#fucking GAMER RANT

[cat-hybridcellbit]

I just cackle as I watch more and more new viewers come to realize that Foolish is actually very devious and clever, he just is committed to the bit of The Jester. This man can talk for hours and say nothing. He will get what he wants through the power of false ineptitude.

[10reallybigants]

Shout out to the moid in my friend group that shattered our friendship by telling me to squat in a video game, which I naively thought was a normal request, and when I looked at his stream he was trying to look up my characters dress. And then later proceeded to wonder out loud if I have an ass that is "basic".

He apologized in dm's later after another friend told him he messed up bad (bro doesn't even remember what he said or my reaction bc he was so drunk and fucked up) and I said yeah, what you did was fucked up and super not okay, and he hasn't responded or talked in the group since

Like no fucking way you're gonna come at ME sexually and then get all fucking mopey because you drank so fucking much you started saying your inside thoughts out loud.

[felignis]

i think chappell roan enforcing her boundaries to creepo parasocial fans is so fucking awesome and based and she should be allowed to do whatever she wants forever

[skyburger]

every nintendo character is trans & if anyone complains we double their transgender levels. hope this helps 🏳️‍⚧️

[cephalofrog]

noah caldwell-gervais is the only motherfucker to have ever been correct about dark souls and elden rings' difficulty. no one else understands

[ragequitezekielrants]

I refuse to admit I'm getting into this whole ai chat shit.

[sc4llywag]

Me staring straight into the soul of tiktok and their mass copyright of millions of artists and now I can't show people my hard work of and edit because it'll get muted and I have no other way to post it except for smaller platforms for editors😍💥😋☝️😁‼️‼️💥

😁

Here's the edit btw

Below the line for my rage

It's so FUCKING stupid how I can't even edit to a lesser known song by a bigger artist because of this stupid fucking ban I don't understand why it has to be like this why tiktok WHY I JUST WANNA EDIT MY ASSASSINI YOU DICK HOLE

I'm angry but I can't do anything so I'm just accepting defeat and posting it tmrw and gonna watch it get muted

Sueing the copyrighters

[sea-buns]

One of the people on chilled's team is one of the top mc event players (places an average of 1st in a very similar event) and a lot of people are ranking the team higher bc of him (he is also new to this event though so people are not placing the team as high as they would otherwise)

Right and I get that. And granted idk how good Oli and Kara typically do, or how much one players point count can affect the entire team's placement.

But I mean. This is Chilledchaos we're talking about. Team TIES consists of people who play minecraft for a living.

I don't know if you've heard, but Chilled said yes to participating in this event despite not even knowing what type of competition it is. He has absolutely no clue what happens in MCC. I watched this man ask chat what the second C stood for. I watched him look at his calendar live on stream and put his hands on his head in distress as he goes "It's in eight days?!"

So yeah y'know I wonder if it can really make enough of a difference that they breach last place. Red can do okay point wise but it means nothing if the other teams do even slightly better cuz all 4 of them know how to play the game.

Like I said, we are in for a fun time not a winning time lmao

[borealtwilight]

MY KINGDOM FOR HALO 5 TO BE PORTED TO PC

A BUNCH OF THE ASSETS ARE ALREADY THERE, COME ON. YOU WANT MORE MONEY, MICROSHIT? DO THIS.

[jaythelay]

The reason DS2 has such a split viewpoint I believe comes down to it lacking what I believe is the elements that form a True Souls-Like experience.

To me, Souls-Like means the Designer Earning the Player's Trust via creating a puzzle with seemingly missing pieces.

Put it in it's simplest way, the first boss of DS1 teaches you this. You're missing pieces. Absolutely you can win with what you got, but do you really wanna slog through that? Or explore for more Options to Gameplay. Gaining More Options the More You Play.

It's about Player Growth in a hostile world where the Only People You Can Trust Are The Designers. These enemies are bunched together for no reason, there's a bunch of balls you can set loose upon them, sorta thing. A trust that This Puzzle Piece has Pieces That Connect Better Than Others, if not then only for you!

People do not discuss that the Interconnectivity of DS1 isn't simply that the world is connected via shortcuts, it's that the Levels are connected via shortcuts. You're not just going from an elevator to Blighttown, you're jumping down edges in Blighttown that make the traversal take A Few Minutes, and double that short time back up. When you make a "Leap of Faith" that Consistently Works, the Designers Earned Trust, Respect.

When you explore, you will Always Find Something. An enemy, an Item, an NPC, a bonfire, a shortcut, etcetcetc I cannot emphasize thia enough so you'll encapsulate it, but Dark Souls is Designed. It's weapons, NPC and enemy interactions, it's shortcuts, it's levels and world, it's music, is, all, designed with Intention that Ensure the Player Trusts The Designers.

