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KajeI posted...

Difficulty is relative, so I can't say what's "hard" or not, hence why I used those for comparison. Anyone who can beat one of those games can beat a Souls game.

When I first played WoW I thought it was easy. When I tried to get my mom to play WoW she couldn't complete a single quest because she didn't understand how to control her character even when I told and showed her, and she was unwilling to learn further.

I never managed to beat a single level in any of the Halo games on Legendary. But there are people who can do them no problem (or at least minimal problems, I hear those are brutal and given my experiences with Jackal snipers I can see exactly why).

I think it's reasonable to conclude that in relative difficulty terms dark souls is more punishing than games in a similar space (at the time). It required more precision, more practise, more repetition. And even once you git gud and finish the game and have maxed out gear you can still get completely ganked by a low level enemy.

People with a lot of gaming experience had to unlearn a lot of habits and repeat tasks more times than they would have done in other games, with greater care, with more chance of failure, with more demand on doing it precisely.

So yeah, its a hard game. Not the hardest game ever, but hard. Especially hard in the action RPG space of the late 2000s.

KajeI posted...

I too hate games where I don't have instant mastery of all of its aspects and where I can't make constant blatant mistakes while playing it wrong and not get punished for my horribly sloppy play. I should be presented no difficulties at any point and my ignorance and lack of investment should rewarded.

Genuinely they're not that hard (most of the time), you just have to turn your brain on and stop trying to facefuck everything to death with no regard for strategy or situational awareness. Anyone who's beaten the OG Mario or Zelda or Sonic games or whatever other classics you want to think of can beat a Souls game.

Shockingly, when you refuse to play a game on its own terms because you're trying to play it like something else, you're going to have a bad time.

Can you define what "difficulty" even means to you because good god, by my estimation you just said a bunch of stuff that is literally the merriam webster definition of difficult and then concluded "they're not hard".

Seriously, what is hard? Literaly every life skill from using chopsticks to speaking a language to studying quantum mechanics is engaging your brain, practising studiously, refining sloppiness and overcome obstacles,over and over again until you're good at it. If that's not hard, nothing is.

bigblu89 posted...

1 - Gotta read the fine print on those ancestry sites, because many times you're actually agreeing to have your DNA be put in a database for use in things like this.

I'm not very clued up on law but is there a term for insidious agreements in T&Cs documents? Like every website you go on presents a thesis of information that literally no one in their right mind is reading unless you have a few hours to pour through pages of legalese every time you want to order a bathroom matt or whatever.

Maybe this is a core agreement for these sorts of sites but my general point is that we're in a pretty shitty situation where we're expected to just be ok with signing away our data all the time simply because it says it there in the privacy policy, while having no idea what that actually looks like in the practical sense. The cambridge analytica case was a good example of this. People sign up to facebook to post pictures of their grandkids for their friends, not to have their data sold off to third parties for voter manipulation.

DipDipDiver posted...

But what is the actual implication here? If it's being used to solve crimes then I have no problem with that.

The direct issue is that the people who submitted their DNA to a geneolgy website were doing it explicitly for the purpose of knowing more about their family tree. They aren't consenting for their DNA to be used in criminal cases, but it is.

The other main issue is it could be used to solve any crime from virtually any modern era.Nothing stopping this technique being used for petty crime, drug use, etc.

The other issue is that it could be used to solve things that aren't even crimes. We're not quite here yet, but you can imagine a life insurance company using AI matching software to figure out if you are at a higher risk of certain diseases based on your geneology.

The other issue is false positives.

Ah yes, the classic l33t g4Mer mentality of "it's not difficult, you just need to invest considerable time and effort to learn how to do it with near perfect precision, after many failed attempts where any slight failure is heavily punished. But it's not difficult."

Tyranthraxus posted...

You're trying to attribute comedy where there is none. We have it straight from the creator what Saitama's deal is and it's not "a joke" and the series is not a joke either. There's no need to make up things about the series when we are told explicitly what it is.

Where are you getting that? Because
https://www.reddit.com/r/OnePunchMan/comments/8eba5a/proof_saitama_is_a_gag_character_author/
(Question) What led you to begin drawing a web comic?
(Answer) How long have you wanted to be a manga artist? ONE: I had decided I wanted to be a gag manga artist from the time I was in grade school. I was a fan of Crayon Shin-chan, and at the time I wanted to draw that sort of manga. For me it wasnt a case of simply trying to be a manga artist and testing the waters to see if it was worth a shot. Rather, my thought process was to decide right off the bat that I was going to be one, so the rest was just a matter of effort. I guess thats how I decided my whole future while still just a kid.

