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They're always so close to getting the point.

"Your agony resistance isn't high enough. Here's a debuff that just murders you." Game design!

Fractals are fun. I enjoy them a lot. But what do you mean I gotta not only get high end gear, but also farm enough infusions to slot into that gear to be able to do the higher tier ones that are actually rewarding?

Let's shift gears and complain about Guild Wars 2 for a change, shall we?

Agony infusions suck. That whole progression system is hot fucking garbage. If I am good enough to do higher tier fractals (I'm not), I should just get to do them.

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*snrk*

God forbid young people do something just because it's cool.

Wooper? I hardly know 'er!

Apparently the LW4 one has a 21 day timegate, that can be bypassed by forking over ~50 gold, but there's also another 41 gold requirement and I just do not have that kind of cash. x)

Still wanna do it. Gonna be slow.

...gurls

And most of the game then takes place inside the Matrix where you have superpowers.

I'd love to say it makes sense in context.

Oh, IV goes HARD off the rails and I love it. It opens with The Boss being president of the United States. And then Earth gets blown up.

There's also a section where you have a discussion about the difference between a mech and power armor.

Well now I just wanna replay Saints Row IV

I mean, I'm not sure I would fare much better.

The song isn't ABOUT the hubris inherrent in American exceptionalism. The song IS the hubris inherrent in American exceptionalism. The ego required to write about beating the devil and getting off scot free is both staggering and entirely in-character for America.

Was a time I believed the best interpretations of The Devil Went Down To Georgia were the ones that made it about hubris. That the gold fiddle was cursed somehow and the devil meant to lose.

Now I know it's just the American 'nah I'd win' attitude, without a hint of irony.

Learning to let others be kind and generous to you is a skill I believe is as important to learn as, say, reading.

We're a highly social species, and survive and thrive by helping and uplifting each other. The idea that you have to be self-sufficient and can't lean on others is a capitalist myth.

"Oh hey this is neat and insightful stuff! Finally a new creatore I can- oh they still think Harry Potter is okay never mind I'm good."

Anno 2070 essentially takes the framework of Anno 1404, moves it to a sci-fi setting, and expands on its systems, creating a game that is much more in depth.

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...d'you get it?
In depth?

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The joke is you can use submarines to build underwater settlements.

Yup!
Conversely swords, and really any melee weapon, rely on speed, precision, and maneuverability to be effective. Raw might plays very little role in it.

Same.

Just like... constantly. All the fucking time.

Real happy to live in Belgium where we still have a gender clinic system but at least we can count our waiting list times in single digit years rather than decades or centuries. :)

The idea that swords are strength weapons and bows are dexterity weapons is rooted in a glorification of European style of warfare that posits close-quarters combat as noble and honourable and manly, while Asian styles of horse archery are by contrast none of those things in this essay I will-

The depictions of longbows as just being statistical upgrades over 'shortbows' (whatever the fuck that is) in many RPG and game systems is rooted in a colonialist mindset of white suppremacy in this essay I will-

My main criticism of S4 is probably the complete lack of Kas and Jory. I get that they probably didn't want to overbloat the cast, but Jory had already sat out all of PoF, and I miss my detective lesbians.

Putting on the social media CEO clown makeup step by step

God, I'm gonna have to figure out the masteries.

Can't wait for one of them to experiment with gender, only for all of them to be flamingly queer by the end of the year.