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Hasn't he threatened to use nukes multiple times over the war already? Ignoring the threats generally worked out.

Anger can be acceptable if you consider that statement isn't just about you. If someone rejects me because I'm not their type, that's ok, but if you go around saying other singles are bad too, rather than admitting your standards are just high (which is fine), that's rude, especially if you're not one of the "good ones". My sister uses that phrase and it does mildly anger me, because from living with her I know she's immature (among other problems) and, to a lot of men, and especially the "good ones", I'd assume she is seen as a bad partner herself.

That being said, I do agree that the comic here is kind of forced, I only heard this being said while gossiping, and never as a form of rejection of a specific person.

And yet some people would call that a Red flag...

My sleep paralysis demon was a black cat, and it stepped on my balls, causing astonishingly realistic pain

The developers who made Big Rigs probably wouldn't have the budget to make an AAA game nowadays. A better comparison would be indie games, and there's more of them (or it feels like it) due to easier development & distribution. (Which does involve shovelware). Even excluding Indies, AA games without subscription models are plentiful too.

Edit: (AAA games are a better example of being worse, I haven't played them but comparing Assasin's Creed or Metal Gear back in the day to now is better to show the bad practices. Thankfully, like I said, there's just a ton more games and you don't need to play the crappy ones)

Isz been Polend ud meer isd deeze Shprasze auk egaal.

Aufouidarseje!

This is precisely what Soldier from TF2 did, after WW2 ended

Did you play the original first? If you didn't and you're a first-time player, I can think of all the ways you could progress through the game, and the only player I can think of who'd be bothered is the type who immediately backtracks and uses it on every statue he saw, even after seeing important paths being blocked.

You don't need to know where the branches are. These games expect you to explore the areas thoroughly, and there's STILL multiple unmissable branches.

If you did play DS2, you already knew what the branches were, how they were limited early, and past Things Betwixt I can't see you getting cockblocked unless you use the first branch you get on the tutorial. Which, already knowing they block major pathways too, is stupid.

There was nothing there besides an ogre (or were there two already?) and thus ladle in the original anyways, and now you at least get an Estus shard and Twinkling Titatnie. Usually when these games give you a reason to reexplore the tutorial it's good, why is this instance bad?

No they don't, Sotfs is debatably more open because you have more ways to get the first branch. Most of the statue shit is optional areas, and they give you more branches to compensate. For instance, they added a statue for Ruin Sentinels, but there's also a branch near the bonfire coming from the forest, so it only matters if you come from the port. (Which I think may have a new branch of its own) Why CAN'T you go to the sewer and Heide in Sotfs? The Heide knights don't fight until you beat the area.

I thought the enemy placement was the main complaint for Sotfs.

Edit: I just fact checked, and in the original you actually don't get a branch until Lost Sinner, The Black Gulch or Harvest Valley. Sotfs lets you buy a branch in the forest and go to Shaded Woods far earlier, or allows you to get Straid without backtracking if you clear ~~both the forest and the wharf (or just the wharf, as Ruin Sentinels are optional)~~ or just one if you don't want to go to Shaded Woods, via the buyable and Bastille branches, and you don't even need to skip Sentinels. There's a lot more routing you can do, I'd say.

I actually watch those small accounts (they tend to be short and related to games I know), it feels a bit more comfy when the guy actually reads and replies to my comment.

I think I also came upon aftermath of some personal quarrel between the account and a commenter, they were talking about how sorry they were and the guy accepted the apology. It was wholesome, and probably as memorable as other videos I ~~waste time on~~ watch.

So what you're saying is, we no longer live in a fair system and it used to be fair(ish), better. That suggests it'd have been easier to live in the 80's.

What is your point?

I get your intial point was that life is more convenient now, but you have done nothing to substantiate the claim that we wouldn't manage in the 80's. Only thing that comes to mind is shipping things from abroad via Internet, but that's only really for side hobbies in my experience, I could focus on other, local things instead. Everything else I feel would just be varying degrees of "less efficient" and/or have alternatives.

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