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@mischievoustomato just realize you don't actually have a porn addiction

@Goalkeeper @ChristiJunior I have been playing SH2 Remake recently. Huge fan of the original, in my top 10, possibly top 5. The remake a completely different game. It is worse, but it's so different that I actually struggle to compare the two. So much stuff is moved around, added, etc.

The vibes are completely different too. I don't hate it, but I prefer the original so much more. The remake feels a lot more sanitized, and not from a culture standpoint or anything like that but just overall. It's kind of a clinical approach to survival horror whereas the original feels more emotional.

Silent Hill 2 carries with it a kind of "sad horror" that is extremely rare for the genre. It's not usually outright scary, but it strikes a chord somewhere deeper. The remake's horror gets your heart rate up and makes you feel tense, like a typical horror experience would. It's not necessarily a bad thing, although the design can be a little rough around the edges, but it pales in comparison to the original's atmosphere.

I'm only 5 hours in and just reached the Otherworld in the apartments, but other than the characters looking more ugly across the board (even Eddie doesn't look quite right), it doesn't seem like there is any DEI influence so far. The main things that are changed usually leave me thinking that they are changed just for the sake of being different and trying to set itself apart from the original. I think that, even if you had never played the original, you would notice the difference in quality between things that were and weren't changed because of their pacing and writing style.

If I had to boil it down to scores, I'd personally rate SH2 as either a 9.5 or 10, and though I haven't finished the remake, right now I'd put it somewhere around a 7.5 or 8. We'll see if that changes. But yeah, it makes sense for a curator specifically against any sort of DEI/woke consultants working with developers to not recommend a game they are involved with, regardless of the actual quality of the game or the impact the consultants had.

@nimrod

@LudditeMan @BrazilianContrarian @TrevorGoodchild maybe he was just trying to be like one of those monk dudes who drill into their head and nothing happens

@publiclewdness I don't think anybody who didn't like them anyway is going to have their mind changed lol. It's only the sympathizers from the beginning who, well, sympathize.

@snugglepuff28 very cute and funny

@SockPuppet @lain I don't know nearly as much about anime or manga as I do video games, so that's pretty interesting to hear about!

@lain also not exactly Christianity, more like abrahamic religion in general. Most of the stuff they use is old testament which is more or less the same across the big 3 just called different stuff. Anything extra they use is usually apocrypha, but sometimes it'll go even deeper into what one could consider Jewish/Christian "mythology." Haven't really seen the same thing for Islam but I can only assume it is because that's deemed to be much more offensive.

I'd like to see more games that have themes of alchemy too. Not just like crafting game mechanics but the whole belief and its practitioners secrets.

@lain plenty of shinto symbolism to go around too. Wish there were more games that utilized eastern religion and mythology instead of western ones tbh. But western is probably more interesting to them because it's different, same reason why eastern is interesting to me.

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@Seth_Wachhaltamittel would

Going to watch hockey tonight. Been a while!

Now, I don't think this is alien related, because there are some crazy things on this planet that we still have yet to discover I'm sure. It's still super intriguing though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxZ-6TINC48