I was feeling the same the other day so I did some digging. Apparently, "Hot" sorting was recently changed to take community size and activity into account in order to boost posts from smaller communities.
It's not perfect, but in my experience it is a little more varied than active, or top x-hours
I could see that. I loved playing them as a kid, but I never really enjoyed the tailing missions. I think they could take some inspiration from the Hitman series. I always thought that series had the assassin gameplay nailed better than AC.
Sometimes it's just about ease of access. I'm happy to pay for games but it's often harder to track down legal copies of retro or delisted games than it is to find a torrent.
And a number of the files you find on torrent sites were uploaded by someone who bought the content legally. Torrenting is just peer-to-peer file sharing, someone has to acquire the first copy somehow
that patrol special zones of the map. They're invulnerable to everything except for a specific, single use power-up in their zone. Until you find the power-up in that EMMI's zone, you have to sneak around or evade the EMMI
I can't speak to the ripping of content, but you have to scroll pretty far depending on the subject to get a better result.
Searching "Soul of Cinder" on Google is all Fextralife, fandom, YouTube, reddit, ign/Gamespot/etc. Wikidot doesn't show up until halfway down the first page and it doesn't show up at all on duckduckgo.
The answer is probably to add specific sites names to my searches but I'm lazy
I beat Dark Souls 3 this week and I hoarded embers the whole way. I had a stack of 60 by the time I got to Midir and Gael. I did finally crack into them when I realized that they were the only 2 bosses I had left. So, baby steps I guess
My partner and I got an espresso machine earlier this year. It's great, I haven't gone out for a cup of coffee in months now