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[ManjuShri]

[rusty_shackleford]

Ross going from not knowing what climate change will do in one video and admitting he doesn't know, to pretending he's an expert on the subject a year later and lecturing on how the world is going to be DESTROYED by it is why nobody takes climate doomers seriously.

[rusty_shackleford]

[rusty_shackleford]

I HAVE THIS STUCK IN MY HEAD
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[Kalarion]

I HAVE THIS STUCK IN MY HEAD
AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Sing a hymn to yourself, all the way through.

[ManjuShri]

[ManjuShri]

[rusty_shackleford]

I like his videos.

[Gastrick]

The realistic "muh childhood"

[gerey]

One thing I'm fascinated about is the unspoken language of video games, or to put in less pretentious terms, how do people with little exposure to video games perceive them, both from a mechanical standpoint, but also as a hobby.

I'm sure a lot of people have already seen the first video - guy makes his wife play video games and discusses the various tropes and conventions that gamers are accustomed to, and how such a "language" is completely foreign to newbies:



Second video is wholesome, son convinces his father to play Dark Souls and has an interview with him after the dad beats the game:

[rusty_shackleford]

Second video is wholesome, son convinces his father to play Dark Souls and has an interview with him after the dad beats the game:

skipped ahead, dad is complaining that dork souls has respawns

Didn't even finish one game and he already knows bad design

[gerey]

Not really about video games per se, but an interesting primer on how Western fantasy, and especially D&D, spread across and influenced Japan.

[DagothGeas5]

Not really about video games per se, but an interesting primer on how Western fantasy, and especially D&D, spread across and influenced Japan.

(video playback is unavailable )- on other sites at the least

[wndrbr]

"I'm going to force my wife, who never played videogames before, to play Doom 2016 (an FPS notorious for requiring fast reflexes), TLOU (a heavily scripted moviegame that won't be all that useful in this research) and Dark Souls (meme difficult game that intentionally subverted and broke a lot of modern game design tropes)."

Terrible choice of games.

[gerey]

Terrible choice of games.

Maybe he was aiming for a divorce. Did you ever think about that possibility, buster?

[Rand]

so you've got six main abilities you may have heard of them before they are strength dexterity constitution
intelligence wisdom charisma i've got no idea where they've got those from but they're really good but oh look they've changed the order now the
reason that strength dex and con are with each other in the first place is because they are physical abilities and intelligence
wisdom and charisma are mental traits but they've got it differently they've got strength intelligence wisdom
constitution dexterity charisma for some unknown reason mixing around the six dnd
stats isn't going to make it any less obvious you've just stolen them

Yes. And the order here is because of a reason.
Do you know what it is? I do.

[rusty_shackleford]

This guy does a lot of older RPG videos but I don't particularly care for his personality, just feels very monotone and boring
https://www.youtube.com/@aquawalrus/videos

But as I stated, he does a lot of older games so you could do worse for some of them. e.g., I completely forgot this existed

[ManjuShri]

[Finarfin]

Second video is wholesome, son convinces his father to play Dark Souls and has an interview with him after the dad beats the game:

skipped ahead, dad is complaining that dork souls has respawns

Didn't even finish one game and he already knows bad design

I think Soulslike games would be better if enemies would not respawn, it gets tedious moving from bonfire to boss fight because you either get careless trying to get to the boss as fast as possible and thus lose precious healing or you don't go and instead grind to level up.

[Gastrick]

Second video is wholesome, son convinces his father to play Dark Souls and has an interview with him after the dad beats the game:

Interesting generational gap at 9:12, versus making up excuses and blaming anything but yourself

[Gastrick]

Second video is wholesome, son convinces his father to play Dark Souls and has an interview with him after the dad beats the game:

skipped ahead, dad is complaining that dork souls has respawns

Didn't even finish one game and he already knows bad design

I think Soulslike games would be better if enemies would not respawn, it gets tedious moving from bonfire to boss fight because you either get careless trying to get to the boss as fast as possible and thus lose precious healing or you don't go and instead grind to level up.

That would trivialize all the non-boss sections and turn most of it into some popamole thing

[gerey]

I think Soulslike games would be better if enemies would not respawn, it gets tedious moving from bonfire to boss fight because you either get careless trying to get to the boss as fast as possible and thus lose precious healing or you don't go and instead grind to level up.

The one trick all the souslikes don't tell you is that you can usually run past all enemies, if you know where you're going. They have a very limited aggro range.

You only really need to fight the mobs if you're in a new map, exploring for loot or farming experience and drops.

[rusty_shackleford]

dork souls games are trash so there's no way to fix them

[Vaako]

Second video is wholesome, son convinces his father to play Dark Souls and has an interview with him after the dad beats the game:

skipped ahead, dad is complaining that dork souls has respawns

Didn't even finish one game and he already knows bad design

I think Soulslike games would be better if enemies would not respawn, it gets tedious moving from bonfire to boss fight because you either get careless trying to get to the boss as fast as possible and thus lose precious healing or you don't go and instead grind to level up.

Dark Souls games used to be about problem solving skills and you beeing careful until you find the next bonfire. Its that feeling of relief of finally getting a checkpoint after a really ****** area with annoying monsters. It didnt used to be for normies who want to relax after a long work day and "just have fun". If you want that play something else. And you can run past most enemies. The newer games even have often bonfires directly before a boss.

[A Chinese opium den]

Talking with @Manny V got me wistfully thinking about the good old days when dota was a quality game for men of taste.

[Manny V]

Talking with @Manny V got me wistfully thinking about the good old days when dota was a quality game for men of taste.

It's a DISAAAASTA

$6 gorillion dollars for pressing R

[DagothGeas5]

Talking with @Manny V got me wistfully thinking about the good old days when dota was a quality game for men of taste.

I think I heard being said that Dota changed in some way, but I thought things were still like this. Are they not anymore?

[A Chinese opium den]

Talking with @Manny V got me wistfully thinking about the good old days when dota was a quality game for men of taste.

I think I heard being said that Dota changed in some way, but I thought things were still like this. Are they not anymore?

Its still decently fun, but it just doesn't quite have the same charm. A lot of the more interesting and strange interactions like that got removed in the name of balance over the years.

[Finarfin]

Talking with @Manny V got me wistfully thinking about the good old days when dota was a quality game for men of taste.

Used to play DOTA2 to the point where I made a Drow Ranger Build... Good times.

[DagothGeas5]

Talking with @Manny V got me wistfully thinking about the good old days when dota was a quality game for men of taste.

I think I heard being said that Dota changed in some way, but I thought things were still like this. Are they not anymore?

Its still decently fun, but it just doesn't quite have the same charm. A lot of the more interesting and strange interactions like that got removed in the name of balance over the years.

That is very sad to hear, it feels as if it lost its soul, so to speak. Thank you for letting me know