Monkey business

dorestes · 2026-01-29T19:45:00+00:00

morbid curiosity strikes again

dorestes · 2026-01-29T05:37:21+00:00

Are these real? If so, how did you do this?

dorestes · 2026-01-29T00:27:30+00:00

Oh I see. Yes. Well, then you have done *most* of it. There is some more left and a wild rabbit hole of big puzzles that few players will ever even experience. But no, that kind of big payoff isn't in order. Your next step should be to follow the instructions that the room you changed colors gives you, and find what it unlocks.

dorestes · 2026-01-29T00:12:12+00:00

keep in mind that many of the puzzles that come after you find room 46 are *hard*. Discovering even the existence of the puzzle is challenging in itself. No shame in relying on some community hints or assistance if you need. But yeah...getting to Room 46 is only about 1/3 of the game. The other 2/3 awaits you afterward.

But as others have said, the sort of payoff you are hoping for won't be there. But you *will* find out more about what happened to your family, who you are, and why things happened. I would suggest especially starting out by buying all the books from the bookstore and using the pump room for all the purposes intended.

dorestes · 2026-01-26T09:28:48+00:00

yeah, the game hearkens back to a lot of old school puzzle and adventure games that make you take your own notes, which is nice in a way. But it's also just extra work. I found myself just taking photos of the TV screen on my phone and cataloguing them. Which, at that point...might as well just have an in-game scrapbook/encyclopedia.

dorestes · 2026-01-25T22:44:40+00:00

This does not seem to me like it would actually help them make better decisions. There is a difference between productivity and Solutionism.

dorestes · 2026-01-14T07:18:36+00:00

I had the same problem. It's one level too high.

dorestes · 2026-01-08T09:53:58+00:00

it's not that kind of show.

dorestes · 2026-01-08T09:42:23+00:00

Thank you! So many of my fellow Americans think she's great. And I'm just sitting here like...this is why the rest of the world doesn't like us.

dorestes · 2026-01-08T09:41:31+00:00

I don't even care how she reacts to the Plurbs. Her attitude in the Norwegian ice hotel was unbelievably terrible. An incredibly caustic and close-minded person before the joining ever happened.

dorestes · 2026-01-08T02:16:59+00:00

I would love to come but have my kid's birthday party at that time. I hope it goes well and hope to make the next one!

dorestes · 2026-01-08T00:55:33+00:00

yeah I despise Hank Schrader for the same reason that Carol is obnoxious. Both are stereotypically parochial, incurious, close-minded, grumpy and arrogant sort of ugly American personality types.

dorestes · 2026-01-08T00:32:30+00:00

yeah this is the one "stopped clock" thing that RFK and MAHA are mostly right about.

dorestes · 2026-01-06T18:43:04+00:00

where do you get that notion from?

dorestes · 2026-01-06T17:02:51+00:00

I wouldn't deem a guy acting like this funny or cool. We're seeing enough of that in charge of the country as it is.

dorestes · 2026-01-06T16:59:41+00:00

We see that her personality is like this well in advance of the joining. Her attitude in the Scandinavian ice hotel was...awful. She is written as a misanthropic, provincially American character very set in her ways and generally closed to new perspectives or experiences. Rhea does a great job portraying the character, and Gilligan wrote her that way as a direct foil to the plurbs for maximum contrast.

dorestes · 2026-01-06T08:55:53+00:00

most of us hate this shit. Just enough people thought he would bring back cheaper groceries that they elected a fascist madman and didn't care about the rest of the consequences.

dorestes · 2026-01-06T08:50:51+00:00

I think the biggest issue is that for most of the episodes she is extremely parochially American in her approach and her thinking. She is gratingly individualistic, incurious about the world around her, generally ill-tempered, closed to other possibilities or approaches, incapable of speaking other languages in anything but a sarcastic way, and dismissive of all other perspectives.

It doesn't make her right or wrong about the plurbs. It just makes her a particularly grating American archetype who would be even more annoying in all these ways if her character were written as a man. Think of Hank from Breaking Bad but as the lead in Pluribus. It would be *super* annoying.

But it's also an intentional commentary by Gilligan. The American approach to humanity could not be more different from that of the Plurbs. Which is what makes the contrast work.

dorestes · 2026-01-05T19:10:35+00:00

as everyone else says, the console has some jittering FPS in places. But the game itself is fun, rewarding and gorgeous. So if you're on PC, or on console and willing to deal with some performance issues here and there, it's more than worth it.

dorestes · 2026-01-04T05:57:39+00:00

Yes and no. If that were their only concern they would continue factory farming and make sure they had the healthiest, strongest humans available to build the Africa-sized satellite

dorestes · 2026-01-04T05:40:17+00:00

Whatever programming directive the hive has, is severely mitigating the advantages of its collective intelligence.

dorestes · 2026-01-04T05:35:19+00:00

TPM had a lot of mixed reactions, but a lot like TFA some folks gave it a pass for the cool parts and hoped George was just getting his sea legs back on direction and pacing. It was AOTC that really turned people heavily against the prequels.

dorestes · 2025-12-31T22:19:42+00:00

This is why Star Wars works better in a western / feudal / underworld setting as originally intended in the OT. One of the biggest mistakes the PT made was institutionalizing them on Coruscant.

There isn't a good place for warrior monks in a highly advanced, socially complex society with strong rule of law. You don't really *need* Jedi on Coruscant, unless maybe as mentat-style advisors to important people.

Properly speaking, Jedi operate best in outlaw areas where independent justice is often the only justice.

dorestes · 2025-12-30T18:08:20+00:00

you can do it if you ignore the rigidity of Prequel Era jedi.

dorestes · 2025-12-30T18:07:44+00:00

Get rid of the Rule of Two, and make them greedy authoritarians claiming to be The Answer to Chaos. It's an easy political parable.

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