Naw, it made some kinda sense for a while but the writers really jumped the shark in the past decade.

I think the Dark Souls games have kinda earned an undue reputation for being unapproachably hard. They’re really not all that tricky once you learn that death isn’t a huge loss condition, just a step in the journey. I initially found them frustrating, but once I learned to not be bothered by dying and simply try again, I found an immense joy in exploring the worlds and challenges within.

Some bosses I beat first try, others will take me an afternoon or a few days to beat, but I have fun with it either way. Different strokes for different folks and all that, but I think Dark Souls and it’s like are good lessons on how to get over feeling bad about “losing” and just enjoy the game.

Plus, you can always explore areas to gather up whatever you need to level up and slowly get marginally stronger as you become more familiar with your character and tweak it to your liking.

I think AI can take far fewer jobs than people will try to replace with AI, that’s kind of the issue

The response that it’s too hard has been weird to me. I’m not very good at these sorts of games but it hasn’t been terribly tricky compared to other parts of the base game. And I’m having a lot of fun with it.

I do think the advice of taking advantage of the balancing mechanics they literally put in the DLC to make it challenging and help mitigate that is solid.

Outta the 3 mentioned, I gotta pick ketchup, but if we’re talking favorite sauces or condiments, gotta give it out to toum. The incredible garlic taste in a spread is to die for and works wonders on everything from veggies to steaks to chicken to bread. Seriously, try making a grilled cheese but 86’ing butter and subbing toum. Fuck, that’s amazing.

Shout out to kewpie mayo, tho, the condiment I use irresponsibly on so many things it doesn’t belong…

Buddy I ain’t saying shit here to feel virtuous, I’m pointing and laughing at a fool

Also you’re a fucking bigot, you shouldn’t feel welcome here or anywhere else! Go crawl in a hole and rot!

Naw I’m a decent human being and you can’t say the same about yourself.

You violated community and site rules with your post and now you’re shitting your pants over it by making a multiple post hissy fit about your bigoted trash getting rightfully removed.

For someone who calls themself old geezer you sure act like a fucking baby 🤣

You didn’t post news, you posted some transphobic meme you found funny.

You’re an ass and your content wasn’t fit to read.

“Wahhhh wahhh people hate my bigoted rhetoric” - u

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We remember the tall people who make these jokes and when the lean times come, it will be you begging us for the food in our larders. We will remember then, too.

Windows 10 won’t take screenshots of everything I do on my computer, sooooooooooo

How thorough of an understanding do you want?

One could read Wikipedia pages on the broad strokes of these topics and have a fairly functional definition of both to get on with their daily lives. Or one could take a more academic approach and read Marx and Smith along with other philosophers and economists.

Part of the issue with both methods is that the meaning of Communism and Capitalism seem to change depending who you’re talking to and in what context. They are both such contentious topics that there’s a great deal of propaganda, misinformation, common misunderstanding and willful ignorance around them.

So, are you hoping to engage in debate (or moreoften argument) about the merits of one or another? Or just hoping to gain enough understanding that you aren’t confused when the topics come up in casual conversation? I’d advise against the former. It’s exhausting and seems unproductive. At least online. In person, it makes more sense, but you’ll have a hard time finding people who are opening to considering changing their opinion on either system. If it’s the latter, you can really just make stuff up, it seems like most others do anyway.

Crucially, I said paying for, but also, naw prolly not.

After what they did to KSP2, I ain’t paying for another Take-Two game.

These are rich people crimes.

Generally only the poor go to prison, unless the rich person committing the crimes has committed them against people far richer than them.

In terms of Trump’s charges, something like only 10% of people with similar convictions go to jail. So it seems unlikely, but it is possible.

Yo where you get your grass from I wanna avoid it

Vodka and sushi! What a combo! Where’d y’all get the idea for that?

I had a lot of family gatherings with vodka and pickles where we’d eat fish later, but never sushi. I’m not saying it’s a bad pairing or anything, just an unexpected and unheardof one to me

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I similarly remember lots of pizza and chip snacks with soda in my youth, but these days it’s often hummus and crudite and beer or wine. Though the DM has asked us to wait until the session feels half over before uncorking the wine…

We functionally switched to stuff that won’t muck up sheets or dice. Also, as a group in our 30’s and 40’s, more people have various dietary concerns, so veggies and bean dips help solve a lot of that.

The DM and I love to cook, so sometimes we’ll make themed dinners. Roasted, spiced mushrooms and asparagus and a kale salad for when we stayed with the druids, beer, bread and root veg for a Dwarven section of the campaign, grilled fish (that I caught earlier that day) when we started at a port village, that kinda thing.