Charlotte Finn @SkunkyLass@awoo.space

Everyone is talking about chess so I went back and reread Scott McCloud's infinite canvas comic about chess. http://scottmccloud.com/1-webcomics/chess/chess.html

@kat I know we don't know each other that well, but for what it is worth, you're always a welcome presence on my TL.

@irisjaycomics "Is she, you know..." (mimes peeling an orange)

@Leucrotta Not off the top of my head; there's these folks who are mollusk based, but that might not be what you're looking for https://www.aonsrd.com/Races.aspx?ItemName=Wrikreechee

@Leucrotta Any time!

@Leucrotta There's a species in one of the books that is a more robot-y take on androids, called the SRO. https://www.aonsrd.com/Races.aspx?ItemName=SRO

I hate having to strap it around my wrist and sleep with it on, but I have to admit that wearing a wrist brace at night has helped my RSI a great deal.

It really is so well put together, and one way in which it's put together well just occurred to me.

In so many games, we have to make story allowances for returning to earlier saves, or extra lives, or so on. We have to accept that failure is part of the game, but not part of the narrative; that the five times I died to that ambush didn't really happen in the narrative, even though the emotions I experienced during that streak of mounting frustration are ones I remember.

But in Hades, from the moment you start to the moment you stop is one unbroken continuity that builds on itself. Character will comment on who you died to and how. Everything you go through feels like it happened. All the times you die count in the narrative. So do all the times you don't.

Really is a watershed moment in gaming, I feel.

@Anarchist_Mallrat Should have gotten Donald Glover to promote it

To kick off the New Year, friends are showing me the Star Wars Holiday Special for the first time, and I am seriously reconsidering who I allow into my life

I am on a family phone call that has lasted longer than five minutes, send help please

No one pushes buttons; everything needs to be punched

I've never played a Gears of War game and my impression of the world is that, having ran out of oil, they fuel everything with machismo

Gears Tactics is an extremely fun tactical squad game as long as you are able to keep a straight face every time the voice actor from Bulletstorm shouts about how "we got ourselves an e-hole!"

(fighting a purple worm with class levels and racial templates)

♫♪ 'Cause I'm a half-fiend, half-fey, bardic purple people eater ♪♫

@Anarchist_Mallrat That explains why the age-related CGI looked so realistic

@InTheLandOfTheRisingSun They still make those?

@Leucrotta It is a super dope album. It feels like such a specific kind of space opera that there is a universality in it, paradoxically.