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Happy Holidays !

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It feels so fucking weird that Rockstar of all studios somehow created one of the most subversive and well written female supporting characters in gaming's recent years.

Sadie's introduced, shall we say, exactly as you'd expect a woman to in these kinds of stories. She's a damsel in distress, horrifically victimized by a gang of violent thugs who the "heroic" Dutch gang demonstrate they are better men than by rescuing and comforting her then being motivated by her suffering into taking action to kill the guys who did this to her. And if that had been the last we'd ever seen of Sadie she would fit right in with so many women in the background of so many westerns.

Instead though, she sticks around for the whole story, learns the gun, eventually becomes one of the most reliably skilled (and unhealthily enthusiastic) killers in the gang and wreaks her own bloody path of vengeance against what's left of the O'Driscolls, mercilessly hunting them to the last man in a fashion so violent even the hardened lifelong criminals are a little taken aback.

Now that's already doing a lot to be subversive but I think the thing that most got me about her story is it avoids becoming straightforwardly a "good person becomes corrupted into a monster by trauma and violence" story. Sadie goes very, VERY dark sure and she even gets the Unforgiven/Shane ending where there's no going back from the killing for her. John Marston gets to go live a mostly peaceful domestic life on a ranch with his family (at least until RDR1 happens) but Sadie decides this is all she has left and becomes a bounty hunter

Despite all that though, Sadie Adler never really stops being a good person. At least good relative to RDR2 where everybody's a criminal and a murderer. She takes charge, saves the whole gang and holds them all together when things are at their worst and even when the chips are down and the gang turns on itself and begins to drown in its own blood she remains one of the real ones. She comes to be one of the last people Arthur can rely on in the world. She consistently protects the others and puts them before herself. She always helps without ever needing to be asked. She never leaves anybody behind.

Something that stands out to me is there's multiple times where she assertively protects the male protagonists. She orders Arthur to stay well behind while she goes in to save Abigail by herself because he's sick and she keeps trying to talk John into going home to be with his family because unlike her he has something to lose.

Basically Sadie Adler is great and I love her. She's so much more textured, nuanced and just plain awesome than we normally get especially in stories of this kind and her story is handled with an honestly shocking amount of sympathy that I have come to really not expect from Rockstar.

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Macrodata Refinement in Season 1 of SEVERANCE

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oh come the fuck on.

Thank GOD one of the deaths finally took. Like I’m impressed at whatever rolls these guys must have been getting in the actual campaign (I’m just assuming broad strokes of the show match the campaign but maybe there have been material deviations for the sake of story). But eventually one of the character deaths had to actually stick — narrative tension was getting too slack from a pure spectator’s view.

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Superman nation, how we feeling?

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Thank GOD one of the deaths finally took. Like I’m impressed at whatever rolls these guys must have been getting in the actual campaign (I’m just assuming broad strokes of the show match the campaign but maybe there have been material deviations for the sake of story). But eventually one of the character deaths had to actually stick — narrative tension was getting too slack from a pure spectator’s view.

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Season 3 is wayyyyy too shippy.

I have never watched Critical Role, but giving TLOVM cartoon a try. And my opinion is that this would go from a 6/10 to a solid 8/10 if Scanlan was removed entirely.

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Season 2 has been less Scanlan (or at least in more balanced doses), and more of the twins and Keyleth, and I’m enjoying it immensely.

I have never watched Critical Role, but giving TLOVM cartoon a try. And my opinion is that this would go from a 6/10 to a solid 8/10 if Scanlan was removed entirely.

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I have never watched Critical Role, but giving TLOVM cartoon a try. And my opinion is that this would go from a 6/10 to a solid 8/10 if Scanlan was removed entirely.

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Look, I dont know what’s going to happen in White Lotus Season 3. But I do know that (1) whatever Parker Posey’s or Carrie Coon’s characters do or say, they are right and (2) if either of them die, it was unjustified.

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Baldur's Gate and Witcher are games in which you are constantly surrounded by insanely hot and very DTF women whom you can straight up have fully nude sex with. When the anti-woke chuds point to games like Stellar Blade and say "support games with sexy women in them like this and reject those woke western game devs" they're just giving away that they do not want sexy women, they want sex objects. The problem with the women of Baldur's Gate and the Witcher is that they talk and think and have agency over how they dress and who they fuck. The chuds don't want that, they want detached vacuous dead eyed sex dolls who exist to wear bikinis and be lusted at by men and nothing else. People like to play it off as just porn brained gooners but the reality is that it has nothing to do with them getting to stare at titties and everything to do with "putting women back in their place." Their sole motive is misogynist spite pure and simple.

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Me: The modern media era’s reliance on sequels and remakes is bleak and lifeless.

Also me: Ok but can they please do another Uncharted.

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Naughty Dog finally doing a new IP (sci fi!) but trailer is full of shameless product placement but Trent Reznor is doing the score but

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the great thing about only starting video games in 2018 is I have so many games to catch up on while the modern game industry circles the drain

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The amount of gatcha shit at the game awards is seriously depressing

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Welp, guess I need to finally play Witcher 3.