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Started a new Elden Ring playthrough and Margit is so funny. Really good early challenge to get back in the swing of things.

Ohhh, the Red Wolf of Radagon (Elden Ring, 2022)

This explains a lot, actually.

I know the economy is shit right now but they're leaving potholes unfilled in our damn mouths these days, what is the world coming to?

It's actually a little fucked how when you get your wisdom teeth removed they have to dig holes in your gums to get them out and then have the audacity to say "Okay you need to rinse the holes regularly." BROTHER YOU MADE THE HOLES, FILL THEM BACK UP!

I think it's a bit rote and a teeny-tiny bit shit when a story has a town or city named after a term that implies depth just from the term itself, like "Façade" or "Paradigm" or "Allegory," but that first impression of mine goes away once said story delivers on more than just the implication.

*person who has no idea why they don't like a game voice*
and they don't let you go inside every single building it's basically a PS1 game

It really bites because it even applies to non-horror games if the game in question has death as a punishment. I'd much rather deal with that then jumpscare fodder games but it annoys me how much of a weakness this is for me.

I don't really have a "fear of being chased" IRL but something about playing video games instills it in me and it's quite a shame since a lot of horror games would be up my alley if not for most of them leveraging Seeker Pursuer tension. Oh what, a creature up in the rafters coming at me? Alt+F4.

"Things behind waterfalls" is in the same field as "can i pet the animal" for me in terms of "things in video games that people make a big deal about when it usually doesn't matter one way or another.

Terriermon and Lopmon sittin' together, chillin.

Jotchua and his friend chillin. Friendly. (two puppies)

I surreptitiously reach over with my spoon to fish out the peas and carrots from your soup to put them in my soup while you're yapping to the rest of the table about the latest digimon lore.

Sin Devil Beaver.... whow

That's the ToonTown agenda. We can't listen to them.

The primary thing anyone needs to know about my WoL is:
Do Not Disarm Him.

For me, the scary part isn't watching that happen live; it's finding out the shift happened 5+ years ago and they've never updated their borrowed opinion. No research, no second opinions, no firsthand experience, nothing. "I got my opinion on that sorted, no further curiosity will be spent."

What the Silk.

Not showing the health makes the fights feel more "real" but no battle damage or anything like that makes it feel more "video gamey" anyway.

If the boss still had ~40% of their HP left, I might've played more safely than I was, and possibly won the fight; on the other hand if they were at ~10% I may have fully committed to hyper-offense and won that way. Might look into mods/modding this in the future to see how I feel on the other side.

I don't believe it's a Bad Design Decision per se, it's just not one I'm fond of the more I think about it. I've done 3 attempts at one boss, and i know the 3rd attempt was the best since I got to the 2nd phase, but I don't know how much more of the boss there was left.

I think I don't like the hidden boss health bars in the Hollow Knight games. It obfuscates my ability to gauge the effectiveness of spells/tools/etc. and it isn't replaced with touches like "the boss gets visually weaker" or "their color palette degrades" which act as diegetic replacements.

-hands romi the mine and not the sword thinking that's what romi wanted-

If you ever want to develop a big chip on your shoulder in the US, live within weather distance of a Bay Area and then watch how many people use the phrase "Bay Area" to refer to places that they don't live in, but are not your Bay Area, as if San Francisco Bay is the only bay in the whole country.

Artist's rendition of "How it feels when you keep seeing a particular visual feature room after room that seems pretty important to the level design but you can't interface with it yet, and then you start seeing a 2nd one that you also can't do anything with, and you keep seeing both of them now."

It'll be okay but my options at one point were:

1. Backtrack to my benchmark in the previous zone.

2. Press on into the new zone with new enemies and unexplored rooms and I have 1~2 HP.

I figured I'd die anyway so I didn't really have a choice.

(You don't actually have to do that, but if you don't I'm going to think lowly of that area for awhile.)

You know how gamers (and people) have specific irrational expectations like "things have to come in threes" (e.g. 3 cycles of a boss)?

Mine is "if I'm playing a game that is about Exploring Areas and it has Checkpoints, you have to give me a checkpoint at the start of a new Area."

All right, time to see what the silk is up with this lady.

Showing this tweet to military officials throughout history in my argument for why they shouldn't call them "regular infantry."