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Yeah I agree, Sekiro has fuck all to do with souls yet because you rest at a "bonfire" and From makes it it's somehow lumped in.

@SonichumanThis situation in Gaza has hipped me to the fact that Israel has been doing all kinds of fucked up shit for decades and they never get called on it. Hamas, rightfully so, got crushed for October 7th. Israel skates on everything though. This current situation in Gaza is the first time I've seen them sort of called out on their BS. They are literally an apartheid state and the world at large seems fine with it.

I think the problem is lumping Bloodborne in with souls games. It shares some mechanics I guess but it's really very little like them and should be treated as its own thing.

@LantisListen to me, and listen well. The people over here are not equipped to teach you how to be a dad. Understand me well. The way to be a dad has nothing to do with providing and nurturing. Do not do any of that.
 
Instead, make sure that the house is dead silent and your child is listening to music in their room, and then knock aggressively and enter the room without permission to see what they're up to, and mask it under the pretense that you were gonna call them for dinner.
 
That is the best way to be a dad and no one here is ready to tell you that. Anything else is your choice, I guess.
 
Congrats! 🎉

@LantisListen to me, and listen well. The people over here are not equipped to teach you how to be a dad. Understand me well. The way to be a dad has nothing to do with providing and nurturing. Do not do any of that.
 
Instead, make sure that the house is dead silent and your child is listening to music in their room, and then knock aggressively and enter the room without permission to see what they're up to, and mask it under the pretense that you were gonna call them for dinner.
 
That is the best way to be a dad and no one here is ready to tell you that. Anything else is your choice, I guess.
 
Congrats! 🎉

I can see your point, and actually, I think I'd turn over and agree with you. The truth is though, most people don't see it that way because they haven't had it articulated for them the way you have me. They will still compare them the way they do, and in keeping with that, I think both you and I are correct.
It's true that you can leave a lot to the imagination and have it be just as compelling, but I, for one, would love to weave lightning in combat with how much of a dance Sekiro's systems feel like. I love the romance of combat in that game, and expanding on that with awesome skills and a banger story with even more meat and mystery than the first release is definitely possible in a potential prequel. If they do any more Sekiro content (which I doubt they will), it will probably be in the form of a sequel. Let's be real here. That's just how their games are. I don't know of any FromSoft prequels that aren't minor time-travel sections in their games.

@LantisListen to me, and listen well. The people over here are not equipped to teach you how to be a dad. Understand me well. The way to be a dad has nothing to do with providing and nurturing. Do not do any of that.
 
Instead, make sure that the house is dead silent and your child is listening to music in their room, and then knock aggressively and enter the room without permission to see what they're up to, and mask it under the pretense that you were gonna call them for dinner.
 
That is the best way to be a dad and no one here is ready to tell you that. Anything else is your choice, I guess.
 
Congrats! 🎉

MEME MONDAY. Investment edition 
 
Wow our politicians sure are smart investors! 

Yea if my Dad knocked and I didn't open the door within a reasonable time there better be a good reason, only ones i can think of at the moment are sleeping or jerking off lmao.

But Chad's actually funny...
 
I've always been able to close my bedroom door, even lock it whenever I wanted. 
 
I find it weird when parents are distrusting of their children to the point they can't even close doors. That shits super odd and I feel like seeds the bed for trust issues in future relationships. 

@LantisListen to me, and listen well. The people over here are not equipped to teach you how to be a dad. Understand me well. The way to be a dad has nothing to do with providing and nurturing. Do not do any of that.
 
Instead, make sure that the house is dead silent and your child is listening to music in their room, and then knock aggressively and enter the room without permission to see what they're up to, and mask it under the pretense that you were gonna call them for dinner.
 
That is the best way to be a dad and no one here is ready to tell you that. Anything else is your choice, I guess.
 
Congrats! 🎉

@LantisListen to me, and listen well. The people over here are not equipped to teach you how to be a dad. Understand me well. The way to be a dad has nothing to do with providing and nurturing. Do not do any of that.
 
Instead, make sure that the house is dead silent and your child is listening to music in their room, and then knock aggressively and enter the room without permission to see what they're up to, and mask it under the pretense that you were gonna call them for dinner.
 
