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- Comment on Every support thread on Reddit is literally this now 2 days ago:
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- Comment on Why is kindness often viewed as a sign of naïveté? 4 days ago:
- Comment on Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing" 1 week ago:
They can capture the full spectrum of deez nuts.
- Comment on AI Art. 1 week ago:
You are welcome, “Pro”.
- Comment on AI Art. 1 week ago:
This is embarrassing.
- Comment on AI Art. 1 week ago:
You are completely missing the point.
- Comment on AI Art. 1 week ago:
So if I commission an artist that makes me an artist?
Cool, that means I’m a baker, doctor, bus driver, car, plumber,…
- Comment on nobody in webdev knows what graceful degradation is anymore 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s not a hard concept, it is an impossible concept.
- Comment on What happens if you pluck a hair thats rooted under a scab? 2 weeks ago:
A portal to the sgandu realm will open. There a bunch of sgandus will greet you with their traditional bligenschnipfels.
- Comment on What was the Nazi Germany equivalent to "Ted Lasso"? 2 weeks ago:
Thomas Fangseil
- Comment on can't unsee it 2 weeks ago:
Isn’t it just dead simple in that a mother is caring and gives you the feeling of safety, generally speaking, so you look for that in a partner too?
So it’s not that you want to fuck your mom but you look for positive traits in a partner that you parents instilled in you.
- Comment on Please can we make Soulslikes easier????? I can't handle the levels but want to feel leik a gamer. 3 weeks ago:
Yes, it is a single player game but this does not mean it all happens in a vacuum.
There are still resources in development that have to be allocated to that. Those will be missing in other places. Which in turn could affect my enjoyment.
And after I want to talk to people about the game it could also make a difference.
“Dude, that boss was fucking crazy. He kicked my ass for two hours straight until I thought of switching my approach.
I had this item that slowed him and this other item that made me take less damage from his element. Beat him in 5 mins after that. And the crazy thing is that item that slowed him I found in that castle where the kings was missing. That could mean he is THAT KING which was said to have abandoned the throne because of the challenges associated with it
Anyway how was the boss for you?”
"Oh, I played on easy and had no problems. Already finished it. "
“Oh… And did you like the game?”
“It was finde but I don’t get why people call it a masterpiece.”
*dramatic reenactment to bring the point across.
It also affecs me in the sense that it makes me said that those people got robbed of the experience.
I’m talking especially fromsoftware games here. Hardship and overcoming them is a core theme of the whole series.
So if they make it more easy without in game justification it is a betrayal of that core identity. It would lose integrity and its profundity.
Imaging someone would say "Schindler’s list is just to sad and long. They really should change that so everyone can enjoy the movie. "
Then some one makes a Schindler’s list with more jokes, it’s shorter and everything is in color the whole time.
Then that person from before goes to see that movie, comes out and sais “I just experienced Schindler’s list”
Did they?
And now that this version of Schindler’s list exists it will color the discourse of Schindler list, how people perceive it and what form a potential Schindler’s list 2 will look like.
Okay. Kinda going of the rails here. The point is that it affects other things besides that person choosing easy in that moment. It’s not world ending but it is there.
No it wouldn’t change my experience in the moment of playing but this isn’t the point. I want people to have THE experience.
It bothers me with the fromsoftware games because it is the core identity. It is the artistic vision, it is the whole point of the thing.
If there are other souls likes who have difficulty selection that’s good. There should be diversity. I think I have a problem when people try to force something to change to fit their want, without wasting a thought on the question if it makes the thing better.
I think here is our fundamental underlying difference in how we come to our conclusions.
I don’t think it is possible for people to experience it the intended way when they don’t use the intended setting. So the argument, that people want to experience the game and thus put it on easy, falls completely apart for me.
You are welcome ;D
- Comment on Please can we make Soulslikes easier????? I can't handle the levels but want to feel leik a gamer. 3 weeks ago:
Because the different difficulties are build into the game in the form of items, weaknesses and coop.
