Annie D

You used to be able to stumble upon a mysterious mirror in your eccentric uncle's attic and we were all okay with it. No one's immersion was ruined because the protagonist got hit by a truck in chapter 1.

I keep bringing up the trend of isekai with the initiating event of 'one day, on the way to my normal school or work life, I fucking died, what a relief' and people keep telling me I'm overthinking things

How do I get in on that?

It has become rapidly relevant.

this thread about tasty-lookin' win2k/macOS9/beOS-era GUIs mentions that today's high DPI displays mean we can't simply return to that era, where every icon was a delicious little simcity building and every pixel was a big load-bearing statement. it reminded me how much the current feeling of being "stuck" in the current bland iOS-google-electron is due to, well, capitalist realism but also the ineffectiveness of computing's corporate masters at driving new visual and design languages. and folks, i think we're gonna have to figure it out on our own, by making a huge range of weird experimental probably-ugly stuff and seeing what shakes out.

Secret labs, cursed masks, and one gigantic mechanical octopus - welcome to Eldorado Gate's world!

You can also read individual articles on every entry in Capcom's seven-part Dreamcast exclusive RPG series over here: