I’m not an expert in psychology, but straight up denying reality has to be a worse strategy than just admitting Biden is senile.

Yeah, but the mechanics really push you towards certain builds. Bosses are too fast so 90% of the time you can’t use slower, heavier weapons effectively.

I also didn’t like how they went hard on “long wind up but extremely quick execution” for lots of boss attacks. In DS1 and DS2, you can kinda dodge attacks on instinct alone if your reaction times are good. In Elden Ring, you just have to remember the timing on the attacks which isn’t that engaging. Eventually, I just used my first attempt on ER bosses to kite the boss and study their patterns.

Joe getting covid, spreading it to Trump, and killing them both would be the one thing that could save America.

Everything looks just fine on 1337 and gogunlocked.

i would actually find it horrific if they kept tissue from a human arm alive (say, a bicep) and made it do stuff with electrical signals (say, lift something) for ‘research purposes’,

Buddy, I hate to tell you this, but that’s literally what your brain does with your arm every single time you move it.

Plus, these seem to be made from interneurons from skin cells. Basically, neurons who transmit signals along the nervous system. I’d be more concerned if they used Pyramidal cells which play more of a role in learning, cognition, and memory.

While interesting, you wouldn’t say that keeping some tissue from the arm alive to be a “horror” on par with a brain in a jar.

The game is definitely balanced around them but making the player reliant on the jank of AI can make the fights hit-or-miss.

Sometimes your summon will get bodied by the boss in 10 seconds, sometimes it’ll last the entire fight taking off a quarter of the boss’s healthbar. There’s just a large range of things that can happen which are mostly outside of player control.

Magic

Always has been.

Yeah, but the humans and other races they seek to integrate into their society aren’t. They’d either have to do some necron-tier shit and destroy the souls of their citizens or they’d be at risk of humans creating a new chaos god.

Another option is they may decide that warp-sensitive races are too much of a risk to the galaxy and adopt a genocidal attitude for the greater good. That would be thematically appropriate for Warhammer 40k. A bad encounter with the effects of the warp leading to them abandoning their previous principles. Kinda like how the Horus Heresy affected the Imperium of Man.

I wouldn’t be terribly opposed to a lord of altruism or comradery,

You fundamentally misunderstand the Tau. They’re not altruistic, they’re just the least-worst civilization. They’re closer to a space Roman Empire than they are to communism. They’ll conquer you, put you in a pseudo-slave caste, and collect taxes. They can only claim to be a lesser evil because every other civilization’s default response is genocide.

What kind of chaos god would they make?

Probably something to do with absolute control. The Greater Good is an authoritarian philosophy in which individual citizens don’t really have any rights. They have certain cultural freedoms of course, but no right to self-determination. For warp-sensitive races that believe in this philosophy, it would show up as a desire to dissolve the ego into the whole. This could create a god which seeks to create a galaxy wide hive-mind of sorts. A sort of warp based Tyranid empire composed of multiple races which would subject entire planets to experimentation for the greater good.

The grimdark part of the Tau empire is that despite being very morally good, they’d still be completely wiped out if any of the other factions considered them a threat.

Also, while this is less confirmed, it’s also implied that the Tau’s belief in The Greater Good could eventually wind up creating a new warp god leading to the destruction of their civilization. The tau are the equivalent of a squadron of fresh recruits surrounded by entire armies of people who hate them. That’s why they still fit in the grimdark universe. They’re the plucky, good civilization with no real shot of surviving.

A wasp stung me once 10 years ago so I now murder all wasps’ nests I see on sight.

Shouldn’t have fucked with the insect equivalent of an eldritch god with the power to wipe out your entire colony with a spray can.

The last thing this universe needs is more anime.

Pun intended

I was like 13 and I wanted to be more adult. Couldn’t finish the first cup, after a week I was able to choke it down, by 2 weeks I thought it was okay, by a month I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Do you disagree?

The show is really good actually and the animation is cool as well. It’s basically one long love letter to early internet animation so if you know you know.

But the creators do have a right-wing cultural slant that shows up in their work. I don’t support that of course.

Yeah it’s weird. No matter what I do, no matter how long I wait, there’s always still some piss left in there.

The only thing that works for me is to sit down, stand up again, and then the you can get the last droplets out. I think male anatomy is just like that tbh.

Windows Vista on my old family desktop.

First Linux distro, if it counts, was the Raspberry Pi OS