Oh hell, always double check before posting. Not only does it seem this has been pointed out by some, but also I interchanged 'continent' and 'country'. :P

I'm surprised that no one pointed out that the Greek MYTHOLOGY theme is quite different from the African theme. We're not comparing apples to apples there. Greek mythology = former religion, now cultural stories including gods, goddesses and other fantasy creatures. African = existing country encompassing a panoply…

Oh, of course not! Because "male" = default human. Yeah, "mankind"—-not at all sexist or exclusionary.

"I am ignoring "the media" because as an intelligent species, we should not be relying on others to tell us how we should think."TROLOLOLOLOL

LOL "great evolutionary traits of man" your sexism, it's showing.

You are being deliberately oblivious of the fact that media informs society. When media reflects society's bigotry with approval, it reinforces those ideas within the framework of society, enshrining them as hip, entertaining, or perfectly average and acceptable.

If someone is willing to speak about fictional females…

You said that Oswald, as the other merchant of purging stones, sold them for 3X what the moss merchant does. SHE actually sells them for double what HE does. So, if you want to stock up on purging stones from a merchant, go to Oswald for a better deal.

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I like women too, but I don't refer to them as objects and I also don't appreciate the way media encourages us to view them as fleshlights. Thanks for adding to that atmosphere in this thread.

No one from the DLC was mentioned, which is odd because they said this was the PTDE.

They did forget quite a few NPCs, which, since they included Solaire (who is usually killed by players in the same manner—-after going hollow) is a bit strange. The Crestfallen Knight and Laurentius both went hollow like this. I'm guessing they already killed (and didn't care for) Lautrec and Petrus.

The leeches in the swamp don't drop purging stones, to my knowledge. Their drops are large titanite shards and green titanite shards. Maybe you're thinking of the man-eating oysters in Ash Lake? Their main drops are purging stones and twinkling titanite.

Um, no that is incorrect. Oswald also sells purging stones and they are HALF the price that the Moss Merchant sells them at. That is 3k souls vs 6k souls. I never buy purging stones from her anymore.

Wow, very gross. How nice to see female characters reduced to secondary sexual characteristics.

If I need to rely on my flakey ISP to play my games on that console, then, no, it's not playable. The only argument I'm seeing to support that is "you should just have the resources to be able to support Microsoft's demands for its Xbox users", whereas there are no such demands from Sony for PS4 users, so yeah, while…

A "good" internet connection is one that doesn't crap out for a day or two or three for no perceivable reason, right? Yeah, having MORE reasons to be reliant on the vagaries of my local ISP isn't something to relish.

I'm not going to pay big bucks for the privilege of being fucked over and obviously many people feel the same way, but clearly you will, so enjoy.

Or you'll be known by all as a condescending dick. Hey, if that's no problem for you, welcome to your reputation.

Um, no, Sony did not "get caught with their pants down". Microsoft made plans to dick over everyone in their way and they led with that assuming that Sony would follow THEIR lead. Sony didn't and became, for many people, the only console worth paying for. THAT'S why MS is backpedaling so furiously now. Their pre-order…

Yeah, fuck us for not forking our dollars over like dutiful automatons. They did a 180 because of pre-order sales numbers not because anyone whined too much.