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pxlated posted...

red, you've already exceeded your quota for today. you can power down now. nothing is going to trump "blame rome" anyway!

As a late side note, this was definitely not the first time he broke out "blame rome".

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Also when I'm actually worried about losing them is when I slap on Ring of Sacrifice.
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mccheyne posted...

Here's a question for people who have played this to completion: What is the most amount of souls you lost at one time? By that, I mean you died, and then died again before you could get to your lost souls. I think mine was either 14 or 15k, in Darkroot Garden. Got surrounded by like, 6 of those stupid tree things (the powered up ones, up the ladder from the Hydra area), and beat down fast.

I dunno, probably well over 100k, but only after I stopped caring about leveling.

Of course in this game you lose stored humanity that way as well, so it's possible I never played it that reckless with souls as I do in the others.

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Armored pigs are definitely way easier when you're using a big ole blunt weapon.

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Responding to foolmo about me is still not letting it go, bud.

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MariaTaylor posted...

... how can you not see that this is exactly what you are doing?

Ah yes, the "no u" strategy of trying to get the last word in.

You can do it, Maria. Prove me as wrong and stupid as you say I am and don't respond to anything else in this topic.

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Oh what a shock, you had to say something again.
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https://youtu.be/z_h-NvMJK-c

I usually post this when people get there, but better late than never.
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I mean you definitely should have let it die. Doesn't mean it justifies writing a fucking essay in response because Maria is entirely incapable of not getting the last word in.
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I looked it up, if you are playing Remastered the Catacombs bonfire itself is also warpable if you found that one.
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Yeah Pinwheel is a joke of a boss. Part of it is that I think they wanted to make Pinwheel viable to fight at the beginning of the game despite Catacombs itself being much harder. He does have attacks that do enough damage to kill you at this point, though. He just kind of doesn't get around to using them most of the time.

There is a bonfire just past Pinwheel that is warpable.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

Feels bad af to live smack dab in the middle of Florida

That's all you really had to say.
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I definitely appreciate the simplification of the weapon upgrades as time went on. In DS2 or 3, TC's idea of switching your main weapon to a different type is fine because you literally don't have to sacrifice levels and potentially limited materials to do it. It lets you play around and decide what you like best. Doing that in DS1 is an invitation for disaster. And don't get me started on the PBS in DeS.

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Laying it on a little thick.

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Okay now you pivoted and are definitely trolling. My mistake that I even made that previous post.

Let's stop this now and thank TC for putting up with us.

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MariaTaylor posted...

I don't think you missed anything, I just think you're too dumb to understand it. I'm not sure you even know what the word symptomatic means.

Good lord. Someday when you grow up maybe you'll realize that calling everyone an idiot constantly will literally never convince anyone of anything and is a crutch for people who ACTUALLY don't have anything of substance to say.

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MariaTaylor posted...

you are straight up AGREEING with me that the 'muh elevator' argument is shallow, yet you're also arguing with me. for reasons.

No I said if that was the only problem it would be shallow if it alone ruined the whole game for people. You're the guy who literally claimed the first boss in DS1 is symptomatic of all its problems and can't explain that without just crying spatial awareness and limited moveset over and over thinking I missed something and yet you can't accept when people boil DS2 down to limited talking points that actually make sense in relation to other things in the game.

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MariaTaylor posted...

the guy who directed Dark Souls literally 3. the most linear game in the series, with the worst game balance, shittiest and most limited move pool of any modern souls-like game, and whose idea of a good boss is a DPS check that fires lasers at you from behind while you're trying to fight it before juggling you with a tekken style aerial combo.

Wow. Just fucking wow.

Also stop saying people don't know what they're talking about any time they disagree with you as if that makes you an expert that's saying things that make any damn sense. No one is falling for it. It just makes you look like an asshole.

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The dragon is a covenant leader as well. But don't waste your time on that.

Ash Lake looks pretty cool and has some interesting lore implications, but what you see is pretty much what you get.
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Yeah I enjoyed being able to power stance anything I want. The dual wield weapons in DS3 are good and all but I like having the options.
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GOGZero posted...

-You can now build levels with other people online!

