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I'm not an expert in psychology, but straight up denying reality has to be a worse strategy than just admitting Biden is senile.

but within the story you are preparing to take over the mantle of a god.

You're kinda doing the same thing in DS as well though, taking up the mantle of Gwyn as the Chosen undead.

I don't fault Sekiro since it's fundamentally a different combat system. ER and DS3 are more or less further developments of the formulas in DS1 though so I think it's fair to criticize how they changed.

It's a gradual process that started in DS2 and continued into Elden Ring. Hence why I said "later soulsborne" instead of just Elden Ring.

If you're going to be snarky, at least read the original comment.

The feeling of combat in newer Soulsborne games has never felt quite right to me.

Take a look at weapon animation in DS1 vs Elden Ring. In DS1, the vast majority of the weapons had realistic animations. Only 2-3 weapons had you performing acrobatics beyond what a normal human could do. Sure there was magic and giant swords, but it felt grounded within a low-fantasy setting.

In Elden Ring, the majority of weapons feel straight out of an anime. You zip around doing flashy moves as a standard attack. Spells also got significantly more flashy and absurd. The Tarnished feels closer to a demigod in their abilities than they do a human. I feel like this shift in feeling has kinda destroyed the whole "overcoming these challenges as a small insignificant dude" vibe because your guy is able to swing their sword like a shonen protagonist.

I feel like the emotional heart of dark souls has been lost in order to create cool looking combat.

While people in the Imperial core do benefit from imperialism to the extent that it makes them unrevolutionary, it doesn't mean that making them worse off will make it any better outside the core.

Increasing income inequality in America doesn't make third-world countries any less exploited. It just means more of their labour is going to the American bourgeoisie rather than the American worker. The only argument you can really make is American workers should be worse off because they benefit from exploitation. But that's not a Marxist position, that's a moral position. It's a position that only seeks to punish people.

Regardless of whether American workers unfairly benefit from imperialism, I don't like when children go hungry, I don't like when LGBTQ+ folks are attacked, and I don't like when people die because they can't afford medication. Fighting for these things in America will not stop nor make worse the exploitation of the third-world.

Yeah, but the mechanics really push you towards certain builds. Bosses are too fast so 90% of the time you can't use slower, heavier weapons effectively.

I also didn't like how they went hard on "long wind up but extremely quick execution" for lots of boss attacks. In DS1 and DS2, you can kinda dodge attacks on instinct alone if your reaction times are good. In Elden Ring, you just have to remember the timing on the attacks which isn't that engaging. Eventually, I just used my first attempt on ER bosses to kite the boss and study their patterns.

Joe getting covid, spreading it to Trump, and killing them both would be the one thing that could save America.

And I do think it's reasonable to say (correct me if I'm wrong) that Trump is the furthest right GOP candidate for at least several decades.

Trump just says the quiet part out loud. He's more or less a traditional republican, just more outwardly racist. In some ways, the fact that he's an idiot with no loyalty beyond himself has lead to him being slightly less horrible in a few ways than a competent republican would be.

I'm starting to wonder if the implicit assumption here is that if Biden wins, Trump and his base will be essentially defeated.

Liberals have been pulling the "lesser of two evils" shtick since the 70's. I'm not saying your wrong, they certainly do think this way. But they would think so regardless of whom the republican candidate would end up being.

Everything looks just fine on 1337 and gogunlocked.

And they stole the idea from me. I said what if we had a giant robot, and we had someone shove a small Japanese man in his ass. Then when it was inside, he could control the robot with wires and buttons while inside the ass.

The game is definitely balanced around them but making the player reliant on the jank of AI can make the fights hit-or-miss.

Sometimes your summon will get bodied by the boss in 10 seconds, sometimes it'll last the entire fight taking off a quarter of the boss's healthbar. There's just a large range of things that can happen which are mostly outside of player control.

That's assuming that an engine built for driving a space ship would be powerful enough to push the giant space rock.

It'd be like strapping a car engine to a mountain and expecting it to go just as fast.