I wonder what game stories benefit from a bit of challenge.

Like, I feel like The Last of Us benefits from a little bit of challenge to drive home the anxiety and cleverness of the characters.

I love the combat in the game. I think I played it on normal. I wouldn’t recommend anything easier. I feel like everything would die too easily.

Early Resident Evil games were essentially horizontal Metroidvania. Open world makes sense.

The US had virtually no one staying home.

Can you explain what you mean by this? I assume you mean people forced to stay home by the federal government.

It was 3. But IIRC, it was the first 360 game to have multiple discs.

It seems like podcasts are their main product now. And that should be staying for the moment. That’s what I listen to. I don’t watch their videos anymore, and I haven’t in quite a while.

I have no problem with them standing by that it doesn’t need any sales and is already a reasonable price. But saying it’s out of respect for those that already bought it is just a bs excuse.

I just finished Spider-Man Miles Morales. So I’m gonna be starting Spider-Man 2 soon.

I’ve seen ADL referenced way too many times as a legitimate source of information. That’s gonna stick with me for a long while.

ABSOLUTELY! I do want to clarify that when I say that I question how severe it is, I don’t mean to minimalize it.

ADL has pretty consistently exaggerated numbers. So when I see 4000% increase, I don’t believe it. They absolutely include Israeli government criticisms.

But I do expect that there’s extreme increases, in the same way there has been increases in Islamophobia. Probably more. The incidents are real and cannot be ignored.

I just do not trust what the news is putting out when it relies on subjective information or an outside source. This has honestly been the sloppiest news I’ve witnessed in my life.

I’ve seen a lot of reporting on antisemitism increasing. And I’m sure it is. But shit like this and the fact that I’ve seen ADL referenced twice now makes me really question how severe it is.

So do I. Why? Because I can.

The OP clearly crossed from “acceptable” civilian casualties to actively rooting for civilian casualties. In this case the mods would be justified blocking them.

But I’m also happy to see that overall they’re not voted up.

Thanks. Yeah, World News is just News. So I was a bit confused. I assume they were talking about the evacuation post. It looks like the OP is making a lot of inflammatory comments there and in other posts. But most of them aren’t voted on and not very visible.

I think the issue might be wanting the mods to weed out some of these types. At one point they’re even warmongering a bit. But the rest of the conversation seems overall fine.

Which post? There’s the evacuation one on c/news on Beehaw which got a bit heated. It has a couple of bad faith comments by the OP. But even then most of the discussion seems to be good faith, even when they’re strongly disagreeing.

I don’t see a world news community on Beehaw. Just news and USnews. Do you mind sharing the post or the community+server?

(Also for the record, I use Connect. But I don’t know if it makes a difference.)

I think most longer discussions are like that regardless. But most conversations that I have seen have been short and informative. Especially now that people have been able to process a bit.

No, I think the response has been very level headed conversation actually. There’s been a lot of focus on Israel simply because of the absolute support they initially got. But I think the discussions have been productive.

“Don’t underestimate his ability to play spoiler to one of them.”

I think we know which one he’d play spoiler to. Moderate Republicans know how to hold their nose because they’re supposed to. Democrats don’t have that strong of identity politics. It’s much easier for them to be convinced to not vote Dem.

This is especially true for the swing states that are going to determine who actually wins the presidency.

If Dems are oranges and Reps are literal shit. He’d be like a freshly picked mushroom.

It’s gonna taste like shit, it might kill you, but I guess you could say it’s closer to an orange than literal shit, debatably.

Not just anti-vaxx, but also antisemitic conspiracies.