The Other Side of the Fourth Wall

Below is a retelling of the first Danganronpa game, through AI Dungeon. You are Makoto Naegi, a Japanese high school student. You were selected to attend Hope's Peak Academy as the "Ultimate Lucky Student" among Japan's most talented high schoolers. You're a little nervous about it, but you eagerly attend. Your last memory is of you walking through the school gates, at which point, everything else is a blur. You wake up in a classroom inside the school. As you rise from your desk, you take a look around and examine your surroundings. The room is a mess. A girl walks in through the double doors, slamming it shut behind her. You hear her yell, "I found him! I found the ultimate lucky student!" You can't see who she's talking about, but you assume it's you. You can't wait to see your new dorm. It's been so long since you've lived with other students. You look around and see a boy walk out of the supply room with a mop. Should you fol...

Persona 4 has many optional bosses, from the relatively weak foes faced by going back to dungeons after they're completed, to the extremely powerful superbosses The Reaper and Margaret(this game's Velvet Room attendant). The Contrarian King, the boss faced after the first major dungeon, is perhaps the strangest one of them in a few ways, particularly in how difficult he is for the time he's encountered. For context, the Contrarian King can be fought after completing Yukiko's Castle. Once Yukiko recovers and joins the Investigation Team on April 30, you can re-enter Yukiko's Castle, and are told that a powerful Shadow has taken up residence on the eighth floor, where you fought Shadow Yukiko. You will thus have to walk all the way up there, which shouldn't be too hard for a party that not only defeated Shadow Yukiko but has Yukiko herself to fill out the party. The Contrarian King himself is another story, however. He shares a model with the King family of enemie...

Block puzzles are one of the staple puzzles of video games, and while some are well-regarded, others are tedious or frustrating. Before I begin, I'll note that there can be many different types of puzzles. In some puzzles, you are able to drag and drop the blocks, while in other cases, you are a character that navigates through the maze, often walking on top of the blocks, rather than merely pushing or going around them. In some puzzles, all blocks occupy a single tile, while other puzzles have larger or differently shaped blocks. Some puzzles allow you to push and pull them, while others only allow you to push. Some puzzles are dense and cramped, forcing you to move blocks in order to clear pathways for the important ones, while others are wide open. There's a surprising amount of potential for variety in these puzzles. In some block puzzles, it can be rather easy to get oneself into a situation in which the puzzle is no longer solvable. For example, if you push a block into a...

Here's my second attempt at doing an AI generated Game of Thrones ending. This time, the AI wasn't at its best, and tended to be repetitive and incoherent, albeit amusingly so. Imagine if, instead of deciding the fate of the Seven Kingdoms while on trial for treason, Tyrion started killing people, including those who have been dead for seasons. You are Tyrion Lannister. You once served House Lannister, but after being falsely convicted of killing your nephew Joffrey Baratheon, you went on the run and joined Daenerys Targaryen, your family's enemy, on her quest to reclaim the Iron Throne. Unfortunately, Daenerys went mad and you had to betray her, freeing your brother Jaime Lannister, who died saving your sister and the queen Cersei Lannister. For that, you were imprisoned, and were to be executed, but Daenerys' lover Jon Snow stabbed her and killed her. Now, you are brought before an assembly of the lords of the Seven Kingdoms- Sansa Stark, Arya Stark, Bran Stark, Edmur...

Warning: This series contains spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones Now for the conclusion to this series. The General Problems Part of the reason for the decline of Game of Thrones' qualities are the reasons I stated before. The showrunners no longer had Martin's books to guide them, resulting in their writing's shortcomings coming to the fore. The fact that the final two seasons have thirteen episodes between them is a significant factor in why the show ended as poorly as it did. While Daenerys' fall into evil was always destined to be controversial, having more episodes to cover her development might have made it easier to accept. Additionally, giving more episodes to the war with the Night King would have helped him seem like more of a credible threat than he ended up being. Of course, ending a show like this well was always a difficult prospect for a few reasons. First, the ending would inevitably have been the showrunners' creation, and would thus b...

Warning: This series contains spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones When I watched this for the first time, my expectations were practically rock-bottom after the previous few episodes, so I wasn't too disappointed by the last episode, the fourth Rotten episode of the series and the third consecutive Rotten one. But does that mean it isn't bad? The opening credits play one last time, and King's Landing is shown to be in ruins. In many cases, not showing the opening credits is best for a momentous occasion like the last episode, but it's nice to see the credits update. The episode begins with Jon and Tyrion walking through the ruins of King's Landing. Grey Worm sentences Lannister prisoners to die, declaring that the war is not over until his queen's enemies are dead, since Daenerys ordered him to kill Cersei's followers. A tense standoff ensues, but Davos defuses it by asking Jon to speak with Daenerys, but Grey Worm starts slicing the prisoners...

Warning: This series contains spoilers for the final season of Game of Thrones While I don't usually watch recaps, the one for this episode is notable. Apart from summarizing the situation- Cersei is holed up in King's Landing and refuses to surrender; Daenerys' allies wonder if Jon might be better; and a few characters are going to King's Landing for their own purposes- it ends with a montage of quotes about the Targaryens, as if to foreshadow the turn Daenerys takes in this episode. The episode begins in Dragonstone, with Varys writing a letter about Jon's parentage when one of his "little birds"(i.e. child spies) knocks on the door and informs him Daenerys isn't eating. Varys replies that they can "try again at supper," implying that he's planning on poisoning Daenerys' food. The little bird whose name is Martha, worries that the soldiers are watching her, but Varys says it's their job, and the greater the risk, the greater the...