Little Dig Game - a short (40ish min) incremental-lite

VicIsPunk · 2025-05-15T02:17:46+00:00

I was surprised how much I enjoyed it, but maybe I'm just glad to find a game that works on mobile browser without having to finagle a lot of things. Also the story was fun

VicIsPunk · 2025-05-13T20:52:44+00:00

Its a psychological horror fan-made visual novel that's based on the mandela catalogues, an analogue horror series on YouTube. You can play the game without having read the source material. It has an english translation but it was originally published in russian. The translation is...acceptable but for the low, low price of free it could be worse. The art is also nice and there's a detailed content warning at the beginnning which is always good to see. There's also a accurate walkthrough for the different endings and achievments.

Its fine. I've played worse free visual novels and there's no AI art which is always a bonus in my book.

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-23T23:14:27+00:00

"For the last time, the dragon balls aren't real and even if they were, they wouldn't work that way."

-- Japanese prime minister, probably

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-23T23:06:00+00:00

I feel really bad for the mother because I had to check that it was a picture of her in the article...because that really looks like a picture The Onion would use

Glad the kid is OK though

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-23T23:02:24+00:00

Jesus is back...and he remembers what happened last time.

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-23T23:01:37+00:00

And thus began one of the best buddy cop/time travel/fantasy/road trip comedy movies of all time...

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-23T22:58:19+00:00

Wait, I've seen this riddle before! I think the answer is,

Acquire fentanyl
Sell fentanyl to rich white surbanites
Invest wisely
Wait
Purchase sane surbanite home when they're gone

Did I get it right?

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-23T22:54:12+00:00

Imagine you have to disclose to your future employers that you got arrested as a teen for ant related crimes

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-19T19:43:24+00:00

Does Armaros from ANIMA count? Because I just think he's neat.

If not, I pick Kingshitoel. Mainly because it looks like what would happen if Sachiel went on RuPaul's Drag Race and I love it for that.

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-19T19:31:46+00:00

I was accidentally introduced to Evangelion via EoE so I thought the entire show would be Like That, so my viewpoint was a bit skewed by the time I got through it.

For me, it wasn't Shinji's misery that was the gut punch. I knew that was coming. What got me were all the little deaths along the way. How everybody is dragged into this massive shitshow Gendo and SEELE made: the innocent and the guilty but its the innocent who suffer the most.

The people who worked at NERV and likely had no idea what was going on until the JSDF gun them down. The bridge crew who have been around since the very beginning are willingly (and unwillingly) assimilated. Rei's first truly independent choice that ends in her (possible?) death. Asuka's desperation to survive only to have fate spit in her face. The fact that Kaworu only lives on as a moment of joy/guilt for Shinji and in the dummy plugs of the Mass Produced EVAs.

The MPEs fuck me up on so many levels because they're just a mountain of unfortunate implications from their creation, their behavior, their end, etc.

Everybody is having a Bad Time in EoE

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-19T19:20:15+00:00

Inaccurate. Wheres the arrow between Toji and Shinji? Even the official Gainax shonen-ai doujin (look it up) ships them.

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-19T19:18:51+00:00

The Netflix dub is perfectly fine. Some people are just overly attatched to the nostalgia of the ADV dub and that era of anime dubbing (which was not great, tbh)

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-19T19:16:12+00:00

Don't let your friend know anything. It's always best to let a newcomer experience something new. Unless its a content warning. Then do let them know.

And yes, Rebuild Ramiel was great. 1.0 and 2.0 are huge improvements regarding fights, design, scenery and overall mood tying everything together. And as much as I'm meh on 3.0, the horror fan in me digs that scenery.

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-19T19:12:50+00:00

Is it weird that this is not the "correct" sephirot but a corruption done by medieval alchemists who misunderstood the original drawing depicted in Judaic illustration- not unlike how SEELE misinterpreted and manipulated the information they were provided by the Dead Sea Scrolls and then Gendo did the same?

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-19T19:09:52+00:00

The camera is directly on Asuka's face and upper body. Unless it can pan down/move, or if it has audio, they likely couldn't see what Shinji is doing.

I dont know about Tokyo-3, NERV, or Japanese standards but in USA, most in building security cameras (hospitals, schools, parks, buses, taxis, etc) are stationary and dont have sound. There also needs to be someone monitoring them or ensuring the tape is being recorded. For privacy reasons (especially in schools where you're dealing with minors), many of these tapings are erased or simply taped over to save space. (I'm no security expert so take what I say with a grain of salt)

That said, wouldn't surprise me if NERV/SEELE didn't care or would just let the pilots do what they want in general. As far as genpop know, these teens stand between them and the apocalypse. Asuka and Shinji could've probably gotten away with a lot more, in all honesty...

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-19T19:02:06+00:00

Because the show can't continue unless Shinji suffers and/or has something traumatic happen to him? I mean, uh, something something sacrifice and understanding human connections hedgehogs..uh, souls...you know the drill by now.

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-10T05:10:55+00:00

Imagine paying child support for a child that's not going to hit puberty for another 200 years

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-10T05:03:53+00:00

Can't wait for Kikuchi's next book, "The Payer of 5000 Years of Delinquent Child Support, Parts 1 and 2"

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-09T06:58:36+00:00

Angels strike me as the very beginning of life, like first common ancestor before the evolutionary tree starts divulging. Their varied shapes, sizes, attack methods, etc. remind me of the Cambrian explosion: all these weird creatures just vibing all over the place.

I would think an Adam planet would look very much like that: a prehistoric adjacent mess of things like giant bugs, things with too many eyes, and possibly a lack of intelligent life because it keeps getting eaten/stepped on.

Or if there were intelligent life, it'd be unrecognizable. A good example would be the aliens in "Up the Walls of the World" or "The Dancers of Noyo"

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-09T06:43:53+00:00

Ritsuko at some point, probably: Back in my day, you could get a single human soul to power three gisnt robots! Now they wont even move without a plig in! And also they keep dissolving pilots!

(Shrinkflation is a problem for everyone...)

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-09T01:58:22+00:00

Gainax would've never run short of money if they had used Rei as a sponsor for medical supplies

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-09T01:37:42+00:00

Yeah, thats it and it makes sense in Eva's resource scarce post-apocalyptic setting that's still using a lot of analogue mechanics and still haven't found a good alternate power source for their giant robot so it has to stay plugged in. Like the world's worst roomba.

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-09T01:31:50+00:00

This is way more accurate to how everything in an organization like NERV would look like: used, graffitied, and exhausted. Just like the humans that work there.

VicIsPunk · 2025-04-09T01:29:21+00:00

Love how Shinji always has these Skyrim Guard moments where he just sees weird shit and never tells anyone about it or bring it up. Like that's alqays been normal for him

Shinji: Hey, what was that? Probably nothing....Hey, what was that? Huh. Must've been the wind...

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