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- Comment on Any swifties here to verify this? 6 days ago:
It probably works with both meanings (and is a bit cringey because of that), but I kinda read it as she’s talking about him overall as being kind of a redwood tree…which would make sense, because he’s 6’5" tall and 250lbs. That’s a pretty massive dude…probably from both angles.
- Comment on I Quit 1 week ago:
Being rich is pretty fucking obviously mostly about being born to rich parents.
- Comment on soda 1 week ago:
Shoes
- Comment on Why do companies always need to grow? 1 week ago:
While this is true it’s certainly the case that publicly traded companies have strong incentives to grow.
Private companies mostly have the ownership, or the desire to go public to blame.
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 week ago:
Nah I’ll stick with repubs
- Comment on We don't use the word 'fascist' because we wish harm on anybody. We use it because words mean things. 1 week ago:
I call them Repubs at this point because they don’t want to say things like “Democratic politicians” opting instead for “Democrat politicians” because they’re worried democratic sounds too good.
I think republican sounds too good. They don’t want a republic, they want a tyrant.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 1 week ago:
I stream but from my own server.
- Comment on Spokesperson 2 weeks ago:
One of those hits was basically just a fan fiction based upon sweet home Alabama.
- Comment on Lies, all lies 3 weeks ago:
All music? Even songs of hate written by the ku klux klan?
- Comment on I baked eye ball cookies for Halloween 3 weeks ago:
How was the orgy?
- Comment on What is the origin of the whole "X destroys and humilates Y" genre of debate videos? 4 weeks ago:
You win the internet.
Who wants it at this point?
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 4 weeks ago:
Borderlands 3 kinda sucked it. I realized when I played it that they had hit peak during Borderlands 2.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN 4 weeks ago:
“Clair Obscur” means Light / Dark in French…which most of the creators speak. It relates, generally speaking, to the theme of light versus dark that is throughout the game.
“Expedition 33” relates to the story, and the party that you’re playing is a part of “Expedition 33”.
So, neither thing “means nothing”, you’re just a grumpy person looking for something to whine about.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 4 weeks ago:
The problem with that is you’re tying up the government’s ability to change in ways that have no correlate in industry or culture. This inevitably leads to government being unable to respond to changes that have already occurred or are currently occurring, and in the case of change driven by industry (i.e., most societal change in the US) that invariably leads to regulatory capture.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN 4 weeks ago:
I really enjoyed using Lune as my main damage character. I did this somewhat out of necessity in my first play-through – because I didn’t beat the final Gestral tournament battle with Maelle – after discovering the power of the combination of Elemental Trick with a high critical rate and Elemental Genesis and did it from the start because I enjoyed it in my second play-through.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN 4 weeks ago:
There’s a quest danseus in the area that will allow you to practice without penalty, unfortunately it’s a bit high up in the area so getting to it without knowing how to defeat the danseuses would be pretty tricky.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN 4 weeks ago:
No fault of the game but I just couldn’t figure out if I wasn’t leveled enough or lacked the skill.
Even the hardest boss in the game can be killed with one shot on normal difficulty with a correct build and the right turn order.
I say that because while learning how to parry and dodge are important, pictos and equipment can more than make up for inabilities in the middle-to-late game.
Overall, pictos are arguably the most important thing in the game.
I wound up playing the game through twice, once on normal difficulty and then again on story difficulty (I just really enjoyed the game and wanted to 100% it and had missed a couple of the only missable achievements).
Don’t feel bad playing it in a lower difficulty level, and then try to learn when to parry attacks. There are often visual and audio cues.
A lot of the difficulty when playing the game as intended (at normal difficulty) is learning the pattern of when to press the parry button. You can learn this more easily on story mode because it’s more forgiving. Counterattacks are very powerful throughout the game, and only happen if you learn how to parry.
Maelle being powerful also has a lot to do with the weapon she wields. If you didn’t beat the last Gestral arena fight with Maelle, you might want to restart the game and do that, because that weapon will carry you all the way through the regular end game (though you might need a better weapon to 100% the game).
You can beat the main story using Lune’s abilities for your main damage pretty easily. The one-two punch that I found very useful (after building around it) was using “Elemental Trick” followed by “Elemental Genesis”. With Elemental Trick, you can produce 4 stains in a single attack if you get your critical rate up. One easy way to make critical high is to use the Critical Burn picto and make sure to keep around a burn on one of the enemies to attack with Elemental Trick. Once you have the stains you need (4 critical hits, one of each element), Elemental Genesis can one-shot a lot of enemies throughout the game. It’s great because it’s a multi-hit attack and a multi-enemy attack. It works very well before you can do over 9999 damage in a single hit.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Tops 4.4 million sales - IGN 4 weeks ago:
The kind that makes sense if you play it.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to the club!
I’m there. I vote Democratic but there’s basically no representation for my views to be found.
- Comment on Do you think conservative feel the same need to burn it all down as everyone else felt when trump won again? 4 weeks ago:
Conservatives have always been regressive, period. Their entire philosophy emerged from the “excesses” of the French Revolution. The forward “movement” (if you want to call it that) was from the “divine right of kings” to the “divine right of lords (chosen by the market)”.
To quote the infinitely quotable (Wilhout, from the top rope…with a fucking blog comment):
Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.
I understand the desire to take the positive aspects of a word, apply them to your political stance, and pretend that you’re part of a movement. But it isn’t true. It reminds me of when lefties (in often an USA centric thread) describe themselves as “left libertarians” all this crap does is confuse people and make you sound like a pedant.
If you think this is what conservative means, you’re basically just politically homeless…and have been since you started calling yourself that.
- Comment on how do school shooters know how to use guns? 4 weeks ago:
They just aren’t that hard to use.
As Thelma says, “can’t be that hard, idiots use them all of the time”.
- Comment on Randy Pitchford Snaps Back at Borderlands 4 Criticism: 'Code Your Own Engine' 4 weeks ago:
No
- Comment on Hmm this "unisex" bathroom seems biased... 4 weeks ago:
Soft close toilet seats should be mandatory.
Then putting the lid down is a matter of a single light push.
- Comment on 'Borderlands 4 is a premium game made for premium gamers' is Randy Pitchford's tone deaf retort to the performance backlash: 'If you're trying to drive a monster truck with a leaf blower's motor, you're going to be disappointed' 4 weeks ago:
Sucker game made for sucker gamers.
Are you inclined to blame yourself for the obvious failings of a gaming corporation? Smash that buy button now!
- Comment on Let's See The Practice Vids 4 weeks ago:
When you’re so desperate not to help a stranger that you develop superpowers instead.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 4 weeks ago:
They didn’t become conservatives to understand things…
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 5 weeks ago:
What a relief that they they secured those nearby trees.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 5 weeks ago:
I think this whole genre is wack, TBH.
Agreed. I’m not sure why I would waste my time with shit like this when it’s just objectively not fun for me to play.
Different strokes for different folks, so if you like it more power to you, but I’d rather play games that are fun to play for me.
I only have a certain amount of time to play video games, and if I can’t make any progress at all in an hour or two, why would I bother continuing when an hour or two is usually all I have in a day to play your game?
I’ve decided not to bother picking up silksong because I found HK tedious, frustrating, and unrewarding.
- Comment on ngl im kinda here just waitin for it 🤣 5 weeks ago:
My truck left me and my wife broke down
- Comment on Trump posted this in Truth. 5 weeks ago:
It’s fucking Cheungus making these things. Dude’s like the incel m’lady in chief.