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thanks for your kind words and the great games. Keep making great games and I keep making these videos

Thanks, I will!

Regarding Cassiebsg's idea, I very, very strongly advice against using a false rape accusation as the cause for a murder-suicide, as it could easily help spread some very damaging misconceptions harming real-life victims of sexual abuse (I'll just link this article on the subject) and I know of many survivors and people close to a survivor for whom such a plotline would be a serious dealbreaker that would make them quit playing the game entirely.

If the false accusation was about murder, while it could have potential for a good story there is still the pothole notarobotyet brought up, and I wonder, if the man went to the hotel room to kill his friend over the alleged murder, how would he then find out about his innocence after killing him? If the dead man had some kind of evidence proving his innocence in his hotel room, why wouldn't he have been able to reveal it before it escalated to the point his friend was willing to murder him?

My personal idea though, is that if they are business partners, why not reveal that the first man had done some cruel and illegal thing to further their business, like say, use chemicals that gave their workers cancer or similar. The second man blames the first man and argues with him about it, worried that their business and reputation would be destroyed if the authorities found out, but the first man retorts that the second man was just as guilty, even if he himself didn't make the decision he still benefited greatly from it and simply chose not to see and only became upset when his job and livelihood was at risk. They argue, and the argument escalates until the first man is shot, the second man, realizing that now that he's committed murder his life will be ruined regardless, chooses to kill himself.

Thanks Selmiak

Second that, I think your videos are great, Selmiak! 

I can't make anything this month, but I really hope someone try their take on the Gävle goat!

For those unfamiliar with it, the Swedish town of Gävle has a decades-old tradition of building a giant hay goat to decorate the town square during Christmas.
Not officially part of the tradition is a random arsonist trying to burn the goat down every winter, with varying success...

That definitely sounds more fun than my ideas.
But I'd be afraid of making a game based on something I know absolutely nothing about.

Don't be, if thousands of game developers manage to make great games about elves, aliens, zombies or tons of other things that literally doesn't exist,
I'm sure you can make an awesome MAGS entry of a well-documented tradition (plus I linked to a full Wikipedia article on it in my previous comment!)! 

I can't make anything this month, but I really hope someone try their take on the Gävle goat!

For those unfamiliar with it, the Swedish town of Gävle has a decades-old tradition of building a giant hay goat to decorate the town square during Christmas.
Not officially part of the tradition is a random arsonist trying to burn the goat down every winter, with varying success...

[House]

I recently re-watched Wes Craven's "Dracula 2000" (or possibly 2001 the box and the in-movie title disagree on this)

It was great to re-watch because I didn't know who Gerald Butler was when I saw it back in 2002 or so and his not-so-Spartan performance as Dracula is quite awesome. (He's a lot skinnier as well in this role and has a neck narrower than his head even)

Also, Christopher Plummer as Van Helsing is great, and the dude who plays Sherlock in the show "Elementary", Sick-Boy from Trainspotting, is always cool.

Apart from the famous actors viewed in retrospect, the plot is great and has a killer twist towards the end!

Was that the movie that featured Omar Epps (the guy who was a sidekick to House on the eponymous show)?

Otherwise, since it's pride month, how about a game with a queer protagonist?

So I just played A Suspicious Date:

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I personally found the story a bit too predictable and spotted the twist almost immediately, and by the end I felt more sad for the characters than amused by the mistake,
but all the same I liked the puzzles and it was great to use the mechanics to connect the clues in the receipt to things in the environment.

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Some old vintage insanity:

Sims 4 is free on Origin:
https://www.origin.com/swe/en-us/store/the-sims/the-sims-4/?fbclid=IwAR03DjsTjJbVrJqALBC--rtIPtiVdShH-2DqDV_nHEmU5qMml04N62sPB3c

I'd say it was Tomb Raider: Legend for me. I'd played The Sims, ZOO Tycoon and some crappy games with cute animals on the cover before, but it was Tomb Raider that made me feel gaming was a hobby I could get into
due to the fact it was a well-made game with a strong female hero in the lead role. Until then I felt that gaming was just something for stereotypical teenage boys and stuff like Sims and horse games didn't count because
the former was a casual game centered on playing around rather than winning, and the latter were almost always terrible games on a shoestring budget only made as a lazy way to earn money from little girls desperate for
any kind of game about horses so to me, video games felt like a boring choice between either crappy games with no budget or talent, games that had budget and talent but were exclusively about gruff muscle men and/or
zombies, sports or sci-fi battles and a bunch of stuff that didn't interest me and just felt like stuff made for the teenage boy stereotype I previously mentioned.

