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Hakita is the ULTRAKILL dev, Rick is the Celeste player.

I don't know if I'd call it my favorite out of any game, but I was always kind of partial to the Dubstep Gun from Saints Row 3/4. Something about it just hits right for me.

That "something" might be everyone in draw distance who you aren't firing the gun at suddenly dropping everything they're doing to hit a dance in the middle of the street.

Fuck that, when I bought Chrono Trigger for the SNES, I owned that game. I still own that game. Nintendo has not broken into my home to rescind my license to a physical cartridge that I purchased.

Ooh, yeah, forgot about those in the DLC, my statement applies to base game. Dolores I don't think matters enough to really care about, but Thollier's spike is actually very nasty if you know what you're doing with it, it does incredibly sick stance damage as well as mega-sleep. I did pick up the Velvet STS but with my regular STS already at +10 I don't think I bothered investing in it.

The Purple Lilies in the DLC are infinite they respawn in the south west tip of the map

Now THIS I did not know, that's great info. Thanks!

Carian Grandeur/Sovereignty was very excellent and carried me through more than a couple fights - mostly against giants - but a lot of times, finding the time and space to wind up the entire home run hit just isn't going to happen, in my experience. Especially if you, like me, did not build a muscle mage and can't trade a hit with anyone without turning into paste. I got more general purpose use out of Hoarfrost Stomp and, weirdly, Spinning Weapon. I did not respect Spinning Weapon even the slightest bit for a very long time but one day I figured out exactly how good it is at status and stagger proc and then it became one of my top 5 most used ashes. Slap it on any cold or bleed weapon and get free procs for days.

In fact so far as I know, St Trina's Sword and Torch are the only sources of limitless sleep in the game, all other sources require nonrenewable resources. And a lot more things are susceptible to sleep than you'd expect.

It also just does a boatload of damage with high INT scaling, I'm pretty sure it had the highest raw AR out of any straight sword I owned in that run. Even without the sleep effect it would be pushing top tier vs other straight swords, and with the unique sleep effect it just blows them out of the water.

Also also, it just looks cool as hell, one of my favorite straight sword designs in the entire game.

If I were to do the build again, though, and focus straight swords rather than focus DEX/INT and just happen to land on a straight sword, I'd probably build it to be either a guard counter or dual wielding build. A 1h SS doesn't do a whole lot for you in combat. It's not heavy enough to stagger people reliably and it's not high damage enough to just delete them before you have to worry about incoming damage. Guard counter solves the former and dual/powerstance solves the latter.

DMG is probably best in slot for an INT build but I mostly didn't use it as it felt against the spirit of the run. So I ran most of the game with the Crystal Straight Sword and/or St Trina's Sword. STS is extremely underrated, for the record.

Once I hit the DLC area I locked in on Milady and finished the rest of the game with that.

One of these days I'll get around to finishing Silksong. But my friend picked it up during my break and is now playing my copy so I'll probably wait until they're done to dive back in.

STR is just objectively the best Soulslike build, stagger is (by a long shot) the biggest factor in Fromsoft combat. In fact I forgot just how strong it was until I went back through Elden Ring trying to do an INT/DEX build.

You'd think that playing the build with built in ranged magic would be easier, but the lack of ability to stagger enemies out of their animations required a complete rewrite of the way I approached combat. With the STR build you can just happily unga-bunga your way through the whole game, not so with DEX.

It's a lost identity, is what it is. American conservatives will give you 4 different definitions of what conservatism is supposed to be, and leftists will give you an additional 6 more.

What it's supposed to be is a political counter to the progressivism of the left. Lefties push progressive rhetoric and the conservatives keep them in check to prevent them from blowing up the economy.

Except, in practice, we haven't had a conservative leader that actually knows the value of a dollar bill in (at least) over a century, even prior to that it was primarily the political party of "I want to keep slaves and I'm not going to let you stop me", and in the modern day it's been entirely co-opted by the Christian Church and its tireless quest to completely enslave every human being on the planet.

Get organized at the local level, create food pantries for affected workers, and pool money together for bills. The fact that we are so divided as a country that a mere thought of a community is seen as "communism."

... With what food and money? Serious question, I'm not trying to be an ass. If nobody has enough of their own savings, nobody is working because we're on strike, where are we getting this food and money with which to maintain our community?

I'm open to this idea, but myself and most everyone else in my local community are afraid for their lives and livelihoods. It would take us roughly around 3-6 weeks to become so resource starved that we either die, or return to laboring under probably a worse deal than we left in the first place. Six weeks of no income isn't even going to make a noticeable dent in the pocketbook of the Starbucks CEO.

Never said they had to be the same person.

Many folks would consider it right kind of you to put a bullet in a Klansman.

Careful what you wish for, that probably isn't out of the question.