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7 hours ago, RSG3 said:

Blood Vials and Gem Grinds (especially gem grinds) made no one care lol. 

Why blood vials? I think they make healing more viable in a pvp situation because it's not like estus cancelling.

10 hours ago, RSG3 said:

What a shallow reading, no wonder everyone's kids grew up to be shallow and self centered they all watched a bunch of movies and somehow walked away with the wrong message lol. 

What's the right message then? You don't exactly see these princesses settling for commoners despite being commoners themselves outside of Jasmine from Aladdin where the roles are somewhat reversed.

Even a lot of female-targeted media now involves some rich, handsome, powerful man who is either nobility or a vampire/supernatural being being obsessed to the point of madness over some random girl who doesn't really have a whole lot going for her for reasons that are never stated. Sure they're just stories, but like I said before, society in some ways reinforces that women "deserve" that and some women expect it despite themselves not really being or doing anything that would make a man like that see them as wife material.

1 hour ago, Dayaan said:

Excellent points! However, have you considered:

There's weapons kind of like that in Bloodborne. And that thing would get you parried pretty bad lol

17 hours ago, RSG3 said:

I don't remember any Disney movie saying he's gotta have a big bank account to be worth your time. 

The implication is that he should sweep you off your feet, he should have lots of resources and money, he should be able to take care of you, etc etc. And for generations, girls have had that kind of programming reinforced by their parents, society, etc, that they DESERVE to be treated like a princess without having to really bring anything to the table. Some of them are disabused of that early on or figure it out by the time they reach their 30s but it still persists I guess.

19 hours ago, Dayaan said:

Bloodborne has more viable builds, more viable weapons, and it's actually deeper overall when you consider that you can parry heal attempts and make combos. Also that you have to manage resources like your bullets well (they're the main way to parry) otherwise you end up having to blood tap to get more which consumes life. The combat is pretty deep but souls players never gave it a chance.

On 3/30/2024 at 3:32 PM, RSG3 said:

The fuck is Disney Princess Programming?

It's why all the zoomer chicks you see in the videos on Twitter expect a dude to make a minimum of $250k to be able to date them.

1 minute ago, Lantis said:

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 😅

This is an opportunity for you to up your life

3 hours ago, AriesWarlock said:

I feel like I want to test some of those out.

I don't know if it's actually true or not but I remember someone telling me years ago that they'd use coke to clean blood off the pavement after a bad car crash or a deer getting hit.

Got a pretty nice birthday game haul with Gran Turismo 7, Lies Of P, Rez Infinite, and a physical edition of Getsu Fumaden Undying Moon. I haven't played a GT game since 3 so I'm interested to see how the series has shaped up since then and have been looking forward to Lies of P since before came out. I finally beat Getsu Fumaden week before last and I think it's an incredible game, I just wish Konami had seen fit to finish it.

I'm trying to decide if I want to go for the platinum on Sekiro or not. The Mortal Journey gauntlet doesn't seem worth the squeeze but if I did it, I'd know I'd done everything I could do in the game and like beating the game itself, would feel like a pretty big accomplishment.

1 hour ago, axeman61 said:

What, specifically, did the woman at the head of BGG say? People are talking like she said she doesn't hire white people, when that was another woman at another studio (the ones doing Rise of Hydra). The only ones I see saying the head of BGG explicitly doesn't hire white ever are anti-woke channels, going off a tweet where Black Girl Gamers told black women content D&D creators to hit them up for some brand thing. I'm just seeing this stuff though, so it's possible I missed something.

I got the head of BGG confused with the woman working on the Black Panther game, so that's my mistake.

But, if you go to the BGG site, there's no white or Asian people in their group shots. Maybe they hire them and don't admit to it, but I'd be hard pressed to believe if a white or asian person walked in trying to get hired that they'd hire them. Sounds like it's the typical "'diversity' just means 'more people like us'" thing

1 hour ago, RSG3 said:

 The only being invaded while co-oping sucks dick lol. I hate that shit in Elden Ring to, its one of my big knocks against an otherwise amazing game. The Invader needing blood gems because every invasion is a lopsided affair kind proves my point that the invasion system in this game isn't very good. 

