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MH isn’t really a soulslike. Lethal combat where you need to learn the boss and stamina dodge roll sure but that’s the extent of it.

It’s all boss fights all the time, and the difficulty is more about repeating hunts to get better rather than to be able to do it at all.

Great series though and will probably be appreciated by a souls fan.

I dare not cross. But perhaps… Pats?

Eh looking at it again maybe that’s a harsh reaction from skimming. Mostly I was thinking of the lines about ER “making concessions to help the player along”, “no mere setpiece” (implying what they’re comparing to is), and implying ER bosses are memorable just because they’re hard.

It kinda feels like the comparison is shoehorned in to catch eyes. Unless the focus is on the similarity of “open world but with tightly tailored parts”

This author really shits on Elden Ring in a way that suggests they don’t know anything about it other than “popular”. Maybe it’s LLM generated?

If you want an apocalyptic soulslike shooter we’ve already got Remnant.

I haven’t heard of any in the context of internet. Can you share any examples? If there’s a way to get out of the oligopoly I’d love to learn more about it

Edit: saw beanfield in another comment. I’m happy to stand corrected!

Brains are weird so that checks out

I don’t think the speed of the electrical impulse would change, but yes reaction time would. Perception is more about our brain processing signals than it is about the signals themselves. What you experience yourself as seeing is not the raw image going into your eyes. Slower processing means you’re also less likely to see, as in be aware of, details.

This is why tired driving is incredibly dangerous.

I agree that we need to find a way to make this communal rather than individualistic, but government backing isn’t that. It would be nice if that happened and all, but with a thesis like that it feels like it’s missing the mark calling state-hosting "community ". How do we make self-hosted services something that can serve at the level of the community? Like a load balancing reverse proxy that points to the servers those in the community can host and everyone invites their friends and neighbours.

Internet: I’ve used teksavvy in the past and had a good experience. It’s not independent infrastructure (nothing is) Mobile: freedom (formerly wind) has it’s own network. It was acquired so isn’t quite the scrappy underdog standing up to oligopoly it used to be, but it still seems like the best option. My phone prices have actually gone down over time with them

I landed on Mint because it’s a simple no fuss distro that feels familiar to Windows refugees. I game on it just fine and use my computer for a lot of things so wanted something general. I bounced off Ubuntu because it has some decisions that are trying to protect you from actually learning Linux, which is a priority to me.

As a professional spreadsheet pusher, I can confidently say that LibreOffice (the Linux version of MS Office) has been able to do everything I needed that word/excel can, and then some.

But really any distro will be able to install the software you need, and it’s easy to switch. Just try it and have fun.

How did it make you better at falling asleep? I’m not particularly interested in lucid dreaming but being able to fall asleep

Basically it tastes nice, then you develop a dependency on it.

The gender unicorn is a similar model that leaves room for gender identities entirely outside of the binary (albeit still simplistically)

That’s definitely one of the problems with this graphic. Those are a part of “gender roles”, stereotypical expectations of masculinity/femininity. Your impulse to consider them independent is correct, but you may encounter bigots with old fashioned ideas about what’s appropriate for someone to get up to based on their gender.

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It’s called lucid dreaming. I’ve read that it can be trained.

Sounds legit. The monster was probably expecting you to run, and ready to punish it like an elden ring boss punishes dodging backwards.

But in all seriousness, like any theory out of evolutionary psychology it’s of very questionable utility insofar as it is unfalsifiable. I just find it fun to think about and mentally give my brain a “you tried” sticker after a weird dream.

There’s a theory that dreams serve as a sort of simulation mechanism for our brain to think through how to respond to various potential situations. It argues that is why natural disaster nightmares are so prevalent, and why our dreams are so weird (monkey brain does not understand modern society).

Anyways, good for them, I’m glad their brain figured out what to do about hypothetical McWeird.

Would it be a soulslike if the obvious surface reading wasn’t wrong/missed the depth of the lore?