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  • 999: Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors ending

    This game built its twist around the DS hardware.

    The player is led to assume they’re viewing everything through Junpei’s perspective, but only the top screen truly represents him. Everything you saw on the bottom screen was actually past Akane’s perspective, because she’s been psychically guiding Junpei to help him solve every puzzle. I’m glossing over a complicated plot about seeing through time, you’ll have to play the game for it to make sense.

    But past Akane couldn’t solve the final puzzle in her own time, and would’ve have died. She’s revealed to be the one who orchestrated all of the events of the game just so that future Junpei would develop the same psychic time powers that would enable him to guide her past self through that puzzle, closing the loop and saving her life.

    So for the final puzzle, the player must turn the DS upside-down so that the touch screen is now on top, representing Junpei solving the puzzle himself in order to guide Akane.

    It’s a bit of a tragedy that this detail had to be sacrificed in the single-screen HD remake, because it’s so damn clever.


  • I got my degree in Computer Science a decade ago, but never got my foot in the door. I feel like my degree is not worth the paper its printed on, recruiters only want experience, but I can’t get experience because I don’t have experience.

    I spent the last seven years working an unrelated dead-end data entry job, but they kept increasing the workload until I couldn’t handle it anymore. I’ve spent over a year sending resumes out into the void and haven’t even gotten a single interview yet.

    It might not be the single worst degree of all, but at least in terms of degrees you’d expect to be worth something, I think CS has the biggest gap between expectation and reality.











  • The key is to be as diplomatic as possible in just saying it’s not really your thing and then changing the subject. Especially when someone’s trying to bond by sharing their interests, the worst thing you can do is insult the things they like. If you have to, avoid any direct criticism, just make it clear that it’s your own subjective taste.

    And I say this as someone who has literally built a brand on being a hater for some specific hot-buttons of mine, and even lost friendships over it. In the right setting there can be a time and place for hating, but it’s not when someone else is trying to talk about what they like. Just change the subject if you can’t say anything nice.