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did you know you can buy a frozen bag of 40 chicken from saizeriya
completely without remembering the analogy I made about shadow the hedgehog earlier, I went to a saizeriya yesterday and got like four dishes worth of inexpensive carbohydrates. there's a saying, iirc, about how taco bell's menu is basically the same few ingredients combined in different forms, and I can definitely feel that with saizeriya as well
anyway it tasted like playing shadow the hedgehog so I'm glad to be completely right and also I will probably not be playing shadow the hedgehog again for a while
wettest game of the year award
realized space warlord organ trading simulator is directed by xalavier nelson jr, who I both respect for his writing on hypnospace outlaw and his tiktoks crossposted to twitter about indie game design and dev, so I installed it from game pass and gave it a go for an hour, until I reached an ending.
full review post coming immediately after this; it was a pleasant hour, but I fell into a shallow gameplay rut that felt like I was ignoring a lot of the game's mechanics, but not in a fun broken way. I think that's my fault more than the game's though.
degen sis is what they called every anime from the early 2010s
anyway I have one minute left so on that note I'm going to talk a little about d-genesis, a light novel I've been reading the first volume of.
I really appreciate the main protagonists in this one, as upon being dragged into a fantasy experience in real life, they immediately go full data scientist on it, calculating not only the diminishing returns for beating up slimes, but how to reset those diminishing turns by walking outside the dungeon boundary. real "always exploit the RPG" hours.
also so far there's a nice, almost magical-girl-like (edit: say superhero, canon) sense of "trying to keep your superpower secret from prying eyes who want to know what's going on here"