Michael Fozz

Picture of a tyre barrier being demolished in a BTCC race at Oulton Park.

If you switch on level scaling for the enemies it's rock solid and even an encounter with a pack of wolves is a challenge.

However, you can play it on easiest level and enjoy it like a movie if you want.

Nobody loses out.

I'd just rather see games where the maximal number of people can enjoy and complete them.

Something like Dark Souls is great for people who want to die a lot and get a kick out of hard gaming.

It's a waste of money for anyone else.

Witcher 3 got it about right. Death March is a hard setting.

I know this may come as a shock to you but people whose preferences you don't agree with also get to have their say.

Most game designers nowadays are adept at providing some sort of extreme difficulty level.

It's always a form of gatekeeping or people would just do their own thing and not be aggressively trying to fit in with others and point out who isn't part of it.

Some games are just a sack of wank, it's that simple. And they ruin it for themselves by being lazy.

I'd rather have fun. I'd rather play something well made.

I have had my moments of losing it at well made games and persevering. Something like Super Metroid or Zelda Link To The Past. Where once you get a grip on it it's beatable. Even if it was hard to suss out.

No.
If a game throws a brick wall at me that's not fun to beat it's going on the back burner, probably permanently.

I don't mind something that's actually a challenge you can overcome but when it's a tedious bullet sponge war of attrition with unplayable dynamics it's piss poor design.

Fashion. The constant desire to move the goalposts on what's cool to wear/watch/listen to/follow just so you can humiliate and exclude anyone behind the curve (or anyone uninterested in joining in).

Why? What's the point?

1. Zelda - Link to the Past
2. Super Metroid
3. Skyrim
4. Final Fantasy 6
5. Fallout 4
6. Breath of the Wild
7. Gran Turismo
8. Super Mario Kart
9. Baldur's Gate 3
10. Witcher 3

What! Me, a Nazi? Don't make me laugh. Nazis are the scum of the earth and the day the last one alive dies will be the greatest day on earth. Fuck the Nazis. The first paragraph. Get people saying it wasn't a Nazi salute to post that in their next reply or to make a thread saying it. Their refusal will tell you all you needed to know.

Sagan was a prophet.

It's not even about the actual salute. It's about the way the press just rolled over and started gaslighting us. He got to do a sieg heil in plain view at the largest podium then watch the people who should be holding him to account roll over and expose the throat.

Cowards.

Blatant Nazi salute appears to be just like a Nazi salute drawing speculation that it could be something other than a Nazi salute from utter cowards masquerading as journalists.

That's because you weren't saying something remotely reasonable. Disgusting.

You're supposed to be taking some sort of moral high ground against Nazis and yet here you are.

Huh? What the hell are you on about?

I'd like you to very clearly explain the link between being autistic and being attracted to Nazism.

Yeah we knew it was something. Didn't stop us being fucking horrible to you, obviously, but we always knew there was something up.

We haven't spoken for years. All the girls chose him over me. 😉

It's a marvellous idea.

Everyone should copy her and he should be left alone, blinking and confused, in a massive empty auditorium. Even the building staff should quietly leave as soon as he arrives.

It's an autocorrect mishap because I meant deprecation (it just tried to do it to me again but this time I was ready for it) and I'm pretty sure you knew I did. But top drawer condescension. That means talking down to people.

OMG I'm autistic. I'm not supposed to get jokes and I'm outperforming 99% of these replies.

It's satirical humour, folks. Self depreciation. Sorry, I just used a big word. He's mocking a particular mindset. Is particular a big word? Fuck!

I assumed you were snarking at Jools Holland.

His Hootenanny is prerecorded.

The fact that this book (just insert anything outside what authoritarians think are rigid social norms for left handedness) exists for people today and ought not to seems to fly over people's heads way more than it should.

Great post!

Please stop adding stigma to people suffering from some form of mental illness in this way.

Yes, often an identifiable mental illness is a factor. But by no means always. Sometimes people just have really poor access to information and make very poor decisions based on a warped world view.

It's high time that people understood that believing false things and acting according to those beliefs in ways that are problematic to others is not a diagnostic criterion for mental illness.

The person who shot up the school isn't mentally ill by default.

I understand the sentiment of grief/loss/performative honouring.

I just cannot get my head around expressing that sentiment by standing in line to briefly shuffle past and stare at the chemically preserved dead meat suit of the person you loved and honoured.

a young boy is cracking an egg into a pile of food . Alt: a young boy is cracking an egg into a pile of food . He is visibly suppressing the gag/vomit reflex

Yep. My childhood memories are largely me overcoming some sort of ick by sneaking up on it somehow.

Lots of serious effort put in to find a way to have the food in my mouth without gipping*.

Stuff like hiding the egg white by combining with bacon on the fork.

And for that show to not even actually be live?

Good for you. Luckily people get to prefer every single graphical style they like.

What the hell is wrong with frivolity? Mario Kart is frivolous as the day is long. Joyous gaming with lush cartoony graphics FTW