Bah, forgot the alt text. It's a picture of a steam awards nomination for the 'Sit Back and Relax Award' except apparently I haven't played a single eligible game this year.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk, please tip your servers.

I dunno, maybe it'll make more sense later when there's more characters to hang out with, my party is only five people currently. I just find it weird. Maybe I'm the weird one, though. Who knows.

I've seen at least one video pop up that calls this great because it's anti-FOMO but I feel like it's a bad take. FOMO isn't bad, it's a motivator, not every player needs to see every inch of your game, and I feel like taking this pressure out has sorta left a hole that hasn't been filled.

So it just kinda... feels weird that time is being emphasized so much here. Like, the day is broken up into three distinct time periods, there's elaborate day transitions (which are gorgeous, love the typography in this game), but time is essentially a non-factor gameplaywise.

Demonschool (which again is a fantastic game that I love) feels *extremely* linear so far. I can do everything in every time period, so... why wouldn't I? I can do karaoke three times a day so raising character affinity hasn't been a problem, and if I max one I can do the event immediately.

One of the reasons the calendar system is in Persona is because it adds a small bit of non-linearity to your playthrough. The story's the same every time, but you can make different choices on how to spend your days. You're given a small amount of freedom that way. You get to make choices.

Which to me begs the question: What's the point of the elaborate time framing at all?

Thing is, there's no actual deadline *mechanically*. Time progresses when you begin the next story segment, and you're free to do whatever and however much you want until you choose to do that. There's no way to progress time without making story progress, and story progress happens on schedule.

The game does not shy away from the fact that it's partly inspired by Persona, and one of the ways that's most visible is with the way time works: 10 weeks until the apocalypse, you have to complete a specific assignment before the weekend, make sure to hang out with your friends too.

All the people who love to make things these days are living either in shacks in the woods or their parents' basements making 500 commits on open source projects a day with a gun next to their computer in case it starts misbehaving.

That's how I feel about most interactions with
Deadpool media these days

Even ignoring the English lyrics being written by someone who doesn't speak it super well, they're just... the premise of the show? And the rap is abysmal. And yet I keep nearly crying every time I hear the chorus for the first time in a while. Absolutely carried by the vocalist. Crazy.

Complete chance that I caught that, very glad I did.

If you game overed while in a situation where the game expected numeric input (i.e. it's asking you to choose from a list of options, which is something I built into Narrāre), it would still be requiring a number as input—meaning you couldn't *load or quit*. Yikes!

In said playthrough, I found eight bugs; of those, three were you being able to do things more than once, two were typos, one was me not accounting for a bug with #Godot itself (that I really need to file an issue about), one was due to bad regex, and one was INCREDIBLY SEVERE.