dave strudel

It's actually a bit surprising to me that we haven't seen contemporary meta brainfuck indie games do more than they have with 1990s point and click adventure games' penchant for developer-intended softlocks. That feels like something you could very easily spin as Saying Something.

Honestly, having grown up with this bullshit is probably a big part of the reason I'm fascinated with player-hostile game design. Giving a puzzle three different solutions with fully voiced and animated reactions to each, except two of those solutions render the game unwinnable in ways that won't become apparent until hours later is a level of "fuck you" that most modern games with pretensions of player-hostility can only dream of!

A critical piece of context that a lot of modern gamers completely miss is that Douglas Adams' adventure games are works of parody not only in terms of their narratives, but also in the sense that they're rather vicious parodies of adventure games as a genre. Each of their absurdly obtuse puzzles is lampooning some puzzle design trope or set of tropes that was legitimately commonplace at the time they were made, and many of the really nasty bits are crafted specifically to piss off experienced adventure game fans who otherwise wouldn't get caught out by that sort of thing. They're outliers in the genre only in the sense that they're putting forth extra effort to be annoying about it – most games of the type pull the exact same shit entirely without remark!

so interesting when a medieval fantasy world shows signs of a partial columbian exchange. dirt-caked churls may grow pumpkins and eat potato stew yet no chocolate or hot peppers to be seen

Dahling you simply must explore the backrooms they're just brimming with all sorts of delightful little entities.

otay mattie let's play rooms together yayyy

Don't you just love the gauche wallpaper? It's so camp- what the fuck is that

If you're comfortable accusing anyone of faking disability, you're not a real ally to disabled people

I used to block people who called Pangur ugly, until she reached about 8 years old, and then I was like yeah okay I see it now

You guys ever see a DNI that makes you break out into laughter and almost cry

Diversity hire bryson ur absolutely slaying

please