Reviews for December 2023
And Jesus wept, for there were no more fics to review.
This was going to be a short month, with basically only VR game and movie reviews, and then a certain ratfic kicked my ass so badly that I needed some shitty fics to recover. As you’ll see in the review whenever I finish it, I don’t mean “kicked my ass” positively. I’m only halfway through, and I already want to die.
2024 update: I’m retroactively adding the modern ★/* highlight system to the top of each old monthly review post, as it was a well received feature.
★: Half-Life Alyx, Smiser
*: Walkabout Mini-Golf VR, Wonka, Medium Meld (Revised Edition), Ross’s Game Dungeon
If you’ve missed last month’s reviews, here they are:
Something Ancient
A self-insert into the world of Harry Potter, with a couple twists. For one, it’s in the Marauders era, so we’re meeting everyone’s parents with an original character, and for other, it uses the concepts from Hogwarts Legacy—our guy is a fifth year who presumably gets access to the Gary Stu ancient magic garbage from the game (eventually, it’s not that far in).
It’s pretty trashy and power-fantasyish, but not to an offensive level. I just wanted something that demanded nothing from me, and I got that. I don’t recommend it to other people, especially considering its length.1
Meta Quest 2 + Virtual Reality Games
VR is finally at an accessible impulse purchase range. It was well worth it, surprisingly. The Meta Quest 2 is the PS4 to the Quest 3’s PS5, but it’s good enough, at least for now, it’s not lacking any major exclusives when you combine it with a streaming PC. I recommend it wholeheartedly, with the asterisk that I had tried VR before and knew it wouldn’t give me heavy motion sickness.2 You might want to try it if you can before buying.
I’m going to put a few reviews for games here, both Quest (standalone) games and PCVR (straight from Steam and the like, streamed with Virtual Desktop3 to the helmet). Let’s get a paragraph in for the big ones, then a list for the rest.
Half-Life Alyx was as good as everyone said. I have yet to play a better virtual game of its kind. The critiques that it’d be a terrible Half-Life game if ported to PC stand, but I think that the critique falls apart because it IS VR, and it has some good puzzles and satisfying virtual gunplay that add a lot to whatever base game would be ported.
The story was pretty well paced, and I particularly enjoyed the Jeff chapter. I get the feeling it was meant to be scary, but it was just really, really funny to me. To put you in context, and this IS spoilers, you’re put in a bunch of confined spaces with a giant, blind zombie with good hearing. The issue is that the place you’re in used to be a Vodka distillery, and there are glass bottles lying around everywhere. You can use them to your advantage, but other monsters, and your own fuckups will throw those bottles all around you, alerting the monster. Just some great fun that leads to funny/scary situations. The end was great, I’ve never felt the desire for a sequel more than after grabbing the crowbar. I might actually replay this again in a couple months, even.
Walkabout Mini Golf is maybe not the kind of game you’d put as #2 in any other environment,4 but somehow mini golf pairs really well with VR. I’ve never played any type of golf in my life, but I played like 12 different courses here before I started getting a bit tired of the gameplay. I still plan on coming back to it regularly, there’s plenty of content and you can put in ten minutes and still come out happy and energized. Good simple graphics, excellent controls, and even some extras like “secret balls” hidden in every course (which can replace golfing skill when unlocking new levels).
Beat Saber is another “everyone says it’s good” game. Hmm. It is, don’t get me wrong (it’s fun, and really good cardio at a minimum), but I’m a bit disappointed with the song selection. Since it makes most of its money from expansions with great song DLCs (Rolling Stones and Queen, for example), I feel like they intentionally undercooked the free roster. It’s not even officially moddable, and the “unofficial” modding is a bit of a mess to set up, with a ton of good songs but a mild level of difficulty in getting them into the game. Not to mention that you’re stuck with an older version if you want to mod it. I do want to eventually bite the bullet and get it set up, I feel like it will be worth it for exercise if nothing else. Even John Carmack is playing it, and he’s 53.
