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The thing with the complexity of this game is it actually simplifies things if you just don't approach it like a video game. Ohmigosh there are so many numbers and variables and modifiers and interlocking systems! What do I do? I dunno man, it's frigging complicated, just like build some stuff that seems like it might be a good idea.
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I don't know why I felt the need to effort post but I did. I got some good feedback on it, which felt nice because I am not in love with my own writing. I was trying to mimic the feel of trying to assemble a narrative that may or may not exist out of a collection of "codex entries". I think it more or less worked.
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When I was young I thought Source Tags & Codes was an all-time great album. But as I got older, I kind of mellowed on it. Even at the time though, I thought their followup, Worlds Apart, was bloated, overwrought nonsense. But as I got older, I kind of mellowed on it in the other way. It's fine. But I kind of stopped paying attention to Trail of Dead at that point.
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Another solid album. I never quite like their various solo projects quite as much as the gang altogether.
Three Stars.
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Continues to have a knack of making boring sounding chamber pop music that slowly burrows its way into my ear, like some sort of ear worm.
Three Stars.
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