@King_0f_Sinners absolutely. I hate how widespread the Sekiro parry has become for example, it's definitely ruined other games for me. But it works in Sekiro! The problem is just lazy imitation
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Stan the Woz
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It's the same thing as "Fromsoft ruined action games" Fromsoft didn't do shit they didn't tell people to start copying them it's other studios who cheaply tried to copy the formula and mass market it who "ruined" the genre
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I kind of hate the notion of "genshin ruined gachas" no, genshin didn't ruin gachas what ruined gachas were studios trying to copy Genshins success instead of looking at WHY genshin was and still is as popular as it is
Dolphin🐬@Dorufins_
gacha games werent niche before genshin btw, arguably genshin ruined how gacha games were made😭
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@Authw8 as goofy as it is from a lore perspective I found ME2 gameplay about 100 times more fun than the first game so I'm not gonna argue with it
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mass effect 1: in the future guns can make their own ammo so the limiting factor is they overheat sometimes and need to cool down
mass effect 2: we have developed a new technology to store heat in "clips" that you can "reload" by pressing R
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Frieren boldly asks the question "what if 90% of FMA:B episodes were about the Elric brothers hitting up random villages doing odd jobs for lunch money?"
peepeepoopoo@DeepDishEnjoyer
i think i just realized that frieren is rated as highly as it is because the modern anime watching audience has a shot attention span and has actually intellectually regressed over the past two decades. oh my god
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@blessedtism @JoshEdits At one point, consoles were significantly cheaper, easier to set up, and had meaningful exclusives you couldn't get on PC. As time has gone on we are seeing the erosion of all of those, plus PC games have better sales and you don't have to pay for multiplayer
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@JoshEdits It's a valid question though.
What is the incentive of gaming on a shitty platform with proprietary hardware and a corporate gatekeeper? Why have multiple platforms like that?
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“PC ports hurt gaming”
Kush Dracula@Cello_andretti
@JoshEdits No. PC ports hurt gaming.. What’s the point of having all these platforms if there isn’t any incentive to buy said platform ? Why have multiple platforms ? Might as well have a monopoly platform & give them all the power with the way your talking
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@JamesSurowiecki The electoral college makes sense in a world where people view themselves as citizens of a state more than citizens of the country. I think that made complete sense in the 1700s. Less so now
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There's no good civic argument for the electoral college. It was arguably necessary to ensure the ratification of the Constitution, but it's an anti-democratic device that gives some American citizens far more voting power than others, based purely on where they live.
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@dev_maims If it lists ANY number of years required other than zero, then it should be banned from being labeled as entry-level. It's just dishonest at that point
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Unpopular opinion: Entry-level jobs should require 0 years of experience.
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@vAh4nvRTiE91181 @InPlasticWrap In America, we say "Won't anyone think of the poor helpless giant corporation?" 🥺🥺🥺
The one that is powerful, worth billions, and would run over your grandma for a quick buck. American corporations are ruthless until proven otherwise.
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@ProfBZZZ Not everyone learns well through large amounts of reading. I never did get much out of most of the readings in most classes, there was always an attempt but usually the actual learning happened in class or for the assignments.
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A student today at my elite university admitted to me today that she took a class so she could work on reading for more than 20 minutes at a time. She can't read. She mainly skims and summarizes, she says and still gets A's.
This student is, by professional standards, illiterate. Gonna have high GPA when she graduates.
This conversation was had after 6 of 22 students dropped my course because the maximum reading per week in one week was over 100 pages.
What people aren't grasping is that this is literally *dangerous*. These people are going to be come doctors, engineers, etc. They are - by any metric - vastly less capable than prior generations. These effects are cumulative over a lifetime.
This grade inflation is part of the problem, but not even close to the entirety. And the problem obviously starts in K-12.
Students don't know history because, you can't actually become historically literate on the advice of 'never assign more than 30 pages a week'. You can't develop any of the skills that came with literacy. This is, quite honestly, a civilizational catastrophe.
