Damn, that’s cool.

I have that Vigilo Confido as a sticker on my PC case, and I picked up one of these Chryssalids to live on a shelf above where I usually play.

Maybe I’ve gone too many years without religion, but sometimes the talk about simulations sounds less crazy than it should.

How do I know that someone isn’t going to fully replace the trolley piece by piece after I pull the lever?

I’m with you. What these games are selling is that feeling you get after overcoming their challenges, and if you modify that, it’s not the same product. It’s like asking an artist to also offer their painting with changes to the colors, scene, or poses of the subjects to appeal to personal tastes - yes, they could do it, but it’s a different piece of art at that point.

And omg yes, O&S. It’s not as hard now after many years of playing souls-like games, but relatively it was so hard on my first exposure to dark souls in DS1. I had no idea what I was doing, my build was jank as hell, and it took ages to beat.

I’ve been slowly ripping boxes of cds for months and putting them on my media server. I don’t know if there’s a simpler way, but I’ve been using “abcde” (A Better CD Encoder) on Linux, and it’s fairly straightforward.

Owl is a hard fight too. It still holds me up for a while on replays of the game.

I like it

This is why I could never be a streamer.

I’m a big XCOM fan, and I love that you have a Vigilo Confido patch.

I fought Demon of Hatred like a dark souls boss rather than a Sekiro boss. Lots of dodging. I’m sure there was a better way.

A real Kobayashi Maru, you say?

They’re allowed the occasional work-from-home days.

How euphoric (do people still make that joke?)

No other FromSoft game could have a final fight as challenging as in Sekiro, because in the other titles, they had to consider a range of levels or builds that players would reach the end with. In Sekiro, they could really push the player.

God, I hope we see that one day. Maybe the anime will stir up some demand for it when it releases.

I’m pathologically stubborn and will stick with just about any game until I beat it, but Isshin the Sword Saint (Sekiro) took me a long time.

Both are good, but a wool flatcap can usually be dressed up a bit if you ever need it to be.

That is one decked out hat.

The flying scene at the end probably wouldn’t be so badass.