Don’t worry. You clearly would’ve been too focused on how everyone else wasn’t “watching correctly” and wouldn’t have enjoyed it anyhow.

I wouldn’t include Ori under that umbrella, and Dead Cells is a bit of a reach, imo. For me, a souls-like has to focus on skill and strategy in combat, ideally with evasion and blocking being critical to success. It also needs a rhythm to the combat - recognizable patterns that the player can learn and improve with (and even be manipulated with). The bosses are also absolutely critical - they should be visually and mechanically formidable, and they need to be plentiful.

With that definition in mind, Hollow Knight would be my top suggestion. Easily one of my favorite games ever. I haven’t played too many other souls-likes, but the next two that come to mind are Lies of P and Another Crab’s Treasure. I haven’t finished either, myself, but they both fit the mold quite well and will likely “scratch the itch” for anyone looking for something similar (LoP is most similar to a FS game, while ACT is…pretty wacky). For anyone that’s played everything and is desperate for anything, the Jedi: Survivor series clearly tries to be a psuedo-souls-like, but it just isn’t in the same league, imo. I found the combat very janky and unsatisfying, but maybe worth trying as a last resort.

I love this piece. So freaking cute.

Also, https://files.catbox.moe/kjigrm.mp4

besides they’re all internal lithium now anyway…

So…you’re pissed about screws that don’t exist?

Also, survival bias doesn’t mean something isn’t a hazard.

Wow. That’s…not something I would’ve ever guessed exists. Humans really haven’t changed much, huh?

Facts

If you’re researching your looting, I’m pretty sure you’re doing it wrong.

Easy to fall into a “this person looks richer than me” justification with that one. Anything below a super-mansion should just be considered off limits for anyone with a conscience.

Depends on the target. Stores? Probably fine. Sticking to chains instead of local shops would be cooler, though. People’s homes? Nah. That’s shitty. Taking advantage of people in an emergency is some CEO level mentality.

Thought about what? LLMs don’t interact with the computer they’re on, let alone have access to the console. They generate text. That’s all.

Hadn’t heard of this one yet. Fun concept! I wish it had an archive.

Alocane. That stuff is magic for burns as far as I’m concerned. Kills the pain instantly and does wonders for healing the skin.

For one, I see no reason to decide I’ll never play any game made after a certain point, barring a hardware requirement that I don’t want to fulfill (eg buying a new console). That’s just arbitrarily limiting good media that I could enjoy.

Second, the “Game Library Completion” preoccupation is another mistake, imo. I understand feeling bad about “wasting” money, but turning one’s hobby into a (monumental) task/chore isn’t gonna help that. It’ll probably just ruin that hobby.

All that said, do what makes you happy. If that’s all you want to do, I hope you enjoy it.

That’s not what I’m talking about.

Ah, ok. So not quite as repulsively disgusting as I was thinking, but still awful.

Yep, sure do! But only on my own instance in accordance with our polices; communities I moderate elsewhere are modded according to those instances’ rules and TOS.

Your soft-banning of anyone fully participating in this community on LW belies that claim.

the upvotes-given to downvotes-given ratio threshold for the automated ban is quite generous

“Generous” downvote banning. Now that’s an oxymoron.

So you (self-admittedly maining on another instance (in reality the admin of that instance)) are locking an entire community on LW in protest of their admin policy on their instance? That’s bold, to put it mildly. You instance-ban users for downvoting, so it makes sense you find this change personally unreasonable.

Myself? I don’t think the new change is a great idea, but I prefer it to short-fuse blanket bannings like that.

Life has no meaning. That gives us the freedom to create what meaning we want.

There we go.

Huh, interesting. Thanks!