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Opposites indeed! I'm curious though, what was it about ER that made you not able to get into it? If soulslikes just aren't for you then I totally get that. It's just ER isn't the one I'd personally go in with, I feel like if I'd started with it then I'd be pretty overwhelmed and confused a lot of the time. Though that's just me, of course

Also despite sharing most of the same style, they can still vary in gameplay a fair bit. Sekiro, for instance, is pretty unique amongst them. I actually had to install an easy mod on it (I know, sacrilege) to tone down the difficulty a bit as my brain just can't hack it on normal. It's very much a precise rhythm game in terms of combat. Whereas Bloodborne encourages you to charge in and just go berserk on enemies, something that my brain is much better with

As I say, if it's just not your thing then fair enough. You may already know everything I've said here anyways, just wouldn't want you to miss out on games you'd potentially enjoy, even if ER doesn't do it for ya

They'll go hoard all their wealth and not circulate it (something that a capitalist economy needs to "work") in another country

I'm very anti authoritarian and anti statist but this doesn't always happen. You can't look at say Burkina Faso with Thomas Sankara at it's head and Nazi Germany and say they're the same in how the government treated the people

I can say, having been a part of "non hierarchical" communities where women and afabs and have been like 90% of the members, that really isn't always the case

Helped the trees, now to smoke some trees

"The more time our officers spend reviewing CCTV... the less time they have available for patrolling railway stations and trains, investigating crimes which cause the most harm."

You mean like having them stand there in the station with dogs to stop people for suspected drug possession? Y'know, "harmful" crimes. I know that's not the only thing they ever do but they certainly do waste so much of their time with pointless stuff like that, at least in certain cities

Exactly what we need aswell, people being more discouraged to use bikes and forcing people even more into getting cars and making our already overcrowded and dangerous roads even more overcrowded and dangerous. Wonder if there's an easy solution to stop people taking bikes from the bike lock up areas? Like hmm maybe having them all be properly secure and the station employing one or two people to keep watch? Nah silly idea...

Yeah chimps are actually some of the worst right? Their lives are kinda like a constant warzone. They also even do assassinations

If we're going for the "good" apes, then gibbons and bonobos would be the best bet, from what I understand. Though gibbons aren't in the same category (I forget which taxonomy level it's at), they're "lesser" apes. The only species of lesser apes still living too, I think. Not as great as the rest of us apes, apparently

And that's me done showing off some of my very basic knowledge of primates

This feels to me like the sort of joke someone would make if they also frequently experienced the first part

Yeah even putting this situation aside I wasn't that gassed for GOY. I played GOT and enjoyed it sure, but it was yet another typical open world action-adventure game with no innovation at all really, basically the same gameplay we've seen countless times at this point. It just had a halfway decent story, which is a low bar for video games, and looked really pretty. And what you say is very true I agree, "by weebs, for weebs"

Edit: oh my god I knew there were apparently new gameplay elements in GOY. I hadn't looked it up but suspected it would again be nothing new. And yeah most of it is but I did see they have something...unique. The "Watanabe mode" where it plays lofi beats music over you playing. So cringe

I just looked it up now seeing as I hadn't heard of this either

From what I can gather one of the senior members of the development team, Drew Harrison, made a (mild) joke in a tweet about the suspected shooter in Charlie Kirk's death. Loads of right wingers, being the thin skinned, wannabe victims but apparently "free speech warriors" that they are, harassed her and contacted Sucker Punch trying to get her fired, threatening to boycott the game and so on. Sucker Punch and/or Sony predictably caved and did so

If I'm missing anything, please feel free to add to this. As I say I'm only just hearing about it and haven't gone on a deep dive about it

No worries! I can totally see how it could be easily misread as "I've" and that would have made what I said really not good. I just saw people were downvoting me too so I thought it was multiple people thinking I wasn't joking