Tetris Effect leaves me a bit ambivalent. The entire conceit is “flood your consciousness with audio and visuals that synergize with the game you’re playing”, which is just basic-ass Tetris, and yes, it does that. But I feel like one, no one was asking for it, and two, in the end the game is basic enough and you’ll get tired of it quickly. Like with Walkabout Mini Golf I plan on getting back to it regularly between games, but I struggle to justify putting on the helmet just to play some Tetris. I also have not figured out how to instantly drop pieces. Sometimes “zen experiences” omit a tutorial.
Rez Infinite is a musical rail shooter. There’s a big issue with this in that the game is way too easy, to the point the actual difficulty is my thumbs getting sore from pressing the A button too often. I understand this is because the original Rez was balanced for joystick aiming, so optimizing your targeting trajectory along enemy patterns was the entire point. Still looks and feels really cool, though. Reminded me a lot of Tetris Effect in that aspect. I feel like I’m done with the game after playing a couple levels, but it was a worthwhile experience nonetheless.
Blade and Sorcery…’s tutorial… was really, really bad. Why must climbing be so finicky and excruciating? I like the concept of finding natural handholds, but I think it’s just not that fun in practice. Then I played the actual “game”, which is just a sandbox where enemies (poorly) attack you forever. I can respect the combat/physics focus, but I’d like an actual campaign, please. I do hear that this is one of those Early Access hell games and we might never get it, though...
I Expect You to Die is just excellent. I was skeptical that VR would be more than a gimmick, but the puzzles are entirely built towards sitting down and having to use both your hands to do simultaneous actions, so that’s something I couldn’t get elsewhere. I have only finished one level so far, but I will probably 100% the entire thing and the sequels. I particularly like the achievements you get for fucking around with interactive items, as should become a VR staple.
COMPOUND is a pretty good roguelite shooter. Though I can already tell the depth of content is pretty bad after a few sessions, it’s point and shoot fun that loads fast, has zero performance issues, and simple graphics, perfect for jumping in and jumping out as I wish. I think I read the dev abandoned this game, which is a shame, because a Binding of Isaac style treatment could keep this one alive for years to come.
Vader Immortal has a pretty Job Simulator-style ugly start where it seems to assume this is your first VR game ever and you’ll be wowed by pressing a button and pulling levers, but quickly gets better once you get your hands on a lightsaber. Lightsaber fighting is really, really fun and has a good synergy with VR in a way normal swords don’t seem to (probably due to the lack of weight). There’s an annoying Marvel-quippy companion that won’t shut up, and the game won’t let you fail, but it’s overall a nice short theme park experience. That said, I thought I’d be playing Vader in this one, not some rando smuggler. Sad!
Green Hell is a The Forest style survival game, but in VR. I don’t actually have much to say about it, it’s competent and exactly what you expect. I thought its control system was original and good until I played The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners and realized it’s just some standard I wasn’t aware for (essentially both games are melee survival games but TWD lets you shoot guns more often).
I downloaded Magitek just because the name sounded interesting. Despite the number of games I’ve played, I hadn’t seen one with good gesture-based spells. When I opened the game I found it’s “just” Avatar: The Last Airbender bending though. I believe there’s a popular earthbending-only game on Steam right now called RUMBLE. Both of them are still in a sandbox-with-some-minor-campaigns stage. I used all the “spells” in Magitek and then got bored. Still a good core for a game, I think. The playerbase is so low that this promotional video is all I can find to show you how it works.
And here are a few others where my gameplay was under half an hour, so take them with a grain of salt:
VTOL VR: A flight simulator with the gimmick that it’s designed to use hand/VR controls instead of a $500 joystick and pedals. I enjoyed what little I played, which included taking off, completing a minor tutorial, then failing to land,5 ejecting, dying to G-forces and hearing “congrats on finishing the tutorial :)” coming from the wreckage as MISSION FAILED showed up simultaneously.
Job Simulator: A perfectly fine and kinda funny tech demo, but I can tell you “that one episode in Futurama where they go to a museum about the 20th century is the basis for the humor” and you can instantly play the game in your head. I think I’d recommend this as a first game to get used to the technology, if the First Steps demo for the Quest isn’t enough. But I found nothing that great in it otherwise.
