To me, playing a horror game held higher stakes than watching a movie. In many scenarios, you’re literally controlling the character’s moves and choices.
As the weather becomes colder, there’s nothing I like to do more than pour myself tea and snuggle up to my computer monitor to watch strangers play video games online.
Instead of getting shields for defense, you get condoms or aprons. And instead of swords and other classic weapons, there’s mace, hair dryers, or press-on nails to fight with.
Aloy still reads as aromantic / asexual — but there’s plenty of other gays filling out the world with their blastsling sticky bombs and lesbian drama bombs.
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