Look Outside seems out of your wheelhouse but the horror rpg space loves that stuff. Blue Prince was this year and it's pretty excellent.

Twitch chat doesn't grasp that stories are living creatures that are perpetually unfinished. And that pointing out where a story could be better is an extension of the process that brought it to life. If you don't think it's perfect when it's "done" you don't like it at all.

"Getting good" is kind of orthogonal to actually beating and enjoying it. You don't need to be good at the game, you just need to be impossible to enrage, like a stone. That's the skill that people are actually applying when they play something like Dark Souls.

Silksong has a lot of connections to stuff like kaizo levels and troll level design. It's hazing in the sense that yes it is absolutely purpose built to piss you off, and part of the enjoyment comes from noticing when they've done that successfully and then laughing at their little goblin tricks.

I think Jake has mentioned making them available for channel members. I don't know if they've been uploaded yet.

I don't want to spoil the trick to it if you can't figure it out, but it's basically just the three moves you have to care about. The other variations and the second phase sort of round down to nothing because your attack strategy barely changes. The stagger rewards VERY aggressive play here too.

Nobody who posts on Linkedin is a real human being don't worry. Even when a friend posts, it will be an AI generated notification that they got a new job or something.

FWIW I thought the Widow was easier than the preceding boss Sister Splinter. If you've already beaten that this one should be a piece of cake.

It's one of the big ones filtering people. I died like 20 times on it and only beat it because of the cheese where you stand at the start of the arena and hit it through the wall. Amusingly there are two ways to skip it, so cheese probably wasn't necessary.

Still mad about his Xenoblade 3 review. You might want to watch it after you play the game yourself to judge, but in my opinion it's a masterclass in misleading journalism. Just totally misrepresents the game - but because he's just the funny review guy, you're not allowed to be angry about it.

Dunkey is really fun, his reviews are super goofy, but he's faintly aligned with the pushback against mainstream games journalism back in the day. And how "serious" his opinions are depend on how angry you get at what he implies in his videos. He keeps things vague on purpose.

Logistics, brother.

Hell yeah

I still want to see the series of events that led to Nia taking power. Like, in all likelihood she wasn't literally queen until Moebius needed a figurehead to match Melia, but it's funny to imagine Rex and Co accidentally winning Alrest's game of thrones and deciding NIA was the best candidate.

Wait were people seriously saying stuff like that? It's not like a knock your socks off kind of analysis but for something thrown together three days after a trailer it's everything I ever wanted. I avoided watching other trailer breakdowns because I knew yours would make them redundant.

That's amusing. Halfway through the last book is about where I'd say the author decided he was uninterested in writing more and threw in a random happy ending.

Self-publishing allows you to grow your own audience, removes your financial dependence on the whims of a major monopoly (assuming you don't go exclusive on Amazon!) and increases the vitality of the growing trend of independent authors, benefitting literally everyone. Downside is it's risky to you.

It's a bit like asking whether the reason you prefer not working in a sweatshop is because you lack grit. There are ideological reasons to avoid traditional publishing the same way you avoid child labor or coal fumes. Those reasons become strategic when you consider the sustainability of your work.