The Guy who still plays that flight simulator, Anthem, is offended you left it out

Having traumatic memories of Avellone glazing and bashing come back. It can never be long enough until the next relitigation of 5 minute villain monologues he writes.

They did course-correct it for the sequel. There's a neat review essay that made the point that it felt like a frat bro awkwardly apologizing for being a dick. (and yeah, it did feel pretty on the head at times when I played it)
bulletpointsmonthly.com/2025/03/06/t...

I spilled lembas crumbs all over myself watching the war of the ring through the master stone in the Tower of Avallónë & a vanyar teenager shouted "this Úmanyar eating corn bread" & everyone laughed

which were already pretty bloated and unwieldy by the expansion in scale of the game. I can see hubris screwing them over, but nowhere near as bad as 2077

Eh, huge parts of the problem was a messy pre-production that was hastily changed and scopecreeped by the massive success of Witcher 3 and them having more money than they knew what to do with. Then COVID throwing a wrench into things, discombobulating and siloing off their dev team,

Patton being a Virginian plantation aristocrat that was born in a vineyard just outside LA begs to differ.

The Only Children of White Collar Professional Parents In The 1990s website is uniquely badly-positioned to have good memories or holiday food

The move to looking like a SciFi NwN2 module feels as if they're trying to distinguish this remaster from those mods.

Tbf, there's already mods under years of development that, between the QoL fixes + map reworks + improvement to graphics/backend stuff, act as a full remaster. It's pretty hard to top it without feeling like a sidegrade of smth like DE: Revision.

I think I also get annoyed at people not recognising that a lot of modern trends are overcorrections from criticisms during that era. That if you want back to 2010 and complained about a 30+ hour game being too short, people would look at you funny

True Detective Season 1 and r/Childfree are the last vestige of the Schopenhauer corpus in our modern age

Apparently he picked it up from some random street vendor, but you can probably track down something similar if you look for circular lense glasses with a sideshield/windbreaker

www.twitch.tv/nightcrewgam...

for this to be David Weber, it'd have to have at least three run-on sentences about battles with hyphenated adjectives that are trying to sound like "wine-dark sea," all comma-spliced together with an "and" or two

Guessing you've read most of Bruce Sterling's stuff then?

Have you read Yukikaze? I found it pretty interesting to read alongside this piece www.jstor.org/stable/40247...