Some caveats: The ranking is based on cumulative hours played across the playerbase, not on total number of players. (According to Ryan, PS5 players clocked a cumulative 4.6 billion hours.)

Yes, but that’s ignoring cost of living which everyone conveniently always does. $340k in NYC vs. $340k in Hill City, SD are very different effective incomes. 

I assume Vaati got permission? He’s so well-known at this point that I have to imagine Bandai actually whitelisted him for the test with the expectation he would deliver a sterling video on the game.

That’s assuming you can pick up your 50k you lost. Sometimes you eek by an area, get in over your head, die, and then you can’t necessarily get back. Not always, but sometimes.

From what we’ve seen. Knowing FromSoftware I expect there to be healthy melee options, though (as you say) incorporating arts and/or investments in weapons themselves.

I felt a great disturbance in the Souls, as if millions of “Git Gud”s suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly ignored.

Looking good! I’m particularly excited that sorcery seems to have returned as a viable way to play through a Souls game. I can’t do the tense reflex-based combat anymore, so having options that allow me to strategize and lean into ranged combat is very helpful.

Ah, Something Awful. I still remember being weirded out by having to pay to join a forum and that you could get banned and have to pay again and that some people seemed to take an almost bizarre pleasure in being banned. More specifically, I loved the Ghost Story threads and still remember first reading all the Humper-…

*cue audience laughter*

Josh wasn’t lost at any point in that walk. It was all strategy to test Logan and Kendall.

Pretty sure Josh knew exactly how to get back but purposely led them around to create tension and wear them down.

I mean, up until the boss fights which are generally the hardest part of the Souls game and, at least for me, where I tend to have to give up because I hit a wall. I’m not sure I would say Souls games aren’t hard.

I’ve heard a lot of abuses of the English language but being “actioned against” is a new one. Always amusing when an instigating party twists words around to remove themselves as the subject of an action verb.

I’m beginning to think these billionaires are slamming the tax and only pretending to not know how it works because it’s easier to fool mainstream people that way. And, if called out, they can simply claim ignorance. A reasoned argument against the tax would be likely dry and un-incendiary, neither of which helps…

I’d argue if people *can* play another way (exploring every room) then there’s very little room for criticizing that playstyle as somehow invalid/unintended. Especially considering one of the most famous recent roguelikes (Hades) implemented a system to prevent players from doing just that.

Air Force One still rocks. I miss the era of non-over-the-top action movies that had just a slightly weird premise to them (obviously spurred on by Diehard).

I’ve bought many dbrand products and have enjoyed them, but this email is just a poorly done attempt at humor. When possible, it’s best not to inadvertently insult customers (e.g. if I like my white plates but am in NYC and was first in line to get vaxxed when I could, what should I feel? Should it conveniently be a…

That’s a great point. It’s all possible it’s just a nothingburger before that scene, but once it happens it is an all-bets-are-off insane train ride into the supernatural. It certainly made me feel sheer terror at what was unfolding on screen, as if the movie had just broken some rule that things would be spooky but…

Eh, I’m sure plenty of teens or kids searched for it and I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s some urban legend going around schools saying you can mod it to play games or something like that. I’m an old now but I sure remember how dumb me and my peers were when we were 15.

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