They are a canon lesbian couple, so that's good at least.  I do like them as characters.

But also, ow, their poses, especially Rain's (the blonde one) in the final panel.  And also the "you can join in!" thing is... very of the time, for the demographic they're aiming for (i.e. unfortunately not lesbians).

(Ads for Fear Effect 2: Retro Helix, Eidos Interactive, submitted by ConfusionGrows)

should we not be walking cats on leashes? I can't find any resources online so links for further reading would be really helpful

It's far better than having them outside without leashes, but still has an impact on the outside fauna!

The main thing here is what is termed "fear effect": the mere presence of a predator (a cat) will push birds and other native species to exert more resources to defend themselves from potential threats, giving them less resources and time to take care of their own young.

https://besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1365-2664.12025

Swagger Blonde Let's Play Fear Effect PS1 Part 11 Glas goes to Hell

1999 Fear Effect for Sony PlayStation Magazine Ad

(976) DISCLOSURE: Didn't play it I watched a longplay so this is purely from a onlooker point of view not actually hands on with the game.

Definitely looks like wonky controls but something that just works if you get it down, really interesting concepts and I love the art style and backgrounds, music and ambience are awesome. Really cool to watch the different ways you can cheese this one if you know how the game operates. I'll be honest just watching I don't completely get everything that's going on but it was still good background like dumb entertainment. Looks similar to Resident Evil in how it plays but again that's just from watching I don't know how it actually feels.

It's really interesting how a lot of games of this era hadn't come to one good solution for movement and controls it'd be cool to see things like this remade now even if it was a budget title 1:1. I love seeing little flourishes like the light coming through a lattice metal door on a elevator stuff that we take for granted now because it's just baked into a good lighting system but you had to manually color a lot of those background elements in the past, that isn't to say it isn't still gorgeous in modern titles or that it doesn't take work to get it to work how you envision it as the artist but there will always be something unique and special about retro hardware rendering and techniques.

Fear Effect DUOLOGY COLLECTION [PS1] Gameplay Walkthrough FULL GAME [4K60ᶠᵖˢ UHD🔴]

"Midnight" is one of my favourite episodes!!

A speedpaint video of this will be available at my Patreon on may 1st

'Enjoy it despite its flaws' is one thing, but Mass Effect somehow invented its own category: 'simultaneously one of the most flawed and the most well-crafted sci-fi stories I've ever experienced'. These games are incredible. They’re the worst. All the women are sexualized. All the women have deeply flawed and complex personalities without being either demonized or romanticized. The first available f/f ship seems to be written along the guidelines of 'what would a straight man find hot'. As the games go on, they effortlessly include multiple same sex romance options given just as much care and development as the the opposite sex ones. You can play as a xenophobic murderhobo asshole. You can play as someone genuinely caring but also harsh, who inspires growth and co-operation wherever you go but who makes hard choices when you have to. You can kill civilians and punch reporters and commit genocide. You can stop a generational war and mediate peace and save several species from extinction. The robots are stereotypically evil cannon fodder. The robots are deeply complex with a tragic history. Your team mates are assholes with xenophobic opinions or justifications for police brutality and genocide, or they just want excuses to Do Murder. You team mates are deeply flawed and can be urged to grow alongside you. The most important aliens are all humanoids. There are plant aliens and jellyfish aliens and insect aliens and elephant aliens and aliens who can’t share an atmosphere with us. You have to drive around countless identically boring planets with little to show for it. You get to discover hidden secrets and civilisations millions of years old and live through some of the most emotionally harrowing scenes in storytelling history. I am going absolutely insane about it.

uh, okay. i'm very scared to ask but : rabbit that's not really a rabbit...?

yeah, there's, like. a small god, shaped like a rabbit, that lives in my yard. I would say it's a normal rabbit except it's not. It won't move from my driveway if I'm trying to drive out and it was there first. I can walk up within a few feet of it, and it will turn and just look at me like what do you want? It's the only rabbit that freaks the hell out of all my birds, they CANNOT be directed or communicated with when this rabbit comes around, they will do nothing but stand on alert and stare at it making a soft warning call. I've caught it SEVERAL times now standing nose to nose with one of my peacocks, and it just looks at me and walks away when I catch them. hawks and falcons and eagles and owls constantly pass over my yard, and it is full of rabbits that do not hide from them, and I've never seen evidence of one being taken. You know the moment you walk into a very dark room and maybe it's a room you've been in before and maybe you don't believe in ghosts, but also it's still dark and your little leftover lizard hindbrain goes "anything could be inside of here waiting for me" the second before you turn on the light? It's like that feeling, except in the shape of a rabbit. i didn't ask for any of that.

Swagger Blonde Let's Play Fear Effect PS1 Part 10 Hell hath no fury

one of these days...