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I'm not sure I have the words to fully explain why this game works. I guess I can compare something like Empowered that flips back and forth between really goofy and really depressing. This game starts out like that, but as it progresses and the writing improves, the goofy parts and the depressing parts feel intimately linked. Like they're a single tone, not two.

The actual content of the game should be kryptonite to me on multiple levels, but I can enjoy and respect it because it fits together so well anyway. Like how I can enjoy Twelve Angry Men or Pink Floyd's The Wall despite both of them being wildly outside my usual taste.

Look, I know she took way more shit than she deserved, and I know most of it was transphobia. But I still reserve the right to be annoyed by a self-proclaimed “forcefem” blogger who doesn’t like forcefem.

“It gets really interesting when proofreading a story like With This Ring. The protagonist is British, and insists on using British English, and the narration is written in the first person, so that's all British. But he's living in the USA, so when he talks with someone, there's a good chance that they'll use American English, and the author has chosen to preserve that (even though yes, they sound the same). But he also has a power ring with a universal translator, so when he's talking with someone who doesn't speak English, their words will use his native British English, but if they do natively speak English, even American English, the ring won't translate that, so you still get American spellings. But some characters are capable of speaking English but it's not their first language, eg Wonder Woman's native language is Greek but she has learned American English, so you have to guess based on context (eg: Who else is present and listening? Other Justice League Members? Amazons?) whether it's being translated from Greek, and would thus get British spelling, or not.”

Now I know how other people feel when I keep messing around with pronouns.

The most powerful person I’ve ever encountered was on a Let’s Play forum. He did blind LPs of ‘90s JRPGs.

Superhero with one of those trick guns that loads different kinds of bullets. They’re a little slow to enter a fight, because they always keep the gun unloaded until they know what they want to fire. They don’t want to, say, accidentally use a net bullet on a winged villain high above the ground.

In January, I forgot to open a letter from my insurance provider. It said they were raising the price of my insurance. I paid the old amount, so the next letter said I was cut off.

I spent a month calling my insurance and trying to get back on. They said they couldn’t get me back on unless my former employer agreed (I’m unemployed), and said former employer never returned their calls.

Way too close to the due date for my bi-monthly immunosuppressant, I gave up and tried to get on Medi-Cal instead. I seriously considered just paying out of pocket, but my old immunosuppressant cost $20K a dose, and the person I talked to at the clinic said the new immunosuppressant would cost “about the same.”

Actually, the new immunosuppressant costs less than $1K a dose. I have savings. I could have paid that. But today I got Medi-Cal, six days past the immunosuppressant due date and about thirteen days past when I started feeling like shit, and then I found out the clinic stopped accepting Medi-Cal. Also, they won’t let a patient pay out of pocket if they have insurance, even insurance they don’t take.

I hung up and tried swearing at the top of my lungs. I don’t feel any better.

Next up: I try to get a referral from my doctor for another infusion clinic that takes Medi-Cal.

This boss has a universal counterattack. Any time you damage him, he reacts.

Nikolai has a move that deals damage when the target acts. I had him use this move, then switched him out of the active party before the boss acted. I figured I'd got off scot free.

When the boss tried to find a counterattack target, the game locked up.

On the one hand, I'm annoyed. On the other hand, I find it oddly pleasing when I can understand what coding oversight would cause a bug to happen.

Yes, this is a beautiful and incredible game. But at the same time, I want to say "another one of these?"

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The main character is a small child, so I can understand why he doesn't think of certain questions. But in my head, I am screaming:

1): What makes the people who have books on the Storyteller's shelf different from all the people who don't have books?

2): Of the people who have books on the shelf, how many of them got killed by that guy with the scythe? Is the Storyteller sending you on a mission a whole bunch of probably-children failed at, knowing you'll probably fail too?

(It's almost too obvious if the kids are already dead and the scythe guy is the Grim Reaper, but that's where the evidence points so far.)