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Did anyone else mildly suspect Molly Meakin of being a double agent/mole? There are some allusions in the novel to the fear that Haydon may have had a successor in place to continue his work when he was inevitably caught or extracted, which put me in the mind of who it might be, and she seemed like the prime candidate. Young and alluring in a disarming way, cozies up to the right hand man of the head of the Circus (but in a smooth hard-to-get style, not obviously trying), and always seems to end up in the rooms where the most vital discussions are being held despite her relatively lowly official status. Even at the end of the novel she appears to be one of the few members of Smiley’s crew to survive the purge and remain well-positioned in the Circus thanks to Connie’s advice.

Obviously this does not appear to be the direction le Carré went with her, or if she was we’re never told about it. But did anyone else have a similar vibe when they read the book? I at least imagine this may have been intended as a potential fear for the reader (even as a red herring).

Considering picking the game up on PS5, but my friend group is stretched thin having bought other games to play together fairly recently, so I don’t wanna try to convince them to pick up another. Also solo mode doesn’t interest me since it’s missing the core permadeath tension that made the game sound appealing in the first place.

So, for those who have played, is it worth it in your opinion if you’re going to exclusively be playing with random matchmaking? Is it the type of game that requires more coordination than pick up groups can usually muster, or one of those games where you and your friends cracking jokes is sort of a core part of the experience (along the lines of “friendslop”-y prox chat games like Lethal Company and Peak)?

I’m 90% sure this was an Onion video, as I’m pretty sure the fake morning talk show host in question was Jim Haggerty. It starts as a segment where a guest is talking about how some ridiculous snack is actually unhealthy (boiled soda maybe?), but then one of the hosts starts talking to a small girl in the audience, making her promise to meet him years from now where the roads cross at midnight or something like that, and eventually the lights go out, this host has vanished, and the segment continues like nothing happened.

I can remember it extremely clearly but somehow have failed to find it in The Onion’s video archives. Very possible I’m off-base and it’s from some unrelated sketch show or something.

Absolutely love this trailer, and love the devs talking openly on BlueSky about the treatment they and the community around their games have gotten.

Music review site from the mid 2000’s with an orange logo, possibly a cassette tape? Hosted reviews and interviews, and would have 1-3 songs you could download off the album discussed.

Randomly yesterday I noticed like 4 orders where I was marked as not having arrived on time. I’ve been driving in the same market with identical habits the whole time I’ve been using Uber Eats and usually hover around a 99-100% on-time rate, but suddenly some orders seem to have unrealistic arrival times.

One of them was just being stuck waiting for a train, which, it sucks that there’s no way to go “hey uber, if I’m stopped at a railroad crossing for ten minutes that’s not my fault”, but nothing new those were usually the reason for my late arrivals in the past as well. The rest, though, felt like uber was just randomly not taking rush hour traffic adjustments into account which it has actually historically been pretty good about.

Anyone noticed a similar thing, or just a fluke?

Finally picked up the game last night on sale. Back when it released, I remember some reviews and discussions mentioning that for an otherwise fairly difficult and unforgiving game, the revive mechanic was bizarrely generous/penalty-free. At least a couple times heard folks saying that once they realized this it sort of robbed the game of any tension.

Now I see that there’s an option to turn this mechanic off and be forced to reload from your last save on death with nothing carried over. As someone who hasn’t played this sounds appealing, but curious how people who have played and are more familiar with its difficulty feel. Would this do a good job of keeping the game tense, or do you think it would overtune the difficulty and make the game unfun?

Inspired by the multiple reposts asking why Albert Wesker is the only really popular RE villain (obviously because he’s the one that showed up in multiple games): which previous RE villain would you be the happiest to see show back up as a recurring central antagonist?

Doesn’t matter how improbable it would be, just assume there’s a perfectly fine silly lore reason why they’re back. As far as we knew in 1 Albert was a regular guy who got stabbed through the torso and then blew up with the mansion, but I don’t think anyone minds the retcon into that being a goofy 4D chess master plan because the end result was a really fun villain.

Alex is the most obvious since they wouldn’t even have to write a new justification for her return she is literally just already out there waiting for the writers to remember her.

Honestly, though, as much as I’d like to go with a deeper cut my pick might just be Victor. He’s super entertaining, they could absolutely get more out of that character. Plus with RE9 selling so incredibly it would make sense for him to become the face of the series for those new fans.

Bonus answer: maybe take one of the many non-Chris/Leon protagonists sitting around collecting dust and repurpose them into a villain. Jill turns out to be the head of the evil BSAA branch we’ve been hearing about, Rebecca got into pharmaceuticals and has a new virus that’s gonna save the world, etc.