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  • Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

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  • I see the appeal but that appeal doesn't apply to me.

    They took the Metroid out of my Metroidvania and replaced it with Dark Souls, and that just rubs me wrong.

    I like some Souls-likes (Elden Ring, Lies of P, and Lords of the Fallen reboot are some of my favorite games) but I don't like souls design creeping into my other genres that don't need it, especially when some of the mechanics are antithetical to the genre (looking at you corpse runs).

  • Gamers frustrated as Hollow Knight: Silksong crashes stores on launch

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  • It's also plays very differently even if both are still Metroidvanias. Axiom is more of traditional Metroidvania while Hollow Knight/Silk Song are modern "Soulsvanias" that include Souls-like mechanics, such as precision combat with a high skill ceiling and corpse runs. I also prefer Axiom over Hollow Knight as well and wish more retro styled games were more popular.

    Hollow Knight gained popularity so rapidly and widely explicitly because of it kinda, and I mean no offense by this, riding the coattails of the Souls genre and doing a better job of it than Salt and Sanctuary, which is also a great game, with great art, runs on a potato, and is also in the "Soulsvania" genre yet didn't receive nearly the same level of recognition.

    Hollow Knight just got lucky going viral. That's just how markets be sometimes.

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  • Shaka literally tells you they will go back to town if you talk to them I think two or three times. That's just a Soulslike thing ya gotta get in the habit of. Exhaust that dialogue, always.

    But Corpse Runs are just a dumb mechanic for a Metroidvania. Those platforming challenges wouldn't feel so bad if not for them. Losing 200 rosary hurts. That's a lot of time grinding that back.

  • New York Post accidentally campaigns for Zohran

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  • Yup. Infant mortality was such a large problem before modern medicine and vaccine science that the sheer number of deaths before the age of 5 reduced the mean average live expectancy by half of the mode average.

    And this, children, is why learning how to properly interpret math and statistics is important. Numbers can, in fact, lie unless you know exactly what those numbers represent.

  • Member?

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  • Still within living memory.

    George Takei was 4 when he and his family were put in a Japanese internment camp. Ruby Bridges, the first black student to attend a white-only school during desegregation, is only 70, currently lives in New Orleans, and is a prominent civil rights activist in the area.

    The US doing anything for the betterment of society was a blip in its overall history, and done in spite of this country and its values, not because of them.

  • My Tesla had this weird error message on screen

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  • Human brains are sadly very predisposed to convenience over spending extra effort, especially when that convenience is the established norm; we tend to resist change unless that extra effort will bring a noticeable and immediate personal benefit. Degrees of separation from the act and the harm is also a big factor, most people stop thinking beyond a certain point and just go "it's not that deep".

    It takes a lot of education and introspection about complex topics to understand how the "harder way" is actually cumulatively easier and brings more benefits but that also brings with it accepting certain truths one used to believe about the fundamental workings of the world they based all of their actions and even their identity on are actually falsehoods but the brain really, really hates that.

    This is a key concept in writing enforceable legislation to get people to change habits. Had to learn about it in a class for my degree for wildlife conservation. The way is somehow exploiting how the way our brains work to trick them into believing that the decision to change is not only the best and easiest option but also that it was their idea to do so in order to allow their brain to handwave any inconsistency in their internal logic instead of fighting against their cognitive dissonance trying to change it by force.

    Generally, people aren't bad people, they are just dumb primates who are trying their damnedest to live as easily as possible with the least amount of conflict while still feeling that they and their loved ones are protected from perceived harm. They "care" but they don't really think about what that means beyond a very, very limited scope of their immediate existence. After a certain point, arbitrary to each individual that will change at any given moment, they begin to wonder what it all has to do with the price of tea in China.

    So don't convince them to care about the price of tea but instead how the price of tea will affect something they do care about in their lives.

  • My Tesla had this weird error message on screen

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  • Yea that's kinda by design unfortunately.

  • And to our gen z'rs just joining us on this wonderful economic system we call capitalism, buckle up!

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  • This is a very naive way of thinking that comes from a propagandized view of revolutions and ignorance of history on all the efforts that came before which allowed those revolutions to happen at all. It doesn't come together quickly. It is explicitly the result of having a community foundation and culture to build revolutionary effort on which took years of concerted effort to reach that point. Organizing doesn't happen spontaneously nor quickly. Anyone who told you otherwise was lying to you.

    The ruling class has systematically been dismantling that very foundation since the Taft Hartley act.

    The same risk of starvation that pushes people to revolution also pushes them to obedience to strongmen who promise to fix their problems by removing the "undesirables" who are being blamed for the misfortune. Without the proper working class culture of solidarity and a community foundation, people are more than likely just going to turn on their neighbors than they are to work with them, especially with the culture of hyper-individualism and xenophobia that the US has cultivated.

    If we fail to build back that foundation, people are just going to sell each other out for their next slice of bread.

  • Capitalism

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  • It isn't how much money but how you make it.

    No billionaire ever made their money without necessitating the exploitation that is inherent to being an owning class citizen. Yet, there are also plenty of people of much lesser net worth who exploit workers all the same, just to a smaller extent.

    Remember the problem isn't just billionaires but the system that enables their existence and those who willingly choose to perpetuate it.

  • They haven't stopped sucking him off so far, why would they now?

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  • The formation of parties is unfortunately inevitable under electoralist political structures. The system was fundamentally flawed.

  • Devils Panties 09/03/2025

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  • All clothes are gender neutral clothes if you're not a little bitch about it.

  • Silksong was developed by two people and the launch has crashed every gaming platform

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  • Exactly. The last time Steam servers shut down (that I can remember) was Cyberpunk's release, which needed boatloads of marketing help to build the levels of hype it had.

    Oh, and Cyberpunk had preorders available, still didn't stop the servers from tanking.

  • Devils Panties 09/04/2025

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  • Late Stage Capitalism.

    It isn't pessimistic to realize that our current society is fundamentally flawed and we are living through the consequences of those flaws.

  • Devils Panties 09/04/2025

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  • The concepts work a lot better if people are active participants in the governance of their communities instead of the government being some separate entity that dictates rules from on high.

    Government cannot be for the people unless it is made of the people, and that is the largest flaw of our current system. Our government is not made of the people, it is made of the ruling class which only seeks to exploit people for power.

  • Hollow Knight: Silksong is out now on Steam - and it broke Steam servers for 30 minutes and counting now

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  • Hollow Knight: Silksong Will Release for Only $20, Release Times Revealed

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  • RIP Steam download servers.

  • Screams in fear

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  • For normal humanoid spellcasters who have to prepare and channel the spell energy that is foreign to them through their bodies, being such a strong spell it always carries the risk of backfiring going beyond the predetermined rules of its preparation.

    nothing to say that is the case for dragons who can cast the spells innately.

  • Cat + Box = <3

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  • Awe, couple's first box. 🥰

  • Schrödinger's cat

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  • No, I think I am. I have somehow confused Schrödinger for Freud.

    Wow. Brains be dumb sometimes.