Robo Recall: A perfectly nice rail-ish shooter, but the movement really kills this one. Feels like execs forced a really annoying and non-intuitive form of teleport6 to avoid motion sickness, and it just makes moving a pain in the ass. If this gets updated with stick movement or even just teleport-and-tilt-the-camera I might pick it up again, as it is now I’d rather play other shooters.
Outer Wilds VR: Unfortunately, you can’t really play this game twice, the mystery is gone. I had some fun driving the spaceship for a few minutes and landing on a planet, but heavy performance issues even with a 3070 made me realize it wasn’t very viable for that aspect either. A shame, but I envy people with a better system who haven’t played the game before, they’ll have a lot of fun.
Contractors: I immediately discovered that I don’t enjoy realistic gunplay all that much and likely never will. Thank you Contractors for letting me know.
Vox Machinae: See the above, but for realistic mech cockpits. Adding to this, the game is designed for multiplayer, and when I tried it there were 3 active players worldwide, which isn’t enough to start a match. Pretty common story for online VR games, I’m afraid.
Superhot VR: This never clicked. As mentioned in the image, I ended up punching shit around me, and winning felt kind of random. I might give it a second chance if I get a bigger playing space, but I can’t imagine it being that fun even without the issues.
Racket NX: Single-player Windjammers in 3D, is how I’d put it. Some arcade stuff going on, throwing bouncy discs at the walls. It never really clicked for me, though, I felt like the number of “actions per second” was way, way too low. Most of the time you’ll be waiting for the “puck” to return to you so you can throw it again.
Half-Life 1 VR (LambdaVR): Incredibly buggy experience. No matter what I did, I was never able to see my weapons. It was still a bit entertaining to go through the environments of the pre-combat sections, but I was already playing this too soon after Alyx in the first place.
Gorilla Tag: Jesus Christ, this game killed me. I have really good movement detection in other games, but I could barely even get to move in this one. Apparently it’s fun with friends, let’s hope VR gets popular enough that that is eventually viable here.
Eleven Table Tennis (now Eleven VR) is another essentially multiplayer-only game that requires more floor space than I have, something that I luckily realized before crashing into a wall. It’s also realistic to a fault, it took me like ten minutes to properly serve a ball in a legal fashion, and I wasn’t able to do it consistently either.
The Light Brigade: Looks like a dungeon delving roguelite with some pretentious lore… and guns. Unfortunately uses that annoying “realistic gun handling” I have already whined about enough. Might try it again later, but it wasn’t initially appealing.
Into the Radius: Crashed for me instantly. Hopefully I’ll get it working someday, but this is literally the only game that crashed for me since I bought the headset.
Unless VR is a meme, I’ll have some more reviews for you next month, including A Fisherman's Tale, Asgard’s Wrath 2 and Vertigo 2, which I’ve heard some good things about.
Aftermath
Content warning: everything.
I saw Aftermath recommended on /r/rational7 for its portrayal of “small groups of people trying to survive (and maybe rebuild civilization) after a major disaster destroyed most of the earth”.
Yes, it does technically provide that. Let me focus on the good first, for the sake of our sanity. An ice meteor hits the Pacific Ocean, sinking deep into the mantle and releasing a lot of energy. So much energy in fact, that yes, the tsunamis fuck up every coastal city in the planet, but worse, enough water vapour is released that the world is covered in endless rain, which screws up the rest.8
The story begins with our Gary Stuish protagonist Brett, a veteran slash hospital helicopter pilot, a few days after the apocalypse and about to kill himself. The rain has caused mudslides and floods pretty much everywhere but the highest areas of California, where he was out hunting with a (now dead) friend as a yearly tradition. His wife is dead too, he got to see the entire town flood from his vantage point.
Before he fires the rifle, he hears gunshots. Going to investigate, he finds a group of looters and rapists about to attack a mother and her two children (ages 14 and 16, this will be important later, I’m sorry). He decides that since he was about to die anyway, might as well go out trying to be a hero. He manages to save them, but the mother is shot. With her dying breath she asks our main character to take care of his kids.
