i think its dishonest to assume everyone is doing what you think they are doing. i maybe did these things the first time through dark souls, but i haven’t this time and i really don’t think i’m some magical unicorn freak.

Everything you’ve listed here is completely optional to the player.  Get stuck on a boss? Summon help.  Melee too tough? Used ranged bows or spells.  Care about the Lore? Read item descriptions or look it up online.  I don’t see how any of this is bad.

I explained to my dad the other day about the whole “add an easy mode argument”. He just said, “There is an easy fix for that. Just don’t play the game then. I could have given up on Metroid but I didn’t and I still remember beating it to this day.” That right there coming from a non gamer is the whole point. Also I…

Luke, do you have any friends that are strippers? I suggest asking them what they think. Is it okay to have sex during a lunch break? What if it’s with a sex worker? What if you look at porn? Is that OK? Or is it only wrong if anyone else is there from the office?

Yeah agreed, this seems offensive to both people who work in that industry and patronize it. The other problems are serious, this one seems more like an issue with how people view strippers/pornstars.

So, I get everything else, but why is going to a strip club during lunch a bad thing? Like, are they gone more than the hour or whatever alotted to them? Are they not clocking out and using company time? Are they coming back drunk? If not... it’s their lunch break, they can go where they want.

I get that you’re just venting on the internet, but realize that normalizing physical violence (particularly when it inadvertently results in death,) as a response to verbal abuse is a road that invariably benefits the group with with a disproportionately greater capacity for violence.

He punched a 77-year-old man, the man fell down, hit his head, and died as a result. This is textbook manslaughter per Florida statutes: regardless of whether there was a specific intent to kill, it is reasonably foreseeable that punching an old man in face could lead to their death; the fact that the kid was almost…

I’m all in for reciprocation and all, however punching a 77 year old man is never going to end well, and also unbelievably cruel.

Right? If I need to take a break I die or fast travel. ER is very forgiving compared to other souls games.

Parker said the decision to not remove the revealing outfits players criticized about from the game wholesale because it wanted to balance the experience for “hardcore fans” and players in the U.S.

Of course - except (as per the article Barsanti links to in This article), AMC raised $917 million last year, so they were (mostly) fine, and - as one can reasonably assume - the executives didn’t make ‘sacrifices’ of themselves in any way whatsoever, and certainly didn’t do this upcharging to raise staff pay/give…

Same - super super weird reactions in these comments. People bending over backwards to defend corporate greed is fucking bizarre. Apparently they dislike Sam Barsanti so much that they’ll argue against their own self-interest out of spite. Why not just... skip the article if you hate the writer?

I don’t understand how Multiple comments to this article are like, “Well, what am I supposed to do? Not lick their boots? Get Over yourself, Barsanti! Why are there trailers?! Movies are too long! Can’t I just pay them for a subscription in addition to the tickets in peace?"

Currently Covid has a 0.4% chance to be fatal for people 50 and under. If the death rate was higher then so would the vaccination rate.

I do think “disease may kill me but most people survive” and “disease turns me into a fucking ravenous zombie that has taken over the majority of the world” might inspire more urgency among the anti-vaxxers. Some of them probably still wouldn’t take it though, lol.

How would anyone even know what that hack is doing 

Social media means fringe thinking gets a lot of publicity. All Republicans aren’t Q supporters and all progressives aren’t complaining about accents.  There's extremists on both sides.

I definitely consider myself liberal/left, but I often find myself pretty disgusted by how much discourse on the left sounds oddly like it’s promoting separation of the races. 

Meh. I’m almost done and really enjoying it. It’s great world-building, science that isn’t dumb and FOR FUCKING ONCE protagonists who are just decent people who are intelligent and good at what they do and don’t have closets full of dark secrets.