If you wany a rural setting you’re probably fucked.

If you’re looking for a SC kind of ‘city’ I would suggest perhaps Colorado, or something like Bend Oregon, or Spokane Washington. More isolated cities without large populations and also surrounded by that rural character.

Fewer turns? I am almost positive there are two sections of switchbacks across two mountain passes in that ‘alternate’ route.

Yeah those corpos tipping the scales for progressives. Such a thing.

60 vigor at level 80 is 60 vigor at level 700.

Having played invasions, many many people dont level up health so they’re a one shot kill already. It is a comical reality of how people play the game: never levelling their health pool.

We have figured out how to no hit Elden Ring. There’s walkthroughs and guides.

We haven’t figured out how to no hit the DLC. The walkthroughs and guides for it are being written now though. Once those are all up this whole refrain of difficulty will pass as people will be able to spoil any surprises and feel better about it.

It is weird because it isn’t a single player game. It can be if people take it offline, and on PC: there’s mods to hell. They can cheat and singleplayer it up all they want. So it is odd to me that people want what they already have and others are mad that they have it.

Playstation players though are a little stuck without more technical efforts to cheat.

I read this mid sip of coffee at my workststion.

No the decisions weren’t necessary for all that, but for the one simple graph tracking campaign costs it was particularly salient.

The sudden spike coincides with the Citizens United and SpeechNow SCOTUS decisions.

Friend, I think the feeling is mutual because damn that right there’s the pedantry. That’s a hole you dug and jumped in yourself. So yeah, be quiet down there.

Guy, it isn’t really pedantry to note that Elden Ring is not the fourth entry in an existing series to be considered breaking a perceived tradition or rule with its gameplay.

The problem with the theory is a us invasion is in the moment indistinguishable from an office all-staff. Pentagon has got some corporate structure to it.

And your FAMILY smash aNd YoUr FrIeNdS smash

I installed the first version of Steam directly to my C drive instead of putting it in a folder named Steam.

So I uninstalled it with the plan to reinstall.

After a curiously long time I realized the uninstaller was working its way through deleting my entire C drive. All my bookmarks, m t mp3s, my winamp skins… everything not on a zip drive… I tried to stop the uninstaller but it was clear I would have to do a full format and dig out the FCKGW XP key.

Ah Steam. Fuck you. You came around for the most part, but fuck you for that.

…The Portland State Univerity’s Library?

The safest possible place with the least possible chance to reach a critical audience for this shit.

I have made some bold political takes and gotten burned.

But I have also mentioned I could afford to buy a case of beer coming home from work 15 years ago, and likewise been burned.

The bait was real. I knew there was a catch, i just knew it. But I let my guard down anyway.

It is very game specific. Some were innovators for how they pushed the limits of technology of their time, others were held back by that same tech. That alone is a huge marker as to whether a remake will improve or hurt the games legacy.

I went to college before the internet was ever considered a valid source for any material. But using the internet made research extremely easy if I could determine the book source for reference.

I went back to college right around that time the internet just became the default source for everything. It was staggering how little information was expected to be known. The implicit ubiquitous access to information was a staggering foundational shift.

Elden Ring is importantly not the Dark Souls series.

It is a FromSoftware game, which notably includes Bloodborne and Sekiro.

Elden Ring is closer to Dark Souls but it is hardcore influenced by Sekiro’s resounding success and the developer’s unrelenting love of Bloodborne.

Every annoyance I have with Elden Ring is me applying Dark Souls logic instead of going something like: ‘oh. Sekiro.’