man. MAN. i should try that one again someday. it's been a long time, i think there's a lot about the aesthetics of that setting that don't interest me anymore, but the core of it was good shit
i was fully sending my players terminal entries. i would not have put in that much effort if i knew we were just playing one session
in the wake of marathon remembering the aborted mech ttrpg game i ran exactly one session of and how i wrote a prologue and epilogue where the three enemy royal army pilots (Barbute, Aventail, and Burgonet) were treating their mech secure comms like a chatroom
ladies and gentlemen. pfhor fighters
oh my brain is SOOOOO checked out today
he helped the s'pht didn't he? he has an affinity with all those used as tools
does durandal talk to you so much because he just needs someone to express himself to? well yes. but does he also talk to you so much because he genuinely sympathises with your lore-implied predicament. yeah probably
when durandal at the end of marathon is maybe talking around the fact he wishes you were coming with him....
kyoani could make evangelion but anno could never make endless eight
that and the fact no body of water can impede her. she is essentially sonic driving a car for the racing games
i have installed marathon 2
it was very very good
i have played marathon
but i will NOT teleport you back unless i think you've done enough exploring
i looooove going to the phfor ship and durandal's like alright buddy, no terminals over there. you want me to teleport you back to the ship, you stand near a window facing the marathon and wave
Joy Division - Disorder
you know it's kind of wild that bungie condemned all their writing to optional side content. marathon is just what if all the interesting stuff bungie is cooking in the background was instead the main plot of the game that you interact with all the time
incredibly rude of marathon to drop me into a maze full of enemies and exploding bobs AFTER the colony ship for sale cheap puzzle, but BEFORE a save terminal
whenever there's discourse about EN vs JP opinions about piracy i dont want to hear any opinions from JP manga fans or whatever. not relevant. no parity. less than useless. i want to hear opinions from ryoku kui
it shouldn't matter but the hours are different somehow
"They ought to make a How Long To Beat but for like, people with jobs" - @jawnsunn.bsky.social
anotomo? anontomo? anon "steals your girl" chihaya
#dlarts #mygo
NEW ARTICLE! "In The Copied Cathedral", my exploration of the Drakengard/NieR series, continues with a bumper dissection of 2010's NIER. Cavia's swansong is strange and formulaic, inventive and predictable, and finds its own kind of beauty in how these things clash together.
marathon is a game in which leela tells you that you let too many crew members die and you go "ah fuck em" and look up what she would have said on a wiki
when bungie were making halo they were like at last, a chance to atone. we tipped the scales too far. it is our duty to restore cosmic balance. this time we have to make the assault rifle terrible
you know all the bandits at the marsh were getting sick of Lin Chong. every night he's picking a guy and being like yo tell your story again, and when you get to the bit where you kill your wife for cucking you he's like "damn that's crazy. my wife loved me"
Picard: It's a computer simulation of thoroughbred horse racing called Umamusume Pretty Derby. The program was quite popular in the 21st century.
Riker: Mm. 'Pretty' is accurate. That Goldship is quite something.
Picard: I hadn't noticed. I enjoy the simulation's tactical qualities.
Riker: Yes, sir.
hearing some things about a guy called durandal. probably not important
been playing marathon, the bungie extraction shooter. in the sense that when you play marathon, leela drops you into a level, you explore and kill and pick up equipment and find objectives and secrets, and then you "extract" via a terminal
