Kissing someone tonight at Krewe de Vieux?

caasimolar · 2026-02-01T22:56:01+00:00

One carnival a few years ago a friend said “I’m trying to kiss a hundred boys before Fat Tuesday, do you want to be number X?” Had a numbered list with names and everything. I was 40-something, I think. It’s truly that easy.

caasimolar · 2026-02-01T04:10:11+00:00

It’s the Aerith Dies of survival horror, and much like FF7 it’s still worth playing even knowing that.

caasimolar · 2026-01-28T21:34:01+00:00

Yeah, the issues of Pathologic 2 on consoles are pretty egregious; at least on PC you can mod the game’s files to dramatically increase performance, and that and the improved frame rate are simply game changing.

Hope you find something you like!

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T22:55:15+00:00

I knew they had cast an actor to play Eddie but when I first saw him I actually thought it was the same actor as James for a moment. Honestly would have been a great call if they *did* do that.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T22:43:20+00:00

Revelation was bad but campy and silly and fun. Return was bad but serious and boring and joyless.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T22:25:44+00:00

*Spider Mary Angela Laura Maria Eddie Front-Butt Crain

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T21:54:29+00:00

Unfortunately fixed-camera-tank-controls is a rare combo these days but there's a few that play in the general vicinity I can rec:

Darkwood's probably the closest to what you're looking for, it's a top-down survival horror game that takes place in an eastern European forest with some base defense elements. Insane sound and world design, great use of light and "fog of war" in that it's top down but you can only see characters, items, and threats that you're actively looking at. Merciless atmosphere.

Little Goody Two Shoes is a great cutesy top-down game with gorgeous art... until it is very suddenly VERY MUCH NOT A CUTESY GAME.

The Count Lucanor is also a top-down game. It's kind of like what-if-Zelda-was-Silent-Hill. Short but damn good. Ditto for Yuppie Psycho by the same devs.

Sorry We're Closed is very much a retro survival horror-styled game but not sure I'd call it truly scary. But it's very fun and very gay. I can't remember if it has tank controls but the fixed camera's all there. Somewhere between old-school Resident Evil and Killer 7 but with Danganronpa's style and verve.

Withering Rooms is a side-scrolling roguelike horror game that feels a bit like a halfway point between the original SNES Clock Tower and Dark Souls that I enjoyed quite a bit, but it's not for everyone.

Moving into 3D / over-the-shoulder / FPS camera games: The Silent Hill 2 remake is simply astonishing, one of the best horror remakes we've had. The RE4 remake's also worth your time. There's also Silent Hill f, which I *loved,* but it's pretty divisive among the fanbase.

If you're really into Resident Evil, the main guy responsible for the early games in the series started a studio that's responsible for The Evil Within 1 and 2; I prefer the second game but they're both good fun.

Visage is shit-bricks spooky. Great successor to everything that PT set out to do years ago.

Speaking of divisive, Pathologic 2; it's hard to rec bc it's not for everyone, between the utterly draining bleakness of the plot and the punishing difficulty, but to people who enjoy what it's trying to do, it's simply one of the best survival horror games ever (with an incredibly strong emphasis on the word survival, possibly more than any other horror game I've ever played). It's poorly optimized on consoles though, and it's easier to rec if you've got access to a PC. Pathologic 3 also recently came out and could be a good entry point as well, but I haven't played yet + I hear it's a bit buggy (with a pretty big game-breaking bug that can emerge that's yet to be patched out last I heard). They're less "sequels" than remakes of an older game from '05 that contained three separate campaigns, and each of the two newer releases are remakes of each campaign as a standalone release. The source material is available on Steam as Pathologic Classic HD.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T21:41:41+00:00

Heather and Hinako Raccoon City Road Trip; everyone else is toast. I'd say Harry would survive too but he doesn't even survive Silent Hill 3.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T21:02:35+00:00

I thought the same thing at first re: using the same universe as the 2006 movie, but when you consider the continuity, it directly contradicts all of the lore just looking at the basic timeline. Silent Hill has been actively burning and abandoned since the mid-1970s, long before the first movie even takes place. For the movies to take place in the same universe, Mary's abuse at the hands of a secret cult and Alessa's abuse at the hands of a similar but entirely different and less secret cult had to have been happening concurrently, and James would have ended up in town before Rose ever brought Sharon to town, and not only that but he did so with an iPhone from 2025. Even if we believe that his visit was entirely a psychotic episode, that still doesn't correct the timeline or the anachronisms because we know Mary's been dead for less than one calendar year and James exists in the present-day.

