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That's Chris Morris, so... Brass Eye?

[The Company of Wolves]

That unibrow, the girl's red cape... That's got to be The Company of Wolves!

It looks like my "trophies" ("X worked on one or more games that won/were nominated for an AGS award") are not showing under my profile pic. Is there a setting I've missed somewhere that I need to enable in order to display them? Or are my itch/twitter icons overriding them?

Fixed!

Fantastic, thanks a lot!

Not the right actor (or series).

Oh wow, whoever that is, he absolutely looks like Rik Mayall in that pic!

It looks like my "trophies" ("X worked on one or more games that won/were nominated for an AGS award") are not showing under my profile pic. Is there a setting I've missed somewhere that I need to enable in order to display them? Or are my itch/twitter icons overriding them?

That looks like Rik Mayall, and since this doesn't seem to be Bottom or The Young Ones, I'm going to go with The New Statesman?

This is petty, but it grinds my gears when people literally write "something-slash-something" or "quote unquote". Those expressions are meant for spoken communication, but it makes zero sense to write all that when the keyboard you're typing on already has slash and quote symbols. "She's a developer-slash-game designer", no, you mean "developer/game designer". "He's a quote-unquote genius", no, you mean "He's a 'genius'". 

I can’t say i’ve come across this but it would grind my gears too. It’s not like typing “period” or “full-stop” at the end of a sentence because that actually performs a function beyond just typing the actual symbol. But the examples you gave don’t do anything that just typing the symbols doesn’t already do, so yeah, that would annoy me too.

I am so glad I've never come across that as well, because that would also grind my gears.

There you go, third paragraph: https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/galaxy-brain/62fc502abcbd490021afea1e/twitter-viral-outrage-ai-art/

"A day later, an artistâ€"slashâ€"art director saw the post and noticed that I credited “AI art by Midjourney” in the captions."

(also relevant to the AI art debate going on in another thread I guess)

This is petty, but it grinds my gears when people literally write "something-slash-something" or "quote unquote". Those expressions are meant for spoken communication, but it makes zero sense to write all that when the keyboard you're typing on already has slash and quote symbols. "She's a developer-slash-game designer", no, you mean "developer/game designer". "He's a quote-unquote genius", no, you mean "He's a 'genius'". 

[Earthworms]

Since it doesn't look like anybody has a clue, it's Earthworms.

Whoever feels like it, feel free to grab the next round.

I think I have seen this before. Was it made with AGS?

Nope. Unity, if I'm not mistaken.

I think this is going to be one of those "if you know, you know" games that you either recognize from a single screenshot or not at all.

This is one of the Project Zero / Fatal Frame games. Possibly the third one, The Tormented?

Hmmmm turns out I haven't watched any shows recently, so I don't have anything. Heltenjon, do you want to take over?

Could it be Ash vs. Evil Dead?

My few cents:

- I've never known who that "Larry" was or what it was referencing, and I guess it's the case too for relative newcomers. It gave me the impression of being some sort of inside joke that I was not in on and as such, it felt like a weird choice for a "mascot".

- Not feeling the manga/anime look of the girl either. That kind of aesthetic is more commonly associated with RPGs or visual novels, rather than with point and click adventures.

- The logos with a single cup look much cleaner and elegant than the one with three cups.

If there was to be a mascot in the logo, the obvious choice would be an anthropomorphic blue cup, would it not?

Or... hear me out... a CUPYBARA. I'll show myself out.

Is that movie any good guys?

The Wailing? I liked it a lot. When I saw it was 2.5 hours I assumed it would be a really slow burn, but it's actually not the case, the pacing is really good and you never get a feeling of "come on, just move along already". Definitely recommended.

Up next:

Ah, I know this one. I'll leave it for someone else, though.

Yes, she did throw all those stones! And it's a Korean movie indeed, but not Parasite.

As per usual, 1 guess = 1 new screenshot:

Something I watched recently:

Since nobody seems to know the answer, I'll go ahead: it's Valerie and her Week of Wonders.