DS2 immedietely throws a giant at your first point of exploration. All those torchesyou lit? Meaningless. That stoned enemy? Pointless to waste your item. There's a Gender Swap coffin Literally Immedietely because of a bug they couldn't fix and they made it vague to understand in text. You can softlock yourself early on via no blacksmith to repair items, and thus the "Avoid the Gankfests" become only gankfests you cannot possibly surpass armorless and fists only, so restart.

DS2 doesn't try to earn trust. It doesn't try to earn respect. What it is, is the CEO's son, coming in to force their ideas onto creatives that force their ideas out. They literally focused on the visuals, the fuckin' Shadows, on a 256mb ram console and it's weaker competitor. You're only punished for exploration with Dead Ends with Nothing in or to come to them. You find Disposable items constantly that do so little.

Like there's a giant crossbow interactable and only one section to use it on an enemy and it's a secret anyways. There's wasted resources everywhere because the world design had to be compromised for the incohesive level design made with no communication or clue where they'd even fucking be, so the story had to be compromised for the world design, and the levels made? Their geometry untouched from their inception. They slapped a coat of Enemy and Item paint onto disconnected levels they never altered and weren't designed to stay as they were, but be adjusted For The Gameplay.

Of which, they ensured was a tedium. I get that people enjoy those old Flash Games where you learn through trial and error but my man, is that Good Design or is that Explicit Design? As in, is it really "intentional" if the intention is the Tedium of trial and error no mistakes? Is that Design? Is it Good Design? No. If a 13yo can make a flash game with the exact same philosophy, it's not Good Design, it's a Job.

What DS2 onwards feels like, is a Prestige Earner for the Player. It's about Flashy encounters, watching live-streams and trailers, it's about making it marketable without any of the intention that came from DS1. About Still Screenshots of levels and not the motion of going through it. It looks nice, but to actually interact is to find flaws in it's useability. For art, for inspiration, for player growth, DS2 teaches the player nothing.

DS1 made people better at gaming. Where-as DS2 is why people were bad in the first place. There's no intention, there's no respect, no no no! It's JUST the stamina bar, the dodging, the soul reclaimation, that's Souls-Like!

Designer and Player being on the same side? Mutual Trust and Respect? Player Growth? Nope. All replaced with the prestige that you decided 500+ deaths for a boss was a worthwhile endeavor Creatively and Artistically.

I never feel that "sense of accomplishment" in DS2 onwards, I only ever say "Thank god that over, hopefully it gets better" and it never does. It demands of you to treat it as a Job, and not a Game.

Learning mechanics? What mechanics? Get good at dodging and timing, that's Dark Souls.

Exploration? What you mean a side-path that immedietely ends in a disposable item? Yay.

Finding your own shortcuts the designer actually intended? Nah that just kills you now.

Never in DS2 do I feel like the game tries to earn respect or trust. In fact it tarnishes whatever goodwill DS1 basically BOUGHT for them. And immedietely they wanted To Look Cool. Not Be Good.

I'm sorry but there's no excuse for fire to burn a metal fucking beam. That's stupid. That laughably fucking stupid. There is no oil on that fucking thing dude, quit lying. A Good Way To Handle This would've been Using pyromancy on the fan, using a bomb, using something to coat it in fucking oil first. But no. Metal Beam Set Aflame. Sure, that's "intentional design" in someone's eyes, and not the continuing flaw of a Hallway Level Design where the only thing to do Is Progress on The Path.

Look, I'm trying. I really, honestly, truly believe I'm The Guy putting in The Effort. My plan after DS2SotFS is to go to DS2, then the 360 port. And then back through SotFS again. I'm watching an absurd number of videos, reading an absurdly large level of positive pieces. But here's where-in, another problems sprouts.

DS2 is Reliant upon Community far more than DS1, and it's a far, far worse resource than DS1's was. Nobody can agree if a section or boss is even good. Everyone just tells you the cheese strat. Nobody explains mechanics or what you're doing wrong, they just say "DS1 did that!" in the literal only one or two examples in that game, and compare it to what is most of DS2. Like regardless of anything, the flaws of DS1 should've been addressed? Not made worse and more abundant? It's not even a good argument, DS1 came first, it's the first in the series. Yeah I expect there to be flaws, but it Fundamentally Earned My Trust, so those flaws are ignorable, even small in the grand scheme of things, but most importantly? I trust there's Good after the Bad.

DS2 gives Slog after Slog after Slog after Gankfest after "avoid the gankfest" after poor hitbox readability after impossible to dodge, then punishes you for exploration, punishes you for experimenting of which they offer very seldom, and then demands of you to Take a Leap of Faith that the designers intended you ti make this jump, or will discover the obscure mechanic that they only use once and forget about.

There's no intentionality to the world or level design, the story did patchwork for the world design but story doesn't affect level design, of which they Did Not Touch the Geometry for at all.

