I hated Diablo 4’s story so much. If that game did anything positive for me, it was that it drove me to seek out good palate cleanser games.

So I ended up learning about Salva way after seeing the film. That was a weird sour punch in the gut. Feeling like I’d been supporting such a terrible person. I try to separate the art and the outcome from the originator. Because 🤮

I’ve always liked how generally simple it was. Not a massive amount of set or scenery changes; fairly straightforward plot; not too much given away too early about the creature. Plus Justin Long is fun.

I’ve actually driven down the road where most of the driving scenes were filmed, and have driven by the church. It’s a weird back road in Central Florida that is surprisingly hilly. The hills are cool because they obscure the fact that everything around that area is otherwise flat and very Florida lol. It’s just subtle and creepily obscure enough that it works really well.

The creature in the film is vaguely human? But I think it actually just imitates a human to blend in, so maybe it doesn’t work. Now I’m thinking through films that might fit the bill 🤔

Does the first Jeepers Creepers count? I love that movie.

I can hold a shield up while still complaining about someone shooting arrows at me. The complaints aren’t suddenly negated simply because I got my hands on a shield.

Also, companies are actively and constantly finding ways around those blockers, and there are psychological and UX reasons as to why companies use tiny X buttons, or X buttons that are often very hard to see. Take a look at dark patterns.

I have a copy of The End, the high-budget Birdhouse skate video from 1998. It’s all white and still in the original sleeve. Just can’t part with it at all because of how cool it is.

I was a beta tester for AOL, so they’d send me all of those dumb discs. None of the actual software ever changed or improved. All they did was change the graphics around the guts of it. Their whole strategy was essentially fooling people via appearances. I liked collecting the discs though.

My first internet before AOL was Prodigy. I was in a DOS terminal when I was a kid.