Maybe he's shifted his stance in recent years, I haven't been keeping up

GiftedACIII posted...

I would've said this years ago but now it really is trying to be an average tryhard shonen series itself ever since the severe MA arc changes from the webcomic. Have you been caught up with the manga?

I did wonder if it was gonna become a victim of its own success. Seems kind of ironic that it seemed to set out to be a satire of this stuff and then just...become that stuff.

Tyranthraxus posted...

No it isn't. You're trying to find meaning in stuff that isn't there. Saitama is a regular shonen protagonist who has his end-of-series power at the beginning.

i'm saying the exact opposite. Fans are looking for meaning where there is none, that was my argument.

E.g. talking about the Limiter concept, going into depths about the extend of Saitama's power, how it manifested and how it compares quantifiably to other entities etc.

It's a gag manga. The main character is a joke. The story is a joke. This is the quintessential example of that stan lee rant where he says that the only explanation for why one character can beat another is because the writer says so.

I assume they're just having fun with it but the theories get pretty elaborate and wild

This is a lot of sulking dude. Why not read stuff and make decisions yourself.

What are Trump's policies that are important to you

Client: This database is too inflexible. We need to have a way to handle exceptions in these forms, rather than populating stuff based on template information.
Me: Ok, here's your solution. You press this button to create an ad hoc exception form, type in the data that is the exception.
Client: What? Manual data entry? That's so laborious. We want it to be populated automatically.
Me: Let me get this straight. You want the database to automatically populate with ad hoc information, based entirely on your own discretion?
Client: Yes. This is 2024, we shouldn't have to be doing these sorts of admin tasks.

Thank you, chatgpt. You now have people thinking that thinking is old fashioned.

Let's hope they never see what happens to a regular person if they inflate their real estate holdings by even 5%, nevermind 20-30%

Hell just like, lie on a single form of your mortgage application about what kind of job you have, see what happens

These peoples faces when trump's wins and his gaza strategy makes biden look like a kind and altruistic Saint

:o
:o
:o

The worst one is that guy from seven deadly sins. Embarrassing that that passes as humour.

I mean they really captured lightning in a bottle here. To think this was just a student's thesis and they cobbled it together with a very small studio.

So many ideas that feel completely novel, even if they aren't entirely.

• No items, upgrades, levelling system, loot. No skill upgrades. No progress is locked behind any skill or equipment wall. You could technically beat the game without any mad speedrunner skills in 15 minutes, if you just know how. Curating enough knowledge to know how might take you 20-30 hours though. Knowledge is the only currency in the game. Once you get to the end you'll laugh at how incredibly simple it was to beat, and yet it took you so long to put it all together. Has that same sense of wonder that a puzzle box has before you beat it, and the satisfying sense of know-how after you can.
• No map markers, quest logs or waypoint hopping. Just a journal that logs what you found out.
• Somehow the physics feels really, really intuitively correct. Like the way gravity works, how your ship thrusters work, how planets orbit.
• Everything is moving and changing all at the same time. So one of the most interesting aspects isn't just finding a new area, but being there at the right moment in time.
• A story that is both abstract and rich in lore while also being character driven.
• The music. God, there's basically one fucking song and it's so fucking good.

If you haven't played this game, you owe it to yourself to do so.

Honestly my biggest reason for not wanting to play either of the FFVII remakes is that I don't know if I have it in me anymore to deal with extensive anime dialogue.

C_Pain posted...

You haven't seen the aninal abuse shorts yet I take it. That's 1000x worse.

oh no

I'm not sure I even want to know

I guess youtube figured out that I like 1) athletics and 2) thirst traps so put those two things together. I started to get served videos of like, athletes who happen to be hot. Remember that pole vaulter on the internet from I dunno, 10 years ago? Stuff like that. The comments are always the same. They have 3 entire jokes. "Men of culture, we meet again". "Wonderful athlete, I will continue to stand behind her". Or it's a video of a long jump and the comment is "Best game of tennis I've seen so far". This seemed pretty harmless if a bit pathetic so far.