What DS1 does that DS2 does the opposite, is make the player feel like even after a hundred losses, it's possible. You will quit the game in the most pissed off gamer rage ever, and come back in a few hours totally devoid of that rage. DS2 onwards has None of that. You will leave and question coming back, if it's even worth it. You'll look it up online and go. Wow. That's what they wanted, what I was doing, and it's Not Fun At All.

"DS isn't supposed to be fun/games don't have to be fun" We have a fundamentally misunderstanding upon what Fun is. Fun is when you Trust the Other Player, when you don't, that's not fun. It's not fun to play against a cheater, it's not fun to play against a sore loser nor to create sore losers through yout own attitude. It's Fun when you Lose and go "aw shucks I made a miatake" but DS2 onwards is Never that. It's "How could I possibly" and the answer is the terrible community with bad information all about cheesing the section as hard as possible.

It's fun in DS1 to throw Dung over a wall at a capra demon because it's a CHOICE. DS2 offers no player freedom. Big Sword Build beats all and good luck proving Most Of The Community wrong about that because the game tarnished their trust within that first absolutely amateur, mind numbingly boring hour. I can write movie length scripts on how bad the first hour or two of DS2 is and I'm not even kidding. It's Really Fucking Bad and only marginally improves for a short while before you essentially reach the end where it has moments of glory and moments of below-amateur work.

I don't like shitting on artistic pieces unless I genuinely feel like there's an Ego to their work. And DS2 onwards only has Ego. It is a Prestige Earner, not an experience. You play these games so you can say, You Did It. Congrats, that's not a Souls-Like or a good game though, it's on par with a 13yo's flash game in the early 2000s. With just as much for the player to take away into other experiences.

DS1 genuinely made life easier for me. The insurmountable Had Design. Like as simple as filing taxes or some shit, there's a design, they didn't make it actually impoasible through a lack of effort. Driving a car? Fuck no, but I imagine it's simpler in my mind now. It was Intentionally Designed! I trust regulations and warning labels because someone Died for them.

DS2 curbstomps that and makes me uncertain again in the worst way. There really are things so poorly made that few will find the eay to surpass them Drawing? Imposaible unless you likw banging your head against a wall, there's no shortcuts, nothing to learn, just tedium and reptition, that's it. No fun or art. DS2 is no fun nor art, it is that if a slog. Fundamentally kneecapped from inception by a complete dumbass who thought 256mb was enough for Ray Tracing Quality shadows. Speechless that he got the position being that completely incompetant and unaware. Visuals. Dark Souls, these 2 are not connected, and yet ER certainly seems to think it's The Most Important Element regardless.

Blegh, I'm trying. But the game absolutely isn't. DS1 does, and it's why there's no argument it's Good. It's why it's community is an actual resource. It respected and trusted the player to trust and reapect them through hard times. DS2 just says "you got infinite chances so just keep trying" Booooooring, lazy, amateur, anything not-intentional basically.

[danwithouttheplan]

me, making 30 unrelated original text posts a day: look at all of this content to create weeeeeeeeee

the unsatisfied consumer:

[pixiepill]

Rant: I hate gamer bros so much. They drain my energy so much I need to get off Twitter sometimes.

They will cry and complain at any sight of a female character that isn’t how they want her.

If she’s too strong they complain woke. If she’s a poc it’s cus their woke IF SHE ISNT DEEMED FUCKABLE BY THEM ITS FEMINIST WOKE GARBAGE AND THE WHOLE SHOW IS RUINED BECAUSE OF IT.

like I was triggered at least 8 hours a day when the last of us remake was released because all they could do is sit there and complain because all of the female characters were ugly to them now. Why??? Because they didn’t look like dolls with big eyes and little noses anymore. And now not to mention the casting for the hbo show for Ellie.

They are driving me insane. Why are all female characters value based on their looks alone they need help

[monmuses]

// *you ever just see the new event for overwatch and think “man i hope i get free skins”

// *but then you forget that its blizzard and this is ow2, so the only free skin you get from challenges is a SKIN THAT YOU ALREADY OWN

// *AND ITS ONLY THERE BC ITS REMOTELY RELATED TO GREEK MYTHOLOGY

// *AND ALL THE OTHER SKINS ARE IN $22 BUNDLES!!!!!!!! GRRRRRRRR

[quitedisastrous]

bi/pan lesbian discourse is so fucking stupid. like a bunch of the people specifically against them using that label are ALSO queer. gamers we are in this shit together!!!! what the fuck!!!

[sleepbby]

can't w very preachy ignorant ppl who keep dickriding nintendo and their switch exclusive games as if they're tru soft core uwu indie gaming KINGS when in reality their inability to understand shit about the world, their greediness and stupidity and everything else about their community crushing copyright waiving asses is detrimental to the entire gaming industry... smh

[theghostofwilburtheworm]

good lord i hate wifi ralph