Something being hard does not necessarily make it fun, and if some players are confused about any of the variables (controls or otherwise) then the gameplay can feel frustrating. Maybe I just did not vibe with that encounter or maybe it has design problems. Why is that so hard to believe?

To be clear, the boss in question is the second encounter with Jack in Resident Evil 7. I didn't know you could crouch to avoid some attacks and I didn't intuitively understand how to dodge his move-set so it took me more than 10 tries. I doubt knowing how to beat him would have made the fight fun.

Sick to death of when I look up whether people thought a boss fight was well-designed or not and the discussion becomes about what strategies are intuitive or not. Am I dumb because something that a few randoms in a thread thought was obvious was not to me? Can we talk about game design instead?

This government suffers from severe loser stench. Everything they say and do is a barely veiled form of "I'm the BOSS and you have to RESPECT ME!" and nobody does. Millions of people are going outside tomorrow just to say so

Important reporting here that Israel has killed 23 people since the truce.

Governor Pritzker needs to do something about this but going against the police is a no-no apparently. Almost no politician seems willing to be even a LITTLE bit critical of the police. ICE is awful, obviously, but the police frequently, violently support them.

oxford was going to open source what became the astrazeneca covid vaccine before the gates foundation pressured it to sell to pharma instead, bill gates has literally killed possibly many people by depriving them of vaccines for profit so this meme is making me a little insane lol

you have to call off the state police that is roughing up protesters if you are serious.

ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right

I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed

I remember a few people on here saying the reports were exaggerated

The unifying theory of all American conservatives is that they all demand that you be their friends at gunpoint, and tell them how handsome and special they are

* Over 20,000 Palestinians killed since January
* 100s starved to death, including kids
* Congress bypassed to send more & more bombs to Israel
* US citizens murdered in the West Bank

I hope this ceasefire holds & I am glad the hostages are free, but this is Trump’s *actual record* so far.

Thanks, Robert. How did you know it was my birthday and also Christmas, but just for me?

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”

Are there any examples of progressives that you think organize well? Zohran Mamdani and Kat Abughazaleh stick out to me as new candidates that have skyrocketed to success through heavy use of social media, community engagement, and frequent public declarations of policy in plain terms.

I mean, depends what kind of competition we are looking at. I personally could care less if one party dominates the other if they are a party that represents the people. Neither do right now, especially the right. Regular people just want leaders who care and will do something about it.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

My boy

Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

I guess fascism really is just having the firm belief that you should be able to ramble about whatever the hell you want and have people nod and take it seriously

The funniest thing about this is how legit terrified ICE looks.

There’s no rule of journalistic neutrality that requires you to say something is “unclear” when that is objectively untrue. It would be illegal. There’s absolutely zero ambiguity about that fact. Saying it’s unclear is making a false statement in your reporting.

Jesus Christ. The lack of shame that Israel's government, military, and law/immigration enforcement have right now is unfathomable. Greta Thunberg and all the members of the flotilla are incredibly brave heroes for facing this violent, authoritarian crap.

Federal Judge Blocks Trump’s Seizure of Oregon National Guard for Portland Deployment Read more here.

BREAKING: A federal judge blocked President Trump’s call-up of the National Guard for a deployment in Portland, saying his actions were based on false claims and undermined Oregon’s sovereignty.

Just terrifying levels of dead-eyes subservience to authoritarianism on the part of the ICE agents. Jesus.

we live in actual hell

like, i don't really know how to adequately express the anger that i feel watching this video. not showing your face, lazily teargassing random people on a neighborhood street without getting out of your car - the image says more about these goons than i could articulate bsky.app/profile/clan...