sad_detective_man

perfect, yes 😆

Had an ex who used to say "but Shrek is Love Shrek is Life" in the same tone somebody might say "but wadya gonna do ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯"

I can attest it's really funny. I get a sick kind of pleasure from evoking discomfort in people who don't want me to like them. I'm not really good at being nasty to people so it's something I started doing when I learned nasty people don't like it when you're nice to them or unfazed by their vampire antics.

If you've heard of "mirroring" before, that's my favorite. Mirroring people who don't like you fucks them up in ways I don't think I could with words

That would make a huge difference. Environment really is everything, its kind of what made Elden Ring so incredible. And yeah, the character's developing stories doesn't really entice me since they're all kind of like From Software Avengers characters who only exist within the confines of this 1 looping lore bubble. Collecting their journal entries isn't really motivating me to go out on expeditions.

I'm just terrible AF and need to level vigor on any character I play. I can't learn enemy's attacks without getting hit and in a game where dying ends the run, I need to get hit a few times and can't wait another 120 minutes before seeing that boss again or I'll forget how to fight them. Glad to know that's not just me, though. But I can see the vision they were attempting. The preset levels make each character more individual unlike the universal Vigor-idiots I tend to create

EXACTLY! Almost all the cool Fromsoft elements and moments got dropped to streamline getting to the objective. Like, I know there's no new weapons and the map is basically Limgrave with some extra bits here and there but I would have still liked to exist in that world a little.

Points though for engineering a situation where for once in my life I felt backed into a corner enough to actually try using a katana. That never happened to me in Elden Ring

I liked Hades and Dead Cells but no they're not really something I usually seek out. You're right that might be the factor that's tripping me up. interesting that of all variations on the souls format that have been made, this seems to be the first one to really turn me of.

sucks because in any other game I would love to play these characters even if I can't level my freaking vigor adequately. I guess I'm definitely looking forward to whatever From does with all this tech though. a standalone game with Recluse mechanics for freaking slay.

*enthusiastic poetry night snapping* 🫰🫰

But Bloodborne is out on PC 🏴‍☠️😏

get really really enthusiastically interested in the watch. ask for details seem super impressed. massage that wealthy ego to the point of basically a blow job. but then just like keep going. see how long you can keep the topic on that one specific watch. don't ever let him talk about anything that the watch means or about the dynamic he tried to establish.

optionally, loose interest and leave without ever having let anything be said that wasn't about the watch. this is how you weaponize autism against egotists.

why is everyone so hung up on getting a remaster? is it somehow more likely than Bloodborne 2?

Claire Obscure was so fucking good

well it looks like wrangling chatbots and zoomers pays for itself