21:46:36MithentIt's a good question about what that represents... you'd think the white lodge was trying to act against the evil, but it doesn't really feel that way
21:47:32PincerAttackWasn't it in one of the eggs the entity sent out
21:48:48gingeraleOh yeah, I checked afterwards about the name who they bought the Palmer house from and apparently it's the old lady from Fire Walk? Unless that was just fantheorising.
21:49:48MithentYeah, I believe it is the same name
21:51:38gingeraleBut this whole dream thing is why I mentined I should stream Alan Wake. It takes a lot of inspiration from Twin Peaks, and at times makes it very obvious too.
21:53:03MithentNever played it, but huh, didn't know that
21:56:07gingeraleIt's also divided into "episodes" which makes nice cut-off points. The downside is that you have to play it through twice to get all the story.
21:56:38gingeraleIt has these manuscript pages to collect and some of them aren't even in the game unless you're playing in Hard Mode, which unlocks after beating Normal.
22:00:19MithentI only tend to feel motivated to play things again if there's going to be something different enough about another playthrough, I guess, like with Undertale and NieR: Automata
22:00:23shinmeraA reward a lot of people cannot get.
22:00:28MithentAnd yeah, it was good to hear a discussion on that
9:16:06isoraqathedhI got recommended a pinball machine in Japan called "Smart Ball" which looks really good and I want to make my own.
9:16:46isoraqathedhIt's like a common ancestor between modern Western-style pinball machines and modern Japanese pachinko machines.
9:17:23isoraqathedhYou don't have flippers and you fire balls as often as you please, but the machine isn't excessively stingy and you can actually rack up a good score with them.
9:19:37PincerAttackI feel as if I were doing contortions in my sleep