even applies here, I think, with our speedrunner just having a lot of passion for speedrunning this one particular game; just because he's in it doesn't mean he's the king of the world, because he still cares for the story and the characters.

I think it was in his Re:Zero video but Mother's Basement made an argument that really stuck with me which is that in good isekais the protagonist, before moving to a different world, has had a life that informs their feelings and decisions. In the best dramatic examples it's usually trauma, but it

Totally!

It's only natural to feel a touch of truly eldritch horror when a dude turns up and defies all logic and sense of reality because your world runs on video game logic of flags and imperfect geometry.

I've only seen it done well *once* and it's about a speedrunner whose glitches still work, much to everyone's surprise.

Jacob: “For now please remain patient and understand that there are some things going on behind the scenes that we can't talk about (yet)”

I was wondering about that lol. Thanks for doing this thread.

people who buy them can make more money off you.

I think it's largely on account of all those cookie modals being written in bad faith, purposefully obtuse legalese that does everything it can to avoid saying outright that this or that company will use these cookies to track all your activity around the web in order to serve you better ads so that

Paraphrasing a tweet (or a post from someplace): every right-wing conspiracy theory is the most insane magical shit you've heard, and every left-wing one has been confirmed in declassified CIA documents.

But also, IMO there's a difference between a law made in good faith like GDPR and one made in bad faith like UK's age verification law.

It's also fascinating to trace just *how* it fell apart, but at the same time the only reasonable ending to hiver (IMO) is the one where Suoh loses all her memories due to stress and trauma because it doesn't throw away all the setup to deliver the conclusion lol

They're both really good! All I'm saying is that I wanted a splash of colour, mostly because I wore black digital watches for most of my life. And even as a black watch, this one is very pretty and stylish instead of... bland.

In principle, a law like GDPR existing is good for everyone everywhere. In practice, we all know how it ended up with pointlessly cumbersome pop-ups that at best take one click to accept all surveillance and at least two to reject all because virtually no one implements it in good faith.

Like, so far it's the only one where I really could not see it as a game but had to choose what my heart told me because Suoh was Literally Me to such an intense degree. It was a bit harrowing, to face my own heart so bluntly, but clearly necessary for my character development lol

It starts falling apart towards the end of the third game, and most of the fourth feels like a farce, flying in the face of everything great about the first two, but I can't deny that the first one just broke me by making me confront my own trauma that I didn't even realise was really, really bad

And here's the Homu watch. Really nice and stylish, but I just wanted something more colourful than that.