Recent content by PsychedelicDiamond

The UK had a weird moral panic about ninjas in the 80's and 90's (I'm pretty sure it was a racist dog whistle) and the current government seems to think it's wortwhile appealing to people's nostalgia for it.

I gotta be the contrarian here, of Lynch's three movies set in Los Angeles, Mulholland Drive is actually my least favourite. Still a great movie, though.

Quite so. It's a show about people making very poor decisions. Considering its autobiographical you gotta hand it to Richard Gadd that he managed to write and play himself at his most pathetic. I often had trouble relating to the way the people in that series acted but there was always a part...

Longlegs (2024) The Satanic Panic, as a historical phenomenon, has always fascinated me. For one because it's rather shocking to think that a developed nation well into the latter half of the 20th century could be tricked into buying into a modernized variant on the blood libel myth on a mass...

Arcane (Season 2) Second season of the French animated series Arcane, loosely based on the MOBA League of Legends. I didn't love the first season of the series the way some people did but I begrudgingly respected it as something that was, if nothing else, extremely well executed. It was...

I'll take it. Although, honestly, the original release is still playable just fine on PC.

It's funny that a game that started off as a fan project of Final Fantasy XV/Versus XIII has had almost as long of a development.

It sounds like your average AC game. You know what to expect and you know whether it's something you're into. I know if I downloaded it I'd start, play it for about 15 hours and then get bored of it. Which is what happened with Origins, Odyssey and Valhalla

True, I do like the floral motive SH f has going for it a lot. Guess more people have played Fatal Frame than Siren. Probably for a reason, I could never get into the series myself, I've watched the SGF LP of the first game.

When you're making a Silent Hill game set in a small Japanese town, aren't you more or less just making Siren?

Peripeteia, a game I've had on my Steam Wishlist for the better part of three years, has finally released in Early Access. Peripeteia belongs to the genre of Deus Ex style open ended stealth action game, colloquially known as Immersive Sims. It's set in a dystopian alternate universe Eastern...

"A tad" doesn't really do it justice. Merz is a rightist nut who'd fit right in with the AfD.

Ne Zha (2019) Chinese animated children's movie. The sequel recently made headlines for being the highest grossing animated movie in history... which by itself isn't saying very much, China has a lot of people, a lot of which, in this day and age, can afford to regularly see movies...

Oh, true, that is well past medieval.

And the other one shares a name with a famous medieval british alchemist.