Grace is a bad name for me but it's my name anyway @grace_in_name_only@computerfairi.es

There are bad levels (MARRAKECH NEEDS BETTER VOICE PROGRAMMING AND I WILL NOT CEDE THAT POINT, hearing Ohioan accents asking in broken English about whether you will buy their bananas is basically steamrolling your fourth wall) but there are magnificent levels too. And just so, so, SO many deliciously lethal tools at your disposal.

It's what the fifth (or seventh?) game in the original series aspired to, I suppose. And it's smooth as hell. Mechanics are damn good.

The Hitman franchise has a sort of resemblance to that of Max Payne if you put it on silly putty and then stretched out a lot. Yet, 'arrange self, objects, and other people to kill target and walk away like a badass' is still a workable concept to the point that this game has caused a mild IP kerfuffle, and the end result was rebirthing the original studio into existence again, sorta.

Not even kidding.

But this is a magnificent flawed gem, and the beauty was not lost on me.

My wife said I should review games. Guess I will.

Hopefully nothing bad comes of that! 🤣

WARNING: if you get dew in your armpit, it will still dry and get sticky. at least if you're me

just call it the 2077th entry in the cyberpunk series

(also m'apologies for not using m'apologies)

(my apologies for a child's punning, m'audience)

Irish businesses should always do well, since...

😎

THEIR CAPITAL IS ALWAYS DUBLIN

Left ¹/³rd Dead

(this idea brought to you by the also horrifying thought that parasites in general but tapeworms particularly might be slowly adapting to eventually replicate sections of our gastrointestinal systems)

the notion of human sentience being the result of a partially distributed intelligence resulting from tight biointegration (think fishes with worms for tongues, kids, there's never one real example of anything ever) with a arthropod parasite co-ancestor that eventually also integrated into our reproduction, and so tentacle stomachs from hell start tearing out of people suddenly a la alien when they're of certain ages

bad news: my December just got so much worse

good news: the worseness is non physically injurious and will replace a far less unpleasant memory of a literal car crash in my general thoughtsing of December

-_-

relief is lovely 😊

me: why do I have to look up words, I --

also me: it's for your Japanese study! about five years of it now! you understand some! and you get (GREASY BURGER PLACE) treats after

me: TO THE DICTIONARY! WHERE I SHALL LOOK UP NOT ONLY THE LONE WORD I REQUIRE BUT ALSO THE JAPANESE WORD FOR 'DICTIONARY' FIRST SO I CAN WRITE ABOUT DOING THIS LATERRRRRR, AND I'M GONNA LEARN EVERY WORD I SEE --

also me: *sighing* christ I'm such a nerd

cloaca? more like CLOSEDACA amirite

"clout mining"

so do we get to literally call this a war of AIs yet or

fingers crossed
fingers crossed
fingers crossed

pave the universe