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From the mouth of Mike Wazowski himself, Elden Ring is balanced around using everything
  • 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.

  • Is this a good analysis of liberals and their views on Trump and voting in the upcoming election?
  • 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.

  • Old farts of Hexbear, is there something about younger people that you don't get? [no punching down!]
  • I'm early Gen Z and the thing I kinda dislike is how shameless this generation is.

    Anime is a good example. It used to be a niche thing for nerds that you were kinda ashamed of outside of Studio Ghibli, but now it's really mainstream. That's all well and good but then you have some people with hentai stickers on their school laptop. Instead of adopting anime as a medium, we adopted the worst forms of otakuism. Instead of mass adoption tempering the worst aspects, it appears to have emboldened them instead.

    I also know some people who go around sfw anime cons and pay women to step on them in public. When I said this was kinda weird, I was the one in the friend group that got flack. Gen Z is more willing to embrace their weird habits but some stuff should be done at home or with private groups.

  • Follow-up to old post about man-made horror: man-made horror has been commercialized and is also live-streamed. (Brain organoid computing)
  • i would actually find it horrific if they kept tissue from a human arm alive (say, a bicep) and made it do stuff with electrical signals (say, lift something) for 'research purposes',

    Buddy, I hate to tell you this, but that's literally what your brain does with your arm every single time you move it.

  • Follow-up to old post about man-made horror: man-made horror has been commercialized and is also live-streamed. (Brain organoid computing)
  • Plus, these seem to be made from interneurons from skin cells. Basically, neurons who transmit signals along the nervous system. I'd be more concerned if they used Pyramidal cells which play more of a role in learning, cognition, and memory.

    While interesting, you wouldn't say that keeping some tissue from the arm alive to be a "horror" on par with a brain in a jar.

  • Thoughts on spirit ashes in Elden ring?
  • 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.

  • What are your most hated sci-fi/fantasy tropes?
  • 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.

  • I'm mad, so here's a post about Warhammer 40k
  • Yeah, but the humans and other races they seek to integrate into their society aren't. They'd either have to do some necron-tier shit and destroy the souls of their citizens or they'd be at risk of humans creating a new chaos god.

    Another option is they may decide that warp-sensitive races are too much of a risk to the galaxy and adopt a genocidal attitude for the greater good. That would be thematically appropriate for Warhammer 40k. A bad encounter with the effects of the warp leading to them abandoning their previous principles. Kinda like how the Horus Heresy affected the Imperium of Man.

  • I'm mad, so here's a post about Warhammer 40k
  • I wouldn't be terribly opposed to a lord of altruism or comradery,

    You fundamentally misunderstand the Tau. They're not altruistic, they're just the least-worst civilization. They're closer to a space Roman Empire than they are to communism. They'll conquer you, put you in a pseudo-slave caste, and collect taxes. They can only claim to be a lesser evil because every other civilization's default response is genocide.

    What kind of chaos god would they make?

    Probably something to do with absolute control. The Greater Good is an authoritarian philosophy in which individual citizens don't really have any rights. They have certain cultural freedoms of course, but no right to self-determination. For warp-sensitive races that believe in this philosophy, it would show up as a desire to dissolve the ego into the whole. This could create a god which seeks to create a galaxy wide hive-mind of sorts. A sort of warp based Tyranid empire composed of multiple races which would subject entire planets to experimentation for the greater good.

  • I'm mad, so here's a post about Warhammer 40k
  • The grimdark part of the Tau empire is that despite being very morally good, they'd still be completely wiped out if any of the other factions considered them a threat.

    Also, while this is less confirmed, it's also implied that the Tau's belief in The Greater Good could eventually wind up creating a new warp god leading to the destruction of their civilization. The tau are the equivalent of a squadron of fresh recruits surrounded by entire armies of people who hate them. That's why they still fit in the grimdark universe. They're the plucky, good civilization with no real shot of surviving.

  • Wasps
  • A wasp stung me once 10 years ago so I now murder all wasps' nests I see on sight.

    Shouldn't have fucked with the insect equivalent of an eldritch god with the power to wipe out your entire colony with a spray can.

  • Y'all remember that time we got officially sponsored by Hatsune Mike?

    Edit: Why is the reference to the bit I did like a year ago getting more upbears than the original bit?

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    Anyone donate plasma for cash?
  • I'd do it regularly but so much of the time I spent in the centers was just waiting around doing nothing. Even though the process only took an hour or so, you had to wait 2-3 just to sit down in the chair. $80 for 4 hours is still worth it but only just barely since you can only do it twice a week.

    It kinda bills itself as a "Quick in and out deal to get some spending money" but it's closer to an entire half-day of waiting/donating and then feeling kinda tired for the rest of it.

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