Well, if the boss aggro’s I don’t think you can - a cloud gate forms immediately trapping you with it. You get the insight before the cut scene. Just walking out on to the bridge to the ogre by the cleric beast is enough.

Just finding where the boss is located gives you a point of insight and activates the doll. Dying to it once certainly does.

Yes, people commenting on cheating in Souls games without playing them are indeed trolls.

But I admit, I go all judge-y judge-y on the cheaters too, but thats because I’m an arrogant asshole who doesn’t care what they think of me. A cultured person doesn’t announce to the world that they intend to shit all over…

He didn’t. He questioned why they would waste money to buy something and then purposely break it.

I’m assuming for the same reason people buy Reader’s Digest or Cliff’s Notes instead of actually reading an unabridged book. Because they are busy and could care less about the depth of the experience - they just want…

I think its kind of presumptuous to condescend to tell me what I understand. As I said repeatedly, feel free to do whatever you want offline in your home. A subhuman troll could grasp that, however, you continue to reiterate some sort of control fantasy about how you do things on your own terms.

YEAH. Until you can’t.…

You seem to be using this ‘on one’s own terms’ things alot. Control issues?

There is no way to restrict these games to just your friends - you are always vulnerable to invasion the moment you open yourself up to connections -its designed that way to balance risk/rewards. The game can be played single-player, no doubt, but in order to play with your friends, you necessarily are playing with…

And if you stay offline, thats all good and no-one cares. Except the developer still owns the game. You own the media. If they push a patch that removes a glitch you were using to cheat ‘on your terms’ but fixes something game-breaking elsewhere that you need to progress - sucks to be you.

So the blood starved beast stole 6-12 minutes of your life with a black screen - thats okay??

“I don’t even play this game, but thanks for your idiotic speculation anyway.”
Then why are you commenting on something you know nothing about. Duplication glitches in souls games lead to new players getting pk’ed by people who are level 10 but packing level 999 equipment.

If you are just cheating in your private game,…

I think its actually the developer’s terms, who graciously allows you to rent the experience he created, but thanks for playing.

Yeah, I’m sure you’re right, and that makes me incredibly cynical about those enterprises. If Riot wants me to be incredibly cynical about their “professional” games too, congratulations, they’ve succeeded.

Can’t say as I care one way or the other, but that just means the person doing the perma-banning has lost all credibility with their threats of ‘lifetime bans’ its now ‘probation and community service’ and if the consequences of a ban of a person who was caught outright cheating “precludes them from maintaining a…

Yeah, move to the side. Seriously.

Yeah, its just the IEEE, the IEC and NIST - the largest industry groups there are. Nobody. The holdout is JEDEC because they LIKE ambiguity. It means they can sell smaller storage devices with bigger sounding names.

You do have to actually have a standard before people can use it - and then you need to enforce it by…

Thats exactly what they did. 1024 is close enough to kilo to call it one, which is lazy, sloppy engineering. You could have had an unambiguous name, but the guys making the decision who indeed have a *good reason* to work in base two said 'eh, its close to a thousand, lets call it a kilobit'

Stubborn pig-headedness "because they are in common usage" is indeed a reason.

Then we can spend hours arguing on the internet about the practical versus literal meaning of universal. If you still choose to measure with archaic units that change depending on who is doing the using ... thats on you - and may you get many furlongs to the hogshead. Kibibytes are well defined and usable by anyone.

Far be it from me to defend the book, the entire basis of the series is an enigmatic cloud-entity whose only means of communications is those machines which seems pretty far fetched, but I really don't think he was going for an STD metaphor.