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Here is my dark souls hot take nobody asked for: Demon Souls is the best one even though I never played it, I gotta get that gamercred tho. Dark Souls is amazing, and I live vicariously though watching speedruns and gimmick runs. Dark Souls 2 is my favorite due to the sheer amount of gameplay options and viable builds you could pull off, that said I usually just played dude-in-armor or stabby-rolly-man. Dark Souls 3 is pretty cool, but im old and slow so the combat speed goes over my head at times. The Sims 4 (The dark souls of character customisation) is pretty decent nowadays. Bloodbourne is amazing, but it needs to come to the Switch since I don't own a playstation ok.
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What's quite annoying is that...well yes, Riot's approach here is bloody dumb. It excludes a whole load of other people who could be considered minority voices in gaming that could absolutely contribute (LGBT men, PoC, trans men, anyone who generally identifies masc and all combos), it flies against everything that tells us segregation is dumb and very bad, it does nothing but throw the actual views that people may express on panels like these into one pissing room of virtual irrelevance (oh hey, it's the Diversity Lounge all over again), it's clearly a grand yet meaningless gesture from a company who doesn't want you to look over there at all those recent articles detailing how Riot is a poo poo-awful place to work. There are many ways to attack this. Unfortunately Boogie chose none of them and instead went for his usual combo of "What about the Reddit man" and "THIS IS HOW PEOPLE GET KILLED" and as a result, everyone hates him. Again. The only people who don't dislike him are the generally apolitical and others on the centre tbh. Y'all could never match the hate chuds have for him.
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Sep 4, 2018 11:05
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Sep 4, 2018 11:20
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I like Dark Souls 1 the most because everything feels weighty and moving around like a sack of boulders makes it feel like I imagine walking around in heavy plate while carrying a huge hunk of steel around would. Ds2 and 3 are lesser games by speeding it up.
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Sep 4, 2018 13:12
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cat doter posted:oh how did this get here, very strange Hmmf, of course, known criminal and street marcher- a crime so heinous it rests just below being black and illegally using a charcoal grill in a banned area of a public park- would support misandry and making men illegal from a conventions panel. Also Dark Souls 1 was the best one IMO. Even if I do have to give it an 8.8 for Blightown, Lost Izalith, and Bed of Chaos.
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Sep 4, 2018 13:52
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cat doter posted:blight town actually loving rules Framerate issues and those loving toxic blowdarts aside yeah, it was cool.
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Sep 4, 2018 13:58
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any level that can make you feel like you're on some descent into hell where everything loving hates you and wants you dead while you're totally lost rules
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Sep 4, 2018 14:02
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Blighttown running at 60fps made the lovely HD rerelease worthwhile
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Sep 4, 2018 14:02
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I've tried to get into Souls (only number 1) a couple of times but have never quite managed it. I REALLY wanna though, it seems like tons of...um, fun? Is that the right word? I get frustrated and defeated so easily mind you, and I barely give myself the time to play things that aren't the simple to understand old games I usually cover.
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cat doter posted:any level that can make you feel like you're on some descent into hell where everything loving hates you and wants you dead while you're totally lost rules Oh yeah I wasn't being sarcastic, I really do like Blighttown. It's also really neat being able to see the giant flying buttresses from Firelink Shrine.
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Sep 4, 2018 14:16
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Kim Justice posted:I've tried to get into Souls (only number 1) a couple of times but have never quite managed it. I REALLY wanna though, it seems like tons of...um, fun? Is that the right word? I'd try starting off with bloodborne if you wanna get a feel for the series, plus it's a little better balanced and more mechanically satisfying initially, while still giving you a good feel for the style of combat in the other souls games
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Sep 4, 2018 14:17
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Framerate issues and those loving toxic blowdarts aside yeah, it was cool. Yeah, I mean at release, not remastered versions.
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Kim Justice posted:I've tried to get into Souls (only number 1) a couple of times but have never quite managed it. I REALLY wanna though, it seems like tons of...um, fun? Is that the right word? Oddly enough I can't keep up with those older games you tend to cover, its all happening so fast and sudden. 
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Sep 4, 2018 14:23
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Jimbot posted:It's that time again! Everyone's favorite fence-sitting one-step away from being a MAGA chud said something incredibly He's gonna Boogie oogie oogie til he just can't Boogie no more. Ah Boogie, Boogie no more.
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Ash Crimson posted:At this point boogie is just a heaping mound of sentient biological poo poo given a platform, who only exists to defend the status quo and I have no idea how people can defend him when he's got all the hallmarks of an emotional abuser. There are more people that don't know what emotional abuse is than those who do.
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Sep 4, 2018 16:06
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Good Bad or Bad Bad looks at Miami Connection, one of the most awesomely bad films out there.
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Boogie seems to have a pathological need to draw ire on himself and then try to place himself above it.
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DrVenkman posted:Boogie seems to have a pathological need to draw ire on himself and then try to place himself above it. Like everyone else has said, he’s a psychological manipulator. See his VidCon ‘17 meltdown where he willfully misinterpreted an innocuous thing Anita Sarkeesian said to him in private and had a several day long heaving meltdown over it for the sole purpose of trying to embarrass her somehow. Guy’s devious smart.
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DrVenkman posted:Boogie seems to have a pathological need to draw ire on himself and then try to place himself above it. He is a  liberal bordering on chud. I am not surprised.
