mother has absolutely had a huge influence on the scene, but you can't talk about games like undertale and omori without also talking about games like yume nikki and off and space funeral and pen pals. but people just look at them and go "wow this is literally just earthbound"

i could also post a nuclear take about how the indie rpg scene gets written off as slop even though it's barely a blip on the radar compared to other genres like roguelites because the indie rpg scene's so full of women and queer people. but i don't know if we're ready for that conversation lmao

don't apologize for it. none of us wanted our existences to be so completely politicized. that's not on us. using your platform like that is really appreciated, just don't forget to watch out for yourself too

"that way!" button

yeah imo it would be better off to keep switch 2s banned until a switch 2 exclusive game replaces splatoon 3. but I'm not a TO so maybe logistically it makes sense for metro ink to allow both and I just don't see why. but it feels very disorganized from a competitor pov in terms of tech issues

putting it back how they found it. one case had an ethernet adapter totally missing :/

there were 2 separate instances where i sat down at a station after the last person to used it had a switch 2 and both times it was a mess. every cable was just left scattered everywhere. they took their own switch 2 out of the setup and made no attempt to clean up after themselves by...