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Ichiko Aoba - Windswept Adan (2020)

Not even sure how I ended up on it, but the album has immaculate dreamy vibes.

Nick Johnston - Remarkably Human

Is that a GBA or DS title?

I think it would be morally unconscientious, if not a potential legal issue, to train an AI on anyone's voice without their informed consent in most cases. If you're using an AI Joe Biden voice for parody purposes, it's not going to ruffle anyone's feathers. Likewise there's some mods for the game Morrowind that attempt to use AI models to have the original voice actors's voices cover all of their lines (since the original game only had voices for select snippets of dialogue). Since it's an old project, not being used for anything 'new', and hiring the same VAs ~20 years later to do thousands of lines isn't going to happen for obvious reasons, it again is a very 'low harm' use case.

But depriving someone of a role, or making them say things they didn't consent to saying is all sorts of problematic when it is just being used in place of getting a VA. I don't think it'd be wholly dissimilar to deep-faking someone into a role. You can get away with it for parody, but the moment it is being used in place of hiring someone then it isn't really an ethical use case.

If they're willing to sign off on it, and it's for a specific scope (ie. you've agreed what it will be used for and don't just go on to use their voice forever because they agreed once) then that's okay though. There's also some broader troubling implications in terms of creative industries (i.e. it only takes a couple of people signing off on having their voice used in audiobooks to put dozens or hundreds of actors out of work by massively undercutting them in terms of cost-per-book), but it'd be a bit silly to apply them to indie adventure games.

FYI: Buying it from their Itch.io gets you a steam key and gives the dev more of your money. It even works out fractionally cheaper in the UK (by 0.29 GBP), at least assuming there aren't additional processing fees.

https://kitfoxgames.itch.io/dwarf-fortress

Mogwai - Mogwai fear Satan

Really though that was Memories of Murder for a hot second even though I couldn't remember that shot at all.

Yeah I kept meaning to go screenshot some show but I've been drawing blanks on something not posted before, if anyone else wants a go then feel free.

Chinese Electric Batman! That's Darker Than Black.

Simon the sorcerer 2 was the first game I beat without any help

Surely no human mind could comprehend the logic behind the Hush Puppies puzzle though?

That thumbnail image really looks to me like someone microwaved Jake Gyllenhall.

Ozric Tentacles - Spirals In Hyperspace (2004)

I have strong memories of Dare to Dream 3. I'm also fairly positive I was young enough that I never made it past a single puzzle in it and spent most of my time repeatedly getting lost in the creepy hell forest. Starting on the third title probably didn't help either.

Motorpsycho & Ståle Storløkken - The Death Defying Unicorn (2012)

Got introduced to Porcupine Tree/Steven Wilson by the commentary for Shardlight, which mentioned the game was heavily inspired by The Raven That Refuse To Sing (And Other Stories). Very excited to see the band coming back together after a decade apart.

Reading the synopsis of the film, dang. I thought the last Almodóvar film in this thread had an f'ed up plot.

The Pillars of the Earth?

Doesn't look like Twin Peaks. AHS would be a bit more obvious, I think. Penny Dreadful maybe?

Takeshi's Castle took a turn, huh?

Nightwish - HUMAN. :II: NATURE - All The Works Of Nature Which Adorn The World

Second half to the album composed just of orchestral music.