I honestly don't know what they were thinking, because I am right with you. The first game was just that, a real tight video game whereas the sequel was trying too hard to be some kinda simulation and stumbled over the line of sim/fun into boring.

Yeah, there's logistical problems with, say, a soup stand: How do you deliver the soup to people? Reusable ceramic bowls? Those are gonna break eventually, needing replacement, and they're also heavy as shit. Plastic? That's not super good for environments, people will toss them in the trash, and plastic isn't reusable in the long run on such a small scale. The ideal bowl would be like what Tim Hortons had for a while, bread bowls, but that itself is another logistical problem of producing your own bread bowls. Edit: Fuck me was this back in 2001? I'm turning to dust by the day

There's logistical reasoning as to why you typically get soup at kitchens.

Ayo, just for the record fuck that lib ass meme though

Y'know I keep a little dirt under the pillow for the Dirt_owl

I remember puppymonkeybaby and now you must too

Equal parts that, and also I want to give a little reward to people just for having posted, y'know? Encourage more discourse. It takes a really shit post for me to rethink making that little golden bear.

Sure but I mean I think I'd lose my mind a bit if my wife and kid were killed in a car accident, too

A reddit comment from the man himself goes into the finer details of his thinking with cyberpsychosis and it really isn't as simple as "get chromed, go crazy" and he delves into the socio-psycho reasonings behind the phenomenon: he presents a more nuanced ideal than most people engaging with the concept will allow either because it's a game with rules, or an anime with plot contrivance (cyberpsycho serum meds)

Oh and he says it isn't AI net demons lol

Don Hertzefeldt animations are like the exact opposite of edginess, instead promoting an impression of earnestness through absurdism like you said. Op ought to check out Such a Beautiful Day and reflect.

Watched some clips, it's fascinating how they managed to make killing Nazi's boring and lifeless, even the caricatures of the Nazi's are boring and rote so there's nothing to really draw you in except the over-exagerrated violence and Whedonesque quips.