Th Esteemed Deed Commemorator

virtual pinball tables should incorporate things like No-clip Multiball, really embrace the digital fakeness, where certain obstacles just pass through differently tinted balls; or certain balls are tied to bigger bonuses (this red ball gets 3x action on bumpers; this green ball makes spinners count in 4x time); or this black ball can't go on ramps and just phases through them.

Like I know half the challenge is verisimilitude on these sims, you want it feeling "real" but why not make the Hearthstone of pinball if you're gonna make pinball, lean in to the things you couldn't do on a real table?

thinking about riven / the myst series more broadly as an exploration of the violence pursued in the maintenance of borders

a crab ran and did what?

i think the big thing that turned me off from The Witness was, in the Witness, the puzzles never felt like they were part of the world - they were all very contrived - so when you beat one you didn't get some anthropological insight, and instead were treated to the video form of a linkedin post.

also apparently you can make the submarine glitch/do extra loops, which suggests that they maybe made the original version of the sub puzzle in here but then made it do pathfinding, which, wow what a choice