Dread guides the player along an intended path for a first playthrough, but if you’ve ever seen speedruns there are quite a few different skips, and many of them are clearly developer-intended. There’s even a special easter egg if you skip Kraid to get Bombs and Phase Shift, then come back and use those on the boss.
It’s much more breakable than II, Fusion, Other M, and Samus Returns.
In case I don’t see you, poyo, hiii, and yah!
I wouldn’t exactly say that. It’s a broad category, but it is a fairly well defined category. Frieren ticks pretty much every shounen box.
I think a common misconception comes from people assuming most romance is shoujo or josei. But a lot of the most popular romance series today are almost all shounen or seinen: Dress-up Darling, Horimiya, Kaguya-sama, Komi-san, and You and I are Polar Opposites, just to name a few. There’s actually a pretty notable difference between shounen and shoujo romance if you compare them.
Even Bloom Into You is categorized as a shounen yuri. Those are not mutually exclusive tags!
The reason Frieren is classified as shounen is because the manga is serialized in Weekly Shounen Sunday.
It’s also important to note that shounen encompasses a lot more than just battle shounen, that’s one subgenre under a wider umbrella. And even then, Frieren’s fight scenes do check all the boxes of a battle shounen, it’s all there, it’s just that the series encompasses a lot of other elements too.
Because I don’t want to die.
Why would I want to die?
Been thinking about trying to start up a new Mahjong community. There used to be one, but it was abandoned and the instance it was on died. Just dunno if there’d be enough interest here to sustain it, or if my hyperfixations are too niche for this platform.
For a few specific genres, they matter a lot, and if you play those games it’ll suck to not have them. For everything else though, I’d actually prefer a digital trigger.
Who gave Madeline Celeste a gun?
I’d be interested in a higher-end dual screen handheld if/when prices ever go back to normal. But the sacrifices they have to make to hit a budget price point just seems like it’s not worth it over a modded DS/3DS. Original hardware is still the way to go to play those platforms since they’re so easily moddable anyway, and for other platforms you would be better off buying any other handheld.
Even just the fact that it uses a capacitive touchscreen is enough to make it a worse experience for the DS games this is meant for. DS games were built around stylus use, and capacitive styluses kinda just… suck. I’m guessing resistive touchscreens just aren’t readily available for manufacturing anymore, another sacrifice for cost, but it’s another reason to prefer original hardware then.
I think the only real reason to consider one is if you just can’t get original hardware, since supply is limited.
If Steam ever shuts down, an old Reddit post had info about a customer experience message chain where a Valve representive said they had contingency plans if that ever happens.
I’ve heard this rumor repeated many times, but I’ve never seen a real source. I doubt it’s something Valve could actually promise.
That’s precisely it though, we do live in a society, and as long as that’s the case, society needs some guardrails against abuse.
Put it this way: This one’s big enough to split into two Directs.
I think it is necessary to have some limitations to avoid people being pressured or coerced into ‘consenting’ to things they really shouldn’t. Because otherwise you’re going to get scenarios where it’s rather dubious to imagine someone really sincerely consented to getting killed.
Consider something like Squid Game. Every participant joined the games voluntarily, at least on paper. They’re even given the opportunity to leave, only for many of them to come back because their lives in poverty are that bad, and they have families who need the money, need it so badly that they’ll take such an extreme risk. So is that consent? Should that be a legal form of dueling? Or is the entire message of the show that it very much shouldn’t be?
I haven’t seen that one either, but I’ll assume it’s worse purely on the basis of not having Daft Punk.
I haven’t actually seen Tron: Legacy, but I assume the film cannot possibly be as good as the Daft Punk album it came with.
How does this work for anything made by more than one person, especially projects by a very large team?
This is a myth. You’re thinking of trademark genericization, but even that can only happen in very extreme cases.