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Did you people not read the link at all?

It's not a small task, it's a monumental task. I listed examples of existing difficulty features in games and outlined why it doesn't make sense for from games. You're completely missing the point, and willfully ignoring the fact that you are not the target audience.

The reason I even mentioned the mainline Pokemon games is that they aren't for me. They will NEVER add any level of real difficulty to a pokemon game, so it doesn't provide the friction I want in a game. And that's okay. I'm not so entitled or delusional that I think gamefreak should cater to my tastes over that of their existing fanbase, and I'm content to rely on romhacks, mods, and similar titles like siralim to provide the depth and challenge I'm looking for in the genre. "Just add an easy mode" is an asinine take when you imply, like you have here, that it's something the developer could just turn on. It's more like three or four digits of work hours that wouldn't contribute to sales in a meaningful way.

Clueless comment. He was not forced by anyone, maybe encouraged. Very clear what happened if you were paying attention; he made a public statement that he might not continue running if he fell ill, then promptly contracted covid and dropped out. Mike Johnson is too new to his seat to consider approving any action based on a25, Kamala would have to be the initiator of the process, and the only mentions I saw of it were well after the step-down.

There's nothing artificial about players bouncing off of souls games. As for "whatever reason that may be", I think we both know you only mean difficulty, but you have a very shallow perspective on difficulty.

Every souls game has been cleared by a striking number of visually disabled people, and each game presents the opportunity to "grind" so that your character is substantially more powerful than enemies in the area you're in. The selectable difficulty is in your approach. It's one of the main reasons the games have mass appeal, and you can choose to play without player invasions in every single one via mechanics or offline mode. You can effectively, through just simple math and perseverance, play the whole game on easy mode.

The design flexibility in souls games is MADE for people who find the game too hard to have agency. If rolling is difficult for you, a large majority of bosses can be tackled by sprinting away and casting spells. If magic doesn't make sense to you, there's weapons with naturally long reaches that stun enemies well. Many challenging segments can be handled by not interacting with them directly, such as shooting immobile enemies or ones that otherwise cannot reach you with a bow. The games even provide a spyglass or binoculars so you can aim at enemies outside your lock on range with magic.

Traditional difficulty settings in the face of all this would be worthless. A huge portion of the appeal of the souls games is Friction, an element of design where there's an obstacle for the player to overcome. Without presenting the player with a challenge where walking forward and light attacking might stop you for a life or two, there is no point in acquiring any equipment to empower yourself further. There are PLENTY of games where you may just mash one attack button and see success, even within the same genre(s)(action and rpg).

Pokemon games are somewhat unique in this regard, where the game itself will literally never ask you to do anything but be aware of type advantage and press attack. There are no cases where you NEED a setup team or baton pass in the core game, it's just for playing with other people. If that's your speed, that's okay, but there is an enormous demographic we used to refer to as "core gamers" that are looking for games with sufficient friction.

Accessibility and difficulty do not always hold hands. None of Fromsoft's games start off easy, they expect you to learn their mechanics and interact with them. If you're getting frustrated that you aren't improving personally, or don't know how (it's practice), the games may legitimately just not be for you. The amount of extra effort to rebalance every enemy's statistics to make the game easier is enormous, and it would not fix the reasons many players die repeatedly; you would have players who did not learn a lesson from normal enemies dying over and over again to a boss that "checks" whether or not you know what was being taught.

What would you actually want from an easy mode? Slower enemy animations? Changed health values? Edited enemy behavior, like decision making speed or aggro range? All of these things are already curated to allow the player to overcome them either through learned mechanical precision or improving their stats, so when neither of those matter how much game is really left outside the barbie doll dressup?

Tl;Dr: git gud

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You've got it backward. Successful modern influencers follow linguistic trends and reinforce them, but they typically do not invent them (see the litany of words from jersey shore that never made it into the greater american lexicon) even when they try. Typically, new words arise out of necessity, efficiency, or mutual enjoyment.

It boggles the mind to see how many armchair linguists come out of the woodwork for posts like these. As language evolves, we get new ways to express ourselves, but idiots that cannot possibly learn one new word stall that progress by just being stubborn. If anything, you should be more wary of people or groups preventing the use of new words, or re-prescribing existing words that are usually used one way popularly.

The ONLY valid goal with language is communication and understanding - couples develop words, workplaces develop words, gaming communities develop words, and all of these groups use either existing words to mean new things, or acronym words in new ways, or even make completely new words from brand names or nonsense. Prescriptivists cannot typically handle new jargon, regardless of its use, and this makes them a laughingstock in academia and online spaces alike.

If you can't parse what's being said, lurk more. The etymology of new words is just as valid as the etymology of ancient ones. It's fine to take words on loan from another language regardless of grammatical correctness. The word "eyeball" came from "an influencer".

I think he was absolutely grazed by the bullet, but it is still hilarious to me that the FBI put out a whole statement saying they won't confirm it was a real hit. I think the dude is absolutely headstrong enough to keep campaigning after something like that. It can't have had no effect at all.

Someone has never played a round of highlander.

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Hobby shooting and sport shooting are not republican activities. They have no political affiliation. Hope this helps!

A single syllogism requires 3 steps, you have 2 here. Back to debate club, kiddo

You posted this and then blocked me lmao. You've misrepresented yourself, argued in bad faith, and STILL done all this in support of a bigot and their work. Stay stupid, I guess!

What, you really think middle school debate club over here uses the word "logic" for anything but browbeating? If you're not using syllogisms, it's 4channer buzzword speak and not logic.