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C'est qu'ils savent où ils vont, ceux qui partent d'Omelas.
As a Kara, I approve of your chosen name 😊
December 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
C'est méchant pour les liches, j'ai de bons souvenirs de Kangaxx. Je pourrais pas en dire autant de lui.
December 18, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Oh c'est mignon et coloré la peinture derrière ils font ça dans une école prim... wait... oh... oh 💀
December 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Because you don't become an international celebrity by being a nice person. Moreso in the entertainment industry.
December 17, 2025 at 5:07 AM
I mean, AI is almost consensually despised everywhere, and now you have a beloved (fuck parasocials) public figure endorsing it with wide-eyed naiveté.

I get where you're coming from, but if Mandela mentioned kicking puppies in an interview, it would be the sole subject on everyone's mind as well.
December 17, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Je me souviens plus, mais le bail c'est pas justement que Tara n'a PAS de démon et que c'est un mythe entretenu par les hommes de la famille pour contrôler les femmes ?
December 15, 2025 at 11:31 PM
C'est à peu de choses près la définition de Macron, il a été élu deux fois.
December 15, 2025 at 2:26 AM
All I wanted from the TGA was news from the game 😭
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Le froid de la chaise qui transperce sa chemise, j'arrive pas à savoir si c'est une étourderie ou une vanne très subtile sur son incapacité à enfiler des vêtements correctement sans serviteurs.
December 14, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Le pire c'est que de mémoire, le "bon" Xander était pas spécialement moins détestable, ils ont juste séparé le techbro du rat d'égout.
December 14, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Un peu de maquillage autour des yeux me choque pas, parce que ça reste un truc vieux comme le charadesign pour accentuer les traits, indépendamment du réalisme.

Mais le reste oui, c'est un design assez rétrograde et malheureusement dans l'ère du temps.
December 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Adding to that, I find it hypocritical for a videogame, and a fairly long one at that, to harp on the reactionary idea that escapism = bad.

It's especially distasteful in context to imply that Maelle, a crippled young girl in 19th century France, would be happier in a toxic family that hates her.
December 12, 2025 at 10:55 AM
There are two different discussions imho, and the two getting tangled results in a lot of misunderstandings (what the writers intended vs after-the-fact rationalisation).

I don't think anyone can say in good faith that the M ending is deliberately intended by the writers to be the good ending.
December 12, 2025 at 8:16 AM
What? No they're not, are you mixing up Outer Wilds and The Outer Worlds?

This is the running gag that keeps on giving.
December 12, 2025 at 7:32 AM
For games that came out this year: Blue Prince is something else and a dizzying descent down the rabbit hole.

If you're into some reading, Citizen Sleeper 1 and 2 are absolutely lovely. They are about community and human connection under capitalism, with a distinct queer slant.
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
And then there are two building-sized cans of worms. The vile ableist undertones of the final dialogues, and the depiction of otherness as ethereal, distant and ultimately not worth bothering about.

I find the "It's okay because they're not real" arguments really fucking creepy in 2025.
December 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Except the game very clearly tells you which choice is right and which one is wrong, by trying to hammer its point on grief very bluntly.

There is no profound meta-commentary to the endings, they're just poorly written because the writers had to circle back to the moral of the story somehow.
December 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
And neither addresses the elephant in the room: those people are utterly despicable demiurges with no regard for sentient life.

And as evidenced by a specific line, they have absolutely no intention of learning from their mistakes and plan to do it all over again.

Am I supposed to care for them?
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Exactly my feelings. The V ending sweeps some truly awful things under the rug, while the M ending tries very hard to paint things in a bleaker light than it is.

Both endings could have been bittersweet, but instead they're clearly forced to fit into "good" and "bad".
December 12, 2025 at 7:08 AM
As a French, I feel personally targeted given what's just happened.
December 11, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Tous les films de Nolan après Interstellar.

Eh gros sayer je me suis farcie Memento, la trilogie Batman, , Le Prestige, Interstellar, Inception, que des pitchs incroyables mais gâchés, surtout les deux derniers que je déteste viscéralement.

A un moment donné j'en ai marre de me forcer.
December 11, 2025 at 6:34 AM