It's kind of amazing to me that this now exists in Mega Man Maker and not Mario Maker.

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Oh, well then I spelled out too much for you. Whoops!

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mccheyne posted...

Im thinking of turning the claymore into a magic or divine weapon, for special purposes (mainly those respawning skeletons in the catacombs, as I have to go there eventually). Then I still have the black knight sword to get me through things, or the uchigatana if quicker slashes are needed. Out doing errands, will play in a couple hours. Hoping to finish up ash lake and whatever else is there

I'm not sure why you know about that, but since you know that much I'll clarify that only Divine does what you're looking for in that respect.

I also wouldn't make your main weapon Divine or Magic if your build isn't really focused around that. You can always use a second weapon for that purpose.

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MariaTaylor posted...

wHy ArE wE sTiLl TaLkInG aBoUt ThE aSyLuM dEmOn

I dunno, maybe don't claim he's "symptomatic of issues with a lot of enemy design in dark souls 1" if you didn't want to make it the main basis of your argument or have his problems compared to anything in DS2? That's a pretty strong statement to make twice and then to then never want to make a direct comparison between Asylum Demon and anything else.

(Also Covetous Demon has like 4 moves total and is only moderately comparable at best to Gaping Dragon so I would probably think you were trolling me if you weren't getting so upset about this.)

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Black Knight weapons are absurdly good in DS1. At least according to what I know/heard. I've never actually used one myself.

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MariaTaylor posted...

Covetous Demon and Prowling Magus may not be exciting, but they have much better AI than a lot of the trash tier and even mid tier dark souls 1 bosses. it's a natural result of the developers getting more experience and understanding of how to make enemies behave with each installment.

Compare Covetous Demon to Gaping Dragon for example. now you can certainly make the case that Gaping Dragon is a much better boss for many other reasons, but the Covetous Demon has a much more refined AI cycle -- more diverse moveset -- and better understanding and reaction to the position of the player.

Complaining about Covetous Demon or Prowling Magus are, once again, shallow arguments that totally lack understanding of the elements that go into game design.

I didn't even bring up the absurdity of the fact that you fight Asylum Demon repeatedly in the game. The fact that his move set and his spatial awareness are so limited is what really makes him so much worse than even the low tier DS2 bosses. and the problems that the Asylum Demon has ARE actually symptomatic of issues with a lot of enemy design in dark souls 1 -- and even demon's souls. he's not just a 5 second loading screen.

also -- I know I am very good at these games, so don't worry about offending me with comments about my skill. it honestly doesn't make any difference to me whether you think so or not.

Dude, you can easily bait a move where Covetous Demon rolls on his back and does nothing for like 7 seconds repeatedly. Setting aside that the rest of his moveset is garbage too, I'm not sure how this is fine to you but Asylum Demon being baited into doing a move that might actually hit you if you get greedy is somehow the bane of all of the AI in DS1.

Prowling Magus, assuming you even give him a chance to attack, casts fairly slow dark orbs and has a small AoE. When you get somewhat close to him, he will either back up to cast or try to slowly run to you and use that AoE, often out of range of actually hitting you. They add in a bunch of trash mobs that die in 1-2 hits and a few casters that die in 2-3 to try and hide the fact that this is literally all he does, but their AI is also so rudimentary that the only way they are a threat is if you just rush into the middle of them yourself before ever attacking. I can't believe someone is trying to defend Prowling Magus compared to anything, including the rest of its own game. Unlike all of both my and your other examples, no manipulation is required to even see the full extent of how bad this one is. It's just that bad.

(And somehow you never honed in on Pinwheel. I find that odd.)

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I dunno. I beat Ruin Sentinels on like my second or third try. Granted, it wasn't entirely blind and DS2 was actually the last Soulsborne I played (and to answer your other thought I played it like 6 months ago), but I can't imagine having that much trouble on them if you've done O&S.

Edit: That isn't meant to insult your skill, which is how it probably came off. We all have those bosses that we get stuck on. Your reaction to it, though, is somewhat odd to me.

