une dernière enigme, cher ami

the nancy drew games are ok i guess.

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

the amount of toxicity in the fandom nowadays is so disheartening?? just now looking through someone’s blog to find something i saw a nasty post from last year that i’m 90% sure was about me written by someone i’ve never even personally spoken to. we’re a house divided with all the shit about the new game, and it’s really sad for the people who are nostalgic for the good ol’ days when the size of the fandom made it a cozy little community based on respect for each other and love for these games. now it’s like you have to make your camp with one group of bloggers or another. this place used to be a safe haven, and sometimes i don’t even recognize it anymore.

hiatus until further notice

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

Making fun of your internet friends like

[josiahcrowley]

hey i know we’re all disappointed about MID and the lack of information, but please lets not be dicks to random Her employees. Most of them are just doing their jobs, and it really doesn’t help anything to be rude because Her obviously doesn’t want to release information yet. idk just think about other people because Her employees are probably really annoyed and tired of the flack they are getting for things that are out of their control

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

literally every time i’m installing one of the older games i think to myself ‘don’t know what directx is but i don’t want that shit’ & then i get sad bc sarah

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

happy bastille day to celebrate i’m gonna talk about the french revolution in prof hotchkiss’ voice all day

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

a while ago i made a post wondering why it seemed like so few of the adult characters were married. during this past playthrough of cry i noticed that lamont wears what appears to be a wedding band on his left ring finger. he never mentions a spouse, but just that one little detail is a pretty major insight into his life. gotta love little touches like that!

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

.........that means he just abandons them at the end when he goes to look for bernie.....oh no......

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

a while ago i made a post wondering why it seemed like so few of the adult characters were married. during this past playthrough of cry i noticed that lamont wears what appears to be a wedding band on his left ring finger. he never mentions a spouse, but just that one little detail is a pretty major insight into his life. gotta love little touches like that!

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

croquettish

 this is probably an intensely stupid question but...

any number that starts with 555- is fake!

ohhhh my goodness ok that makes so much more sense than my weird theory about her interactive claiming numbers just to use in the games ha

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

this is probably an intensely stupid question but i know next to nothing about video games & i’ve always wondered about this: what’s the deal with phone numbers used in the games? are they disconnected numbers or do they redirect to her interactive’s office line or what?

[lickieloo]

I know everyone is really impatient about MID - but honestly, I wouldn’t worry about it yet. They probably want to release it around October, right? That would fit their usual production schedule from before the hiatus (May/October) and the game seems to be Halloween-y/spooky so that makes sense too. With that being said, we usually don’t get information on October games until mid-August. So it’s still really early. I honestly wouldn’t worry unless it gets to September/October and we still haven’t heard anything.

[franceshumber]

Also, I’d honestly rather wait longer for a decent game than for them to release another crappy one bc I don’t think I could handle that disappointment

(also as someone who’s basically majoring in game dev, it takes a LOOONNNGGG time to dev 3D games and they probably have to do much more beta testing this time around bc theres probably a higher chance of glitches)

[lickieloo]

Exactly! Most series don’t get TWO games a year. We’ve only waited a year so far - not a big deal in the slightest considering they’re switching engines. Think about the new Zelda game - it’s been delayed a handful of times now and was originally supposed to be out in 2015 but won’t be released until 2017. This isn’t unusual at all.

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

i never had a scene phase but legend of the crystal skull came out when i was thirteen & i was obsessively attracted to henry bolet does that count

[amateurdetectiveteaparty]

i had a scene phase and i will guard those pictures with my life and also burn them

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

(i’ve seen these pictures)

(they’re amazing)

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

i never had a scene phase but legend of the crystal skull came out when i was thirteen & i was obsessively attracted to henry bolet does that count

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

deirdre is this fascinating anomaly i mean she has every appearance of your typical mean girl archetype and endeavors to uphold that kind of sassy ‘keep your boyfriends close’ kind of persona and yet she shows that she’s so much more layered than that and she’s capable of being vulnerable and she harbors feelings of insecurity and loneliness and actually really does admire nancy and maybe even secretly considers her a friend

not to mention she’s incredibly smart?? like she’s a gd criminology major and she casually uses words i only ever encountered on the sats like girl can get it academically

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

when replaying a game, does anyone else sometimes kinda procrastinate finishing it? 

you have the objects/knowledge to go and solve the final puzzle or to confront the culprit, but you kinda just hang around, talk to all the suspects to make sure you don’t have anything more to say, play the mini game and win some more money, find an easter egg or two, all because you’re not quite ready to leave the atmosphere and the music and the characters behind until you click ‘new game’ again?

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

once again the spirit of @detectiveworkisalwaysinstyle was with me in sartorial spirit & i ended up making this fabulous clk-inspired purchase as an early birthday present to myself

[agownofcoalandglowingflame]

anyone seeing nancy & red on his observing platform: