The Introverted Detective

 Here is the last post of me cringe-rating men from Herinteractive's Nancy Drew games. Keep in mind there may be some game spoilers. I do not directly reveal culprits, though you may be able to figure it out based on the information here.  Courtesy of Tumblr I am going from Captive Curse to Midnight In Salem. I will not be doing the two dossiers' men. If you want that please comment and respond. If I see no comments I will not return to it. Without further adieu, I will finish off the cringe ratings.  Just a reminder, these are opinions. If you love a character I don't, you can feel free to love that character to your heart's content. The ratings will go from 1 (no cringe) to 10 (all of the cringe).  Captive Curse Karl Weschler - He is primarily here for comedy and to provide a fun mini-game. His character does have a weird story about a doppelganger and may play with figurines, but I only give him a 2. After all, he makes you traipse out to the woods and take a pict...

 Once again I find myself rating the cringe of Nancy Drew men. see Pt. 1 of 3 for the beginning of the blog series. It will be split into 3 parts for the sake of length. Let's continue.  Courtesy of thenancydrew.wikia.com Starting at game number 11 and ending at number 23, this will work the following way. The rating system goes from 1 to 10, 1 being no cringe at all and 10 being all of the cringe. Ready? I'm just going to jump into this and go. Reasons for my opinions, which you don't have to agree with, will be explained. There will be spoilers. If you haven't played these games, read with caution and maybe come back after you have played them. You've been warned. Note that culprits are not directly revealed in this blog. Curse of Blackmoor Manor Nigel Mookerjee - He is a 7 to 8, maybe 9 on the scale. I think his memoirs are the most boring thing on the planet. While it is hilarious to watch him scream at a moving statue, he's not a joy to interact with and is...

 Nancy Drew from the Herinteractive games encounters many men during her travels. Some are a bit cringy, depending on your perspective on her age and the situation of the case. Some are highly cringy. Let's dive into that topic.  Courtesy of Tumblr We're going to go through the men of Nancy Drew games and rate them on cringy-ness. The rating system will work like this; 1 is no trace of cringe and 10 is cringe to max. These are my opinions, ladies and gents, so please feel free to comment your opinions and please respect mine. I will state reasons for every man. This does not include Ned, Frank, or Joe because they are constant characters and don't depend on the case at hand. I also don't intend to do phone contacts. This contains mild spoilers, fellow gamers and blog readers, so please read at your own risk if you haven't played any of these. You have been warned. I will not culprit reveal directly. Secrets Can Kill   The original and the remake have the same charac...

The game audience is extremely important when it comes to marketing. Age of player and maturity really does factor into this, since a seven-year-old is not going to be playing FNAF or Portal with too much success, nor is a 38-year-old going to find any challenge in a Reader Rabbit game. This is why the rating of a game matters.  Courtesy of mll.fi You truly do need to know what you are playing when you buy any form of videogame. The rating system is built for that purpose, so little kids don't pick up a game like Grand Theft Auto or Phasmophobia. It ranges from EC (early childhood) to AO (adults only). Understandably, parents and anyone who doesn't want pornographic content care about this rating system.  Game designers also consider audience age and maturity during the design process. This looks like hint systems built into games aimed at everyone and kids, as well as no hint systems in Portal and many horror games. Yes, hints can be built in for all ages, but adult-aged game...

When I watched The Incredibles (the first one, for clarification purposes) I looked at Mirage as someone who might not have been fully down with the plan. Is it possible she did the bidding of Syndrome under romantic pressure? Was she used by Syndrome to get to Mr. Incredible and did he create a relationship to do so exclusively?  Courtesy of Tumblr While she is definitely guilty of helping Syndrome murder Supers, what I want to know is her motivation. She was down to do all the dirty work of Syndrome, but why? She clearly wasn't in it to murder children based on her reaction to Mrs. Incredible/Elastigirl declaring there were children on the plane. Obviously, she was only signed up to kill the Supers they were targeting. Syndrome shows how unbalanced and sociopathic he truly is, even letting her be potentially snapped in half by a furious Mr. Incredible. You'll note that this is when she snaps back on Syndrome and literally undoes all the work she did to lure Mr. Incredible to ...

How much of your cartoons and comics are censored? How much can content creators get away with and publishers let pass to the public? Today we're finding out.  Courtesy of animatedtimes.com Comic books have been legitimately censored for a long time. While there is a Marvel Knights category for only adults, the majority of it has to be acceptable to the public to be sold. Horror comics had a real heck of a time due to extensive censoring and not being able to use specific words. Even then, you can open a Green Arrow comic and find a bit more of Black Canary than you bargained for. It almost depends on the artist who made the book, if we're truly honest. Yet, I know that comics have been under specific standards for years. There are R-rated comic books (Deadpool and many more) out there. Some of them are not mainstream.  As for cartoons, the 1980s and 1990s got a lot past the censors that kids wouldn't have even recognized. Adults, however, can immediately recognize it. I wa...

Media that features stay-at-home dads is out there, from Johnny Test to The Incredibles. There is a movie titled Mr. Mom, as well. Is there still a stigma, or is it becoming more common as we work from home? Courtesy of 123moviesweb.net Stay-at-home parents are not uncommon, especially female parents. What we find in Johnny Test is that his dad is doing all the cooking, cleaning, and keeping track (if he even can after all they do) of the kids. He has to make sure the twins don't blow up the house and Johnny doesn't just let them do whatever they want to him (and we know how that works out). For those that don't know the TV show Johnny Test, it doesn't work out well and everything turns to chaos. Also, the mother comes home in a suit and skirt as if she's some sort of lawyer. Realizing that Johnny's dad is a stay-at-home made me wonder just how much representation stay-at-home fathers get in media. Instead, my research led me into the stigmas of being a stay-at-...