Also, still excited for Silent Hills for all the reasons I rambled all wild-eyed and sleep-deprived about yesterday, and also because when The Radio in P.T. describes a man who, “hung himself with a garden hose,” and as it says, “garden hose,” another voice mutters, “umbilical cord,” someone there knows exactly what they fuck they’re doing. That’s the brain horror. That’s what recent installations of the series have been missing in spades. It doesn’t even need to mean anything, is what’s important about that sorta stuff. It helps a lot, sure, and works out better long-term because you can build on it, but if they know how to tap into that Feeling with words that Feel right even without context, then I can trust them to turn out good shit regardless, yanno?

(Also also, I’ve never gotten anywhere near the Metal Gear Solid games and was trying to figure out why I went, “Eck,” when I heard everyone geeking out about the head director behind that series getting involved in Silent Hills, and yesterday realized that it’s just because the most frequent context in which I’ve seen the games brought up is obnoxious nerdbros who everyone hates using a recent MGS game cover featuring Solid Snake from behind and screenshots from trailers of same wherein his butt was in-frame to demonstrate how everyone complaining about the way camerawork and game art in/from various games framed women’s asses are just oversensitive misandrists because clearly the fact that you can see men’s asses ever means the treatment of all is identical and the only reason anyone could have a problem with it was because we hate these dudes in particular and wanted to make their lives harder and eventually consign them all to a feminist dystopia in which all games are just 50-hour simulators of getting laughed at by superhuman lady cyborgs in heels who are better than them at everything. Or something. Which I totally don’t blame the head of Metal Gear Solid for. And yesterday, Z told me about some of the delightful mindfuck Mr. Kojima has employed in his games and I actually teared up in anticipation because I am an emotional wreck for games that want to break me from the inside out and can actually follow through.)

One day I will calm down and stop writing these uninsightful rambly-ass posts about personal reactions to P.T. and related, but today is clearly not that day.