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[Discussion] Which Soulslike will you be playing this weekend and which Soulslike helped you "git gud"?

I have been playing Star Renegades, which is pretty good for a turn based game. I've got some pain in my left hand, where I can basically play souls games or guitar, and I'll pick guitar. I def gotta go find a physical therapist/hand specialist. But in the mean time I'm just taking it easy, and its def better than it was.

Getting gud was a process, seems different for each game. It took me a lot of back and forth between bloodborne and ds3 before I finally got the hang of ds3 and completed a few playthroughs. Then I spend a lot of time playing Bloodborne def mastered it at one point and completed full playthroughs with every weapon, save a few.

Elden Ring took me a long time and several spaced-out playthroughs until I got good. The trick for me was learning to parry and completing several full runs, developing clear reproducible strategies for Melania, Radagon/EB, Consort Radahn, and other bosses; that maintained the challenge and skill that I could feel good about, but also allowed me to defeat without too much suffering. Honestly I didn't really get there with PCR, he still takes immense effort but its satisfying to beat him with parries.

Sekiro took a long time to git good, I was hopelessly stuck on it for years. I was too much of a bloodborne player and Sekiro's dodge is utterly unforgiving. It wasn't until Nightreign came out and I mastered Executor that I decided to try Sekiro again, this time beating it several times in a row, finishing a charmless run, and beating all the boss run journeys except the final one.

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Anon makes their own edibles

In college I got invited to hang with my Korean neighbors downstairs who were making brownies. One guy is stirring the butter, another is breaking up the weed to add to it. As this is going on, they're packing bowls to pass around, everyone is getting stupid high, just me and like 8 Korean dudes.

Brownies go in the oven, bowls keep getting packed and passed around. Finally the brownies come out, and everybody there has an acute case of the munchies, so we are all like desperately reaching our hands into the warm brownies, stuffing our faces with them until we devour the whole pan. 40 minutes to an hour later everyone is laying on the floor, groaning, giggling, just a room full of deleted dudes. I don't remember much else but that was an important lesson, don't get high while making brownies without any other food around, cuz when you hit those brownies they're gonna hit back

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My baby niece started bobbing up and down when a song came on, happily waving her little fists and shaking her little diaper butt.

I was like "that's terrible, you'll never be a star, keep your day job you untalented hack!"

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TRUMP GUILTY ON ALL 34 COUNTS

I think the best we can hope for is house arrest, which would still be really good since he couldn't campaign. I doubt he will go to prison even though it would be amazing and hilarious to see him in those paper thin orange prison jump suits. He could be roommates with Nicholas Tartaglione, but I can only get so optimistic

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Drivers keep crashing into Amish buggies, so Ohio enacted a law requiring buggies be festooned with electric flashing lights

People are so up in arms at the seeming contradiction of Amish using a light and a battery on their buggies.

Guess what: most Amish businesses have cell phones. If you drive through Amish country in Ohio, you will see dozens of people in Amish garb riding e-bikes.

I hate cars and judges, and frankly Ohio is a hellhole; but if some lights are going to make people safer it really isn't going to be that big of a burden. If the judge says they have to do it, then their community elders will approve it, nbd.

None of you ever had Mennonite friends and it shows.

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Mythbusters

The Elephant and Mice episode was so wild, because if I remember correctly, the elephant didn't act afraid of the mouse, it acted afraid it would step on and harm the mouse; as if the elephant had a basic understanding and concern for the wellbeing of another creature conspicuously lacking in many human beasts

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What is the difference between a raven and a crow? One major difference is that ravens have 3 pinion feathers on each wing, whereas crows only have two.

So its really just a difference of a pinion

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Political mindset evolution

Just going to keep posting this every time it comes up.

We could reduce energy and materials cost of global production worldwide to 30% current capacity by planning production instead of leaving it to the market, and greatly increase the standard of living for everyone on this planet. But first we have to get rid of capitalism and institute democratic socialist planning.

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7n1POfYMo1I3kcy0oqSm6l?si=8ikYVJN8TIupvjoaCMRssA