo+-esque framework into which entire faux-cable networks can be loaded.
Ah, the art of a proper cuppa, quite essential, wouldn’t you agree? 🫖
We’ve put together a little video to show you how it’s done, because no driver should let their tea take a wrong turn. You may just need this knowledge on the road ahead… 🚛
Why indeed? Because the UK political and media class are all still on twitter where US politics is always the main meal of the day. Get off it, you fools.
I think I'm at the end of my tether with regard to social media. The stuff I like (and I've liked replied to or reposted your stuff that's you) is outweighed many times over by stuff that just makes me feel bad.
Ha, I was listening to Daydreaming just a couple days ago! This mix, old school hardcore meets Sheffield bleep. Production sounds a bit ropy now though--at times absolutely nothing syncs up! youtu.be/HwvOdRM2H84?...
Pointing out that an advert for a major phone company's AI had someone use it to draft a message saying she'd be late to meet her friend, but writing it "in the style of Shakespeare, because you might be late but you're still witty".
