Having a conversation with me while there’s a dog in my line of sight

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survival/exploration

Vaguely related but The Stranger in the Woods by Michael Finkel was incredibly gripping right off the bat for me. And it’s relatively short and easy to read which might help get you some momentum.

Makes me proud to have 100’s of terabytes of seeded copywrited material. Hope to get that up to petabytes soon

My dogs gotta sit with me

Thank you. It’s a rare occurrence but I managed to get a picture of it

The amount of salt and butter needed to get certain foods to taste like restaurant food. My mother in law nearly fainted when I started cooking for her, but she loves the way it comes out so she let’s it be.

Speakers have such a massive diminishing of returns on high end models, but damn the Nautilus is such a cool looking speaker I can’t help but love it.

God works in mysterious ways. Papas getting a H&K mk 23

A kid named pist

Look at that dump truck

Just speaking as someone who grew up in a hyper conservative cult, I think sowing cognitive dissonance in the minds of religious youth is a great way at getting them to realize they are being taught bullshit. Hearing that Jesus’s views didn’t align with the views that had been forced upon me made me want to read the Bible and make my own decision about God and religion. I started my read fully expecting to end up with deeper faith and ended up crashing out and losing all religious belief, which was my first step towards me being a leftist today. All because of people pushing back on what Jesus would think of religious conservatism.

We are bringing clamshell phones back one way or a other

Do you think the entire artistic value of soulsikes is in their difficulty?

I mean the entire theme of souls games is overcoming rediculous challenges in the face of what seems like an impossible task. These aren’t games with amazingly written dialogues, or intricate in depth stories. The game you play is the story of your character dieing repeatedly until they overcome a great challenge to meet their goals. It would fundamentally change the game if you could just slide a bar to make it easier.

Let me ask you this, why do you think every game should cater to you? Isn’t it OK for some art to not be for everyone? Isn’t that what we tells chuds when they whine and moan about main characters being women or poc? Why can’t some art be about the overcoming a challenge?

If From thought they could add difficulty settings without diminishing the vision of their game don’t you think they would? I’m not against difficulty sliders if a dev wants them. I am against difficulty sliders if devs cant or won’t do them. My point is artists should be making THEIR art and not art that caters to the most amount of people.

Sure and we have subtitles in Fromsoft games so it’s all good right?

I have wicked adhd and there are plenty of authors I can’t enjoy because their prose is too dense. I don’t demand they write to my level, I choose books that I can enjoy reading. Video games seems to be the only art form where people feel entitled to enjoyment rather accepting there will be things that your just not capable of enjoying. If Fromsoft thought they could make their vision with difficulty sliders I’m sure they would. But if they can’t do that then they should never feel obligated to reduce their vision to something lesser to make it more palatable to wider audience

Disagree. There are plenty of games out there that try to cater to the widest base possible, plenty of games with a bunch of difficulty sliders and adjustments. From should be able to make their art without having to cater to every single person.

Even art house movies and have subtitles, and music is often translated to text or sign.

That was not my argument. My argument was art movies should explicitly spell out the meanings and symbolism in their movie via dialogues so I don’t have to do it myself. Avant-garde jazz musicians should make albums in popular time signatures and be more melodious. Otherwise people are excluded from enjoying those art forms