Beta sign ups have reopened for Nauticrawl, a tense roguelike Sci-Fi adventure viewed entirely from the cockpit of your underwater mechanical walker.
I ended up finishing this thing for Serizawa week AU prompt anyway because I have no self control.
The second batch of screenshots comes from a joke Twitter thread I did a while ago of…fake Ace Attorney localization style names for MP100 characters kdfgjjgfkld. Some explanation under the cut…??
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can we talk about the sheer accuracy of some of the in-game dialogue in Disco Elysium?
i’m talking specifically about the Giant Seraise Hornet, where Encyclopedia says this:
i work with honeybees in an apiary on my college campus, and i’ve taken so many yellow jackets, wasps, and hornets out of the hives. i’ve seen hives completely destroyed by wax beetles and hornets. but the thing that gets me about Disco Elysium’s off-handed analogy about the assassins is that this is literally true.
the Giant Seraise Hornet is a direct reference to the Asian Giant Hornet (which you might know better as the “murder hornet”).
from Penn State University:
and according to Wikipedia, the Asian giant hornet can kill 40 honeybees a minute because of their mandible size.
but it isn’t only the hornet-murdering-honeybee relationship that they got correct! they also got it right that sometimes the honeybees win:
I know that the developers must have put an incredible amount of research into this game, but as someone with a huge interest in the environment and beekeeping, it’s so cool to me that they got a real-life parallel so specifically correct.
it’s such a direct parallel between the mercenaries and the dockworkers and the hornets and the bees. sure, the dockworkers could win, but only if they’ve coevolved. Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, didn’t coevolve with the Asian giant hornet… and those hives tend to be completely decimated.
just like the Hardie boys if Harry makes the wrong move. the mass slaughter in Martinaise depends on whether or not you as the player can learn to adapt quickly enough in seven days to save your colony. and i think it’s genius.
