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This may be a weird take, but it almost made too much sense for me? Like as the plot slowly started to take shape in episode 2, I realized I would've been happiest with 18 hours of hallucinatory nightmare imagery with zero narrative throughlines. But it was great! The Lillard reveal was so great! I loved how Inland Empire it felt, especially how of the CG looked cheap in ways that felt very Lynchian and very "this is supposed to feel off-kilter and wrong."

I can't get the image of Call of Duty: Ghost Dogs: Way of the Samurai out of my head now. An all-ghost dog enemy Call of Duty game with Jim Jarmusch as the story lead. And Forrest Whitaker as the head of your ghost dog battalion.

*The Nintendo Direct opens on Satoru Iwata's face, which slowly morphs into that of a familiar bald visionary (Not J Allard)* "Hi, I'm Clint Hocking. Formerly of Ubisoft, more recently of Valve, and most recently of Amazon, and I'm here to announce my partnership with Nintendo to make Far Cry 2-2 exclusively for the Wii U."

Hi friends! I finally joined after being a reader for ages because I don't have any place to actually TALK about video games with any sort of decent discourse. I once had a dream about exploring a cabin where Steve and Chris used to live after they had gone missing and there was a ghost in the cabin so it was actually just Gone Home with Ghosts (aka Gone Home as the lord had intended).

In an interview or podcast of a more serious nature that I've heard with Justin, he talked really openly and frankly about his issues with anxiety growing up and how coping with them successfully is a sort of recent thing (I can't find the link right now which is frustrating), so I imagine that being the loudest crudest jokester in the room was an early way of dealing with that - yeah this is armchair psychology and probably not fair to Justin who is a true mensch, but I know that was my go-to mode when I was younger and figuring out how to be successful in social situations. I'm also reminded of something Zack from VGHD said a few episodes ago where he admitted he really didn't want to hear any podcasts of himself from five years ago because he's positive that he would've been saying things that made him sound like an enormous asshole. It's nuts how noticeable people changing and evolving can be when a couple hours of their lives each week are just out on the internet. You can do the same thing with Scoops (not Hot Scoops, who has always had perfect opinions I'm sure). Justin's so great and funny now and my first exposure to him was actually one of Giant Bomb's E3 or PAX clusterfucks just before Polygon launched for real and he kept shouting POLYGON DOT COM IT'S REAL and I couldn't stop laughing every time.