 

How about just let people fucking invade? If people dont want to be invaded they can be pussies about it and log out. 

 

Well I do want to engage with it, I am not most players, and when engaging with those systems the majority of people who do, do not like them. When people actually start to engage with those systems most people walk away disappointed. 

 

I most certainly do not enjoy them and they make the game worse for me. I lose out on a huge part of the experience I enjoy because they made engaging with that experience unfun and grindy as fuck. 

 

They really need to drop the "you have to be co-oping to be invaded" shit to. Its bad. It's bad for invasions, it's bad for players, it makes every invasion a lopsided affair. Worst of all is that it removes the unpredictability of invasions which just nueters the fuck out of them. I rarely co-op in my world, i get summoned instead. This means I beat Elden Ring without ever once getting invaded. Not once. Took me over 100 hours to see the credit scroll and not one single fucking invasion in my world. 

 

Trying so hard to please people who had more then enough ways to disengage with that system that theyve kind of ruined it. System sucks now. 

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.

1 hour ago, Sonichuman said:

What's the purpose of even arresting the person? 

A lot of times they don't because the cops know that if they arrest the person, they'll just be back out in a few hours and the cop will have extra paperwork to do. So they just look the other way and city gets worse little by little.

54 minutes ago, axeman61 said:

That whole BGG thing would be puzzling to me if it wasn't plain what these people are up to. They want it to not exist, for... reasons.

 

Otherwise, why do you even give a fuck how many white people an organization named BLACK GIRL GAMERS are hiring?

 

It's so annoying to constantly see these fucking chuds of all types talk that "bootstrap" and "get your own X" shit, but the minute someone does that, they're crying about not being included somehow.

You act as if the woman at the head of this isn't already on record saying that she doesn't hire whites and that we don't have labor and discrimination laws on the books that were put in place to protect people like her in the first place.

15 hours ago, Dayaan said:

Snip

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.

16 hours ago, RSG3 said:

Of course you could. It's deffinitly my own opinion here about Bloodborne.  It's  ones inability to recognize or accept them that inwas critiquing. 

The Frame Rate sucks. 

 

I don't think the Chalice Dungeons are fine I think they are repetitive and boring. I don't find them terribly compelling and they get worse as you go. The entire set that just chops your health in half can suck my dick lol. 

 

I also don't like Blood Gens because they turn PVP is a huge grind before you can really participate.  It makes invasions so fucking ass because I'll get invaded by people I can't come anywhere close to being able to compete with because I haven't Chalice Dungeon Dived then did the Gem Grind to be able to. In Elden Ring or Dark Souls I just make my build. I don't like grinding gems because I don't like Chalice Dungeons and so then I don't end up like being invaded which is something in these games I usually really like. Not getting invaded is missing a big part of the game imo, it's why I don't like Elden Rings invasions rules where you can't be solo invaded without using the tongue. The unexpectedness is half the point imo, I use the tongue or summon I expect to get invaded. Kills half the fun imo. 

 

So Bloodbornes gems ruin the invasion aspect for me, and I don't find the Chalice Dungeons fun enough to engage with the Blood Gem Farm to "fix" the invasion issue. I have to either sprint to the Boss or just accept that I'm probably going back to the Lamp no matter what I do. 

 

Edit: I'm having contact issues today so please forgive any typos I don't manage to see and fix. 

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.

10 hours ago, Sonichuman said:

What the fuck at this dude just getting released back on the streets like that.  Glad someone got him on tape finally but if this is the asshole who's been sucker punching the other women on the street then he clearly needs help and needs to be taken off the street for longer than however this is.  If this dude was getting his nuts stomped I'd probably look away for a few minutes before attempting to break it up

On top of what @BB_Hoody said, bail "reform" is why dude got back out and was free to do this.

