83 - Hotline Miami

One of my favourite weapons is the pot of boiling water where the water only spills if you hit someone with it as a melee attack. Jacket can chuck it across the room at a guy's head and knock him down without spilling the water

This is probably not the inspiration for the music cutting out at the end of the level but it always reminds me of the end of “stone cold” where after the climax the hero realizes he completely failed his mission and all of the hostages are dead and he just walks through the bloody courthouse with the credits rolling

I am still waiting for the sequel episode, i believe in yall

This was a pretty good episode. I think the reason why Hotline Miami is a better examination of violence than say, Spec Ops the Line, but especially The Last of Us, is the manner in which they deliver the message. The Last of Us grabs you by the back of the head and shoves your nose in it. It says 'we have a thing we want to say, and don't we say it so fucking well? we're art, bitch'. Hotline Miami has some thoughts. It puts them on the table and lets you think about them. Anything that *tells* you what you're supposed to think is never as interesting or as thought provoking as something that puts you on a trail and lets you walk there yourself. It also kinda says you think your audience is stupid.

Do you lads have a pact to keep each other on track and avoid excessive tangents? Because I've noticed that all of you sometimes take charge and *snap* the conversation back to the topic at hand. I think this is really peofessional, as much as I like (to go on as well as listening to) tangents, like there was this one time ...

One thing I really enjoy about Hotline Miami is its parallels to The King in Yellow - aside from the masks and senseless killing, there's abuse of power, alienation, disconnection from reality, etc.

100% agree with Josh on the soundtrack being hit or miss, I was always really annoyed by the "we couldn't license Nightcall" score for the mission complete screen; but by the same token would love! to have more games hook up with "experimental" music legends like Sun Araw. As annoying as the boss fights are that terrifying creeping arpeggio that plays alone for the first 30 seconds I find to be just as effective as the drone at the end of levels

Tubi sounds neat. Is Hamlet on Tubi? Or not Tubi?

Zoomers absolutely still went to the bowling alley and roller rink lmao it'd be the generation under them that would have no experience in that