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  • -sigh- Ok I'll start another playthrough

  • It took me three tried to read your entire comment, but I did it 😭

    You're 100% right about how many distractions there are around me, I currently live in the biggest city in my country and it is simultaneously overwhelming and boring depending on where I am. Scrolling my phone is the only way I feel like I have some control over my attention.

    I'll watch the video you linked, thanks!

  • As much as I would love to invest in a BMW, are they still selling subscriptions to access features like dashboard camera recordings and heated seats? I don't remember if they walked that back, but I don't trust them enough to not implement it in the future again if they did.

  • No, fr, what do we do to reverse this? My brain is so cooked it's bothering me, man.

  • Thanks for the recs! I've played Aeterna Noctis and enjoyed it a lot, I'll definitely check the other two out!

  • Yeah, it does, but what are you missing exactly? Can you not get to the final boss without the DLC? No, you can get to the boss no problem, and in fact going to DLC biomes sometimes means you can't get to the final biome/boss. Is your playtime reduced to less chambers/run? Nope, the number of chambers and biome-bosses remain the same. Is the gameplay altered? Nope, all runes and weapons that you need to finish the game is there in the base game and unlockable.

    I know, because I played the base game only until the Dead Cells Castlevania PS5 collection came out.

    You're being disingenuous in making it seem like they purposefully cut content and then added it back for $$$, when Evil Empire has been adding a lot of free updates to the base game since 2019.

  • I get what you mean, but Dead Cells was already a completed roguelike on launch. The DLC's add variety and additional story, but you can still get the full gameplay experience with just the base game.

    It's like saying you won't support the Elden Ring because it has DLC.

    Also, the Castlevania DLC is just fucking cool. The soundtrack for those levels alone are just -chef's kiss-, and probably the closest we'll get to a new 2D Castlevania 🄲

  • Honestly, there hasn't been that many new games that have interested me this year, so I've actually been making headway into my backlog. I've noticed quite a few of my gaming friends doing the same.

  • Come to the ARAM/TFT retirement home, it's where the chill people are.

  • Your comment just made me check their post history and yeah, that's a bit strange...

  • I could also see this aggressively leveraged by the JK Rowling types to harass queer people.

    This is exactly what I was thinking, she and her ilk cry misogyny often while going after other women. Are they going to be held responsible under this policy? Or is this going to muddy the waters even more for "political points" while actually doing fuck all.

  • During undergrad I had to schedule my microbiology and pathology classes during lunch hour. Worst two semesters of my life.

  • I mean, it's South Korea, where 30% of their GDP is Samsung and Hyundai, and an additional 50% is other assorted chaebols. Corporate greed is assumed to be the ONLY interest.

    I don't think people realize how huge it is that Lies of P, a single player soulslike with no microtranaactions, came from a Korean developer. The Korean gaming industry does not think games like this can actually succeed because of the gaming culture there. Round8 deserves a lot of praise for what a huge undertaking Lies of P probably was behind the scenes.

  • Oxford English Dictionary: -adds a slang term or portmanteau in common use for years by millions of people in order to reflect the linguistic zeitgeist-

    Prescriptivists: 🤬NO🤬SLANG🤬IN🤬DICTIONARY🤬

    Prescriptivists from the 1800s: 🤬NO🤬USING🤬"ZEITGEIST"🤬OUTSIDE🤬PHILOSOPHY🤬

  • Ah, you're right in that co-op's are more direct contributions.

    My equvilancy was coming from the fact that I was thinking of the taxpaying base as the "members" of the co-op, and the redistribution of profits of it's members as the social services. I mean you vote for the board of a co-op too so...technically...the co-op model could work here.

  • ...isn't that just a co-op grocery store with extra steps?

    I agree though, we should incentivize having food co-ops in every state.

  • Listen, not to generalize a large group of people... but Irish-Americans are a strange bunch. The mix of Catholic guilt and American exceptionalism I have experienced in that demographic of my friends/classmates is definitely something I think about more than I probably should.

  • Sorry if I was unclear, I meant that you should be voting down ballot for people that are vocal about putting pressure on the higher ups, or have the power to put in local reforms that have cascading effects to a wider state/national level. Your state representatives, your municipal councils of government, your schoolboard representatives, a lot of places have those elections tied to presidential elections, and low voter turn out hurts a LOT because those are less gerrymandered and more likely to swing progressive if more people turn out to vote.

    Many people think that voting for the "right" presidential candidate is how things change, but there is just too much money concentrated at the top for it to ever happen post-Jimmy Carter. They will always more likely be milquetoast centrists to outright fascists, depending on the party.

    Of course this is all my opinion.

  • Biden is a self-admitted Zionist, isn't he? It's not a pejorative to him, or any establishment politician. It's ironic considering Ireland and the Irish people have been vocally calling it a genocide since the beginning.

    Still, there are more proponents of a ceasefire on the Dem's side than the Rep's, especially down ballot. If the Dem's capture both House and Senate, there might be enough noise to actually pressure towards a ceasefire. Go vote.