You know, as reasonable as it is, the last paragraph does sound totally corny. I'd be fine dating someone who's not as much of a nerd as me, or is a nerd in a different way like movies.
Especially the bookshelf part, since in my experience, a lot of people with piles of books don't read them (I gave the worse ones away), and making a dating app pic in a library isn't the first thing that comes to mind.
To be fair, I would too with the first. But I'm European so that as a profile/dating app pic sounds insane.
Technically the second too, not because it's a red flag for me, but just because I don't particularly care and have better odds elsewhere if that's half their personality.
Admittedly, I'm pretty sure UK did this with the underage consumers in mind, not the industry actors, for whom both sorts of porn would have a similiar impact. (I'd assume)
Personally though, the constant repeating to me sounded comedic and they were making fun of how seriously we're taking nude drawings with this, which sounds silly even if it's justified.
Half of the soulslike appeal is the world design and exploration, which I assume AC is all about, as I haven't played any. Elden Ring also explicitly gave people summons which make the game easier for almost every fight, so they can be approached by more casual players, and it worked.
Lastly, Dark Souls fans are tryhards that will tell you you're playing the game wrong for using magic, summons, or sometimes even a shield. Dark Souls 1 for instance is way easier early if you have the Heal spell, and the game's practically begging you to learn it by giving you all you need before the first real area. The "Prepare to die" slogan was introduced after DS1 hit mainstream.
If you're a casual player, have you SEEN the aesthetics? The game looks fabulous and is just pure fun. Of course the majority loves it. Persona 5 is a pretty mediocre game in terms of strategy, and yet it's carried by its style into being one of most popular JRPGs. I quit Hi-Fi Rush after the main story, but I think it was worth the experience alone, and I felt like the bosses were spicing things up enough.
If you're a more into skill, of course that's there too. It's an "easy to play, hard to master" game like many others, and what I'd argue most games should be. The final boss kicked my ass, and I generally couldn't manage consistent S ranks in the later parts of the game. The game didn't grab me enough that I'd want to master the combos, timings and replay stages multiple times, but that's just me, I felt the same about Metal Gear Rising and still had a lot of fun as a casual player.
On the other hand, last year I spent some extra time in Shadow Generations and a lot more time in Spark the Electric Jester 3 to get higher ranks, despite the games being very simple, because memorising the stages and replaying them was just fun.
Doesn't Lemmy have a ton of tankies on some instances?
If it's fine because it's a different instance, doesn't that apply to different 4chan boards?
Specifically Dark Souls 1, or also 2? Probably 1 since it's harder, but my friend did sorcery and crossbow only runs in 2.
EU has done some legislation on microtransactions, the most recent one being mandatory real-life currency price tags instead of the in-game currency ones.
It could be seen as a gambling issue rather than digital ownership, but it at least means they pay attention to video games.
"He uses League of Legends as an example. Pirate Software suggests there is no good way to make the game playable without its client-server structure."
I can't watch PS's vid right now, but how? How is it different from Counterstrike Classic or Quake being played by local parties? Is it because LoL would need to make all content available for free in the offline version? Capcom didn't seem to have a problem when making offline MegamanXDive. In fact, multliple other examples PS brought up fall flat because of that one. I can envision a singleplayer offline Pokemon Go, or one ran by fans. It doesn't matter if it's far more trimmed down.
"Pirate Software then admits that if the game [The Crew] had a single-player component to it that was shut down with the online component, that would be unacceptable."
That's literally what happened though. The Crew has a solo mode. It's innacessable now. It kickstarted the movement.
Being a consumer, not a dev, has nothing to do with it. We already have legislation against microtransactions, even if the devs only lose from it, because consumers deserve better treatment.
Also, PS allegedly has benefit in going against SKG because he's developing a live-service game. I don't know the name, and I don't even care, because even without that his arguments are shoddy.
Lastly, he was just disrespectful and called the initiative ass off the get go, throwing insults, and refused to engage in discussion. If he's mad about people treating him the same, well, you reap what you sow.
Does it still give you the ranking at the end for achievements? Or just seeing how much I got KO'd?
Which ones? Animal Well is still at -15% after a year, it's holding on.
I was a bit surprised to see Steamworld Dig 2 at -94%, but then I realised it's 8 years old.
I expected potentially shitty management of next gen Valve employees to ruin Steam, not this.
Worst case scenario if it get worse, what will the alternatives be in the future? Since most stores use these processors, would a store need to open up without them, or can the current ones decided to stop using them? I assume Steam won't pull out even if they could, since it sounds like financial suicide when most of the customers are there for convenience.