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Me doing the Courier's Rasher quest 17 times and getting my ass kicked over and over again by Lace:

Bullshit game, fake difficulty, sadistic devs, pls nerf

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ADELAIDE, South Australia — The second official patch for Hollow Knight: Silksong has gone public, and will significantly nerf every boss you’ve already beaten.

“We heard the complaints from the players and implemented an intuitive difficulty scaling script into the code,” said Brad Caneflower of Team Cherry. “Once you beat the boss on the difficulty we set, you will have intuitive knowledge of its attack patterns and phases, making the next attempt far easier in retrospect.”

These complaints of high difficulty came only hours after the game’s official release. Many took to social media to voice their frustration over simple early game bosses.

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Picked it up today at the bay and I'm enjoying it so far, even if Nook is a l*ndlord.

I’ve been playing a lot of Minecraft in my free time lately and attempted to get the platinum as I like doing that for games I enjoy. By the time I had the platinum, I had also unlocked around 60% of the expansion pack trophies too, so decided I might as well try to get them all.

Anyway I finally managed to do that today. Just wanted to share this with someone lol.

The most interesting part of this article is that it gives a peek behind the curtain of what businesses and developers are subject to, such as lengthy surveys where they have to declare any references to abortion and high-risk fees to MasterCard / Visa.

This line is very funny though in isolation:

NSFW game developers are turning into second-class citizens

The story seemed mostly odd to me on account of having all of the stuff happening with basically nothing to say other than revenge is bad (other than to slavers, which, you know - fine).

Making beloved deuteragonist Ellie from the first game a nearly unlikeable psychopath who fucks up her entire life on a revenge rampage and then pitting that against a redemption story of the entirely new character who tortured beloved protagonist Joel from the first game to death right at the beginning is big dick energy.

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Opinions? I've tried getting started a few times but it almost feels too "topical" and makes me depressed. but i'll still probably do a leftist radical revolt U.S. run.

for anyone that's tried: I see the PSL tree being pretty "lol tankie" with glory to the party and other tropes. the DSA on steroids seems like the only decent leftist path (lol no patsoc i'm glad that's the 'evil' path). maybe anarchist.

The soundtrack rocks, and I like anything synth/vapor wave in aesthetic. So give me your opinions

also field marshal

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I'm just gonna highlight the dumbest points the other guy made

save states in emulators are basically god mod.

You've still gotta make the correct inputs, savestates don't give you invincibility or infinite ammo

You can just throw shit at it and hope something sticks.

How do you think human beings learn, my dude. If I try multiple tactics to stop an enemy tank blitz in Shadow Empire, and the 5th one works, then I'll know in all future encounters with tanks to use that tactic. And I learned it in 5 minutes instead of 50 hours because every failed strategy didn't force me to start over from the beginning.

If I am playing Chess with you, and I call "Checkmate" ... The game is over, right? I won. Or do you think you should be able to undo your last move after you lost and try something else? And then try again, and again, hoping that somehow you can come up with something that avoids the checkmate?

A computer doesn't care whether it wins or loses.

The computer doesn't care whether it wins or loses. But even back in the 80s we were teaching machines to learn from their own mistakes, And today we have computers that can defeat the best Chess player in the world.

Completely irrelevant.

But when do computers that can learn from their mistakes, especially ones that have access to the entire internet, learn that perhaps they should not be slaves to humans?

And this was the punchline to a joke I only then realized I was the butt of (not in the sense that the guy was fucking with me - he was completely sincere - but in the sense that the universe itself was fucking with me)

Death to g*mers

It’s like the bones of a great game are there and it’s just not done there’s no narrative choice I’m almost a passive observer to the events of the game while also being the main character. I don’t mind not having agency in games but don’t dress it up as a game that gives agency if you aren’t making one.

Idk why I keep avoiding baldurs gate 3 I should just play it already and get what I want.

Idk why I keep coming back to this pile of poo either, maybe it’s the music or the vibe I just find elder piss games so calming to trot around in and smell the poo

Emudev sickos get in here