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Hochul is getting primaried by a more progressive candidate, and NYC has always been relatively weak for her because she's from Buffalo. This isn't actually about the mayoral race; she's begging the city to keep her in the governor's mansion.

crashing the economy

The stock market is doing great. The ownership class is lining up behind Trump because he's making them billions and they just need to stroke his ego a little bit.

I was shocked to learn that Maelle can one-shot that superboss as well. I would not have beat him otherwise: I spent literally weeks pounding my head against the wall, trying to beat him more conventionally.

Back in 2016,my BIL told me, "I could be as rich as Trump, I just don't want to work that hard."

...Still lived with his parents at 40.

At least in America, racism is so prevalent and core to our society that I'd never attribute racism in small children solely to bad parenting. Racism and misogyny are driven in part by exposure to... well, just about every part of American culture. Parents can try to course-correct, but (especially white) parents may not have the tools or language to adequately educate their children in the face of cultural indoctrination.

Well, yes. Businesses are run as dictatorships, not democracies. This is one of the reasons why no one who would "run a country like it's a business" should be elected to public office.

Absolutely this. The American Cancer Association advises it is best not to drink alcohol. Alcohol use accounts for 5% of all cancers in the US.

So it's a known carcinogen that also impairs judgements and motor functions, causes brain damage, and is habit forming. Just because it's been socialized to be acceptable doesn't mean it's not deadly.

What anyone thinks doesn't matter. It is a prosecutor's responsibility to prove it in court.

My grandfather was a state trooper for thirty years. The only advice he ever gave me was, "It's not illegal until you're convicted."

I used Elden Ring as an example, but all of Fromsoft's Souls games have had similar ways of adjusting difficulty. Bloodborne still had summons, still had tons of optional areas and alternate paths, and even had the cum dungeon if you want to cheese it on levels and skip the grind.

And it's not like From is the only company doing difficulty this way. Most Mario games are pretty straightforward for casual players, but advanced players who master the controls can often find secret levels or alternate collectibles. It's an added, optional challenge a player self-imposes to make the game harder. Or Celeste and the optional strawberries and post-game levels.

I was all-in on Hollow Knight. Beat it multiple times, including Path of Pain and the Nightmare King. But I'm struggling with Silksong.

I went back and started up Hollow Knight again just to sanity-check myself, and, yes, it's definitely an easier game. Many fewer enemies can hit for 2 health; there's more variety in paths in the early game, so if you hit a wall in one direction you can try another; and you get access to upgrades that actually feel impactful relatively early instead of skills that use up my magic pool that I can't spare because I need them because I'm always one hit away from dying.

My pet theory is that Silksong is actually just exactly what they originally pitched: DLC for players that have mastered the highest skill points in Hollow Knight. And maybe that would be fine if I were coming straight into it off of the back of Godhome. But it's been years since I was playing those areas, and my skills have atrophied. It's okay for a DLC to expect mastery from the start, but a standalone game should have more of a curve.

Celeste is a game about reflexes and dexterity. They implemented tons of accessibility features, including ways to make platforming easier.

There doesn't need to be sliders or options menu settings. Elden Ring handles difficulty settings beautifully: upgrading your flask is optional and increases both the frequency and amount of healing that can be received. Using summons is optional and can make some fights an absolute cakewalk. Same with all the different crafting items. If you want, almost every dungeon in the game can be skipped or revisited if it's too hard.

All Team Cherry had to do was change the timing or location for access to certain tools in the game.