Notices by veff :trash: (veff@poa.st), page 2

@DC5FAN @EdBoatConnoisseur Exactly, and the downstream effects include the erasure of 3rd spaces, which compounds the problem because there's nowhere else to meet up anymore, hence the fatties. I went to the mall the other day and it was surreal. Almost entirely empty with only a few stores still open. I remember it being so lively not even 10 years ago, but that's over.

hate hate hate hate

@mischievoustomato @deprecated_ii @professionalbigot69 I'm enjoying silksong. I can see why people wouldn't, and I wouldn't call them worse for it.

@mischievoustomato @deprecated_ii @professionalbigot69 Or if you want a more specific parallel that I see with the "HK vs SS" topic, it's like saying you're "better" at street fighter because you play Chun-Li (midrange footsies) instead of Dhalsim (longrange zoner), and every subsequent game has leaned more towards the one archetype at the expense of the other. Yeah, if the devs hard focus on that then maybe you're "better" at those games, but that's not what the Dhalsim is arguing. He's just miffed that the sequels gutted his playstyle, which is a valid complaint especially in a singleplayer game lol

@mischievoustomato @deprecated_ii @professionalbigot69 I think there are multiple arguments here that aren't being defined. My statement is simply that, if a game gives you tools to beat it, it's doesn't make you a worse player to use them. Otherwise you're just handicapping yourself for pride or whatever which is also fine and I do it all the time. If I didn't I would just play everything on game journalist difficulty.

My second statement is that can be good and there can be lazy difficulty in games, and "everything takes 200 hits and you die in one" is lazy and boring. That's why JRPGs are slop, because I don't have time to grind EXP for a boss. The same exact thing applies to action RPGs except "EXP" is gained by the player and not the character. Still a slog.

@deprecated_ii @professionalbigot69 not to agree with the people complaining but I think it's short-sighted to say people are "better" or "worse" at a game by using what's in the game. They're playing it in one specific way which differs from the other specific way that is deemed "the right way" by spergs. Comparing HK to SS isn't fair because one has many playstyles and the other has many subtle variations off of one main playstyle.

Some people beat Dark Souls by putting on so much armor they can't roll. That's a real strategy. Saying someone "wasn't good at Dark Souls" because they struggled with Sekiro is disingenuous.

@PraxisOfEvil It's not the unemployment which is scary, it's the underemployment. Nobody is reaching their potential. Guys who could be solving problems are flipping burgers and playing factorio.

@NirtyDigger @owenbroadcast I'm curious how the acoustics are in such a low-poly ass PS1 cathedral

God I wish I had my own place. It's divine irony that housing has become the single most expensive thing just to spite that dream.

@waifu playing silksong made me want to replay megaman 1 and 2

open world game design caught wildfire with western devs because that's how the west designs reality

@waifu Not sure how I missed this announcement but it sounds fun. I can't draw today or tomorrow but I'll mess around with it and see if I can make something look good enough for submission. I haven't tried a full A4 page drawing before so I don't know how well it would turn out, but I'm willing to try.

@PurpCat @waifu @djsumdog drawabox for pen and paper, youtube for digital.