Not the sort of torment I was expecting, really. "I’m convinced there must be some other game called Planescape: Torment out there, because the game I cleared was one of the most misogynistic wastes of time I’ve ever experienced." kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2024/10/08/p...
[Content warning: This article cites misogynistic dialogue in several places and also refers to in-game scenes of relationship-related abuse.] I’ve had my eye on this RPG for a long time now,…
Not only does Sleeping Dogs (2012) feature the voice of future Oscar-winner Emma Stone, there is some incredible meta foreshadowing in one of the first lines spoken to her character being "you thinking of becoming Chinese?"
By 2012, seven different Tom Clancy games had reached #1 in the UK charts - more than Sonic or Zelda or Tomb Raider. I wrote about their paranoid simplicity and their approach to war as a video game: www.superchartisland.com/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-future-soldier
On Tom Clancy games’ consistent legacy of success and unreality…
By 2012, seven different Tom Clancy games had reached #1 in the UK charts - more than Sonic or Zelda or Tomb Raider. I wrote about their paranoid simplicity and their approach to war as a video game: www.superchartisland.com/tom-clancys-ghost-recon-future-soldier
On Tom Clancy games’ consistent legacy of success and unreality…
*It's CD-i. They were distributing background music for stores on CD-i.* And I've found a CD-i Muzak disc from *2010* that they made, probably one of the last. Until now I thought CD-i died off in the early 2000s, ca 2002/2003. Looks like I was off by an entire decade.
40 years ago, 80s band Thompson Twins were on CVG's cover, promoting an adventure game that you had to send off for. It came on a flexi-disk (a very thin record) that involved a fair bit of dicking around to work. Very few people sent off for it. Just far too complex for most.
Great new article in Make Believe Melodies: mbmelodies.substack.com/p/make-belie...youtu.be/_tHJwoSRcBc?...
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Normally avoid trans discourse here, but can we cut this fucking "haha terf island basically all British people are terfs" shit out please? It's not only untrue, but spreading it emboldens actual terfs while also making British baby transes feel like nobody has their backs. It's deeply unhelpful.
Multiple posts showing how wrong the "art" can be = "Repeated single user engagement over a wide variety of topics" Viral mocking of a prompted poem = "This single prompt generated extended reach" Using Twitter's AI service exclusively to mock it = "Lots of active engagement on a popular topic"