“Oh, this is going to be one of those Lone Wolf and Cub pastiches like Sekiro, but set in post apocalyptic California” was my reaction. Alright, that sounded good enough to me. A few scenes of good apocalypse thrills ensue, with some shooting, training, some very good and detailed survival scenes, and so on.
But then the big, big issues begin.
You see, I didn’t read the entire recommendation, I just clicked the link and eventually got around to it a month later. I do that a lot, and it sometimes bites me in the ass. I skipped a particular line, “The story is very pornographic, and deals quite a lot in sexism”. Okay, that’s not so bad… but wait, why is the 16 year old girl flirting with our 33 year old vet… oh no…
It was a good law, designed to protect young girls from people like... well people like himself. And now what had he done? He had slept with Chrissie. Just because the threat that the law represented had been removed he had done something that he believed, that he knew was wrong. What kind of man did that make him? Was he any better than the bikers he had shot?
I was pissed off, because the survival aspects were good. Not angry enough to quit the story, though. I actually read the whole thing (well, not counting the awful porn I skipped), and while the age gap9 problem (justified as “well society is over and we need to repopulate for when the rain stops, there’s an skewed gender ratio and we can’t keep our old moral standards”) is by far the worst part of it, there’s some additional blatant sexism all over.
The story was written in 1999, so some of it is understandable, if we decide to be charitable for some reason. It definitely has early internet nerd energy,10 but even accounting for the year, the story goes out of its way to claim things like “we all know a man cannot be sexually assaulted, it’s physically impossible” or forgiving incredibly immoral acts because of “oh well, they’re women, women gonna women”-style reasoning. It doesn’t get to the point of girls not being allowed to use guns or anything—that’s what most of the story is about, setting up a small town militia to defend themselves from groups of bad people out to get them, with equal rights—but it’s bizarre.
The guy is actually a good character writer too, it’s painful. I just wish he had used that skill to rewrite himself into a respectable human being.
Ted Lasso
A TV show about an american-football coach who gets hired by a rich woman to run her ex-husband’s real-football team, now hers post-divorce. Hilarity ensues as this wholesome folksy type man tries to mesh with UK sports culture, alongside sports character archetypes. The ex-superstar trying to deal with his older age and sinking performance, the young hotshot that refuses teamwork, that kind of thing.
This show stole like 10 Emmy awards from Better Call Saul so I thought it’d be really good. It’s alright, throughout the first season: exactly what you expect from the premise but just the slightest bit better written.
Alas, this show suffers from the only case of early-onset season 11 syndrome11 I’ve ever seen. The very moment the second season starts, every character turns into a flanderized version of themselves or a completely different character with brand new issues.
You see, the first season had characters with obvious personal baggage that needed fixing, and the titular Ted Lasso was a nice man that helped them do just that. He cared more about the players than the game. The first season ends with a massive loss, in fact, but that’s just the bitter part of a bittersweet ending, because the main cast we learned to like is also finally happy.
You might have realized the issue already: if the main cast is fixed, and the show is about fixing people, why continue the show? MONEY. I guess this show was doing great on Apple TV and they wanted to keep it going.12 This ruined it, to the point that yeah, I’m going there: if you MUST watch it, only watch the first season, and if that’s not happy enough for you, you can also watch the last episode of season 3. But even that’s a bit too much.
It’s a shame, because I want more shows with original premises like these. I just don’t want them to become bad soap operas.
Wonka*
This is a prequel to Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,13 the really good 1971 children’s film. It’s about Wonka having to defeat the chocolate cartel and open a shop while getting himself and his friends out of a draconian contract. I don’t really have any wild opinions about it, I agree with the mainstream: pretty good film, some issues with pacing in the third act, but otherwise nothing glaringly bad, which is rare in presequel garbage. Good song when he opens the store, that one was a high point.
I did get a constant Cruella vibe14 from how it handled the prequel aspect, though. You never really believe that one film leads into the other. Still, overall worth watching, especially if you liked the original.
Legends Never Die
This is yet another fic by Ideas-Guy, which at this point I’d have to call one of my favorite writers, at least on a quantity-of-quality basis. You might know him from fics such as Gacha God and The Good Life, both of which I reviewed before.15 He’s known by his irreverent shithead protagonists, excellent action and weird mixes of settings.