Just now though apparently I moved up to the next creep tier in the algorithm because now I'm finding youtube channels that are literally dedicated to this, going as far as to actually pay cameramen to go out and shoot this footage under the guise of filming sports. It's always somewhere in Russia or eastern europe, and it's literally just them focused on women's asses as they walk around after their high jump or whatever.

There appears to be some unsaid agreement between the channel creators and the commenters that they all at least pretend this is still about athletics, but it's really not. But you can't report it because what do you say?

Prismsblade posted...

Were the food portions at least adequate enough for you relative to the price?

It was fine on that level. My experience with these sorts of places is that you're always left satisfied and not full to the point of being bloated and that's kind of the goal.

Ultimately even if every plate is quite small, well you get like, 8 of them. Most people would feel satisfied by 8 small portions of food I think.

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Not a single one in the whole state? Man I've always wanted to come to the states for bbq, but maybe that's looked down on by michelin or something

CSCA33 posted...

No, it really isnt. I have pretty extensive experience with fine dining.

Is this just bragging then if youre ignoring the question?

Chill, I just didn't see your question.

If I remember right, the tasting menu was 200 per person with wine. We had 4 cocktails total at maybe 15-20, a couple of coffees, maybe some extra bread. Add in a service charge and the bill was around 550, or $700 near enough.

ai123 posted...

I don't think people realize how much it costs to run a Michelin starred restaurant.

It's incredibly labour intensive, and requires top quality personnel, from head chefs to wine waiters, and they don't come for minimum wage plus tips. Then there are the ingredients which are absolutely the finest, with nothing served that isn't highest quality.

Even at the prices they charge, they barely make a profit. Some even run at a loss. El Bulli was rated the best restaurant in the world, but had to close because it was hemorrhaging money.

I'm aware, but sometimes it feels like that cost gets passed on to the customer without the extra quality being passed on to the customer.

In this instance the food wasn't all that and the ambience wasn't incredible or anything. The staff were clearly well trained though. So in this case (to overly simplify it), if so much of the cost was wrapped up in the waitress who knew the history of every vineyard of every bottle and the waiter who was being extra charming, I'm not sure that's really what I was hoping to pay more for on the whole.

thisworld posted...

Second hand clothing? If you don't mind my asking TC, what kind of second hand clothing did you buy and for how much?

Generally it's possible to dress yourself properly even on limited budget. There's hardly a reason for someone frugal to buy second hand clothing unless they wear nothing but branded luxury goods.

I would much rather buy thrifted clothing than cheap new clothing for several reasons

• less waste. It's pretty absurd how much clothing waste we generate
• more interesting options, e.g. vintage or more unique pieces you won't get at Zara or Topman etc.
• Often better quality

MacadamianNut3 posted...

It's cool Lucille Bluth. But for reference I'm just gonna ask again about this comparison

"I prefer to spend money on experiences than things - some people would not balk at spending 4k on a gaming PC or 40k on a car"

People probably wouldn't balk at a 40k car since the average car price (non-luxury) is actually higher than that, while the average PC price is nowhere near that so this comparison doesn't make sense

I apologise for not scaling my throwaway analogy in an equitable way.

ai123 posted...

No one stopped Carlson from licking Putin's boots. What are they even complaining about?

They genuinely do not have the mental reasoning function to understand that criticism is not being cancelled

It's a wild one. "Tucker was too soft" means that liberals want to cancel tucker for not being woke. If you squint it still doesn't ever make sense.

"Journalists should be allowed to interview anyone, this is the kind of real truth seeking media we deserve."

Imagine being this pea-brained. Imagine.

lydiaquayle posted...

Funny thing is that Michelin has started making guides for street food locations as well.

That stuff interests me more than the full french degustation service for sure

Mew posted...

How much did you tip?

I was going to tip 20% but there was a discretionary service charge so I didn't.

Yes, but I'm starting to go off fine dining a bit, I'd rather just have a really fucking good bit of street food made by a one-man band these days.

MacadamianNut3 posted...

Well it's a bad point because it's kinky early 2010s trolling and just because you can spend 10k on a computer doesn't mean anyone needs to

Glad we've settled this dumbass shit

It's not that deep dude. Some people (not many, definitely not most) will spend 4k on a gaming PC. I literally work with a guy who spent this much on his.

Some people (not many, definitely not most) will spend $700 on a meal.

I've had better meals for like $200, so to your previous point about only needing to spend like $1k on a gaming PC...yeah.

Nukazie posted...

the long dark?

Kinda miss the base building elements tbh

boxoto posted...

