I never found Elden Ring to be too fast, but Bloodborne (playing now) definitely has a few bosses that are that way for me.

I admittedly sorta like the more responsive player input, because I think it’s very frustrating in those scenarios where you are animation locked for several seconds, an obvious attack is coming your way, and you are trying to react but just can’t. And I know that’s part of the expectation of the earlier games, that you’re supposed to learn when your punish windows are and when to back up/defend. But when you’re supposed to learn through failure, yet failing has consequences (the long run back), that just doesn’t feel as great.

If you play too cautiously, each pull just turns into death by 1,000 cuts. But then when you try to tease out the boss’s limits and see what you can get away with, you die more often and have those long runs back.

Elden Ring is definitely faster/riskier than early Dark Souls, but IMO it made things perfect through the implementation of Stakes of Marika. Having little to no run back so you can just focus on the boss was great, IMO.

Bloodborne, though, I just can’t help but feel like the bosses so far are far too punishing for how fast paced everything is, and then you have some runs back. I’m never sure when I’m even able to parry with the gun, and they seem intentionally made to be deceptive with their punish windows (moments that were punish windows in the first half of the fight often get follow-up attacks in the second half of the fight to trick players into falling for it). The only saving grace for Bloodborne for me is that the blood vials are very instant use and you can go in with a lot of them, but the finite nature of them (having to buy/farm more if you run out) has me worried of relying on them too much for bosses that I anticipate I’ll die to a lot.

I don’t think the mere avoidance of military service inherently makes someone a good person, though. It’s not as though we uphold Donald Trump’s draft avoidance as a virtue, for example.

I try to be a good person where I can. However, the mere circumstances of my life and the social system I grew up in, and which I remain complicit in, will certainly disqualify me from being considered a good person under someone else’s standards. I regret that, but I also accept it.

I’m just trying to eke out a sufficiently stable life for myself in the remaining time I have on Earth, during a moment in time where that is becoming less and less viable or ethical to do.

Yep, never forget the way ICE/DHS tried to spin the narratives around Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

The article does mention that they did already vote to end it over a month ago, but it failed because Republicans control the house and the senate. I’m not sure why this fact seems to keep coming as a surprise to anyone.

Short of staging a coup, which is not likely to succeed without support from the military, it’s not like there’s really much else to do but keep holding votes and hoping that eventually a small handful of Republican politicians will have their “come to Jesus” moment and vote against their own party.

Tell that to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

Just the light contrast. Stars are not as bright as the light from the sun reflecting off the Earth and the Moon. If they adjusted the exposure enough to see the stars, the Earth and Moon would look blindingly bright in comparison.

It truly needs to be very dark for stars to be easily visible, to the extent that the mere lights from a nearby city shining through the atmosphere are enough to render them invisible on a clear night.

Yep. I hate to say it, but the system is rigged to push people into serving.

I grew up in a relatively rural part of the south. Among the people I went to high school with, most of the ones who managed to get their lives in order by their 30’s either:

• Came from money, or married into money.

• Had a degree, no student debt, and a nice VA loan to buy a house.

The idea that one can just work hard and opportunities will come is a myth. A lot of brilliant people I knew from high school deserved better than they were offered. I was at least able to go to college and suffer through the process of earning an advanced degree, and now at my age am just barely beginning to pick myself up out of literal decades of struggle. But there are amazing people I know who deserve that shitty overpriced piece of paper way more than I do, yet never even had the option.

But then when you hear that Kevin, the D student who used to sell weed beneath the bleachers, now has a degree, a good job, and a nice house because he enlisted and spent 4 years deployed in Korea just monitoring radio equipment…it’s a bit demoralizing.

I’d like to say that my decision not to enlist at least puts me on some sort of moral high ground, but we’re all basically complicit in the violence of capitalism at this point just by doing whatever we do that keeps the machine running. I never had to worry about the guilt of killing brown people in the desert, but my taxes still bought the guns.

Well yeah, Catholics are the “wrong” kind of Christian in the US.

I am also curious to know, as I’ve also run into this recently.

My knowledge of Buzz Aldrin involves him punching a moon landing denier in the face for saying he faked the whole thing, so I feel like this must be some sort of new denier disinfo campaign.

If you turn history off, there should be no recommendations whatsoever. The page is empty except for video search.

It’s just water water, really. Water is already an acid.

Basically. How to be the worst contractor and still get paid for it.

I forgot what the game was called until I looked it up again just now, and so this had me thinking that Low-Budget Repairs had finally released

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3167920/LowBudget_Repairs/

Far right, there’s South America

Oh, for sure. Their souls are so black that Anish Kapoor has exclusive rights.

Okay, that got a gut laugh out of me, I’ll have to use this one later on.

In a general sense, absolutely, but there are still a good number of pro-AI communities around here that typically keep to their own bubbles. Anyone browsing by All will inevitably see them come up here and there.

I also see AI-gen content make it to the top of larger, more general communities like Lemmy Shitpost every now and then. Usually when it’s harder to tell that it was generated by AI. When it gets called out, you’ll typically see more upvotes than downvotes, but there will inevitably be some AI sympathist or two in the replies who won’t hesitate to go off about how it’s not a big deal/it’s just a meme/there’s nothing inherently wrong with AI/etc.

A lot of countries use , to indicate decimals instead of .

The inconsistency is inconvenient, but context helps.

And your description sounds more like you’re asexual with men

Seems more like aromantic to me than asexual. OP enjoys the sex, just not the intimacy.

Labels are dumb, but if I had to call it something, it’d be homoromantic-bisexual or something like that.

I don’t see what’s wrong in describing oneself as a lesbian in that instance, given that all labels are just labels of convenience and it describes OP’s ideal preference well enough. Even if some gold stars may disagree.

“Up to birth”, but then after that it’s fair play. Now that’s the American way!

We can also start counting the total days of this 2-week special operation in Iran.