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DrVenkman posted:Boogie seems to have a pathological need to draw ire on himself and then try to place himself above it. It's a vicious cycle that happens when Boogie commentates on basically anything. Boogie draws a load of blasts from either the left or right (or both at the same time), Boogie wallows in self-pity, Boogie's fans say how inspirational he is and he "gets better" and a couple of days later it happens again. It's compulsive. Like, there's something clearly and majorly screwed up there. By this point I can't feel much in the way of dislike or anything at all really though - it's happened too much for too long. When you think he's on a better track he's suddenly worse than ever. One can only observe and hope that at some point they break the cycle, but you need the motivation to do it first of all. EDIT: He's not the only one either, some people are just addicted at drawing bad poo poo on themselves and manipulating their way out. It's a depressing existence. Kim Justice fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Sep 4, 2018 |
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nine-gear crow posted:Like everyone else has said, he’s a psychological manipulator. See his VidCon ‘17 meltdown where he willfully misinterpreted an innocuous thing Anita Sarkeesian said to him in private and had a several day long heaving meltdown over it for the sole purpose of trying to embarrass her somehow. It probably is pathological, like munchausen syndrome or something where he has a need to be cosseted and affirmed by caring others. Even his infamous “confrontation” with Anita Sarkeesian ended with her coaching him through hyperventilation exercises like putting his head between his knees because he had such a severe freakout and only recovered once she quit treating him like an adult and started mothering him instead.
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Sep 4, 2018 18:01
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Just sounds like untreated anxiety to me
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Sep 4, 2018 18:10
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Mokinokaro posted:The main problem with 3 is that is has vast swathes of essentially recycled content from earlier games. It's basically Dark Souls: Greatest Hits. There's a very strong argument to be made that the repetition goes far beyond mere fanservice and is core to the themes of both DS3 and the entire series. For my money they also put on a novel enough spin on it.
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business hammocks posted:It probably is pathological, like munchausen syndrome or something where he has a need to be cosseted and affirmed by caring others. Even his infamous “confrontation” with Anita Sarkeesian ended with her coaching him through hyperventilation exercises like putting his head between his knees because he had such a severe freakout and only recovered once she quit treating him like an adult and started mothering him instead. I mean, while I still think Boogie is a gently caress, this is basically how anxiety feels. Your brain kicks into this terrible place of pure fear over what seems to be mundane things and the only thing that gets you out of it is someone having some kind of understanding of what you’re going through. I can feel the exact thing Boogie felt just by thinking of it. I know what it’s like to be confronted by something and shutting down because holy poo poo does it hurt and scare me so much. I’m not defending boogie but just saying that this stuff pretty much breaks you down and it’s very hard to get out of it.
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Sep 4, 2018 18:44
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Shaun pointed out in Twitter that boogie is 44 years old and I’m in awe
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nine-gear crow posted:Like everyone else has said, he’s a psychological manipulator. See his VidCon ‘17 meltdown where he willfully misinterpreted an innocuous thing Anita Sarkeesian said to him in private and had a several day long heaving meltdown over it for the sole purpose of trying to embarrass her somehow. I dunno man, I'm gonna need more evidence of him being a 'Net genius than that. This just sounds like that tongue-in-cheek thing when people would say: 'God, what if the whole DSP thing is just an act the whole time?'
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Boogie is what happens when a YouTuber develops a parasocial relationship with all of is followers instead of the other way around. You try and please a mass of humanity (and lack thereof) that is impossible, so you waffle yourself to death.
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Sep 4, 2018 20:28
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No lie this is more or less my stance no only to Boogie but to a few other figures discussed.
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RareAcumen posted:I dunno man, I'm gonna need more evidence of him being a 'Net genius than that. This just sounds like that tongue-in-cheek thing when people would say: 'God, what if the whole DSP thing is just an act the whole time?' I mean, you don't have to be a genius to be a manipulator. Most of the manipulators I've known have been overall fairly dumb. They just instinctually recognise the kind of behaviors that mean "this person will give me what I need" and fall into patterns that lead to them getting the thing they need. They're often not even doing it intentionally, which is part of why it's so difficult to break out of that kind of behavior.
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Kunster posted:No lie this is more or less my stance no only to Boogie but to a few other figures discussed. drat this is good
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Sep 4, 2018 21:18
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hbomberguy when are you finally gonna make a video about your time as the saxophonist in Men At Work
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Sep 4, 2018 21:33
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Boogie is the Michael Scott of YouTubers.
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Kim Justice posted:I've tried to get into Souls (only number 1) a couple of times but have never quite managed it. I REALLY wanna though, it seems like tons of...um, fun? Is that the right word?  ), but is probably just plain ole questionable design in the grand scheme of things.
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Yeah, I tried Demons' Souls at the behest of a friend once and didn't much care for it, then at that same friend's insistence (along with the rest of the internet) I gave Dark Souls a try. I wound up bouncing off of it several times before it finally clicked for me. I blame at least 3 of my failed attempts on Blighttown.
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It’s not really a failure it’s how the game is designed, it’s how the series is designed. Not everyone wants to play that which is fine but it’s kind of important and isn’t bad design or whatever.
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One of the things I will admit that I agree with Joseph Anderson about is that there really is a bunch of bullshit in DS1 (and the other 'Souls games honestly but it's worse in DS1 since everyone treats that like an untouchable masterpiece of hard but fair) that harshly punishes new players to an obnoxious degree and can't really be defended with the idea that the game is playing fair and you just should have been more observant/better prepared. Mainly the Anor Londo Silver Knight archers and the Drake gotcha in the Undead Burg.
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Sep 5, 2018 00:36
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I mean the silver Knights are at like the half way point you aren’t a new player at that point.
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A serious question here: Can anyone recommend me a good video to help someone understand body/gender dysphoria and transexuals in general? Like 101 stuff. Normally, if they had some inkling I'd point them in Contra's direction but while her videos are good and informative, they might be a bit on the weird side for them. I honestly can't remember where I started off or what helped me understand all this a little bit better.
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CharlestheHammer posted:I mean the silver Knights are at like the half way point you aren’t a new player at that point. First time play through, you know how much people replay these games.
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