Stephan Krosecz

Every once and a while a stranger knows how to say my first name correctly right away, and I wonder how.

I've genuinely started to wonder if KH4 is going to reveal that the entirely of the mainline Kingdom Hearts games up to this point have taken place in a pocket universe within the "REAL" universe that Sora has now arrived in. Wildly: there is established precedent for this.

We've seen multiple characters that we know to be straight-up dead show up in the trailers, which has led to this thought. The universe we've known up to this point could be the one that was created to keep the Dandelions safe. And when you "die" you simply get ejected into the original world.

I've genuinely started to wonder if KH4 is going to reveal that the entirely of the mainline Kingdom Hearts games up to this point have taken place in a pocket universe within the "REAL" universe that Sora has now arrived in. Wildly: there is established precedent for this.

I feel like MGSV did a terribly poor job of communicating the benefits of playing as other soldiers. I just had the thought of "shouldn't playing as other soldiers raise their stats or something, that'd give more incentive" and then went to look it up. 11 years later I've learned you can do that.

I've replayed this game from the beginning multiple times. Never known this.

I legit thought that Moana live action thing hadn't come out yet

This isn't the point, but boy do I hate looking at how busy that GenAI comic is. Everything is demanding focus, there's no sense of flow between panels, there's just no intentionality to anything and it overwhelms the eye.

As much as I love Kingdom Hearts, it's a horrible crime to make Jodi Benson sing "Swim This Way"

The tools to create films and animation have never been more accessible. The "industry standard" tools are expensive as hell, but frankly they won't remain industry standards for that very reason. Blender is already becoming standard while remaining 100% free.

Weirdly consistent thing happens every time I go to a function with many people where I can feel fine in the moment and nothing bad happens, but the next day I WILL be way more anxious than normal anyway lol

I was shocked to learn that other DMs apparently plan out potential outcomes to situations. I kinda just set up situations I think are interesting and start riffing once players interact with them.

I assume some people must do it the way I do it Just sorta set set up and let their internal logic machine take over for a bit

I was shocked to learn that other DMs apparently plan out potential outcomes to situations. I kinda just set up situations I think are interesting and start riffing once players interact with them.

Sometimes I think about how important the mobile games are to Kingdom Hearts lore and how crucial they'll be to understanding KH4 and ask: "Why, Nomura? Why are you like this?" It's genuinely so important to understanding the entire series. They gotta make something to retell that stuff, right??

Casual reminder to Democrat politicians that even the majority of conservative voters don't really seem motivated to vote based on hating trans people. And if they did they certainly wouldn't vote for you. So all you do in opposing trans rights is lose voters.

They're really just completely reactionary. "Republicans are claiming we're gonna trans everybody's kids! Surely we must combat this claim!" You really don't. Nobody normal thinks that's true. You're worried about the opinions of people who would sooner die than vote for you.

It's so wild to me for people who provably at some point cared about art to be like "the future is not doing the art." Actual advancements did stuff like reduce tedium or offer lower-cost pathways for people to learn filmmaking or animation or whatever else.

I'll always disagree with the assertion that they had to plan all three films out. That's one way to do it, but not the only way. Their experiment of "new director per film" was completely viable, but they gave up on it at the finish line in order to meet an arbitrary deadline set by Bob Iger.