Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful youāll near-instantly regret.
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If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cutānāpaste it into its own post ā thereās no quota for posting and the bar really isnāt that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many āesotericā right wing freaks, but thereās no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iām talking redscare-ish, reality challenged āculture criticsā who write about everything but understand nothing. Iām talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyāre inescapable at this point, yet I donāt see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnāt be surgeons because they didnāt believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canāt escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
after playing silksong and hades ii, i am now pretty confident that game devs sniff their farts more than any other artists
āthe player canāt pause during the boss because he controls timeā fuck offfffff
(hades ii is mostly excellent, though, and silksong is a diamond encased in dogshit ā there is a wonderful game in there, if you can find it)
That sounds really neat for all of 30 seconds before your cat knocks over their water bowl mid-fight and needs your immediate attention, thus reminding you why pause functions exist at all.
Gotta love forgetting why games have these features in the first place, so accessibility features get viewed as boring stuff you need to subvert and spice up. also reminds me of how many games used to (and continue to) include filters for simulating colorblindness as actual accessibility settings because all the other games did that. Like adding a āDeaf Accessibilityā setting that mutes the audio.
Demon Souls didnāt have a pause mechanic (maybe because of technical or matchmaking problems, who knows), so clearly hard games must lack a functioning pause feature to be good. Simple. The less pause that you button, the more Soulsier it that Elden when Demon the it you Ring. Our epic new boss is so hard he actually reads the state of the tinnitus filter in your accessibility settings, and then he
You probably already know this, but thereās a relatively cheap upgrade you can buy at the camp in Hades II that disables this mechanic. Forgot what itās called, but itās something like āAllows you to use time magic against the bossā.
I bought it before I ever paused against the boss. I discovered this mechanic doing Vow of Rivals :(
Yeah, when I pick it up there had better be a mod to quit that sort of shit.
I donāt care about whatever half assed diagetic reason your team came up with. Life happens.
I hate when ATMOSPHERETM is used to justify shitty design decisions. Find a way to make it diegetic without making me navigate to fucking nexusmods š¤®