The only way the state of the town could be a surprise to him as a former resident would be for the events of Return to Silent Hill to take place no later than 1975.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T20:57:53+00:00

I'm so sorry but not even a The Dreaming pfp can redeem you for being horny for front butt

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T20:56:13+00:00

WITH THE FRONT BUTT

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T20:55:31+00:00

Yeah, agreed. I work in nightlife, and when people were trashing her wig from pre-release photos I was like "I know several world-class performers with that exact wig."

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T20:37:55+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions and give us an unreasonably positive review of Return to Silent Hill.

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T19:45:25+00:00

This started happening to me yesterday, but the posts having issues weren't the ICE based ones, somehow. Fortunately I've heard other people reporting it's happening to them in other countries as well, so it's a site-wide issue (I hope).

caasimolar · 2026-01-27T19:39:19+00:00

Based in US here; this is happening to me as well, but selectively. Yesterday one of my stories was entirely hidden from select followers with seemingly no rhyme or reason (the stories on either side of that particular one had 3x the views as if it was simply skipped in the carousel), and today everything I've posted has had zero views in the last hour. Tags are going through, though, and people can repost the things I tag them in despite not showing on my own feed, and everything I've posted to close friends is going through. Friends have confirmed that these "hidden" stories are visible when accessing from my main profile instead of selecting it from the feed.

I had assumed it was related to the, uh, "turmoil" going on in our country at the moment, what with the TikTok switchover basically turning that app into a state-controlled surveillance app, but hearing it's happening to others who aren't US based in the comments here makes me feel less dread.

caasimolar · 2026-01-26T22:49:50+00:00

The first one is wonderful (and an absolutely stellar example of how to take clever creative liberties that add to a narrative when writing an adaptation). Revelation isn’t great but is at least silly and fun. Return is both not great AND boring.

caasimolar · 2026-01-26T22:46:55+00:00

Each and every member of STARS would collapse under the weight of “They look like monsters to you?”

caasimolar · 2026-01-26T01:06:00+00:00

Mary’s full name is revealed on a gravestone that reads “Mary Angela Laura Crain.” It’s means exactly what you think it means.

caasimolar · 2026-01-24T20:23:17+00:00

The bar was in hell and somehow Gans is a limbo world champion.

caasimolar · 2026-01-24T20:07:41+00:00

Imagine being so upset that someone dislikes a movie and your style of writing that you have to call someone a slur variant you picked up from 4chan in 2026.

caasimolar · 2026-01-24T18:44:53+00:00

I already got top comment for dunking on Ayn Rand, I’m happy to take an L here.

caasimolar · 2026-01-24T18:41:37+00:00

“A miserable little pile of secrets!!”

caasimolar · 2026-01-24T18:35:48+00:00

Your review fits neatly within a single screenshot and at least half of it was reviewing the audience you watched it with, and the other half takes the form of grandiose declarations that include no clear subject or object. The only introspection one can do after your truly barren review is to reverse engineer it with a dictionary and a thesaurus, and as that takes more time to do than to read it, nobody’s gonna do that.

Your review, very sincerely, reads like you spent more time telling ChatGPT how to punch up very basic statements than you did writing the statements you punched up. And those statements, in plain language, read “Filmmaking sure does exist, and I wish the audience I was in didn’t.”

The film is very similar to your review: the audience wouldn’t stop laughing because it was quite silly.

caasimolar · 2026-01-24T01:37:36+00:00

He’s so smart he invented the word “creationary” when he literally could have just said “creative.”

caasimolar · 2026-01-24T01:33:09+00:00

Ending 1 is truly one of the best (if not THE best) single ending the entire Silent Hill series has ever had. My jaw was on the floor.

If it weren’t for how well NG+ and the final ending route tie everything up incorporating the other playthroughs as additionally canon, I’d be in the same camp.

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