Uh, while comparing DMC and GOW is wrong, calling GOW and over the shoulder soulslike is… almost more wrong.
That being said, Ragnarok was a step down from the first GOW reboot, with GOW being a great starting point with the promise of Ragnarok (which was just disappointing imo).
And the story… Jesus christ I would have preferred an absent soulslike story.
You toy with powers greater than any God, Jesus christ where are you getting the energy from?
that’s nearly the definition of fascism?
Yes, which is why they need to put this kind of disclaimer in their handbook — lest they end up with chuds like the Warhammer franchise. Those chuds being the ones that don’t understand that the Imperium is really bad.
I did not understand what had happened.
Maybe he shouldn’t be allowed to own guns, just a thought.
Would that mean acknowledging that my ignorance is less valuable than your wisdom?
Yes? Then yes, you are the only one — now stop being a pussy and take these shots, we have to deprogram the “empathy” out of you.
Explain the transphobia to me, in detail.
I think it’s easy to associate adhering to values with being unkind (those values could easily exhibit kindness, depending on what they are).
I just don’t believe you’re unkind. If you were, your values wouldn’t tell you that we should shut down power to a neighborhood for a cat. You would just think something like ‘glad that’s not my problem’ and move on. I don’t think that people who are unkind are bothered by things like this, because again ‘not my problem’. You have made it your problem by caring, and are thus precluded from being unkind (in my opinion).
It is easy to choose not to care about anything, it is very hard to care about everything. I myself am dealing with having learned to turn my heart off to certain things. Things that would just be too overwhelming to carry.
A friend of mine died recently and it was incredibly shocking. He was much younger than me, I guess he was driving too fast on his bike. One of my first thoughts was that I could have been kinder to him. Maybe if I’d reached out more, stayed more consistent in his life, maybe he would have stayed more tempered.
We can’t know what will happen to us nor the people around us. We can only dictate our words and actions. I, however, am much less kind than you — I hope that those who can’t be bothered to exhibit the slightest bit of empathy are cursed to suffer in the ways they’ve been overtly willing to ignore. I hope they experience what it is to decay and have the world fade around them.
It would be poetic. Aneurotypicality is not an excuse for callousness.
If that’s you trying to be nice you need to get some therapy.
It is a sentiment that treats potential loss of life like rounding errors instead of tragedies (big and small).
Tolkien’s words live in my brain
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.
So you genuinely don’t understand, ok got it.
pointing out the obvious
By pointing to a set of pages that elaborate on what you mean?
No, let’s exam what you did instead:
you demean me by suggesting I’m simply brainwashed because I disagree with you, further by suggesting I’m uneducated.
you backpedal like a child into ‘IDGAF’, seriously I had flashbacks to high school debates.
you reiterate that you think I’m somehow brainwashed by the CIA into thinking communism is bad (which isn’t even remotely what I said)
you more or less call me a fascist
I was wrong to communicate with you at all, you are an idiot child.
Right.
While I’m doing that, how about you look up burden of proof buddy?
You’ll figure it out.
No you’re just trying to suggest that a test can’t be pushed up because you hate cats.
Unless you genuinely just do not understand what they mean, which is likely.
It’s amazing because electrical grids are designed to be able to have sections shut down at any time. The intended purpose is literally to prevent a catastrophic shutdown.
Imagine suggesting that your suggestion is somehow more logical on the basis of 1) there’s a good likelihood you aren’t an electrical engineer and 2) that there’s some kind of genuine risk here (because apparently this guy thinks the whole lynchpin to the fucking grid happens to be this exact pole).
Dunning Kruger, at its finest. Glad to see you still have your head on straight.
Yeah you’ll need to be more accurate than ‘start with the FOIA section’ — right now I’m laughing at John Mulholland being paid $3k by the CIA to write a fucking ‘guide on trickery and deception’.
Unless you’re trying to say I’ve fallen for propaganda because they’re good at sleight of hand, at that point I can just direct my laughter in your direction.
It’s a thing, it’s just inaccurate — that doesn’t change the hard facts that both sides somehow find their way to differently flavored authoritarianism.
I’d like to remind everyone here that, while he was laying the groundwork for the current political climate of the U.S., he had 3 daughters and two wives. He’s old enough that the upper left part of his left leg is paralyzed due to polio.
We are seeing a resurgence of both polio and measles, thanks to men like this — who got to live full lives while fucking us all over.
Cheer for his death if you must, he has already won.
Modern sodas are certainly ultra processed.
Pine soda is, however, definitely soda. There might be a difference in the source of carbination (fermentation vs artifical carbonation) and the amount of sugar (fuckin berries n’ roots compared to the eldritch god that is High Fructose Corn Syrup).
I don’t disagree that comparing DMC and the old GOW games is fair — they occupy the same space. Reducing a soulslike to dodging and parrying is just wrong, though. Actually reducing a hack and slash to aggression and dodging is also wrong, see Royal Guard.
Freedom of movement, build options (you are free to turn yourself into the heaviest thing in existence compared to a gymnast, and that’s only discussing equip load), map design, the robust lore as opposed to a traditional narrative, these are staples of soulsbourne games. DMC3 has a harder parry than any soulslike in Royal Guard — does that make parrying a staple of the series? Yes, it does — Royal Guard is cool as shit.