coyotino [he/him] @ theangriestbird @beehaw.org

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this is what i've been saying since the day after the election. glad someone with a bigger platform is finally saying it.

ahhhh you beat me to it. i was tryna line it up with the release day! lol

Well...i wish i had more to say about the game itself aside from my preview thoughts. I love the Souls games but have not gotten around to Elden Ring specifically. Seems like they nailed the "ER but more multiplayer" feel that they were going for, and I think that's sick as hell.

Mohammad Sinwar had been the target of an Israeli strike on a hospital in southern Gaza earlier this month and Netanyahu said on May 21 that it was likely he was dead.

Great, just another attack on a hospital full of civilians, all to kill a guy that thinks maybe Israel should stop killing Palestinians.

"In the last two days we have been in a dramatic turn towards a complete defeat of Hamas," he said, adding that Israel was also "taking control of food distribution", a reference to a new aid distribution system in Gaza managed by a U.S.-backed group.

And we all know we can trust Israel to put the wellbeing of Palestinians first!

Israel's retaliatory assault on Gaza has decimated the coastal territory, killing more than 53,000, according to health officials in Gaza, and displaced over 2 million Palestinians. Gazan health officials have said most of those killed have been civilians but have not said how many militants have died. Israel believes it has killed tens of thousands of militants but has not provided any evidence to support those claims.

Case in point. This is our brave new world, this is the ally of both political parties in the US. Speak out against them and they'll kill you. Speak out against them with a group of friends, and they'll brand you a terrorist group and then kill you.

yeah? which parts stuck out to you?

Cool cool. Thanks for all that you do for this server!

i replied in the other thread, but the alt text you are seeing in that screenshot was added by me manually. That is the text I typed in the "body" box, not the "alt text" box.

i guess that sort of makes sense, like if you're hacking the thing to install your own software, Nintendo says "have fun outside but you can't come back to our garden".

But it also doesn't because Nintendo has the power to remove functionality that I already paid them for. Even if I tinker with my device, why does that mean that I can never go back to the stock Switch experience that I paid for?

not sure why that is such a dealbreaker to some people, but sure

my opinions are based in facts and data, my dude. My personal connection to my two cats makes me extra passionate about this, but if the data said it was good for them to be outside, that's what i would be advocating for. Full stop.

yeah this one hit me like a ton of bricks too. reading the specific details of the abuse really gets under your skin.

interesting. I was watching some videos comparing the two yesterday, and honestly i came away still feeling like Souls combat speed is fairly realistic. This bloke makes fair points about the true practicality of a huge greatsword, and swings at a speed that is maybe two swings per second. A DS1 claymore has similar swing speed, particularly in two-handed mode. The DS1 Zweihander is right on that line between "realistically-sized" and "anime-size", and I would agree that they make that thing look heavier than a real zwei.

On the flip side, the longsword is barely any faster than the claymore, so I could see that feeling unrealistic. I guess my brain just likes to rationalize that sort of thing away, like "yeah that seems slow but maybe I would fight carefully like that too if I was fighting multiple people that were actually trying to actually kill me". Do you disagree with that? Do you feel like you would still swing a longsword at two or three swings a second if you were in a life-or-death fight?

because i care about the wellbeing of cats? tf are you even talking about

Hi Penguin, the alt text in the body was added by me after the fact. That alt text is actually the body text if the post, the image itself apparently has no alt text.

sorry for having a moral backbone ig. i have two cats that are traumatized from living outdoors. When the front door is open, they don't try to bolt, they stay put because they know they have it good. The outdoors is not good for domesticated cats, and domesticated cats are not good for local wildlife. There's zero reason to send them outdoors, unless you like inflicting harm on animals. I am very passionate about this, and it makes me very sad that people dump their babies outdoors because they don't want to spend the time and effort to provide them with enrichment.

right there with you. and there are SO MANY levers they could pull under the hood to tweak the difficulty without fundamentally changing the fights. Adjusting stuff like poise, estus flasks, flask consumption time, etc could all make the game easier for folks without changing the fights themselves too much.

Agreed, if you can't keep them inside you shouldn't get a cat.

it's very comfy here in my bubble and i have no problems with that

Cars shouldn't be outdoor pets. They are an invasive species in most parts of the world, and devestate local wildlife. Keep them inside.

thank you for that check. here's what i am seeing on browser:

Beehaw just did a version upgrade last night, so there could be some server weirdness still.