Apart from Studio Ghibli and a bunch of 'Fist of the North Star' UK Channel 4 shown around '97, I've always been put off of anime, and games with that style of acting/story with the exception of Disgaea and Persona.
I never want to disregard a whole medium or genre though, and have been wanting to follow up Castlevania with something more oldschool and am really glad you chose JoJo, the melodrama and fightsposition are the right kind of dumb and aside from Speedwagon going from someone you literally don't want to meet in a dark alley to a negging second rate Jimmy Hart (a fearleader?) I'm really liking this anime BS arsed anime.
I think the first SH was pretty obtuse compared to Resident Evil, I somehow missed Annie's Bar and the whole Kaufmann side quest thinking the Indian Runner must be a secret/NG+ thing.
I also remember being stuck on the light puzzle with the paintings, even messing with the TV colour and brightness trying to see a pattern on the buttons. Ever since, I realised the solution in any game is usually the last thing you picked up or read.
That room at 24:30 was one of my favourite parts of SH, that thrashing/banging was just so loud regardless of TV or headphones, but like the school ghosts it's harmless. I always thought it must have taken some work in the EQ/mixdown.
If there is an evolutionary reason for being freaked out by the uncanny valley, I think it's more to do with the dead and diseased rather than something not quite human which existed in the past, but Tamoor makes a good point that we are not equipped to handle modern life. Even putting aside the parasocial and insidious side of the internet, outside of migrations and stampedes most animal groups are quite small, and with humans once you go past the street/school/village level you can't possibly care about everyone on your contacts list let alone internet friends and followers.
BTW I appreciate the volume edit by Jess, I had to look up Windows 10 normalisation settings just to make Twitch watchable.
@bbalpert: I thought the 'Big Wheel' game was good except for the 'this or that' rapid fire questions being off screen in a streaming/audience based mode. I realise players will go through them at a different rate, but you could have multiple on screen, maybe scrolling as the periphery of the wheel like 'The Price is Right'.
That first game lost me the first couple of rounds, not least because when it was asking who has this weapon Rorie had the matching 'soccer cleats' but the actual answer was 'anvil' because Kam drew the 'spike/A' shape, I'm still not sure if that's intended or some kind of clash with the pool of suggestions.
@axl159: It shows that he did understand it, to think of one seed or 'run' in a procedurally generated game out of all the possible configurations,
Dan and Jeff were right that the odds of being born are astronomical, from which sperm and zygote on which night of conception (any factors such as difference in diet/drugs) to all the happenstance that lead to your ancestors surviving long enough to hook up multiplied by however many generations you want to count back (keeping to homo sapiens, with generations 20 years apart, I saw figures from 110, 000 to 350, 000 ancestral generations.)
@kopcik: I started playing for free about 18 months ago, and get enough gems doing drafts to buy the battlepass each time and now have a big collection and enough wildcards to make what I want and experiment.
Compared to Hearthstone where I was paying over £30 each season and only getting a few unusable rare/legendaries it's much better. I only play for fun and watch a few videos here and there like LegenVD and MBM. Give it a try.
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