Buy it as gifts for friends who wouldn’t buy it.

The thing is that even Dark Souls 1 had the decency to put the main blacksmith near a warp bonfire (and still decently close to the hub before you get warp, Blighttown being the only stretch far from one. You can reinforce anywhere, mind you, but Andre’s the main source of Titanite shards anyway), and letting you redeem your currency items at any moment.

Hollow Knight has you dragging your feet to both for what felt like 5 minutes, and then another 5 minutes to get back to the fast travel point, and then maybe some 5 more to get to wherever you might want to spend that currency on, because few of them are in what’s supposed to be the hub of the game. Actually, just fuck the currency items in particular. Technically it makes currency more precious than Souls’, where you can pull 30k at any moment if you want, but it’s just a pain the ass in practice.

I remember the merchant in the brown toxic place taking time in particular. Maybe there was some skill issue there where I should have ignored them and went on shopping sprees only every 5 hours or so, rather than trying to make things easier regularly, but in either case I didn’t like it.

It’s the walking and movement for me. Getting to places takes ages. Compared it most other metroidvanias, which have denser fast travel and/or more movement options, HK is lacking, the dash is marginally faster and the ultra dash is situational, basically only for dedicated spots. This isn’t as much of an issue in most Soulsborne games, which HK was going for, but you don’t go back to old areas as much there. Even Elden Ring’s open world throws a shitton of fast travel spots and has everything you need in a small hub.

I will admit the combat didn’t gel with me too much either, despite being a FromSoft fan. Not sure about that one, maybe it’s the precision of movement required.

Maybe Silksong will do better with Hornet’s faster movement, but I won’t be buying it now.

Thinking about it, I believe in equal rights, but would prefer not to be called a feminist, because it implies preference to women. Men have some rights where they are worse off than women, like military service, or - at least here in Poland - differing retirement age.

Also, at a certain point, because there’s biological and cultural (for a long time, if not forever) ups and downs to each gender, doing equal rights would then be unfair to whichever gender has it worse, which will certainly be subjective. I’m mostly for it in obvious bullshittery like salaries for the same job done or abortion rights, but at some point like maternity and paternity leave, I’m not giving it much thought.

(Also, I’d totally punch a woman anytime I’d punch a man, which is never anyways, but I think most people would call that feminism anyway)

Does CO let you roleplay a communist disco cop who sweettalks everyone into his bidding despite being a total idiot?

It is to my understanding that CO is closer to being a JRPG than an RPG, with little in terms of choices. Which to be fair, a lot of them are inbetween, but makes comparisons pointless here since these two are on opposite sides of the spectrum.

Personally, while I wouldn’t downvote, I think the reason was probably

It is the coolest invention since the Internet and it is remarkable how close it can resemble actual consciousness. No joke the AI in sci fi movies is worse than what we actually have in many ways!

Which is pretty hard to take seriously, even if I get what they mean in the first part (for the second one though, must’ve seen pretty bad sci-fi), to the point people could see it as bait.

Also, it’s just such a popular topic that it’s not an interesting question here, even if it’s a topic worth explaining now and then. An AI itself could explain why people hate AI.

I expected potentially shitty management of next gen Valve employees to ruin Steam, not this.

Worst case scenario if it get worse, what will the alternatives be in the future? Since most stores use these processors, would a store need to open up without them, or can the current ones decided to stop using them? I assume Steam won’t pull out even if they could, since it sounds like financial suicide when most of the customers are there for convenience.

Admittedly, I’m pretty sure UK did this with the underage consumers in mind, not the industry actors, for whom both sorts of porn would have a similiar impact. (I’d assume)

Personally though, the constant repeating to me sounded comedic and they were making fun of how seriously we’re taking nude drawings with this, which sounds silly even if it’s justified.

A good point I heard though is that singular “they” is used when you don’t know the person’s identity. To the extent that it could be multiple people involved, hence the use. Obviously, it’s at slight odds with “someone” in this example, but still.

Fun fact though, we do actually use “they” in that way in Polish, in old-fashioned military slang, like “Where’s private Kowalski? They were supposed to be here”. (Edit: I think that might be used when addressing them directly, so this might be a bad example, but then there is no version in English since “you” covers all genders and numbers) I don’t know if non-binary people here actually use it.

If you’re a casual player, have you SEEN the aesthetics? The game looks fabulous and is just pure fun. Of course the majority loves it. Persona 5 is a pretty mediocre game in terms of strategy, and yet it’s carried by its style into being one of most popular JRPGs. I quit Hi-Fi Rush after the main story, but I think it was worth the experience alone, and I felt like the bosses were spicing things up enough.

If you’re a more into skill, of course that’s there too. It’s an “easy to play, hard to master” game like many others, and what I’d argue most games should be. The final boss kicked my ass, and I generally couldn’t manage consistent S ranks in the later parts of the game. The game didn’t grab me enough that I’d want to master the combos, timings and replay stages multiple times, but that’s just me, I felt the same about Metal Gear Rising and still had a lot of fun as a casual player.

On the other hand, last year I spent some extra time in Shadow Generations and a lot more time in Spark the Electric Jester 3 to get higher ranks, despite the games being very simple, because memorising the stages and replaying them was just fun.

Specifically Dark Souls 1, or also 2? Probably 1 since it’s harder, but my friend did sorcery and crossbow only runs in 2.

EU has done some legislation on microtransactions, the most recent one being mandatory real-life currency price tags instead of the in-game currency ones.

It could be seen as a gambling issue rather than digital ownership, but it at least means they pay attention to video games.

Does it still give you the ranking at the end for achievements? Or just seeing how much I got KO’d?

Which ones? Animal Well is still at -15% after a year, it’s holding on.

I was a bit surprised to see Steamworld Dig 2 at -94%, but then I realised it’s 8 years old.

Depends on which you did hear of. Spelunky you probably did, but is Octodad niche enough?

Ooh, try Full Metal Furies. I personally mostly played single player, but I think co-op should be cooler, though I only played a few stages.

One of the devs boxed, and while I can’t find a source, I heard the walking is supposed to give the same feeling as stepping into the ring. Which is pretty neat.

But I started turning on Youtube as early as after the 2nd boss…

I already bought them a week ago, but Furi and Blasphemous since a friend got them, and we already beat Furi together. Gorgeous game, though the walking sections make me not want to play again, especially since my Furier difficulty save reset.

Also Bloodstained to go with Blasphemous in a bundle, since I was thinking about it for a while, and Beastieball, since I saw some posts from one of the devs on Bluesky a while back and they seemed cool. And the game seems to have great reviews.

That works just on Steam’s side I think, the trick would be emulating whatever the game itself asks Steam.

I looked up the video in question, the game’s called Champions of Breakfast and it’s a pretty small $3, so we probably won’t know because nobody gives a shit.

The first pirate software video I saw, was claiming he made an unpiratable game because it used Steam achievements to track progress.

I’m no expert, but I think that if it wasn’t pirated, it’s just cause the pirates didn’t give a damn. And it sounds like it could cause a lot of problems like bad syncing, or making the game unreplayable w/o steam achievement manager.

Because it sometimes makes me feel better about there potentially being some purpose to us if we were created intentionally, provides a placeholder explanation for what’s out there besides the universe, makes life more fun, and does not harm anyone (I’m not religious).