This is one such weird mix, merging The Gamer powers with… real life vikings. Yeah, this one kid in the 8th century gets messages from The Gods about having raised his strength attribute when he wrestles with his six brothers, played straight and down-to-earth, at least initially.
Eventually he’s acting as the centerpiece in plans against Charlemagne’s armies, which leads to some alt-history twists I’m sure better learned people would appreciate even more. Some truly deranged shit, but very well written. I wouldn’t say I liked it as much as his other fics, but mostly because the subject matter is just not that interesting to me.
Jam Cloud 95
This single-person browser MMORPG I’ve seen around a couple times. I played it a while, hated every second of it. As you can see in the screenshot, it’s aping Game Boy era games and keeping the worst parts of them, which were originally caused by poor tech. Unlike many indie games, it doesn’t only keep the ones that evoke nostalgia or were actually good ideas.
Some may call it a labor of love project, but I’m a more cynical person and suspect it’s created entirely so the developer can put “runs MMORPG” on their resume.
If I had to be isekaid to a JRPG with harem, can't I be the harem protag instead of a harem member?
This is not a porn story, it’s right there on page 1 of SpaceBattles every time I check the forum, with 9999 replies. I finally gave in out of curiosity, and:
Sometimes popular stories are bad even if they’re popular. This one is based on Legend of Heroes/Trails in the Sky, in particular the sequel series Trails of Cold Steel. I played half of the first game and didn’t like it too much, with its extremely generic Fire Emblem-like storyline and grindy, lazily designed tactics gameplay.
The fic is equally lazy, directly transcribing as much source material as the writer can get away with, as far as I can tell, while every SI-related aspect is poorly written and unengaging. Just bad. So bad.
A Few Steps Left of Center
This is one of those projects where a writer is just showing off. In this instance, he’s trying to write a sequel to a terrible power fantasy Marvel Cinematic Universe fic in full-on J.R.R. Tolkien style, throwing the protagonist into The Hobbit and treating it as his vacation,16 as he Tom Bombadils the shit out of the plot.
I’d put this pretty solidly in the “slice of life”/”don’t think too hard” story camp. There aren’t really strong stakes, it’s as much of a vacation for the protagonist as it is for the writer, but I enjoyed what’s there. It’s like reading The Hobbit again, but with some dumb shit thrown in.
Business Ethics
I can appreciate self-inserts as much as the next guy, but literally sending the Jedi Council the Star Wars prequels is too stupid even for me. It’s not even a crack fic!
The Weakest Champion
A Pokemon fic. The protagonist initially wants to munchkin the shit out of his team. After meeting some bullies with the same philosophy, he switches tracks, takes a random Sunkern as his starter, and vows to prove that you can beat everyone even with a seemingly weak team.17
His philosophy falters a bit when it’s revealed his Sunkern has perfect stats and three egg moves. I just don’t understand why the writer can’t stick to the premise, it’s like those young adult books where the message is “anyone can save the kingdom as long as they’re secretly born to the king of England”.
The writing is a hair above tolerable. To spice up exposition (and there’s a lot of it, with an obvious focus on original worldbuilding), every chapter has an epistolary/diary segment at the top that sets up the topics for the main body. The writer can use them for time skips too, which is good for the pacing, to a degree. Honestly, “a hair above tolerable” is how I’d define the fic as a whole, and it’s not alive or long enough to justify a recommendation.
The Fire Princess
An alternate universe fic of Avatar: The Last Airbender, wherein Azula and Zuko get an older sister that isn’t insane or stupid. Focuses on politics instead of combat, and fleshes out some aspects of the original cartoon that didn’t make much sense or were ignored due to being a cartoon.
It seems dead, unfortunately. The grammar is also a notably weak aspect, like the writer has never heard of editing as an abstract concept, though their average talent seems to carry it anyway.
Medium Meld (Revised Edition)*
Oh boy, I actually liked this one. It’s written by the author of Reroll, an incredibly, incredibly popular Royal Road serial, now unreadable because the author is greedy and Amazon forces them to remove online copies if they want to properly publish it.
