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Cake day: July 21st, 2023

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  • I really like Dark Souls/Elden Ring multiplayer PvP. I especially like Dark Souls 3 and it’s still pretty active, at least on PC! Hosts can choose to be invaded by intentionally using an ember and the dried finger and even try to “gank” the invader by teaming up with other players to fight them with a massive advantage. It’s fun to invade these worlds and have a duel, or try to overcome a gank. I got pretty decent at fighting, spacing, parrying, weapon-swapping during animations for massive critical damage, etc.

    But the game will also ember you after beating bosses, opening you up to invasions even if you didn’t want that. And invading is such an aggressive act that I don’t find it fun to hunt down and kill someone who doesn’t even want to PvP. So when I encounter someone who very obviously doesn’t want to fight me (and I can’t entice them to attack), I’ll just follow them around in underwear or a crazy outfit, staying out of the way and gesturing and yelling by using the carvings at all the PvE enemies they kill. You can also drop items for other players. It’s a silly, time-wasting thing to run around until the host dies or goes to fight a boss and you get kicked out of their world…






  • Like any other game mechanic, there are times it makes sense to have it as an option, and times it doesn’t. If it’s a 100% PvE cooperative game you’re playing with a close friend you know well, sure; why not? Let either player pause the game for everyone. At least some of Hazelight Studios’ games feature this (A Way Out, It Takes Two, Split Fiction).

    But for competitive fighting games or ones with many players, it could be abused, or just be too annoying to enable. Maybe in the latter type an in-game voting system where everyone has to agree to pause the action?





  • Coffee-buying has increasingly gone gourmet. I think most people who brew coffee at home have a grinder. But ground coffee starts losing its quality pretty soon after it’s exposed to air, so grinding fresh only matters if you brew it right after grinding. For people who only make coffee for guests or only drink it for the caffeine, there’s pre-ground options. Also, grocery stores don’t want to sacrifice that valuable shelf real estate for the large grinder…