I feel you. It's funny, I stopped playing soulsborne games after ds1 through 3. Gonna get back into them soon. I think Ds2: SOTFS would be cool to check out if you can get it on sale. I think the diehard community even does "return to drangleic" events that make the pvp/co-op more active as well.

DS2 made some aspects of the combat a bit more deliberate than the first game. It added a stat called adaptability that affected rolling. Back stab fishing was also made less viable. Magic wasn't as insanely OP akin to something like dark orb spam in Ds1 but still pretty powerful. Don't really like soul level (overall level of your character based on total souls collected rather than matching you pvp wise based on your stat level)

There was a period of time where I played nothing but Dark Souls 1 and 3 (same theme) and thought about these

Sank an incredible post. DS2 is right up there with the other games. All negative opinions are parroted from a single video essay. Majula is the comfiest hub.

that’s half the reason i even bothered to comment lol

Still can't help but wonder if this whole scene, Chapo, these people, Belden, isn't some sort of deep-cover CIA operation meant to contain and guide the inevitable re-emergence of a left in this country. I mean Menaker's father being a double-agent, Belden going to Syria to fight with left flavored but CIA sponsored and approved militia, their connections to people like Dasha. It's all just a little suspicious. In a believable kind of way but also in a they people were all put together in an incubator kind of way. They wouldn't even have to be witting assets either if the CIA was trying to merely guide development in a certain direction. I don't know. It's weird here in the imperial core.

I’m here with you and i think it’s fun to consider but a few points that i think we would have to consider to either make or break this:

-the inevitable reemergence of the left movement requires enough people being in dire circumstances where joining a dissident organization makes sense.

-the US govt doesn’t need an elaborate internet media scheme to keep people pacified. They can still manipulate the standard media offering and shoot IRL revolutionaries like they do and have already done

-For people that are extremely self motivated genuinely don’t want to work for companies that support genocide, the war machine, pick any ugly aspect of clapistan, an indie media career is compelling

I don’t have much to say about the CIA connection stuff. You can’t choose your parents and since TA is the only podcast i listen to regularly i know for a fact Belden isn’t exactly rosy while describing his past self

I need some more info so a grown man willingly sat and watched cocomelon for more than a minute bc the celeb he likes told him to? How big is the apartment?

Weapons grade copium: EU to demand technology transfers from Chinese companies

Brussels is planning to force Chinese companies to transfer intellectual property to European businesses in return for EU subsidies as part of a tougher trade regime for clean technologies. New criteria requiring Chinese businesses to have factories in Europe and share technological knowhow will be introduced when Brussels invites bids for €1bn of grants to develop batteries in December, according to two senior EU officials. The pilot could be rolled out to other EU subsidy schemes, they said. The requirements, while at much smaller scale, echo China’s own regime, which pressures foreign companies into sharing their intellectual property in exchange for access to the Chinese market. The criteria could be subject to change ahead of the tender, officials said. The plans represent part of a hardening stance from Europe towards China as it seeks to protect companies in the bloc — subject to strict environmental regulations — from being undercut by cheap and more polluting imports.

‘Bomb cyclone’ threatens Northern California and Pacific Northwest

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I got clowned on on a post about libraries saying amerikans only read shit like netanyahu’s memoir.

I was called too pessimistic and yet here I am proven correct by the long arc of history

Poll: 70% of bed bugs are currently thirsty for blood

Guess the check from Langley didn’t clear last week

Idk if this is news related but my Twitter feed is unreadable today bc said feudal slavery was bad.

Why is this sort of discussion so tantalizing for certain portions of the internet. Why is slavery and all of its subgenres like caste systems , serfdom, etc not unequivocally considered bad?