It focuses on the anime filler arcs, which virtually every other Naruto fic ignores. This creates an incredibly fresh experience for insane people who’ve read virtually every other Naruto fic, i.e. me.
The tone is comedic, with a relatively underpowered but specialized main character that leverages that specialization to make fun of people around him. This can probably annoy readers, so if that’s bothering you a few chapters in, let me tell you it’s not going to get better.
Overall though, it’s original, fast paced, funny (to me) and long, with a fully finished self-contained book. Very much recommended.
A Normal Journey
A bizarre Pokemon self-insert fic, in every way.
The story kicks off with a poorly written conversation between two real-life Pokemon fans, as they discuss one of those dumb Game Theories. One of the fans has been coding a Pokemon battle simulator, and when he’s isekaid18 into the setting, that simulator turns into a Porygon within his laptop. That sets up the core of the Normal-type team the protagonist will want to build.
Okay, that’s not that bizarre. Then, in the following chapters, we get more flashbacks of the protagonist and his friend discussing increasingly stupid and specific Game Theories, like Mr. Pokemon being at the head of some kind of Ho-Oh cult. Those theories continue to become reality in the version of the world our MC is in.
As this happens, the worldbuilding gets weirder and weirder, to the point you’re just left scratching your head. I guess with good execution it would have made this fic an unforgettable experience, but the writer is aiming far beyond his skill level, and it just gets borderline unreadable, with random sections of too-slow and too-fast pacing and nonsensical characterization. Just an avoidable mess.
Princess
Am I really going to review The Fire Princess and Princess in the same article? I guess so.
This is a RWBY/Worm crossover fic, with the Worm part having a big asterisk on it, since Taylor is missing her memories. Taylor falls into the Grimmlands and is adopted by Salem as her daughter. Hilarity ensues when she makes it to the Humanlands and is still as bad at telling that normal people are afraid of her and her bugs as she was in the original story.
It’s slice-of-life, with little real plot to speak of, shortish, and finished. The author only wrote a few extra chapters after the premise became tired, instead of 90% of the story as is usually the case in these crack fics.
While I think the fic succeeds at what it was trying to do, I think it was a pretty unambitious and sorta boring objective, so I’m still going to judge it “meh”.
Smiser★
It’s probably impossible to explain why this series of Youtube videos (based on a single song of an old Rankin/Bass movie19, religiously updated every Christmas) is so funny, but I’ll try: while the individual edits are already good as they are, the obsessive callbacks and unnecessary continuity exponentially build up the experience until you’re already laughing when you hear the phrase “the big ham”. If I sound insane, just wait and see how you sound after you watch it.
Ross’s Game Dungeon*
Ross Scott is a man you might know from his old Youtube series Freeman’s Mind. Over the last year or so I watched the entirety of his Game Dungeon playlist, which consists of Let’s Plays of incredibly obscure games, from Commodore 64 games to now dead online-only singleplayer MMO garbage.
Why do I care about fucking Let’s Plays? The thing about Ross is that he’s kind of weird, clearly an extroverted and well spoken dude, but he focuses on the weirdest areas, topics and genres of video games that everyone else ignores.20 He always keeps his videos comedic, but not in the puerile, clickbait fashion of other Let’s Players, and he’s clearly played the entire game and analyzed it from top to bottom before presenting it to the viewer, including coding his own fixes for old game bugs.
I recommend it to everyone who likes video games. Very entertaining and with a level of craft and care that you don’t usually see in this area.
Mass Effect: Jenkins Edition
This is written by the same guy who wrote The Weakest Champion above, though I’m only learning this as I write this review—the Royal Road recommendation algorithm must be lazier than I realized.
Much like Champion, this fic is just okay. It’s a self-insert into the body of the redshirt soldier that dies at the beginning of Mass Effect 1. He got some time for planning and training, which he puts into becoming a good enough engineer that he’s indispensable to Shepard’s crew.
However, he’s still kind of a weirdo who can’t hide his fanboyism around Shepard, so that causes some problems for him. Most of this story is about that type of drama, with the usual Mary Sue combat being almost completely absent.
