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You sound like enjoyable company.

This is either about authenticity or moving out to the middle of the woods after cutting all ties because "Paul doesn't get my edgy sense of humor."

Just apologize and do something nice for her in your dreams.

Right? Fern Gully (and thus environmentalism), Labyrinth (BDSM or puppets or both depending on ones mood), RHPS (elbow sex, what's for dinner), The Worst Witch (Halloween!), David Lynch (Lost Highway), Trent Reznor/NIN (I'm Afraid of Americans and so much more), Bing Crosby (Little Drummer Boy), and a bunch more tangents are all fair game and that's just Curry and Bowie.

Yep, it's on the CDC's top ten public health success list. I moved to a different town in my 20s that only started adding fluoride ten years prior. A dental hygienist recently told me she could tell I wasn't originally from the area because my teeth were too good for someone my age that grew up here.

Yep. https://www.pnj.com/story/news/nation/2025/05/06/florida-legislation-flushes-fluoride/83483829007/

Schism!

Gotta replace the fluoride with something.

Isn't it great that we don't have to be so efficient anymore?

Sotn and Super Metroid are definitely ones I have in mind when it comes to positive examples. Axiom Verge is pretty darn good, too.

Other decent ones include AM2R, Bladechimera, Guacamelee, the NES's Blaster Master, and most of the Castlevania/Bloodstained ones.

Negative examples below:

Metroid Dread - I hated the stealth and the qte

Ender Lilies - bosses are meant to happen at exactly one difficulty

Gestalt Steam and Cinder - puzzley enemies that grind movement to a halt, bosses with immunity phases, the stun mechanic for bosses that meant more cycles if you didn't gain enough meter or miss your shot, absolutely bonkers plot, artificial barriers to character power

Hollow Knight - this is a platformer first and a motroidvania second. No flow for me, thought I understand that so many people love it. Ori feels like this as well. An some point, both were just about not hitting spikes.

Wonder Labyrinth - the aiming

All the Shantae games. I really enjoy them except when there's bottomless pits. And there's always bottomless pits.

There were also a few that weren't bad, just didn't quite catch me: Vernal Edge, 9 Years of Shadows, Timespinner.

Flow. Don't interrupt me. The rest of this just is about it in various aspects.

Make it feel good to move from the get go. Don't make progression about getting rid of negative traits.

Combat as well. There's a trend of making the player halt their progress to handle an enemy in a certain way (e.g. gotta wait for the telegraphed shield drop) and that makes backtracking and exploration tedious. It can be challenging going through the first time, but don't interrupt me with the same thing over and over. Let me ignore the puzzle/timing element by being overpowered or at least let me bypass it with increased mobility.

I prefer bosses (and terrain) that can be overcome with skill or preparation. Like if you book it to them with minimal exploration they're hard but not impossible, but if you explore everywhere you can and find everything it should be easier. Don't artificially keep the player's abilities capped to make things more difficult. Also, no invincibility phases, please.

I dislike items that only provide access like key cards. Every item that opens up more map should be useful in some other way.

If there's a plot that is more complicated than can be explained in two sentences (Find the Metroid. Kill Dracula.), please make it good. Have non-cliche characters, plots that I can't immediately poke holes in, plot that isn't contained in logs that real people would never keep, and reasonable time frames for world changing events to occur. Those things all rip my suspension of disbelief to shreds. Don't make me sit through world building info dumps. Let me skip scenes and tutorials in case it's my second time through.

Turtrucken

overqualified

I love that the museum mistakenly wrote the author of one of the papers as O'Keeffe instead of just Keeffe.

Death Must Die. Just a few more runs, I swear.

It's not ripe yet. Sure, the green is gone, but the brown spots haven't started to show up yet.

You smell wonderful.

Giant sloth, we're in the pleistocene.

You smell wonderful in this pleistocene.

(Caption mentions Witcher et al and this is the best I can come up with.)

As an awkward fellow, having made hiring decisions twice in my life from a vast pool of three candidates each time, I hate sending rejection emails and it's legally dangerous to engage in any sort of explanation if they ask for one. Mostly I do it so they don't continue to follow up. At a larger company, I don't see a way to have the time to do it unless it's an automated system, in which case I'd advise not applying.

Many criteria are used to pick best in breed for the cyberdog category including traction, the total length of wiring, and quality of audio equipment (especially the subwoofers).

And Japan's love hotel industry.