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Dune's Fremen honor their failed challenger

(spoilers for Dune, but... it is Dune.) There's sequence in the middle of Dune where a Fremen named Jamis, their resident angry dude, challenges Paul to a duel to the death. Paul wins, of course, and kills Jamis. What happens next is interesting. I expected the Fremen to

How OMORI gives just enough info to fear

(Partial spoilers for the prologue of OMORI.) OMORI's prologue gives just enough information to fear. It starts with the intro sequence. "WHITESPACE" continues that. Then there's the bits you meet with in the magical world. All seems fine for a while, but then it

Drawing of the Three's minor characters

(Spoilers for Drawing of the Three.) I'm slowly reading through The Dark Tower following the Kingslingers podcast (which is, yes, now three years old). I just finished Drawing of the Three. This book had a lot of great minor characters. To name a few: 1. Jane the flight

Yuppie Psycho has ~good endings, but no Good Ending

(Major spoilers for Yuppie Psycho, of course.) Yuppie Psycho has five or six different endings. Some of them are good. None is A Good Ending. Yuppie Psycho's endings include: 1. Getting fired by the asshole Hugo and leaving the company and everyone in it to rot, including all

Ghost stories come with a paranoid aftertaste

I find ghost stories often come with a paranoid aftertaste. I just finished playing Yuppie Psycho, a ghost story type of game. It's not the most intense example, and yet it still had me feeling slightly on edge after playing it intensely for two days and after thinking

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