That is the best way to be a dad and no one here is ready to tell you that. Anything else is your choice, I guess.
 
Congrats! 🎉

Hey guys how effective are the home pregnancy tests?
 
Because my wife just took 3 of them and all of them came back positive
 
So.....yay? Guess I get to be part of the dad's club now 😅

Yup. It's a sad state of affairs. The truth is invasions will just never be the same as they used to be. The organic interaction they had with the earlier games is just never coming back unfortunately. 
 
Least they made participation not a huge ass grind this time. Take what you can get I guess. 
 
 

I think they do it that way because of how much people complained about getting stomped in Undead Burg in DS1. They nerfed it pretty hard in DS2 to where the invader couldn't heal at all and in 3 where they can just resummon phantoms over and over, so comparatively I guess it could be worse. But invasions are a fairly unpopular mechanic among the pve crowd these days.

I don't know if you saw how positively apoplectic people got about invasions when Elden Ring came out but I've never seen a saltier more angry and entitled group of gamers. A lot of stuff to the effect of "I paid for this game, my friend and I want to coop and these try hards are ruining our game" type stuff. Someone even made a mod for PC that would shut off invasions altogether it got so bad.

This made me laugh far more than it should have.
 

I made fun of all the nerds growing up. 

Fans have been demanding a PC port and remaster of Bloodborne for ages and it still hasn't happened, meanwhile while DS has been ported everywhere.
 
The thing that sets Bloodborne apart other than the combat, is that the setting is unique. I don't generally go a big rubbery one for fantasy settings, so the souls series isn't as compelling to me. Similarly, I find Sekiro 's setting a lot more interesting than Souls.
 
Youre not considering the fact that there are 3 Souls games vs only one Bloodborne game, so the playerbase is going to be concentrated for Bloodborne. And while I understand what you're saying RE the "love for it being birthed by comparison," there's really only one game like that and it is Bloodborne whereas there are plenty of games with settings and vibes like DS. So really there's not much to compare Bloodborne TO. Like, yeah, in a spiritual sense it makes sense to group DS and Bloodborne together, but outside of the fact that they're made by the same company and that DS3's combat is built off BB's, they couldn't be more different.
 
RE Sekiro prequel, I guess we'd have to agree to disagree. I remember people saying that they'd love a Castlevania game based on the 1999 war (a significant event in the series' canon) or a Bloodborne prequel based on the events of Loran, but there isn't enough meat to those events that I think they'd make compelling games on their own. Similarly, I don't think Tomoe training Genechiro or helping sever Takeru's immortality is enough to warrant more than a DLC. Part of what makes those events interesting is that there's enough bones there to give you an idea of what happened but not so much that you can't draw your own conclusions about them, which imo is the strength of Miyazaki's brand of storytelling.
 

Oh it's even worse than that. Dude is married. Has been for a decade. To top it off, his wife is an artist and they work together.
 
These are some of her character designs.
 
 
You know this is another example of how shit gaming "journalist" are. Maybe they could of, I don't know used Google to see if the guy was married before they made that stupid comment. It would be have been a dumb comment either way. However, when you find out that not only is he married but his wife designs characters in the same vain, it cranks the stupidity up to 11.

The thing with invasions is that you won't be invaded unless you're co-opping which already puts you at a massive advantage over the invader because it's going to be at least 2 on 1 and the invader takes a haircut on his health. As someone who does a lot of invading, even with the gems I got from dungeon diving, if I run into a gank squad of two, nevermind 3, I'm already going to be disadvantaged quite a lot. So if anybody needs gems, it's the INVADER.
 
I can understand that not everyone wants to have to go through all that to build  character (although ill confess to enjoying the process) and that's probably why Bloodborne doesn't have the pvp playerbase ds3 has despite having better combat overall.
 
But again, the complaints about dungeons and gems really only apply to pvp and most players who play this game are pve players so they aren't going to notice the issues because they aren't affected by them. I agree that 30fps kind of sucks and that to some extent that the dungeons can get samey, but again, those are issues I'd love to see fleshed out a bit better in a remaster.

I finished Jedi Survivor and was so disappointed that I went to my little brother's room and poured a glass of water on his head to feel something.