Recent content by Rydeen

Yeah, that's not reassuring because it's not based in reality at all, but it's fine. You'll be forced to remember what you forgot about his first term before long. BTW, both China and India are parties to the Paris agreement, and the US is the second largest contributor of CO2 emissions (behind...

Early in the year last year, I was watching Hathaway’s Flash and thinking about its stable climate Earth in relation to Blade Runner’s environmentally destroyed Earth. It made me think there was potential for Blade Runner’s Earth to be a reality within 200 years, but it looks like that...

Yes, that’s because the momentum was torpedo-ed by a lot of people (including a bunch of “news” outlets) saying not to bother contributing to the KS because it hit the funding target and Sony would foot the bill from there. It took a Herculean effort to undo any of that misinformation, and...

YES! So, like, I don’t really know if you and knife were actually there for the KS, but as it turned out, at the time there were three timelines in play (one we didn’t know about): 1. KS fails to break 3 million and YSNet releases a linear, story focused game. Sony “helps” with publishing as...

This is what spud already posted about. We didn’t hit those goals, but before the release of the game there was an update about the stretch goals to say that the Baisha goals were altered, and a bunch of the goals for Niaowu and Bailu were implemented even though they weren’t reached during the...

I don’t know what you two are going on about, but the implication during the Kickstarter was that all of the stretch goals were for things that would be added to the game. So, yes, not hitting the mini-games/betting games X5 implied there wouldn’t be any.

I think SMD is using the Shenhua outfit as just an example of a point of disagreement for himself, to talk about how a conversation with Yu might avoid a shouting match, and not actually trying to pin the change on Payton.

Already kind of been mentioned, but the Reverse Body Check is one of Akira’s signature moves, and Body Check is a fundamental part of Bajiquan and the basis for the Reverse Body Check (which is somewhat of a fictional move). The problem is really that they look like the exact same thing to the...

I live not too far from an arcade that has an original Afterburner II cabinet, and it’s honestly fucking awesome. They have Hang-on, Space Harrier and Outrun as well, but that extra axis just pulls me over to the Afterburner cab all the time.

I don’t know how much 505 committed, but I’m sure it was a non-zero value; Rabbit&Bear went absolutely HAM on the mini games, and it’s a worse game for it. Voiced lines were also added beyond the scope of the KS. The only reason I mentioned the Eiyuden campaign was to say that KS reward money...

A) It’s decidedly meh, and not even in the same stratosphere as Suikoden 1, 2 or 3, but I sort of don’t regret backing it. BTW There’s to be three rounds of DLC, advertised (by the publisher!) as releasing in Aug, Sept, Oct, and are part of the season passes sold on storefronts already. Except...

Normally I would probably say this goes without saying, but now Eiyuden Chronicle exists, and six months after the game released they just sent out surveys to select some of the physical reward options. Even most digital rewards haven’t been delivered to backers still. There’s been no real...

The literal one—? I don’t know what you’re asking. Literary Devices

I think this post might have actually allowed me to finally realize where I deviate from some others on Shenmue: I never once felt this in any of the games. The mythical themes always just felt like literary devices to me.

No worries. I thought it was JPY for a hot minute too, when I first saw it.