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What types of games do you like?

Generally, I really like more surreal games, stuff like LSD Dream Emulator, ENA Dream BBQ, Slave of God, or to a less surreal extent, Control. They're games that are just so odd and out there, and this sorta ties into my love for TV shows like Twin Peaks. It's just such a lovely genre where people can just let their minds go wild. There can't be any limits for it.

LSD, ENA, and Slave of God are all free (LSD with some emulation), so they're totally worth looking at if you can. The games are all pretty out there, but if you like things like Infinite Jest, you can probably find some enjoyment from them.

- What's the deal with bathrooms? -

So I have had a pretty odd fascination with bathrooms that live in video games. They have little to no use most of the time, only serving as a piece of environment, and often you're not even able to use them. All you can do is look at the bathroom, appreciate that it has all the basic items for a bathroom (toilet, bathtub, sink, ect.), but all you can do is look.

The fact that the game designers decided to add this absolutely superfluous thing is something that I love. As Voltaire puts it, "The superfluous, a very necessary thing". The superfluous, in a game is not superfluous in real life. These video game characters do not need to use the bathroom, but we do. It's a necessity, and including bathrooms adds a degree of reality to these games.

- And what about the skyboxes? -

This one is pretty much entirely jacked from some videos by Any Austin (formerly the Eggbusters) where he just goes around sharing his love for skyboxes. But often, I felt like we were just missing out, there's so many different and beautiful skyboxes. This pretty much culminated in me making some videos of me appreciating the skies of Dark Souls II, Scholar of the First Sin. I love that game so much it's crazy, totally underappreciated.