MariaTaylor posted...

this is a hot take considering how crude the AI is for a lot of dark souls 1 bosses, but okay. if you truly believe that I sort of wonder when is the last time you actually played dark souls 1 or 2. because I don't think watching a giant fatass demon fly into the air and butt stomp repeatedly while I hit him 25 times to kill him is very fun. but if that's your idea of great boss design, fair enough.

No, fighting the same boss 3 times is not a high point of DS1. It's budget definitely shows in places, no mistake this is one of them. But on the other hand making fun of DS1's boss AI because of Asylum Demon and saying they massively improved it in DS2 is a much hotter take when things like Covetous Demon, Prowling Magus, and a boss you can consistently get to fall out of the arena 5 seconds into the fight exist.

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MariaTaylor posted...

another dumb meme with no basis in reality. dark souls 2 has more monster type bosses than dark souls 1, more bosses overall, and a similar % of armor dudes vs non armor dude bosses. the fact that this nonsense still gets repeated after years, in spite of the fact that it's easily debunked, really goes to show how pointless these discussions really are.

it's a shallow criticism because someone would only say this if they don't actually know enough about dark souls 1 and 2 to make a fair comparison.

Okay, no. DS1 does not have that many "armor guys" in it at all, unless you start getting really generous in what you throw in that category. I'm not gonna start laundry listing things in this topic, but when you boil it down vanilla DS1 has like 3 total when you're comparing it to the bosses that people complain are repetitive in DS2.

Also, the other problem is that a lot of the bosses in vanilla DS2 that don't fall into that template are either even worse or an awkward inferior take on a variety of DS1 bosses. Which is not to say that DS1 doesn't have some bad bosses. It has the single worst boss in the series. Let's just be glad we didn't get a DS2 version of that.

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I'm not saying the elevator ruins the game. I'm saying it's just the single sentence example people break out instead of going on 20 minute diatribes. And admittedly I was lumping world design and level design together confusedly, but that's sort of what people do, which is sort of my point.

And DeS has significantly better level design than DS2. Half of the areas in DS2 are at best one step above what it would be if FFX maps were used in a DS style game.
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I definitely wouldn't call complaining about the lack of boss variety particularly shallow, especially when most of those in the base game are far inferior to anything in that category in the other games. It's like Velstadt is the best hands down, Lost Sinner and Ruin Sentinels are okay I guess, and maybe Pursuer is passable if I'm being generous.

The elevator is simply a glaring example of people's problems with the level design, but really if that was the only issue in that respect I think people would laugh it off more than they do. It's kind of amazing how much better the level design is in the DLC, sans the unicorn area which is the worst thing a well-respected developer has ever unleashed upon humanity.

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MariaTaylor posted...

when people say the mechanics in DS2 are unsatisfying they are usually complaining that the heavy weapons actually feel heavy. which is one of the main things that DS2 fans actually love about the game.

I've literally never heard that specific gripe before. I also powerstanced Greatswords (ie the UGS called that, man that naming convention is dumb) and enjoyed that aspect but still found it the worst by far.

MariaTaylor posted...

Also Dark Souls 1 and 3 have the ridiculous instant backstabs that cause the entire meta to be built around fishing.

3 does not by a long shot. It's animation is more akin to 1's than 2's I'll grant you, but unlike 1 you can still fail to connect quite often, especially in PvP. It also just has a smaller angle range in general I'm pretty sure.

Suffice it to say, backstab fishing in PvP is pretty much as viable in 3 as it is in 2, which is to say it pretty much won't happen unless someone fucks up.

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Well I wouldn't say that's true everytime, but it happens a lot more than it should and often in extremely glaring fashion.
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Jennifer Carpenter does become somewhat better of an actor as well as time goes on.
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Honestly, I always recommend people watch S8 if they make it that far because it is such a glorious train wreck.
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Yeah, S7 was surprisingly good compared to everything else in the latter half.

Then S8 was basically The Room of television seasons.
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I'm pretty sure going to trial and being acquitted on a technicality while having everyone know he's a serial killer wouldn't exactly be "nothing to worry about" for him.

And that would be the absolute best case scenario. GPS tracking especially is a pretty nebulous legal area from state to state afaik. And just because Doakes were to get the ball rolling with illegally obtained evidence doesn't mean a more thorough investigation wouldn't turn something else up.

