I can’t even read this article. Nothing will surprise me. The total disregard for women's suffering is nothing new, sadly. I’ve been consumed by true crime podcasts lately, because my job allows me to listen to things while I carry out menial tasks. My overarching takeaway is that people ignore their gut far to often,…

I agree with you 100%. I know I’m not going to see the Avengers movie for a while and it’s ridiculous for me to think that people who were genuinely about having seen it don’t want to talk about it on social media. Additionally, knowing that [certain characters that we all know are going to die in this movie] do…

billstevensonsBilly Haisley

Somewhere, there’s an incel form claiming the masturbator is the real victim. 

This is my dream, to be strong enough to fight off rapists and harassers. Life would be far less terrifying for women if we could do that.

“It was very surreal. Generally people who are caught doing this always deny it, ‘No, no, no.’ He didn’t. He continued.

15 years ago....

no. 20% is an extremely generous tip. Call me a fucking jerk all you want. Tipping is stupid and sexist, and we should be pushing for a change that sees servers paid a fair wage and doesn’t put customers in that awkward situation of tipping. IT DOES NOT CREATE BETTER SERVICE. And you know what? The 2% they’re shorted…

Just to play devil’s advocate, there ARE easier versions of War & Peace and Ulysses. I mean, the author’s “original intent” was for you to read them in their native language; translating them into English makes them substantially easier for you to read them. And beyond that, there have been re-translations over the…

This is the actual “this game isn’t for you” argument that no one else seems to be making. Some games are made a certain way, and aren’t designed for difficulty scaling. Fixing Sen’s Fortress to be less of an interminable bastard would take much more than a simple patch, for example.

Fandom can be such an awful thing, “this isn’t your type of game”, “why should From cater to you”.

I just will never understand people that will defend this game not having an easy mode.

As an aside, it never ceases to amaze how bad Kinja is. I can’t log into my Kinja account on my phone’s browser because I linked it to my Google account and that just doesn’t work on mobile and when I use my desktop computer in Firefox, the cursor keeps jumping to the beginning of the text field while I’m typing.

I’ll be honest. All these responses to the effect of ‘maybe this kind of game isn’t for you and anyway there are plenty of other games’ sounds like someone complaining that we don’t need Braille books because maybe blind people should just accept that books aren’t for them.

It’s an exclusive club for those with nothing better to do. The git gud crowd is an excess of machismo and immaturity.

It won’t change any layouts or specific challenges but merely make the enemies easier to defeat, fewer deaths, more save points etc. People who want an easier game like me aren’t saying we want an empty box to waltz through to the end. We aren’t morons. What we are saying is we want a challenge that’s more suited for…

Making the game “easier” is a slippery slope. Where do you stop? What is the defined standard for how easy a game is?

I just will never understand people that will defend this game not having an easy mode. If normal mode is darksoul hard and then there’s just one easy mode for other, then what is the problem? Your normal soul-esque difficulty is still there, so let others enjoy the game in another way. I don’t understand how you can…

I play games for fun and have limited time for playing games, so having a hard game and repeating same sections for hours is not really feasible for me also i tend to find it frustrating and not fun and for some reason i do not get a sense of accomplishment when beating something. Of course a lot of this is really…

Not everyone plays games for the same reason (i.e. you might play for the difficulty where others do for the story/atmosphere). And beyond that, an easy mode doesn’t diminish your playthrough. “it’s good because it’s hard” can be said about most games with their difficulty turned up, if that’s your thing. Beyond that…