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  • Wow, some of these are genuinely good, so evocative and visceral 👌

    She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

    McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

    The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

  • [Lies of P] My journey comes to an end at last
  • Really tho it’s the disk space and not the performance for me. 250gb, less OS/system/applications/etc across two people quickly shrinks to like 60gb each.

    The real game is the storage Tetris I played on the way to the install button 🫠

  • [All] I don't think the situation is that dire, but it's a trend
  • I still enjoy a lot of these other games but I really feel like “souls like” is thrown around pretty loosely on anything that just has a similar combat style, but none of those other hallmark traits.

    Look at me, I have intricate hitboxes, annoying bosses, and big doors that open slowly: I’m the soulslike now!

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  • I gave it a try on mobile and my general feedback is I think the game doesn’t work on my phone/browser.

    My specific feedback is that I can’t tell what’s interactive and what isn’t, except for the giant arrow buttons to sidescroll the stage.

    Great work getting the game up and out there 👍

  • Everything is not a date
  • I really enjoyed this. Dying gasps of wasps is so poetic.

    However, as a fig grower and excel user, I would replace:

    makes a mess on my desktop

    with:

    seeds are confusing

    Because propagating fig via seed as pretty tricky, and understanding the underlying random seed in excel is also pretty bewildering. And also excel only clutters your desktop when you yourself save too many files there, right?

  • [Discussion] I don't feel like Soulslikes need to keep getting harder
  • They can make it harder by adding features that reduce the effectiveness of player skills sharpened in previous titles.

    In Elden Ring, jump is sometimes better than roll but you only discover this by facing bosses where jump is much much better then roll. Radagon fight comes to mind but there’s probably many others.

    In a sense they made the game harder for those skilled at rolling by offering a complementary way to avoid damage. Now the skill ceiling has raised to knowing when to use which one instead of just knowing when to roll.

    This adds both difficulty for veterans and easiness for first-timers.

  • Theydies and gentlethems, it is with great pleasure that I can say I absolutely bodied Malenia last night. It's my first full playthrough of any Soulsborne.
  • Have you tried charging with Torrent then dismounting into a jump attack?

    With the raptor shirt and jump talisman and a second Curved Greatsword (Morgott’s sword to stack bleed with Bloodhound Fang) you can drop some serious hurt.

    That’s what worked for me on Elden Beast, just jousting with jump attacks 🤣

    Good luck and congrats on Malenia, that’s the real accomplishment

  • Cringe at Farpoint

    I swear I remember they cut directly to Obrien and Data with incredulous "did he just say saucer sep" looks on their faces.

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    Any Book of the New Sun fans?

    One of my absolute favorites and I'm hoping folks want to talk about it.

    Hands down my most reread book. Me, an atheist, never imagined a twisty/puzzly novel about the life and times of future space jesus would speak to me so deeply.

    The prose is multidimensional and layered with meanings that only come into focus once you know where it's going.

    Some of my favorite examples:

    • The title of chapter 1
    • Severian first finding his dog.
    • Thecla's story of a fortune teller predicting she would sit on a throne.
    • The ending of book 1
    • The ending of book 2

    Any other trek fans delighted by Group of Seventeen in book four, realizing it was 10 years ahead of the TNG episode "Darmok"?

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    Welcome to the team

    Been here 5 days and I hate it already, I understand this vacancy now.

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    The moral fiber of Captain Archer

    I actually read somewhere that Archer did nothing wrong and afterward I began remembering all these scenes haha.

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    Sokath, his browser’s eyes wide open

    > They're the things we carry with us, the things that make us who we are. If we lose them, we lose ourselves. I don't want my pain privacy taken away. I need my pain privacy!

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    Is this still a thing? I haven't played for a long time

    Also, Engineering: divert all life support to shields and Helm: initiate attack pattern alpha 💪

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    Gowron delivers every single time 👌

    House of Quark is a high point where he saves Quark’s life and allows a Klingon woman to inherit her own house.

    Tacking Against The Wind is a low point where he is reduced to a cartoonish mustache-twirler.

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    Anne Rice is a helluva drug

    The movie’s still great, but the book was really that amazing.

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    A history of violence

    Possibly unpopular opinion: Harbinger is one of the absolute best episodes of Enterprise

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