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Where the hell is my desktop? My experience with 'Emily Is Away Too'

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If you don't care for spoilers, at least hear me out. After familiarizing you with the game, the intent of this writeup is to elaborate on the emotional impact it had on me. I encourage you to share the experience of my first playthrough with me, regardless of your intentions to try it. As we see it I understood the gist of Emily Is Away when I decided to make a last-moment purchase of it during the Steam Winter Sale. Well, mostly . I wasn't aware that there were two versions of the game. A free Emily Is Away version sat atop my search results, tempting me to avoid the purchase of a discounted Emily Is Away Too . Was 'Too' a sequel? Its description claimed it to be a spiritual successor , a dubious term that lends me pause. A surgical Google search led me to a simple conclusion: The original Emily Is Away essentially has the same ending every time you play it. 'Too' adds extra characters, a more streamlined presentation, and has branching paths leadi...
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A Labor of Love: The Arcade Cabinet

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*This is a Pastebin conversion that I wanted to throw on here. Because it'll be a lot easier to navigate with the formatting and pretty pictures, I feel it's only appropriate that I touch it up to be blog-friendly. Alright, so for no reason in particular I'd like to chronicle some thoughts on this large and unnecessary arcade cabinet I have sitting in my basement through a hodgepodge of images and private YouTube videos I've created over the past year. The Cabinet The struggle to get it to this point was a long, but mostly enjoyable one. So! I bought myself a nice arcade cabinet through a company called RecRoomMasters. They're basically the IKEA of Arcade Cabinets. They send you the kit, then you put it together yourself. When it arrives, you add whatever internals you want on your own (monitor, PC, speakers, and controls if you don't want to buy their frankly overpriced joysticks). These guys were great to deal with and I would highly...
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