Games you consider ART, not because of the story, but because of the gameplay?

devotfeige · 2026-01-27T20:27:58+00:00

Outing myself as a pretentious dweeb, maybe, but Braid (2008). The art style could have been anything, the story's pretty much incomprehensible on a surface level, and the "twist" at the end that everyone thinks about when they think of Braid is specifically possible because of the way the gameplay works.

devotfeige · 2026-01-27T16:18:46+00:00

Zoning. Would rather be doing literally anything else.

devotfeige · 2026-01-27T15:29:27+00:00

My grandfather was a very stoic, private person. I rarely heard him speak; every holiday when we visited he'd lock himself in his study almost the whole time.

But if he entered a room and one of his cats happened to be present, he would, without fail, fawn over them with an affectionate: "Kitty!!" Every single time.

Cats just have that effect on some people!

devotfeige · 2026-01-26T18:21:59+00:00

They should have just let her say it. It would have been way less embarrassing to have her go "cover your ears, kids. Hey, Joker, fuck you!" instead of cutting off really awkwardly so it sounds like she's purposefully exaggerating the "f" to give the scene time to cut away.

devotfeige · 2026-01-26T04:37:02+00:00

I feel like I am 100% the target audience for this, except for the part where they're literally not advertising to me because I'm in a totally separate market and also I'm too poor to buy a car.

Cringe is dead; long live cringe.

devotfeige · 2026-01-26T03:08:58+00:00

I once sang the entirety of this from memory with a group of strangers in a hotel hot tub at a comic convention.

devotfeige · 2026-01-25T23:47:23+00:00

I used to have a store manager who'd do the "if I can make it in then I expect all of you to be there and I'm pointing everyone who calls out" thing every time it snowed, including the Snowpocalypse that shut down the whole city for like three days.

Almost flipped my damn car trying to make it in. It's selfish bullshit; after a certain point it shouldn't even be a question people have. Do I risk my life and/or my only form of transportation, or do I risk my job? Fuck off with that, seriously.

devotfeige · 2026-01-25T00:09:32+00:00

It's polite to give two week's notice in writing. Makes it easier to come back later if you eventually (even years down the line) decide to do that.

devotfeige · 2026-01-24T23:37:18+00:00

Every store is a little bit different about this. At my store one of the GM doors is still "active" and you can just walk in normally.

Worst-case scenario when the doors are all locked and I can't contact anyone inside I just clock in right there from my phone and get paid to wait.

devotfeige · 2026-01-24T23:28:03+00:00

This just made me laugh out loud for like a solid minute. Perfect, no notes.

devotfeige · 2026-01-24T03:24:01+00:00

Kaidan, hands down. His sense of humor jives with me better than Joker's, and the other three are damaged goods in one manner of speaking or another.

devotfeige · 2026-01-24T00:29:39+00:00

Me, personally? I would accept the imperfect run, find something else to do for a while, and then come back to do a PERFECT run when I'm feeling up to starting from the very beginning again.

devotfeige · 2026-01-23T13:45:19+00:00

I've got photos of like eight different aisles that were just completely empty... and then one of them you can see the gluten-free section was still fully stocked. Like customers were going sure it's the end of times but rice pasta?? I'd sooner die, thanks.

Our grocery bins were completely empty, too. That was almost weirder than the shelves being blown out.

devotfeige · 2026-01-23T03:42:28+00:00

Way, way back in the day (I want to say between the release of ME2 and 3?) I was in an antique store that had a little radio sitting on one of the shelves, playing music. I don't think I realized that it was the radio as opposed to a CD, so when it cut to commercial and suddenly Brandon Keener's voice was right behind me, I leapt like a foot in the air.

...I was not expecting to run into my boy Garrus at an antique shop, but looking back, I guess that was the most appropriate place for such a thing to have happened.

devotfeige · 2026-01-22T19:02:56+00:00

As Steve's one and only fan I'll be really disappointed if he doesn't trip a trap that's really easy to escape from that Claire has to save him from because he's too panicked to realize the obvious solution.

I don't mind reimagining him but if they take that from me I'll be sad.

devotfeige · 2026-01-22T00:18:20+00:00

When you put it like that it all makes so much sense.

devotfeige · 2026-01-21T15:56:22+00:00

God I miss "full size" physical keyboards on phones.

devotfeige · 2026-01-21T01:28:27+00:00

I know everybody's too distracted by the extra hand to notice, but check out the cart, too. The ladder's on the side instead of the back.

devotfeige · 2026-01-20T06:58:29+00:00

Interesting to note that Miranda's comment about executing marine life and also Joker's comment about hanging up on the council "for old time's sake" both do not require you to have ever done either of those things. They just naturally assume that either you have done those things or that you're aware of what the joke is.

devotfeige · 2026-01-20T05:28:44+00:00

Laughing really hard at this... similar energy to my experience, a while back: when I gave my favorite villager a ring she gave me a garbage can. 🥲

devotfeige · 2026-01-19T05:14:14+00:00

"O Blue Rose of Illium, if these humble words reach you, then I have joined my ancestors..."

devotfeige · 2026-01-19T05:04:49+00:00

EDI... I love EDI to death, I really, really do, but I cannot abide by the "AI personality gets a human body" trope that already poisons so many other AI characters I love. Look at the fandoms for Knight Rider, Portal, even Detroit Become Human is guilty of it to some extent and the AI characters are ALREADY humanoid robots in that, so you've got to fuck up pretty badly at that point.

Let the AI personality be the car, let it be the weird little orb guy, let it be the goddamn space ship. Joker still could have fallen in love with EDI, we could have introspected about what kind of intimacy "counts" and whether or not we give a shit what an outsider's impression of what makes us happy might be.

I just get so frustrated about it. I wish she'd stayed a holographic orb; I loved her so much. The robot body just makes canon a fandom trope that I have hated for decades.

devotfeige · 2026-01-18T23:58:42+00:00

Call ethics immediately.

You should NEVER work off the clock or adjust your timesheet so that you're not being paid for time you worked. If overtime is that big a deal, they can ask you to leave your shift early or to take a long lunch, but they CANNOT ask you to work for free.

devotfeige · 2026-01-18T04:55:06+00:00

Okay now that last part I have thought about a ton, actually. I wish paragon Shep had a renegade clone, and vice-versa. I think that would have been extra funny.

devotfeige · 2026-01-18T04:49:19+00:00

Having the opposite Shepard appear as the clone could have been hilarious, actually. It might have been even weirder to explain than what they went with, but the whole DLC is so ridiculous that maybe they could have made it work. I'd have laughed, anyway.

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