idk what you mean, it looks perfectly canny to me
He has a name! Gus Obscura
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The game definitely rips off Elden Ring for some of the art direction. In particular, the Paintress is literally just Marika: cracked-stone skin aesthetic, long blonde hair, and they hang out at the bottom of a giant cylinder you can see from anywhere on the map.
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Still clinging to the old translation, I see. Fighting for what matters.
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This is nothing more than Shinra Company’s Big Cosmetics arm publishing propaganda in order to sell more Shinra Company shampoo and conditioner.
Don’t you be lying to me now, tradegood. My heart couldn’t take that guy actually being named Gus Obscura
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I can’t help it if the later translations developed a lisp.
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Well “Gustave” if you’re french. But in north america that translates to Gus.
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There is a point in the game where you meet the character Clair Obscur and I Leo DiCaprio pointed at my screen.
Unless I’m lying. Who knows.
(It’s the name of one of the optional bosses.)
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*clenching and unclenching my fists* no it doesn’t. It translates to August. *maybe crying a little*
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I’ll admit, sometimes I like playing shitty games that suck ass.
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Janken Man on the Game Boy is one of my favorite games ever and I don’t really like playing it at all, nor can I imagine the kind of person who does. Angel of elaboration please spare me
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Not the angel of elaboration but the daemon of hypotheticals: what if it was called Jenkem Man?
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As I do every once in awhile, I’ve wandered back over to Tyler McVicker’s channel and watched a bit of a lengthy doc he put together on the touch-and-go development of Half Life 3.
I feel bad for my earlier description. He seems a little more measured these days and less entitled — I too hope we can get some closure to the Half Life series at some point.
I’ve been revisiting some of the narrative and realizing how much I’ve enjoyed these games, and how satisfying tying the HL and Portal narratives together could be.
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I’m pretty sure I will never be able to find Death Stranding interesting or want to play it. I have a good friend who is evangelical about it and who has spent a huge amount of time trying to get me to play it but everything they tell me they find amazing about it makes me realize that they have a huge difference in taste from me. I’m just never going to be a Kojima fan, and I’m never going to think Norman Reedus is hot like my friend very much does.
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You really only need to play around a bit in the first area to get the gist. Pack some boxes on your back, hold the shoulder buttons to grab the straps, put down a little ladder to climb a ledge and give a thumbs up to the player who planted a rope for you. That’s about as good as it will get. Ignore the rest.
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I also love that nonsense. I often get the weird ones when they are discounted at the gorcery outlet
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there’s something so liberating about being like “yeah these things suck and the cans are lying about the benefits…i’m gonna buy one anyway”
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Hell yeah. Love rolling the dice on these and sharing a sip with my partner (who hates them much more than I do). For a while felt like the only new flavors were taurine-adjacent only.
I’m sure the probiotic benefits are gonna kick in for me any day now.
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When I have an Insert Credit Question That’s Too Stupid for the Dirtbag, I usually submit it to the Dirtbag anyway instead of posting it here.
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I have a nemesis. Actually, I have several. I find it comforting to have a nemesis. I would not be so motivated without a nemesis. I had high school nemeses but I put them in the blender the first chance I got. I moved on to bigger and better things.
I had college nemeses who were so horrible that they probably made me worse. I dove into the deepest depths of hell to beat them. ““Lying on a bed of weeds, ripping them out one by one as they try to strangle you in your sleep, that’s what ruling is” - Cersei, Game of Thrones” - but also me in college describing what it was like dealing with these demon twinks!!! Unlike the one-dimensional academic rivals from high school, these kids were three-dimensional poltergeists, haunting literally every aspect of my life. Ultimately, I won, but you couldn’t waterboard out of me the things I had to do to secure that victory.
In adulthood I haven’t found a comfortable nemesis and thus I fear I’ve grown complacent. A running joke(?) in my life is that Polish devil Antoni Porowski is my nemesis. We have similar aesthetics (fashion-wise, music taste, etc) and when Queer Eye debuted on Netflix, Antoni was the favorite of all of the straights in my life. Like Jenna Maroney, I would hate a baby if it got more attention than me (or had softer skin), so the suggestions that I should emulate Antoni boiled my blood. Mostly though, since I didn’t have anyone I knew in real life to be a nemesis, this was just a fun distraction
Lately, however, my brain broke. I watch Instagram like this:
It finally happened. I finally found a new nemesis. I found a guy who seems to lead an absolutely flawless life.
Envy is like, super common in gay circles. Your competition and your dating pool being one in the same has definitely messed people up. I think we’ve all Single White Female-d at least a few guys. No harm, no foul. I’ll have flashes on instagram-envy or my friend will and we’ll be there to reassure each other: “but would you want that person’s entire life? remember you can’t just pick and choose. if you want their life you have to want the good with the bad”
That worked great for years and then I finally found someone whose entire life I want. All of it 
It started as just a bit of Instagram envy, a very hot guy (do you have any idea how hard it is for me to admit that anyone is more attractive than me? it will never happen again) with a hot boyfriend who goes on plenty of luxe vacations…
And then I find out that he’s from two towns over from my hometown. And then I find out he went to a high school we played in sports. And then I find out we’re the same exact age. And then I find out we went to similar colleges.
Clearly every zig I took in life should’ve been a zag. If he and I watched the same exact sunset, it would be just a little bit prettier for him. Sonic has Shadow, Snake has Liquid, Dante has Vergil, I have my nemesis. He must be destroyed.
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