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Great_Paul posted...

I think it was only that the nine transforming titans died in 13 years.

Correct, like how Ymir wandered around for 80 years or whatever and didn't even age until she became a shifter.
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To my understanding most flu epidemics have jumped species at some point, just not necessarily at the very start of the epidemic.

Of course I'm hardly an expert, so of course take everything I say with a grain of salt.
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To my understanding, the main difference between this (and bird flu, H1N1, SARS, etc) versus the normal flu isn't how deadly it is. It's that as a result of having just jumped species we don't have innate immune-system responses built up over generations to it, so the infection rate is sky high.

Now enough people get sick you start having issues not only being able to treat everyone but maintaining things we take for granted like water and power and you eventually run into people dying without even getting sick themselves, but we are far, far away from anything like that. (Well, most the world is, I should say.)

In other words, it's important for outbreaks like this to be taken seriously because if they aren't it could get much worse. At the same time, because they are being taken seriously the majority of the world doesn't need to worry too much about it.
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ChaosTonyV4 posted...

kevwaffles posted...

More interesting, quite possibly.

More relevant aside from shit-posting purposes, I don't think so.

I'm not saying you're wrong for posting it. I'm just saying I wouldn't care very much. You should be laughing at her more than being concerned about her.

(And maybe you and Lasa are laughing about it more than I'm interpreting.)

Accurate, thats why I lmaod it, haha

I suppose you did, lol
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More interesting, quite possibly.

More relevant aside from shit-posting purposes, I don't think so.

I'm not saying you're wrong for posting it. I'm just saying I wouldn't care very much. You should be laughing at her more than being concerned about her.

(And maybe you and Lasa are laughing about it more than I'm interpreting.)
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Mr Lasastryke posted...

i care. probably about as much as the impeachment procedure we've spent thousands of posts discussing by now.

I'll briefly come out of my unplanned hiatus of posting in these topics to assure hardcore Bernie supporters that no one besides hardcore Bernie supporters gives a shit about what Hillary has to say about Bernie, or anything else for that matter, in 2020.
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I guess that makes sense. Berthold wouldn't have been able to transform again when he got eaten, nor would anyone else who had just been ripped out of their Titan form.

Of course I guess the guy Ymir ate just sucked?

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We can only hope!

I am confused at this point, however, as to why Eren survived being eaten in the Battle of Trost instead of the Titan who ate him becoming human again. I have no idea if they ever explain the specifics of that.
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That's fair! You find out about the Founding Titan well after Eren uses those powers.
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Punnyz posted...

But Eren has other things in mind, apparently he can tap into the power of all of the other titans.

This is where you're a bit off. It's not that Eren can do things that any other Titan Shifters can't just because of plot convenience. It's because he is the Attack Titan AND the Founding Titan.

When Wall Maria initially fell, Grisha went to the the royal family and pleads for Frieda Reiss (Historia's half-sister and Founding Titan at the time) to get off her ass and actually do something. She refuses to do anything as all the royals who get the Founding Titan seem to be inclined to do after becoming the Founding Titan due to the old king's will or whatever, so he ate her and gained the Founding Titan (and killed most of the Reiss family in the process). So when Grisha had Eren eat him, Eren also became both. This is why Rod Reiss tried to have Historia become a Titan and eat Eren. (I'm still not clear why he knew he himself shouldn't become a Titan.)

Not having royal blood, Eren can't typically actually use the Founding Titan's ability to control pure Titans. The one exception to this, which he realizes during the meeting when he suddenly yells out, is when he came into contact with the Smiling Titan, aka Zeke's mom, who was a Titan of royal blood. He keeps quiet not because he has his own plan but because he realizes the only way they can make use of that information is if the military leaders decide to be complete bastards and turn Historia into a Titan.

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I would specify some things, but I think you still have an episode left?
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It's a reference they explain at some point.
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I somehow have 974 hours in Kingdom Come. I'm not sure I even played it enough days to do that if I were leaving it running 24/7.

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MoogleKupo141 posted...

Im very into this game so far even though im making fun of it a bunch

I feel like this is the best attitude to have with this game most of the time.
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