Ragnarrox did two very interesting video analyzing the themes and topics for each game (1, 2) and McGee himself commented on them that he felt understood.

And I seriously think they did the first game dirty by porting it to consoles. It was designed and programmed with a certain input (keyboard+mouse) in mind, a controller will make the impression of the game much worse for the player.

See it more positive, don’t look at the amount of comments, but rather at the votes:

the 2 highest main comments and most of the high voted main comments are agreeing with the main gist of the post. That there are then people discussing that is a different thing, but a majority of the people watching this post agree that there is a problem and recognize it.

People who feel attacked by it are naturally more interested in answering and sending their own viewpoint out into the ether. But most votes are not agreeing with them. So majority of those here in this post are on the right trajectory, but of course still have to do the walking towards that direction.

That does not seem to be what research shows, but rather your personal experience:

For animated children movies, I found that 80 % male leads are reported for 1990-2020. Source

Couldn’t find data for children movies in general.

And I found for children books that there is still a slight male overrepresentation on average but in general it being around 50 %for the last few years. Source, search for “Fig. 2”

I feel like it’s awfully interesting though that we have ‘parallel discussions’ whenever someone says “hey this specific thing sucks for women.” […] The answer to that isn’t “we need better male role models in movies” (though it would obviously help as well) as it’s dodging the original question.

Yes, perfectly agree with you! I think both are important points and needed to tackle the issue of patriarchy, because if we don’t teach boys to be better, they never will be and grow up to ask “but what about me?” when they read about feministic topics.

And I fully agree, the way the op posted it with “counter point” already send the discussion in the wrong way.

Yes, it’s not a counter point but rather an also important parallel discussion. We need to have higher standards for male role models, or we will continue to have incels fill the space.

I mostly disregarded the gameplay (aka grading of pictures) and just considered it an exploration game: find the locations and also the environmental storytelling bits. And I highly enjoyed it for that.

I sadly was spoiled regarding the story, so I didn’t have that “wait, what exactly is happening here?” Moment. But nonetheless, the atmosphere really fits its name and considering how the real life is going, I sadly predict it’s going to be more and more relevant. But same as you, the last level hit me hard. I consider it good game design, that the game really trained you well, so I immediately understood what I needed to do to end the game. And it kinda felt natural, because it is the only thing left to do at that moment.

I highly recommend it, if you can overlook bad execution as a price for a great idea.

As said, the gameplay itself is not the best, but the environmental storytelling and atmosphere is great!

I would respect that as a kind of performance art.

Wait what? This news did not reach me till now. Why does everything connected to big companies have to be so shitty.

Keeping your “old parts” is one seriously under explored consequence of resurrections with regrowth.

And that is one nasty way of saying “don’t lie to your family” to your friends =D

I think it’s more meant in a push/pull way. So what did they do to incentive people to take an alternative to a car and how did they punish people who do take a car.

After reading it multiple times, I understand now what was meant, they just lacked proper punctuation.

The OP is surprised, that other people don’t find it normal that people go to prison.

So a difference in life experience, because I also don’t know anybody who went to prison.

You aren’t so far away from the truth!

To make a battery you need to have something that holds negative electrical charge and something with a positive electrical charge and both need to be able to change to a different state when you use it or reverse that change when you charge it.

Lithium is the lightest and smallest metal, meaning for the same size and electrical charge, your battery will weigh less.

Then you just need to find ways to make two kind of lithium compounds which have different electrical charge and can be changed between two states.

And if it doesn’t explode when a child throws their battery powered bear on the ground, that would also be a good characteristic.

Okay, for me the racist and general far right stuff is the bigger problem with Notch.

I love mine, especially that I could custom fit lenses, so I don’t need to wear glasses. Because that will damage the internal lenses over time.

Man fuck you, I was just reading the first sentence and immediately went “no way that can be true, I need to check that and confirm it.” Then I confirmed it’s not true and felt really down, came back and read the whole thing, ready to complain to you.

Yeah no, that one is fully on me. I need to read till the end next time. Good one, you got me.

Nice try bot.

Finally a fellow connoisseur of the true classics!

• the effort to provide historical accuracy, this is a time and area of Europe I only briefly learned about in middle school, so it felt nice having a glimpse of what life was like in 15th century Bavaria, are there games that try to portray life and folklore of people I may not know about? For context I am an average western European.

I know of Never Alone, which is about a traditional fairy tale from the Alaskan native Iñupiaq tribe.

It was a fun little game which introduced me to their folklore.

Regarding the mystery detective work, Lucifer within us is a name you didn’t mention yet. While it’s not as strong a detective game as those you mentioned, it might help scratch the itch for a bit.

Regarding the meta narrative, without too many spoilers I will just mention names: Undertale , Oneshot , Slay The Princess

Especially the last one could be up your alley, since you like games witha lot of text.

Interesting but not surprising that it differs. In my case it was mostly due to one seminar tutor, not a professor.