I've heard people make some comparisons between Pacific Drive (PS5 game that just came out) and The Outer Wilds

Checking this out, looks intriguing

This entire thing seems really hard for some to grasp, lol

Why are maga people such cucks

Imagine simping for two tyrants, one who wouldn't let you into his restaurant for being trash and another that would execute you for criticising him

The internet is a bubble. If you are terminally online you only see the worst of people.

There's someone in my office who I know for a fact to be a basically kind and good person. I've dealt with her for years with no issues. But the other day she said "ok but of all the conspiracies I can kinda see why the 9/11 is an inside job conspiracy makes some sense". She said it in such a tentative way that I could tell that she was absolutely a full believer and just testing the waters.

So there you go, perfect example. if you found out someone was a conspiracy nut online you'd just think that's all they are, their brain is completely melted. But when you have to interact with people everyday in real life you're forced to conclude that people are complicated and layered.

That's true of everyone. Except trump supporters. Fuck those guys.

Fucking ABSURD that I can do the following by portal:

• change my details
• change my policy
• get a new quote
• add additional drivers
• make claims
• contact support (in fact, this is the only option they give you. read articles and speak to a chat bot

But need to cancel or end your auto-renewal?

No no, now I'm afraid our portal doesn't have that functionality. You need to call the sales department and speak to fucking Steve who wants to argue with you about your desire to cancel.

Fuck off.

Is this the death of the republican party or just the birth of an altogether more hideous version of it?

Whatever happened, politics has changed forever. it's now totally appropriate and encouraged for political candidates to act and speak like petulant little bitches in everything from local economy to foreign policy to diplomacy.

chaos_knight posted...

Outer Wilds is that good? Only played it for about an hour

I can safely say it's in the top 3 most memorable game I've played this decade

Mew posted...

Gl with that lol

Did you also post about your company not offering any days at all for remote work, like a while back?

Probably. It's something I complain about a lot.

I cannot for the fucking life of me understand their in-office policy for developers. I get it for the support team and the admin team, but for people who need to be both highly skilled (and therefore hard to find) and like to be left alone and surrounded by comfort...well duh, no wonder they cant find no one

These games aren't exactly similar but they shared some powerful traits:

• incredibly immersive
• journal-based exploration. No map markers, no flahing waypoint to follow. Just reading stuff and putting together clues and figuring stuff out
• Actually a lil scary, but also with a suitably nice "safe" feeling you get from being back at base after a scary expedition

I tried subnautica sub zero and somehow it just didn't stick. Maybe I'll give it another go. But other suggestions welcome.

AgentCoulson posted...

Is anyone really surprised by the accusations? I feel like people have been saying Diddy's a menace for a long time now. Still it'll be interesting to see where this goes. The producer must have nothing left to lose here.

Also kinda weird people read the thread title and assumed Diddy Kong instead of P Diddy >_>

Not at all surprised by drugs, illegal guns and mischevious sexual harrassment

Slightly surprised by the uh, child rape

20+ year old SQL database CRM

The system architect is retiring this year
The wife of the systems architect who lead up the client services team for the past 30 years is retiring with him
The CEO had a stroke last year and is barely involved anymore anyway
The lead senior dev retired last year (he was here from the start)
The only other senior delphi dev is retiring in the next 2-3 years (she was here 20 years)

Who does that leave? Well the new operations director (OD) is a woman with an english degree who worked in HR and marketing before this. She can't even use the system on a basic front end user level. That's it. That's who we have on a directorship level replacing this lot.

Cherry on top of the cake. They (OD) won't recruit any developers unless it's someone local. Any idea how hard it is to find a delphi/SQL developer who is prepared to commute an hour to the countryside every day? (Impossible. It's impossible.)

The ordering of this list is wild. it goes from "so yeah he did drugs" to "killed a guy and drugged and raped some children".

I don't care about the royals, I don't know anyone that cares about the royals, I know plenty of people that want to abolish the royal family

And yet prince whoever the fuck sneezes oddly and it's all over my news feed for the next 3 weeks. Who are all these people who lap this up?

It's maddening. Agonisingly slow, random and shitty.

Play games at 4k 60FPS? No problems.
Load up 10 different SQL databases? Got u fam.
Video edit 3 different projects in tandem? Easy peasy.

Search for "importantdocument" in the downloads folder of your C drive? Woah there sonny jim, let's not be hasty...