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Just your average colony of sapient microorganisms disguising themselves as a gryphon.

@Chinchy I'm sure everyone will say this, but I have to go with Outer Wilds. Experiencing the game for the first time IS the game, so this is objectively the correct answer. X3

Outside of that? Probably either:

@Chinchy This bothered me so I looked it up.

"Guy" meaning "man" is from ~1850, a broadening of "guy" meaning "poorly dressed man" from ~1835, a shortened form of mockingly calling them "effigies of Guy Fawkes" in ~1805 (since those effigies were burned and therefore dressed in cheap/trash clothing). Fawkes tried to blow up the king and parliament in 1605, so the name predates the word by a lot.

(The name Guy derives from Guido, meaning "leader" and sharing etymological roots with "guide.")

And "girl" is derived from "gyrle" from the 1300s, meaning "child" (of either gender), which for unknown reasons shifted to mean "female child" and then "young unmarried lady" and then "any lady" over the course of ~500 years.

I'd recommend going in blind, don't even watch the trailer. Although technically difficult to spoil, since you're unlikely to find the same sequence of events, half the fun is seeing where the story goes, and just knowing potential paths can dampen that fun.

(The game also just had a huge update that added ~35% more content, and is on sale for less than $15 on Steam this week.)

Fumei Game Reviews:
Slay the Princess

"You're on a path in the woods. And at the end of that path is a cabin. And in the basement of that cabin is a princess. You're here to slay her. If you don't, it will be the end of the world."

Slay the Princess is a choice-driven narrative adventure, by far the most reactive one I've ever played. Your decisions don't just flavor a linear narrative, they dramatically alter the course of the story. And those decisions aren't occasional interruptions of long narrative stretches, they're constant.

It's a massive and well-written script, fully and excellently voice-acted, paired with thousands of beautiful hand-drawn images and an incredible soundtrack. One of the best indie games I've ever played, highly recommended, 5/5.

CW: blood, gore, existential horror (potentially)

@Chinchy Off the top of my head:

*Perfect Blue: a psychological thriller about the price of fame and personhood vs persona, as an actress starts to lose her grip on reality.

*Paprika: a prototype machine lets people enter others' dreams, but when one is stolen, the lines between dream and reality start to blur.

*April and the Extraordinary World: in an alternate history where technology has stalled because the world's greatest scientists have been mysteriously disappearing for decades, the orphaned daughter of a disappeared pair tries to carry on her family's work.

*Hoodwinked: Red Riding Hood by way of Rashomon, as police try to uncover the truth by interviewing Red, the big bad wolf, etc. Ugly as sin (made on a shoestring budget by first-time animators) but entertaining, and by far the most Dreamworks-y film here.

I had to.
@hannu I've heard of Ace Hardware, but ace soft-wear is a new one!
@Dinkysaurus As handsome as he is round!
@ahab @magpi Oh my god. XD
@ahab My only question is, with no size reference here, is @magpi playing the bigpipes or the bugpipes? ;p