A lot of my co-workers say, "Have a nice REST of your day," specifically to avoid this response.

I can't describe the feeling it provoked. Jealousy? Inspiration? Lust? All I could think was, "damn so that's why her legs are so thick."

Very evil people in the White House this week. They smile and snicker.

Ominous ゴゴゴゴ

Many of these multiversal interactions seem to be spontaneous and unspectacular, often making it go over people's heads. Why, it's even possible that Sam has gotten help from other Sam's and hasn't even realized it. That's kind of the whole point of the chiral network, isn't it?

The Cyberpunk references lean greatly into this idea, as the e-mails from J (Johnny Silverhand) outright say that Sam's world IS NOT HIS. He acknowledges how the technology in Sam's world is futuristic, but not the SAME future. Cyberpunk's is more advanced, but they can't take advantage of chiralium

Well, in Death Stranding, there is scientific evidence of a multiverse. The Beach is proof of it. Everyone has their own Beach, but lapses in space-time can send you to other Beaches. In this way, franchises can connect to Death Stranding either as fiction or reality, or even both.

But when you get the Gravity Gloves (a direct reference to Half-Life: Alyx), they claim to have found the blueprints in an underground laboratory with a λ logo. Clearly they found it at an actual Black Mesa facility. But if Half-Life is fiction, then how?

Let's take the various Valve Easter Eggs as an example. We know from the e-mails that the games existed in this world. There's various characters like Benjamin Hancock and William Lake that acknowledge Half-Life as a fictional series, even saying that Sam is rumored to be a huge Half-Life fan.

It also looks like it's absolutely not officially licensed JoJo's merch. So yeah, kinda plagiarism.

Shadow players have the best usernames. Yesterday I placed 2nd in a match, first place went to a Gold Shadow named "GodHimself." Couldn't complain.

It's oouutt ooofff ttttoooouuuucccchhhh TTTTThhhhhuuuuurrrrrsssssddddddaaaaaayyyyyy!!!!!!!

If we link up this way I'm pretty sure we get free Red Star rings.

The game also seems very easy rn. But it might be too soon to call it, because there's probably some skill-based matchmaking going on and it's probably still trying to figure out where I stand there. Plus I'm guessing I'm mostly up against phone players.

But I don't hold it against the game too much because that's what every live service game is like. And as long as I don't HAVE to spend money, and it doesn't seem like I have to "pay to win" then I'm all good.

If I had a complaint, it's all the red star rings, Shadow coins, etc. they want you to try to earn to unlock things. It feels kinda overwhelming, like there's so many different event passes and unlock trees and so on. I'll just play the game and if I unlock stuff then 👍 but if I gotta pay, no thanks

As far as gameplay goes, it feels pretty similar to what you'd expect. It's got the mini-game battle Royale feel of Fall Guys but with a somewhat familiar Sonic platformer flavor. It's a bit slower and simpler than the Sonic platforming I'm used to, but that's what you'd want in this game.