Steve McGuire@sfmcguire79
79% of grades at Yale are A-range. Graduating summa cum laude requires a record high GPA OF 3.98.
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If FMA ended today, they would've drawn edward elric as a mcdonald's worker and your fyp would be flooded with the same 3 slander memes of him
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@PaulTassi You gotta go with a laser printer. It'll be a bit more expensive up front but way cheaper in the long run because you don't have to buy new ink every six months to print one single page.
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Setting up a new printer and it is amazing there have been exactly zero advances in printer technology in like 20 years
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@aro_arox @Krispylahe it's got amazing combat mechanics held back by pretty bad map design and overall pacing, which still puts it comfortably above average imo
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@Krispylahe Is why why I feel that anyone who says Three Houses has shitty gameplay is just being ridiculous
The game could not currently be the second highest rated of the series if it had shitty gameplay
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You need to play series with actual bad games because even the worst fire emblem is still like a 6/7 out of 10
Adantes🐞🐞🐞@Saturationdiv3r
Good games and fire emblem don't go in the same sentence unless it's "unlike fire emblem, metal gear has some good games in its series"
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@KakarottaLeah might be top 1 biggest disappointments for me. I am so incredibly bored of orchestral soundtracks being in absolutely every genre. Movies already do it, don't make every game do this too. I want to see more electronic stuff, more rock, funk, jazz, etc.
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@RaineyOvalle Left reminds me of some of the crazy surreal sci-fi I read as a kid. Right looks like it's gonna be some generic self-growth slop. The choice is clear
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Exactly.
And the de-swagification of book covers needs to be studied.
Tell me which one of these you’re more likely to read.
go hang a salami, im a lasagna hog@MattGrippi
@RaineyOvalle i judge books by their cover constantly and it often pays off
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I painted Tiger Woods apologizing to the tree he ran into
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@sanwichkooker @that_gg2078 peak show, still waiting on season 2
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New isekai anime are so funny because they'll always start with a bizarre premise but then add a stipulation that renders the premise completely pointless
Manga Mogura RE (Anime & Manga News)@MangaMoguraRE
So What's Wrong with Getting Reborn as a Goblin?" ANIME TRAILER Date: Oct 2026 Studio: BAKKKA An office worker is reincarnated as a goblin in another world but thanks to a special skill he's keeping his human life expectancy, becoming a powerful creature
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@analytichegel there's essential *knowledge*, but "you have to get it from this specific book" always seemed incredibly shortsighted to me. For fiction, it's even less coherent because fiction isn't about knowledge, it's about personal taste and the experience.
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@AramyxFun Me after finishing the game and learning there is a "correct" order for the routes 💔
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@ant_ssb Practically nobody I know who's good at games does this either, to be fair
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Every time someone has told me they’re genetically bad at games it always boils down to them being unwilling to practice with intention. Every single time.
IdkTest@IdkTest_06
being genetically bad at games is the worst shit ever cause you keep playing even though you know you never gonna be good
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I'm actually getting boggled at the repeat indications that people in the translation industry don't understand that 'bon appetit' in English is 'bon appetit'
Gearoid Reidy リーディー・ガロウド@GearoidReidy
> you shouldn’t translate it then, keep it in Japanese You need to understand that companies are trying to sell things to people who aren’t already weebs > it’s better than “rub a dub dub thanks for the grub” I agree > English doesn’t have an equivalent of “bon appetite” Now you’re getting it - this is why localization is tricky
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@PandaKingEX I've never liked or enjoyed it but I didn't have to care until games like Sekiro and Wo Long completely centralized their combat around it and stripped out like half of what made games like that interesting. I'll celebrate its death at this point
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I think parrying started very cool, and I don’t entirely hate it, but in the past games had parry as a high level option to master and modern games today center the game design around parry so it’s no longer that high execution mechanic to master, it’s just the main centerpiece
exe@exe_files_
No amount of snob takes on this app is ever going to convince me that parrying isn’t one of the coolest and fun mechanics of any game
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