Was sagt die grüne Weintraube zur blauen Weintraube?

@derek Your posts reminded me that I followed the #TheLastofUs hashtag ages ago, and I am happy I did, because I love hearing your first impression of it! Do you think you'll play the second one?

As opposed to #cyberpunk2077, I did not feel as though I was embodying Joel (or Ellie). I was watching them make decisions. About the only decisions I made was how to spend my upgrade points and whether to kill people loudly or quietly.

In an RPG I would be considering how my character would react to a given scenario. In #TheLastOfUs, I would sit back and say, "oh, Joel is going to straight up murder these people now."

I'm [checks notes] eleven years late to the party, so I don't expect the following to be earth shattering, but it turns out that #TheLastOfUs is a good game.

It was a remarkably cinematic experience, which is to say, the parts that were most engaging to me were the cinematic cutscenes between gameplay.

Another thought having watched #TheLastOfUs :

I get the plot device that the fungus-of-doom that jumps from ants to humans did not also jump to other animals.

But what happened to all of the ants and other insects that normally get infected by the fungus?

The ecology is, of course, not at all the point of the story.

Also seen at the local farmers' market:

A mushroom seller who has cordyceps in their inventory to appeal to the pseudomedicine contingent.

I wonder if their sales have changed since the #TheLastOfUs show was released last year.

I had not expected the "if you had celiac, you avoided the initial spread of the fungus of doom" bit of backstory in #TheLastOfUs .

And I do appreciate when post-apocalyptic stories remember that radios exist.