3 hours ago, RSG3 said:

It's extremely popular with people who don't often recognize its  faults and issues. 

 

That's how still an amazing game but I legit have people tell me the chalice dungeons & Blood Gems are fine. 

 

They  are not. 

You could say that about any game though since no game is perfect. What faults and issues?

Chalice Dungeons and blood gems  aren't bad in and of themselves, but I think the necessity of having to grind for gems if you want to duel or have an effective invasion build keeps more people from wanting to do it,  although I actually kind of enjoyed scouring the sheets of glyphs to find the right gems but that's just me. But outside of pvp (or trying to plat the game in the case of the dungeons) both of those things are entirely optional and you can get through the pve portion of the game without touching them.

30 minutes ago, AriesWarlock said:

 

There were concerns he was going to get less than seven years.
Let's see if his serves all twenty-five.

I'll be VERY surprised if he even serves 5 years but hopefully 🤞

Still, it's kind of shitty to think that if he had only made off with a bunch of plebs' money, nobody would have cared and he'd have gotten a slap on the wrist if anything at All.

11 hours ago, Dayaan said:

With that said, I think Bloodborne is overrated. It wouldn't be my next project if my daddy worked at FromSoft and chose what games to work on next.

 

I'd work on Sekiro 2, either as a prequel or an immediate sequel to the first (totally not biased here). Dark Souls is over, so if they don't work on Sekiro 2, a new IP could be cool. Bloodborne is still amazing, but I don't see much room for them to make a follow up story, and they could easily dump the porting task to someone else and work on something new.

 

 

Overrated how?

A remake, no, but a remaster absolutely. 60fps, upscale it, maybe even flesh out the Chalice Dungeons a bit more and I'd be happy. It's a Sony IP though so the ball is in their court when it comes to any of this.

A Sekiro prequel doesn't seem like the right idea imo, but if we use the Return ending as the canon ending, then I guess Wolf and divine child's trip to find thr birthplace of thr divine dragon could be something. 

1 hour ago, Jurassic said:

A rundown of Diddy's FIVE lawsuits of sexual misconduct:

https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/26/entertainment/sean-diddy-combs-home-raids-investigation-tuesday/index.html

 

>Diddy

>"music artist."

2 hours ago, VirginDefiler said:

 

how long before he gets Epstein'ed?

I had no idea the laundry list of stuff Diddy is allegedly responsible for including putting a hit out on Tupac. Dude is going to die in prison if this goes to trial.

Just a PSA for any of the Bloodborne bros here, Return To Yharnam is this week so there will be a lot more people playing, so more chances for co-op, duels, etc.

On 3/19/2024 at 7:46 PM, TheInfernoman said:

It drives me nuts because you ask yourself if not for fans then who is this even for? All I see is another production by people who took a popular IP and the established fans to prop up their poorly made story. If they had skill, they could make their own original trash instead of tarnishing an established one and insulting fans. 

I see all these video games adaptations as basically the next step behind rebooting a bunch of old IPs as they're something people are already familiar with that has a built in fan base because another entity has done a lot of the hard work of establishing it. So there's less risk to adapting it.

In a lot of cases, I don't think they care that it's an existing IP with its own lore and characters, they just need to get eyeballs on the screen and are hedging their bets.

6 hours ago, Chadouken said:

8======D

Shit I left my AirDrop on.... 🫣

5 hours ago, Darc_Requiem said:

That's the thing that got me. She had a lay up answer for George and she didn't take it.  George literally ran cover for Clinton's escapades. She can say what she wants about E. Jean Carroll but to go on about not shaming her, and then going after wasn't not a good luck in the slightest. She undermined her own position with her answers. It was like watching a witness from Matlock or Perry Mason sink their own case. 

She, like a lot of people these days I guess, probably doesn't remember a lot of what Clinton got up to in that respect and just the sheer number of women that accused him of rape or harassment. So yeah, it should have been a layup, but for some reason she didn't take it.