Idiots with guns kill people by accident.

‘Accidents only happen because somebody did something on purpose.’

Oh come on, show me a single elementary school classroom in the US that doesn’t have this…

It’s not so much button mashy vs not; it’s the responsiveness. Take a step back from videogames even: if you were some medieval knight or w/e in a sword fight IRL: your sword is raising as you’re initiating an attack, and you notice your opponent moving his blade toward a vulnerable spot you just left exposed.

So do you just follow through with the attack knowing there’s a blade closing in on your axillary artery, accept your fate, take the blow, bleed out and die? Or, do you abort the attack in favor of a defensive move like lifting your shield or turning a bit so the blade hits your armor instead?

The former is what combat is like in DS (and MH… haven’t tried the others).

It’s unsatisfying flavor of difficulty… again comparable to sabotaging the controls of an otherwise not difficult at all experience (sponge taped to gameboy). Or like… say you need to do the dishes, and up the difficulty of the task by tying a toothbrush to the end of a 5’ stick and scrubbing them with that from the far corner of the kitchen. The task is difficult now, but that doesn’t make it fun, just tedious.

Just pulled up Remnant - I don’t think I’ve ever seen that game before. The Steam pics/vids look pretty great: I’m getting VERY strong Secret World Legends vibes (which is a fantastic game despite having god-awful combat). I’ll throw it on my wishlist and see if I can snag it on a good sale.

‘clunky’ is the end product, but the biggest contributing factor is the absolute committal nature of initiating an animation. Need to take half a step to the left to dodge an arrow? Fuck you, I’m only one second in to a 2.5 second sword twirling animation! …and actually you double clicked at the start of the animation, so I’m gonna do it again for another 2.5 seconds! …so you die, respawn, redo that fight but this time you know when the arrows are coming so you don’t use the long animations. Clear the fight, wooooo you got gud… but trying to dodge arrows and not being able to cuz your character is busy doing a dance routine is some of the least fluid combat I’ve experienced in a videogame. Any keystroke that comes with an animation is always in competition with other keystrokes that have animations.

Combat boils down to memorizing attack patterns and playing a mental macro on repeat until the enemy is dead. There’s no responsiveness from the player, you just die until you know why you’re dying, and tweak the sequence until it works. Eventually the final boss is dead.

I’ve been told that for whatever reason it feels way less clunky on a controller - I’ve only ever played it on a mouse and keyboard.

idk.

Like I said, to each their own. I’m a little jealous of whatever it is the fanbase is feeling when they play those games, but it’s a miss for me.

Any of the Dark Souls. They’re hyped up for being difficult, but the only thing that makes them difficult is the clunky controls.

Like, I could make Pokemon Yellow equally difficult by taping a dish sponge to a Gameboy and requiring the player to operate the buttons through an inch of fluff.

The story’s kinda there if you dig for clues, but it comes off as random bullshit if you don’t.

They are fucking gorgeous, I’ll give em that.

I’ll never understand the ‘git gud’ circlejerk… I 100%'d DS2, and made it a good chunk through Elden Ring (think I was about 80% done before finally saying fuck it). I ‘got gud’… But DS never got fun.

I absolutely love the style, setting, visuals, and music - I really wanted to like DS… but the combat and clunky controls absolutely murder the experience.

For me at least… to each their own.

Professionally, never bitch down or laterally. If you’re going to bitch up, do so in private.

…I think that was from some war movie… Saving Private Ryan? But fuck if it isn’t solid advice!

The good news is we can correct that surgically. The bad news is… well…

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If that’s not an instance yet, it needs to be.

There’s still Templar and Dragon!

All you need to do now is inhale a bee and trash your apartment with the superpowers it gives you.

Fortified short grain white rice… hit up Costco or Sam’s, or your local Asian market, and you can score a 20 lb bag for like $15 which comes out to literally a few cents per meal. (well… pre-tariffs at least… nowadays idk)

From there, add beans, or eggs, or chicken broth, or literally almost anything else: shit off the clearance wrack, from the food pantry, w/e. If it’s a meat or veggie, it’ll go with rice. In the case of the pantry, if you’re not actually sure what it is, it’ll still probably go with rice. Got a bag of spicy cheetos you forgot to close and now it’s all stale? Don’t throw that shit away, smash it up and throw it in with your next batch of rice - now it’s spicy! (I’ve done it - texture’s a little weird, but otherwise came out better than expected). Rice is ridiculously versatile.

Disregard the hate for white rice being nutritionless junkfood - it is, but when money’s that tight, you don’t give a fuck. The fortified rice mitigates that a bit, and in my experience is usually cheaper. It’s a starting point: add what you can to make it less shit; and even if it’s a meal of just straight rice, that’s still better than an empty stomach.

I’m all for it. Let’s have discovery, let’s shine a light on this stupidity.

Well… here ya go.

Pretty sure that’s just feces - don’t let the color fool you.

I use Amazon as a search engine to narrow down to a few options for a product, then go to those manufacturers’ websites and order directly from them. Been a while since I’ve ordered directly from Amazon.

assorted Pokemon trading cards worth more than $30,000 in total

That’s like, a single shiny Charizard according according to some kid I went to elementary school with like 3 decades ago…

Disturbed Disappointing

Always on the lookout for a streaming service that can actually distinguish between different subsets of metal.

Spotify and all the popular alternatives, I’ll seed a playlist with some symphonic metal, and within like 5 songs it sounds like a troop of howler monkeys having an orgy ontop of a pile of guitars and drums. Not quite my cup of tea. I want it to sound like band and orchestra nerds having an orgy ontop of a pile of guitars and drums… is that too much to ask?!

That accounts for a good chunk of the blocks as well.

This is one of those one-bite-at-a-time projects - just hit a few on each visit, it adds up.

I hardly ever block individual posters, but communities, I’ve blocked 936 of them at the time of making this post. Sports, porn, anime, or furry shit are all block on sight. Plus a handful of randoms that I’m just not interested in.

I’ve finally got All where it’s pleasant to browse. Takes some doing, but worth the effort if you want to customize your feed reductively vs actively seeking out and subscribing to communities.

OC, baby!

…but feel free to steal it / change it / use it as a copypasta, idgaf

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