I surrender, this time around I didn’t even know you could shorten William to Bill. Next up someone’s telling me Donald is short for Ottobertifurz - honoring his fake german roots.
I surrender, this time around I didn’t even know you could shorten William to Bill. Next up someone’s telling me Donald is short for Ottobertifurz - honoring his fake german roots.
I knew that Joe could be short for Joseph, it just never occured to me that you guys would address the president of all people with a short form.
That’s the post I found out he’s not literally named ‘Joe’. Would be even more embarassing if I was american, but still.
I had a similar experience of first finishing the DLC and then going into God of War (2018). While not open world, it’s the same type of AAA soup you get from most big studios. There are so many baffling design decisions, I cannot fathom why people love the game so much - the constant barrage of stories and small talk is the most engaging thing in there.
The combat is utterly boring. Increasing the difficulty only results in spongy enemies. Their move sets are boring at best and annoying at worst. They are all but helpless if you just keep them at a distance and throw your axe.
Even worse, your godly powers are cutscene only. If you don’t want to make your game challanging, at least make a fun power fantasy and Kratos is perfect for that. He kills giant enemies, tears the very ground asunder and moves the heaviest objects imaginable. He even has super healing. None of which are tied to actual combat mechanics.
Upgrades are meaningless. Early on, you unlock a smith. I got my axe from 5 to 40 damage. Guess what? The very next enemy took the same amount of hits as the same type of enemy did before.
Traversing is mechanically boring. Climbing just means you gotta follow the yellow markings - press in the right direction or do the indicated button press. You literally cannot fall. Everything else is just walking from combat area to combat area.
The game throws an endless barrage of puzzles at you, none of which are engaging. They are so watered down, there’s barely much more thinking involved than in climbing.
Even worse, major upgrades are placed in “puzzle” chests. The puzzle? Well, just walk around and rotate your camera for several minutes until you’ve found all three runes.
The game basically just feels like a very long cutscene with a lot of padding so you can press some buttons. You can play it just fine, but they removed everything that could make any one system interesting in favor of having nothing in there a player could be stuck at. I like the characters, but I’m better served just watching a cutscene compilation for the second one.
That’s what happens if you only care about engagement. Chauvinism of any kind is liked by a certain amount of people and despised by the rest of us - both positions drive engagement.
“only 60” - the depressing state of politics. There’s a good amount of places where you’d retire before completing a single term at that age.
Seeing them side by side, the newer Microsoft logo sucks ass.
I’ve lived in both regions and both versions are strictly inferior to a potatoe salad based on mustard (+ oil and broth). The vinegar version uses a bit of mustard, but I’m speaking of mustard being the main ingredient. Naturally, I’m hated by both sides.
The way they censored the name is a new low point. Usually, you at least need to look for a few seconds, but this is just plain readable.
Respekt wenn sie schon damit wirbt von der Autoindustrie gekauft zu sein, andere Politiker warten mit solchen Aussagen bis nach der Wahl. E-Fuels sind doch nur der traurige Versuch unsere Autoindustrie am Leben zu erhalten nachdem wir Elektro komplett verkackt haben.
Konsequent die schlechtesten Versionen genommen…
Just finished the Elden Ring DLC, which was overall still fun but felt overtuned at times. While I didn’t use any summons throughout the base game and initially tried to keep it that way, some bosses simply weren’t fun to learn anymore.
Afterwards I dove into my backlog and started God of War 2018. I had pretty high expectations, given how beloved it is. Honestly, it’s fine at best - the combat is boring and the overall design can be summarized as AAA slob. Maybe it does get better, I’m not very far yet.
I didn’t think you could modernize a whole book with one sentence, but here we are.
That’s just such a nothing article. Some bloodsucker investor asked about their AI related plans and, as with everything else in the Q&A, they gave a non-answer.
I’m pretty sure they could re-apply and we’d take them in eventually, same as any other country. They just need to fulfill all the requirements and not demand any of their prior special treatment, which was bullshit anyways.
So much for reclaiming their future, I guess. Assuming the growing far-right sentiment doesn’t destroy the EU, it’s pretty much the best thing that can happen to a country in Europe.
So, what are his goals? “Re-Brenter” the EU? Revert the rampant privatisation? Revert the massive funding cuts to local governments? Prevent the impending bankruptcy of many cities? There are so many problems to tackle and I probably only know a fraction of them myself, not being British and all.
Doesn’t work, since they are fulfilled sequentially.
Do the opposite of my next wish. -> Fulfilled, he is set to do the opposite next.
Don’t fulfill my 3rd wish. -> Fulfilled, the wish does effectively nothing and he’s got one left that will be fulfilled. All instructions from the first wish are done with and discarded.
Ignore my first wish. -> Fulfilled, there is nothing left to be ignored about his first wish anymore since it’s already done. The wish does nothing and he successfully wasted all 3 by trying to be a smart ass.
I basically just go by whether or not it was refrigerated in the supermarket. However, once it’s opened I mostly throw everything in there except for dry stuff.
The rapist can get a weapon too and being raped at gunpoint isn’t quite an improvement. You’ll likely get shot before you can draw a gun of your own.