The stations of canon are inevitable, especially because our SI is an unambitious coward, so yeah, only read this if you love Mass Effect, and even then, eh.
2023 was a disappointing year on the media front, but don’t worry, by the end of 2024 this will fully become an AI-based blog. Even the reviewed fics will be AI-generated, and their reviews too, obviously. Finally, we’ll escape the yoke of content creators…
Also I just checked and it hasn’t updated in a month. Seriously, don’t bother.
A recent study says that VR motion sickness is curable by just throwing yourself at VR over and over until it goes away. I saw a post on 4chan that claimed it worked for them, but it took months. Personally, I was perfectly fine after a couple days of Alyx.
The world of PCVR is fairly complicated, when you’re streaming stuff to a non-native helmet.
You have the newly minted Steam Link (not to be confused with Steam Link), which often crashes between Alyx levels but otherwise works the best for me; Meta’s Air Link, which people say sucks, but it's the only way to do wired VR for VTOL and similar, and is the native and free solution; and Virtual Desktop, which costs 20 dollars, but it just werks.
I hope Valve fixes the bugs with the first, but until then you’re probably stuck with the last (I just got an update a couple days ago, will let you know if it works if I try a PCVR game before pushing out this article).
Note: the list of games is otherwise unordered.
This is basically every single experience I’ve had with a flight simulator.
A movement type I still haven’t seen in any other game. I checked the laughably barren settings menu for help, and nothing. Seems there’s a mod, but according to Reddit:
The game really wasn't made for locomotion. It basically breaks the ai.. makes the game super easy.. and is difficult to use.
A community that isn’t remotely as pretentious as it sounds by the name. Many people’s reaction to the definition on the wiki is “wait, these are just traits of a good story, with maybe more focus on the main character’s thoughts and problem solving” and yep, that’s pretty much the point.
Writer claims he did his research and says it holds up, but I’ve never heard of this apocalypse scenario before. Interestingly, some details match the story of the Apophis meteorite that was discovered five years later: scientists initially said it’s going to collide, then “discovered” it’s just going to come close to Earth. The final part, whose accuracy we’ll find out in 2029, is the ice evaporating due to closeness to the sun and pushing the meteor into a surprise collision course, catching everyone off guard.
There’s a better word for what that is, but I don’t want to get flagged by TikTok algorithms.
Though I believe the writer is actually a helicopter pilot in real life, somehow.
The Walking Dead is the quintessential example for this pathology.
Sometimes, shows have to deal with episode counts being altered mid-production, having to cram an entire season’s worth of events in 80% of runtime, that kind of thing. With Ted Lasso, they actually got two more episodes added to their second season by executive mandate, and spent them in slightly experimental side-character focused plots. They sucked. That’s the level of special privileges Ted Lasso was worth in Apple’s eyes.
I get the feeling the Netflix Roald Dahl consortium really wants people to forget about the Johnny Depp remake.
But Wonka’s mother never gets murdered by dalmatians, triggering his lifelong anti-dog grudge, no.
Apparently this is a blatant lie, I never reviewed The Good Life. See comments.
As this stretch of terrible self-insert fics is for me. Watch out, there’s more.
The mathematically false philosophy of Pokemon Gold. "Strong Pokémon. Weak Pokémon. That is only the selfish perception of people. Truly skilled trainers should try to win with their favorites.”
Drop the apostrophe, it’s cleaner.
Okay, I guess that’s something I should review too: The Year Without Santa Claus is a Christmas movie for children. Whew, nailed it.
This is a guy whose biggest dream is automatic VR mods to explore all the 3D worlds of games he’s played. Gameplay isn’t a factor, he just wants to walk around and see the sights. When playing shitty racing games, he can often be seen complaining about the atmospheric lighting becoming slightly off between versions, and that being a deal breaker for him.
You didn’t actually review The good life on here though, how was it ?
Read the Naruto story you recommended, it definitely was one of the best I've read recently (and a breath of fresh air tbh), my favourite part was the comedy, and the MC being a cheeky ass was very fun.