No, that’s just what the election is. Just because it should work by popular vote doesn’t mean it not doing so is a technicality, it just means it’s a bad system for our purposes.

Fighting games aren’t that functional a comparison because mobility works completely differently in them.

I didn’t deride shmups, I merely said I don’t like them. I think it’s ridiculous to try to make up rules about why this or that video game isn’t actually a video game short of there literally not being such a thing as player choice.

in 2016 they won on a technicality

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You have ‘attack commitments’ that hold the player and enemies in place during attacks to make the attacks feel more weighty

Imo the point of this isn’t how the game feels, feel is just a byproduct. The point is to have what some might describe as more consequential positioning and decision making with attacks, because you can’t just swivel mid-animation to hit someone who got around the initial path of your attack.

Turning into metal is in all the subsequent games too, I’m pretty sure.

There are fundamental aspects of a game where if you don’t like it, you won’t like the game, and you can’t really avoid needing to roll, block, or parry attacks some of the time (though you virtually never need to do any one of them and can often just walk out of harm’s way). If you don’t want to do any single one of those then yeah, playing the game is silly and you’ll have a bad time. That said, there are still lots of other elements to builds, like different types of casting and such, that give it more diversity.

I’ve beaten DS1 without rolling or parrying a single time, just blocking and repositioning, and I wouldn’t necessarily recommend it for everyone, but I thought it was fun.

It’s amazing how dead MeToo is since people decided Tara Reade was too inconvient. These freaks really are at this point happy to tell themselves that openly accepting a r*pist is the way to win when it’s not even the fucking general election yet! They don’t need to back this guy for dems to win (not that that would be an excuse, but just to explain how sick they are).

Just cast this predator out and pick someone better! Dems (understandably) are highly inclined to cite open predators among the Republicans as a means of discrediting them, but that doesn’t work if you also accept predators. This doesn’t even make sense for Blue MAGA, though I guess it’s Blue MAGA’s truest expression.

Having a high damage to health ratio is common but not remotely essential, while people would consider having stamina much more important for the character of the genre because it introduces resource management. Another common example of resource management is having a heal with a limited number of uses that is restored at checkpoints. There’s also usually a mechanic where when certain conditions are met, you can go to the enemy and do a much stronger attack with a canned joint animation between attacker and recipient (backstabbing and whatever the other one is called in DS are like this).

There are also other structural aspects of the game outside of the immediate combat, like the existence of those checkpoints that restore health and certain resources, certain elements of the world design (centered on shortcuts and unlocking doors, usually), the bloodstained mechanic, the soapstone mechanics for letting players leave each other messages, and a few other things.

No, and even superficial scrutiny demonstrates that that’s not the case.

I’m so unfathomably sick of listening to people moan and moan about soulslikes.

Yes, the fanbase is rancid. Yes, the subgenre is wildly overrepresented and trend-chasing games are often designed in a very formulaic way and are liable to suck, as always. These complaints are fair game.

But very often people go several steps further because they have so much resentment over these facts that they extend this to attacking a serviceable genre on absurd grounds and always interjecting how much they hate it and how superior they are to it in every discussion about it. I don’t really care for shoot-em-ups. Do you know what I do? Move on with my fucking life instead of writing dissertations about how they are fake and evil games and dropping into every shmup conversation to tell them how much it sucks.

Also delusion, in some cases

I agree.

It’s such pathetic consolation to see this clown eat shit while the dying beast of empire destroys the world, but boy did I feel excited reading the headline and imagining getting to watch her catastrophically fail without being able to use her 100 days excuse. She wouldn’t even make it to the general if a single quarter-decent (in terms of “electability”) centrist runs against her.

Those perfidious Iranians, so unlike the Israelis and Americans who always keep their word.

I think the conventional phrasing for that is “well-adjusted,” which as a poorly-adjusted person I have no problem with using, but you might not feel the same way.

Taking the rest of the story at face value, what could possibly be the validity of the last paragraph? How do they know no one can say it? They know the people they “caught” couldn’t say it, but that’s absolutely no indication of it catching everyone. If someone did get through this, how would they know? It’s like dragging a fishing net, hauling it up, pointing to the fish and saying that it catching some fish is evidence that no fish could get through.

Which is like a paragraph to say this is functionally a form of “survivorship bias.”

There are lots of Eurofash like this too

They’ve killed Americans even besides that, and more recently: https://dawnmena.org/u-s-citizens-killed-by-israel-soldiers-and-settlers-in-palestine/

Journalists, aid workers, people just visiting relatives.

If it’s such a stubborn problem, why should humanity need to tolerate such a state? Take it out back and shoot it, so to speak. People should be regarded as having a right to exist, but states should not, and for such a depraved machinery of death as the Israeli state, it’s plainly failing to uphold the rights of humans not to smash it in their defense.

I don’t think neurotypical works here because it’s not about someone’s neurology or mental health in this case, but their acculturation to mainstream society, which includes people who are neurodivergent and excludes some who are neurotypical.

Shit Gets Boring so to Increase users the rules are lowered

I struggle to remember this ever happening in the site’s history except debatably maybe once when federation started.