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So i started Outer Wilds. My roomate enters, sees what im playing and we talks about the game. He asks if i’ve seen what happens 22 minutes after waking up. I don’t. I have been playing for the past two hours. He is confused. I hadn’t completed a cycle because i kept crashing and dying before the sun could. But I knew we were in a time loop!

#piloting is hard #i crashed into the sun also #im not exactly very good #beautiful game otherwise #outer wilds

junestrings

a lot of people dont care about insect biomass collapse bc when they hear we are losing 2.5% of the insect biomass per year they just imagine the cockroach and housefly population decreasing by that much. they dont realize those are among the only ones that will remain unbothered

kekflo4

-Bye Mr. Wesker! If you meet dad, tell him i miss him!

myago

I have a Famitsu article, and I’ll be commenting based on that.

Regarding Mikami’s statement that “the twins kiss off-screen,” I originally assumed he was referring to that music box scene. (I thought people were deliberately exaggerating what he meant.)

However, in context, it seemed to suggest that they actually do kiss, but the footage was cut (or censored). After reading that, I came to think that the developers likely included the music box to complement what happens after the cut.

The article also mentions a contrast between the two sibling relationships: the affection between the Redfield siblings is portrayed as normal, whereas the affection between the Ashford twins is portrayed as abnormal.

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On a slightly different note, I’m generally not fond of defining human emotions in fixed terms.

I tend to think of emotions as a kind of mixture, generated through the interplay of a person’s nature, individual experiences, and environment. Moreover, the emotions a person—or a character—expresses can change depending on the situation.

I also believe that as long as there’s a consistent, plausible theory based on a character’s personality and experiences, it doesn’t have to be one-dimensional. (For example, people don’t always act purely out of romantic feelings. Even without personal emotion, they can act based on self-interest or conscience.)

That said, whenever I see people adding disclaimers like “incest shouldn’t be fetishized” or “I don’t see them as being in a sexual relationship,” I tend to become a bit stubborn and want to say, “No! Alexia Ashford and Alfred Ashford are officially portrayed as being in an incestuous relationship, and that shouldn’t be denied!” 😂

From here on, these are entirely my personal views.

I feel uncomfortable with the tendency to automatically treat incest as a “symbol of evil,” just as I am cautious about reducing historical concepts such as Nazism into fixed moral symbols.

Of course, what happened in history was a serious wrongdoing, and it is often harmful in practice. However, even the actions of so-called “ordinary people” who are not villains are not necessarily free from harm.

What matters more than labels or categories is the context in which human actions arise. In that sense, reducing things to “this is evil because it belongs to this category” has its limits.

The reason the twins’ relationship is portrayed in such a gray, ambiguous way is, in my view, to reflect this complexity rather than to fit it into a simple moral framework.

What Resident Evil presents is not something limited to exceptional “others,” but rather the idea that these tendencies can exist in anyone. That is why the characters are arranged like mirrors of each other.

At the very least, the villains in the series are not merely devices meant to reassure the player with the thought, “I’m on the other side, so I’m safe.”

And i would like to thanks Capcom for casting a french woman as the voice for the sweet old landlady in the trailer.

When it’s a non native speaker we can tell and personally i have trouble understanding them even though it’s my first language.

Also the pronouncing of Paris without the s is typical french lol.

#i have no idea what the delightful cookie are tho #also she’s too nice for a parisian.#we’re rude and we don’t have time for bullshit #i know i would have swore if someone disturbed me once i was in the apartment with Claire.#resident evil #resident evil veronica

When a friend tells me he finds the way Xenomorphs reproduce weird and impossible and i have to go into detail about jellyfish and parasitic worms reproduction.

So no their reproduction isn’t that fictional since we do have animals on earth doing the same shit.

Also parasitic life forms are awesome but that must just be me being weird.

#well we don’t have animals spitting their eggs into our digestive tract tho #VERY FORTUNATELY #it’s mainly indirectly eating the eggs.#jellyfishes who come from the same polyps are all clones btw

This will also be the first time the new fans are introduced to the Hunters!

Haha. Suffer.

Also guys, just in case, keep the fire extinguisher. Don’t leave it. Keep it.

#im only talking about the people who only played the remakes #i have a hatred for the Hunters #at least those ones won’t be invisible…#resident evil #resident evil veronica #i didn’t get the magnum…#and i wasn’t about to go back to an earlier save after finally winning against the tyrant #code veronica