MERRY YIIKMAS

Looking forward to the GOTY nominations for Best Moment, and, of course, Biggest Cuck.

Had the same thing happen with the hands too. Have some stuff that mostly helps now, but winter makes things rough. Trial and erroring skincare stuff for my face is also a nightmare lol, but you basically just gotta roll with the punches.

Eczema sucks so bad, man. Hope the stuff you're doing works out, or at least alleviates it a bit.

Of course, the funniest bit of all is doing this for fucking Divinity, which as a fantasy franchise is mostly riffing off of established tropes. Finally, a bold new creative vision outsourced to prompt generation. Get real lmao. Hack behavior.

All of this does miss the forest for the trees, however, since indisputably the worse part of GenAi is that it will fucking kill us all by burning the world's limited resources. Yeah, man, definitely worth it to make a worse game. Jesus Christ.

It's also deeply pathetic to pitch the idea of using it for conceptual stuff as fine since that inevitably affects the direction of the project. Oh, no, it's fine, the bones of this thing were just crafted out of soulless plagiarism, no worries!

I have deleted my most caustic takes over and over again because it's largely unproductive to be mean spirited, but I do have to say, I wish to god gamers would broaden their palettes.

I doubt it willl happen, but I really hope they bring back the precision platforming. Tomb Raider og is so fun, and I played it for the first time last year lmao.

Valhalla's present day storyline went so off the rails it left them with only insane places to go. Naturally, the next games decided that was a mistake, for some reason, so now it's all dead in the water again.

In general, on a basic level, the degree to which the story buoys itself with collectibles means the actual events of the game are horrifically uneventful. I do get the sense that this was a result of budget issues, but that doesn't change how anemic the story feels as a result.

Game could have been a lot more interesting if it had any interest in exploring women's relationships with each other in a deeply patriarchal society, how that affects their dreams and aspirations, how some respond to outside pressure vs others. Instead, it relegates all of their depth to notes lmao

There is also basically never a true reckoning for one thing in the story which I am actually astounded by because the degree to which Hinako was wronged by it, and what it is, is genuinely monstrous. The game almost handwaves it away, however! Ah shucks!

What you see of Rinko in the story might as well be a misogynistic caricature. Truly devastating how her entire relationship to Hinako revolves around Hinako's relationship to a man.