Want to wade into the sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid: Welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.
Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
after playing silksong and hades ii, i am now pretty confident that game devs sniff their farts more than any other artists
"the player can't pause during the boss because he controls time" fuck offfffff
(hades ii is mostly excellent, though, and silksong is a diamond encased in dogshit
there is a wonderful game in there, if you can find it)
Gotta love forgetting why games have these features in the first place, so accessibility features get viewed as boring stuff you need to subvert and spice up. also reminds me of how many games used to (and continue to) include filters for simulating colorblindness as actual accessibility settings because all the other games did that. Like adding a "Deaf Accessibility" setting that mutes the audio.
Demon Souls didn't have a pause mechanic (maybe because of technical or matchmaking problems, who knows), so clearly hard games must lack a functioning pause feature to be good. Simple. The less pause that you button, the more Soulsier it that Elden when Demon the it you Ring. Our epic new boss is so hard he actually reads the state of the tinnitus filter in your accessibility settings, and then he
You probably already know this, but there's a relatively cheap upgrade you can buy at the camp in Hades II that disables this mechanic. Forgot what it's called, but it's something like "Allows you to use time magic against the boss".
I bought it before I ever paused against the boss. I discovered this mechanic doing Vow of Rivals :(
Yeah, when I pick it up there had better be a mod to quit that sort of shit.
I don't care about whatever half assed diagetic reason your team came up with. Life happens.
I hate when ATMOSPHERE^TM^ is used to justify shitty design decisions. Find a way to make it diegetic without making me navigate to fucking nexusmods 🤮
That sounds really neat for all of 30 seconds before your cat knocks over their water bowl mid-fight and needs your immediate attention, thus reminding you why pause functions exist at all.