Tomb Raider: Legend was the first time I got to see a game with a good female lead but also well-crafted gameplay and then cutting-edge graphics, and it opened up my eyes to what games could be other than the stereotypes I'd been raised with,
and it got me to start digging through the bargain-bin for other games with adventure and strong female leads, which eventually led me to discover classics like Dreamfall, The Longest Journey and the Syberia games.

Jim Sterling did a pretty good video on Sonic:

I've seen a lot of complaints about the darkness.  I didn't have that issue.  It looked great, and the darkness was fitting for the story.  Then again, I watched it in complete darkness in the middle of the night.  The previous episode I watched in the daytime and it reminded me that I need to get more blackout curtains.

Great episode, though.  One of my favorites of the entire series.

Yeah, I'm sure it looked better in the middle of the night, but I still think it's a problem when something only looks good under optimal circumstances, because not everyone can stay up late or have good blackout curtains (especially not in Sweden, where the daylight lasts practically forever in summer-time). For comparison, I re-watched a clip from the Battle of Helm's Deep from the LOTR movies, which also depicts a big fantasy battle at night-time, but there I could tell everything going on even on an old laptop screen with full daylight pouring onto it, and the scene still looked good and dramatic:

But I've seen a similar problem in AAA games too, where the graphics are exclusively optimized for cutting-edge computers, and if you try anything less than the highest graphics options, you get an ugly mess with blurry textures and grainy shadows that somehow looks worse than games that came out a decade ago.

Some of the jokes were funny, but wow, that Sonic design was just so creepy, and I feel it's part of a big Hollywood trend unfortunately, taking cute cartoon characters and turning them into uncanny-valley monstrosities, similar to most live-action Disney movies have already done with the living furniture from Beauty and the Beast and the animals from Lion King.

So I've got an idea for an entry;
Just a short story about a former Dahomey Amazon turned mercenary who's been tasked with leading two explorers to a cave said to contain a great treasure. The mercenary has been tasked with guarding the entrance while the two explorers enter, but as screams and gunshots are heard from within only to be followed by silence, the mercenary chooses to investigate...

I have most of the story mapped out in my head and I'm certain I can make all the graphics I need in time, however, I'd love it if somebody good at programming and puzzles would want to join in, anyone interested?

It grinds my gears that most modern live-action movies and TV-series are too dark, and I don't mean this in the "grimdark edgelord" sense (even if that can be bad too), but in the literal "too dark to see literally see anything happening" sense. Like when I saw the latest episode of Game of Thrones, and don't worry, I won't spoil who kills who, because I couldn't actually see what was going on on the screen for 90% of the time!

Seriously, I live in Sweden where it's soul-crushing darkness most of the year, so I know making the screen black is a more realistic way of depicting nighttime than just slapping a blue filter on the screen and calling it a day, but come on, if I didn't care about seeing anything happening on the screen whilst listening to actors talking I'd have just bought an audio-book instead.

Gone Home is free on Humble Bundle.

[What We Do In The Shadows]

What We Do In The Shadows

A really fun take on the life of a group of vampires but unlike "Interview With The Vampire" which focuses on the epic adventure of their "lives" spanning eras, this movie is about the humdrum day-to-day existence of what it really might be like if a group of fairly average "people" had to live together for centuries.

Great stuff with an awkward, low-key New Zealand sense of humour.

I assume you're aware that there's a TV adaptation that started airing just a few weeks ago? Set in Staten Island and starring Matt Berry. It's... OK.

If any movie deserves a TV show adaption, it's What We Do In The Shadows, the concept is pretty much perfect for that.

Anyway, Happy Death Day 2U really sounds like somebody thought Groundhog day would be way better as a horror movie. Either way, it looks interesting!

[Sucker Punch]

Saw "Silent House" (remake).

The actress is very good, but imo the movie just has a story which has already been done to death. You will identify what it going on (at worst) by the half-point, so it becomes a bit of a bore up to the obvious "reveal".

Is it that she

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was a ghost all along?

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No. It was

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that her father sexually abused her and she was imagining stuff.

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Urgh, I hate that movie trope. It's basically been done to death because it's the default backstory hack writers give female main characters.

The other problem with that trope is that it's using a real-life trauma for horror and shock value, so to a lot of audience members who have experienced it firsthand, it's not going to be a fantasy horror comparable to zombies or vampires,
but a stark reminder of something they fear in real life and at worst it can even cause a severe anxiety attack, and I really wish it wasn't so overused, because poor treatment of it has really ruined a lot of movies for me.

So far, the best treatment of this topic I've seen in a mainstream movie was Sucker Punch, but there it isn't a plot twist, but was revealed at the start of the movie,
and rather than showing the trauma the female leads go through the movie focuses entirely on the elaborate heroic fantasies they conjure up to escape from it.