Dogmantra

Dogmantra wrote

I think it may have been you who posted this many years ago and I have loved and treasured it ever since, even if it wasn't, thank you for posting it this time. More people should know about Pocket Dog.

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Dogmantra wrote

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Dogmantra wrote

the upgrade materials are bullshit for sure, especially in the earlier games. I didn't finish elden ring on my play but I managed to play it almost completely blind, compared to when I went through dark souls 1 where I used a lot of external help

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Dogmantra wrote

elaboration that hopefully doesn't make me sound like an obnoxious git gud person:

It's really about the expectation that you'll have to try again, which is a different design philosophy from a lot of other games. The thing that I personally think is satisfying about a souls game is that you can encounter a scenario like a boss that you start out dying to in 30 seconds and barely hurting it, have another go and analyse what you're doing, what's going wrong, where you're getting hit, and work on those individual aspects over the next few encounters, and a lot of the time you can go from losing almost instantly to beating the boss over the course of a play session. This is what I mean when I say "it's easy" - it is still a challenging game but individual encounters let you speedrun that system mastery and get the enjoyment from overcoming a difficult challenge relatively quickly compared to a lot of other hobbies.

The optimal outcome is that you get to feel like Neo in that scene near the end of The Matrix where he starts to see everything as code and he can just effortlessly beat Smith. When you get it, that feeling is extremely satisfying, and there aren't that many single player games that have given me that experience before. The thing is that it's a decent amount of work to get there and it can feel unrewarding on the way. If you don't enjoy soulslikes you can do one of two things - play something else, or work hard to enjoy the acquired taste. I'm personally glad that I beat my head against the wall and I like them now but I can't recommend it one way or the other.

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Dogmantra wrote (edited )

Dasani failed for a much funnier reason than just people thinking it was a ripoff. The specific circumstances were great, it was revealed to be just tapwater from the mains which became a scandal for a couple of reasons: firstly because bottled water was usually expected to be "mineral" water with some sort of selling point beyond convenience, secondly, there was a recall due to levels of bromate being over the legal limit. Lastly taking tap water and selling it as an upmarket brand while it was actually contaminated was literally the plot of an episode of the beloved comedy classic Only Fools & Horses, down to the fact that the actual Dasani plant was only about nine miles from where the tv show was set.

It would be like if some big flower shop tried launching genetically modified plants and it turned out that they ate people.

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Dogmantra wrote

I think this has existed for a while, at least when I do it it mostly comes from restructuring the sentence halfway through, yknow when you start going without knowing exactly how you're going to finish?

e.g. in your examples, it would be "a type of fruit that [pause] we don't know where it comes from"

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Dogmantra wrote

The popular explanation is that it only opens for the pure of heart, but that was a myth spread by a group of the first people to successfully open The Box to big themselves up. A lot of people still believe this though, and many aspiring Boxcavators (as you know, this is the term for people who open The Box) waste their time doing things like volunteering for charities in an attempt to make themselves more pure of heart.

We don't know for sure but the current best explanation we have is that it's got something to do with how many times you thought about shrews prior to your 15th birthday, but it's proving difficult to experiment on because when people have been instructed to think a lot about shrews we can't be sure if it's multiple thoughts, or if continuously thinking about shrews counts as just one single long thought.

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Dogmantra wrote

In order from thumb to little finger on my right hand:

  • potable room temperature water (always have fresh clean water to drink!)
  • potable boiling water (no more waiting or using energy for kettles and so on)
  • coca cola from a room temperature can (my favourite beverage and way to drink it, on the middle finger because it's sticking a middle finger up to the coca cola corporation by getting it for free)
  • helium (gases are fluids too! help solve any helium shortages and also gain access to a cool party trick [squeaky voice on demand] ring finger because I don't see myself using this one all that often and that's the most uncomfortable one to use)
  • acrylic paint thinning medium (sounds like a good idea but I've only ever used water, would like to experiment with it but it's expensive and I could just get new colours for the money)
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