visions of Raya Lucaria shenanigans… Also, Iron Keep. Those armored bastards can choke on my socks.

Edit: Fuck It, Vent Time™

So, I started my first NG+ in ER, right? Started with lvl 256, first thing I did was get my second Bloodhound’s Fang (and upgraded to +9 off the bat), my guy’s beefed to 80 Dex, 40 Str, 50 Vig, 50 End, 45 Arcane (or thereabouts), the rest dumped in Mind and focusing on Int this run.

I one/two shot anything which isn’t a miniboss, I slam into bosses like a freight train. If I’m bored, like with the crystal bastards, I drop a Mimic Tear and solve every problem in a 200 meter radius.

I reach Raya Lucaria. Died 10 times on the wheel thing. Ok, whatever. I’m rusty, stopped at Malenia a couple of years ago. Progress to the rooftops. Die 20 times.

And not just in Raya Lucaria, I’m frequently missing 25% of my HP because I just jump off buildings. I swear, it’s like I die to falling off the map more than I did in my original run. By my rough estimates, lost (died, then died again trying to get them back, usually…) about 500k Runes to fall deaths thus far. The damage-to-fall distance ratio is the final boss for me, and overconfidence is still a fiend.

I’ve seen this somewhere before… Maybe Rick & Morty, not sure, something very fleshy, compound eyes, and squiggly tentacles where the mouth would be… Or maybe Samurai Jack?

That actually sounds pretty satisfying, ngl! Somewhere around creamy brownie/slightly frozen mousse!

It’s a Boomer joke, yes =))

It was a joke, an old running one, making light of people (frequently resurrected among Millenials) who have books on display. The jest is that people like to display books they’ll never read in order to look smarter. Like the old trope of wearing glasses achieving the same goal.

Never had the chance to try :-<

I manually remove the auto upvote:D

I wonder how people will show off all of the books they haven’t read, what with analogs going out of stye and all.

Depending on texture, that may be either surprisingly yummy, or disturbingly disgusting.

That’s not a CPU, that’s a fucking space heater.

Fairphones are a solid bit of tech! I mean this both metaphorically and literally! The 4 I own feels like a Nokia built in their heyday.

Honestly, I don’t think the action’s the problem, I enjoyed creating interlinked databases with tens of thousands of entries in Spreadsheets. I think it’s strictly to do with the complexity itself, I need more. I like the concept of every piece having a specific move set, I’d just need more of them. And add more complexity to them, but at that point may as well just play grand scale combat games, like 40k.

Edit: plus, to be honest, this lack of complexity doesn’t even let me properly enjoy a victory. Maybe it has some fetishistic tinges at this point, but a protracted victory is so much sweeter, make me feel like I pulled my brain through high intensity training for a couple of hours. Either that, or something which can start acting as a reflex, like backgammon.

Disclaimer: not calling myself smart or anything.

I always found chess boring, for some reason. Like, not because it is too complex, but because it isn’t complex enough, in a way. As an example, the first time I tried my hand at Medieval II: Total War, I fell in love with all things strategy.

I still can’t do chess, though… It’s like my mind goes to its happy place halfway through a match and I start making moves just to progress the game and be done with it. Gimme a 4X game, and I’d need reminders to pee every 12 hours.

…why?

You may be right. I was basing my initial hunch on the fact that he seems to be almost impressively vulnerable for a bona fide narcissist, “The Orange Man” would still highlight him as significant.

My past relationships make sense now, the Universe was Mr. Miyagi-ing me into a machine for punching Nazis!

Thank you! She really was, yeah.

I’m starting to be convinced this is one of the many intrinsic flaws to the way we’re governing ourselves. It’s an inevitable slippery slope, we’ll keep ending up having to deal with it periodically as long as we don’t change stuff in significant ways.

Edit: I think we need to approach them as our body would a splinter, or a zit. Just squeeze’em out. As I see it, Fascism is fundamentally inimical to life itself, could even compare it to a viral infection. Sure, some infection is inevitable even when squeezing out the splinter, but chances are good that it won’t develop beyond anything superficial if we provide an appropriate immune response and treatment afterwards.

I’ll still call him The Orange Man, would do it to his face. I get the feeling it’s one of those insults which he plays off like a cool guy because he can’t afford an honest reaction, but is eating him up deep inside. I can’t miss out on that possibility.

That meat looks more lively than I do.

Yeaah, I kept postponing in the hopes that something sane would happen and they’d release an official port, but it’s looking like “never”, so…

PC should handle it, 9th gen i7, 4080 Super, and as much RAM as my MoBo can hold. Beefy SSD, too.