You have to invest time in the game to figure it out though. And that is what people don’t want. And that is why I say people just want to be part of the discourse and don’t really want to play the game. They don’t want to engage with the mechanics.
And the mechanics are the message. Under the lense of videogames as an art form and not just a product to make money.
if you change a mechanic without an in universe explanation that weaves in the greater themes, the whole peace loses Integrity.
At this point I hesitate because, do you mean soulslike as a genre or just the fromsoftware catalog?
Because if you mean as a genre I think its fine. It is just that I don’t want it for the ones fromsoftware makes.
Those are the only games I played that weaves it’s themes into so many layeres and delivers it all in a way that just a video game can.
And being in a unforgiving world where all you can do to overcome is be persistent, be aware and sometimes ask strangers for help is a powerful message.
Something you will never experience when the world isn’t that unforgiving in the first place.
Which is the irony in it all, that through changing the thing, the thing ceases to exist so you would not experience it anyway. Just some distorted version of it.
And thats kinda the thing that gets me mad when I see the debate. Because I fear that this will be taken away from me. That all the people who are not interested in playing the game, they are more interested in beating the game, will be louder.
- Comment on Please can we make Soulslikes easier????? I can't handle the levels but want to feel leik a gamer. 3 weeks ago:
That just something people say who want to be part of the discourse and are not really interested in playing the games.
- Comment on Please can we make Soulslikes easier????? I can't handle the levels but want to feel leik a gamer. 3 weeks ago:
You can find a madmens knowledge in the sewers, so it is possible before.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 weeks ago:
I don’t follow lunatics.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 weeks ago:
Don Quixote fought against windmills not giants.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 weeks ago:
You are crazy.
- Comment on naruto therapy 4 weeks ago:
The paper says you can run from your problems but only if you run like this:
- Comment on Lo-Fi Games know you've spent a billion hours with Kenshi, so they're working on making the sequel's discoveries even less predictable 4 weeks ago:
What state of mind do you have when enjoying coq?
Every time I start I get like 7 levels in and a dungeon deep and it all seems pretty shallow.
Which is a surprise for me because i thought it will be pretty much the opposite. Simple graphics, komplex mechanics.
It has to open up, right? But then why is it rogue-like?
Don’t know. Always quit it thinking “this is it?” and than starting again thinking “this can’t be it”.
- Comment on Game Pass will "either kill everyone else, or give up", says Dishonored and Prey dev Arkane founder 4 weeks ago:
The point is the destructive potential of it succeeding.
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 5 weeks ago:
The age old battle between “I think It’s funny because It’s true” against "I think it’s funny because it’s not true and absurd "
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 5 weeks ago:
I am poor and don’t call me Shirley.
- Comment on It really fucks with my recommendations, but fuck em™ 5 weeks ago:
Is funkwhale lime peertube for music?
So if I make music, could I upload it to, let’s say, your funkwhale instance and the that would be federated to all funkwhale instances?
Or is it more like Plex in that, you upload everything to your instance and I can just listen to it?
- Comment on We really don't want to talk about our problems 5 weeks ago:
To be fair, who said it wasn’t also men?
- Comment on Anon hates reddit 5 weeks ago:
I wish there was a board where people would have the ideology of the left but without bring so triggered by anything.
Just no concept of humor as a coping mechanism.
- Comment on In heat 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Beaches 1 month ago:
I must be phone/wallet then.
- Comment on Bungie delays Marathon, telling players, "we know we need more time" 1 month ago:
Bungie is done as a studio. Just a corpse with inertia.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
It’s a waste of time. There is so much technology between you and real people that it is just a exercise in frustration.
Work on yourself, get a hobby, go to groups that have that hobby as their main thing, there you will find a new mate or someone who will introduce you to your new mate or someone who knows someone who will introduce you to your new mate or…
Or if you really want to go with apps buy unlimited likes, boost your profile and set up an autoclicker that just accepts everything. If you got a bunch of matches you can ghost the people you don’t want.
