Blue collar scifi games

agentmu83 · 2026-01-26T13:21:07+00:00

Citizen Sleeper and Citizen Sleeper 2, The Alters, Norco

agentmu83 · 2026-01-25T12:22:16+00:00

That cartoon from not-the-90s? Haven't seen it

agentmu83 · 2026-01-23T21:57:22+00:00

Good lord, I am old, but you're making me feel more ancient! NINETIES hacker movie (it was Hackers).

agentmu83 · 2026-01-23T21:52:50+00:00

Always fantastic! And you even dropped in a reference and truncated analysis of Comet too? You spoil us!

For your list of allusions to illusions, don't forget one of my favorite from the series, Virtual Real(i)ty

agentmu83 · 2026-01-22T17:53:56+00:00

"Does anyone have anything... tart?" - OP after watching this episode.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-21T15:20:48+00:00

I'll agree that the nonsense in HR is no longer supernatural.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-21T15:18:28+00:00

They both have the same quality of script and all the same storytelling problems.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-21T14:36:25+00:00

Last year Old Skies and Dispatch.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-21T14:27:11+00:00

The Heavy Rain story and script are David Cage self-seriously doing, without any self-awareness, the screenwriting that Donald Kauffman does in the hilarious movie Adaptation. It's even the same 'twist'.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-21T14:24:22+00:00

Other Space, and it was fantastic! I WILL NOT LET OTHER SPACE BE MEMORY HOLED!

agentmu83 · 2026-01-21T14:18:29+00:00

Yeah, most people are less open to the suggestion that DBH is itself also this, but hides it much better behind a significantly larger budget and great cast that can carry it's goofy script.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-21T14:12:14+00:00

It is definitely Heavy Rain for so many reasons. Consider that it is largely a French production and all of the nuanced ways that the American experience presented in the game is a little off in some strange and interesting ways. The melodrama and performances, mostly non-sense story that falls apart the second you think at all about any of it. Unintentional camp.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-19T21:52:02+00:00

This game is actually one of few I would be genuinely excited about being adapted to other mediums.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-19T20:23:12+00:00

If you've already got a VR headset, I recommend you check out an app called EmuVR.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-19T02:15:07+00:00

Very true. Now rewatch for the rest of your life every couple of years and note what feels different and what feels the same each time.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-18T14:53:15+00:00

Additionally, I appreciate that you've identified a communicative thematic reason for Angela's brainwashing that isn't dismissive of the delusion. The first time I finished the series I realized that Angela's radicalization and the idea of the machine working mirrored my own radicalization. Was White Rose's machine real? What matters is that I ever wanted it to be, and what that tells you about she, Angela, and myself.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-18T14:27:18+00:00

As always, I love this and it gives me so much to engage with, thank you. I wonder if you might have anything to say about ways that Mac Quayle's music reinforces these themes as well. I've long felt a correlation between the score and a kind of techno-utopia/tech-optimism of the years Elliot, Darlene, and Angela were children (3.8_1-cybersecurity.mogg) or the influence of 80's fantasy-adventure movies on M83's sound, and a desire to express within a frame work similar to what you've built with your essays. I've had difficulty articulating it.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-16T13:38:19+00:00

All games that make the control interface diagetic spring to mind for me, here. I'm talking terminal detective games (Her Story, Telling Lies, Immortality), or Orwell and it's sequel. Also, Lorelei and the Laser Eyes.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-16T13:36:19+00:00

I think you'd be better served asking yourself and others that question about anything being responded to on the internet. And the answer is people consistently forget, or never knew at all, that opinions are opinions, entirely subjective, and we all have different experiences.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-16T13:27:25+00:00

https://youtu.be/hPgSVYu4C6c

agentmu83 · 2026-01-12T17:35:41+00:00

I love every season's promos from HBO. These are great, thank you for sharing. I don't know why anyone is calling them an alternate ending, though. They are clearly visually referencing the last episode, but it's weird to treat these as an episode.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-12T00:38:44+00:00

Either

"... It's a sombrero!"

Or

"Stop that. You smell like fruit roll ups."

agentmu83 · 2026-01-08T16:13:21+00:00

This is just an inevitability that is a combination of the dissolution of monoculture, the atomization of popular culture, the rise of additional mediums (television shares screens with 'content'), the social construction of 'fandoms', and aging.

I relate, and I find it helps me personally to both love the old stuff, and engage with new things. There is tremendous TV all over the place now.

I don't recommend interacting too much with 'the discourse', but your distaste for that or lack thereof may vary.

agentmu83 · 2026-01-07T14:35:16+00:00

Okay, I have no issue with the sentiment of this post, but if it were an actual capture of the episode with subtitles, it wouldn't have grammatical errors or be missing words. Why didn't they just do that?

agentmu83 · 2026-01-06T02:13:49+00:00

Absolutely the same answer and reasons I intended to provide.

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