It’s total happenstance that the best stories told in those worlds have come from game developers. Making those stories interactive as well as cinematic is an entire extra layer of difficulty upon the creative process, and they cleared that hurdle too.

Jedi Survivor even made the struggle of staying human, confronting anger (and the dark side), and the fight for survival far more nuanced and well-written than the third trilogy did.

The last Star Wars movie I enjoyed was Jedi: Survivor.

Ironically, the last Indiana Jones movie I enjoyed was Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

I actually feel like Arc Raiders has helped with this a bit.

I’m very distrustful of anyone who signals peaceful intent with nothing but an emote line. If people use voice comms, it shows a modicum of social openness, and helps humanize them. More often than not, people end up chatting about threats they’ve seen or where there’s useful loot.

There’s even a famous clip of a guy breaking open a bot who gets shot at, and he defuses the situation by yelling at the shooter that he expects better of him, and that they’re all just trying to get by.

Dead by Daylight is funniest. It’s already a game about terrifying horror, but then for Halloween they add a lot of silly spooky pumpkin-related event deco and mechanics.

I want to suggest to YouTubers that on a Peertube, you can say fuck, you can claim fair use when it’s fair use, you can talk about Israel and Gaza with the full words, you can play video games that show adult concepts, etc.

I don’t think people realize by now how much pressure on their thinking has come from the idea they might get demonetized. And you’ll still have Patreon.