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DS1’s finest player trap:

Google: how to get out of ash lake without going through great hollow?

Google: how do you get rid of cursed status DS1?

Google: where to get purging stones Ash lake?

Google: can you restore an old save file ds1?

This has got to be rage bait! - 0 good areas? Ash lake, The painted world, anor londo, undead parish, firelink? 0 good bosses? No love for O&S, the bell gargoyles, Sif or Artorias?!

I’d even add the tutorial in for undead asylum and the Asylum demon as good tutorial area+boss combo.

I don’t think so, the Indian operated (French made) Rafale were shot down by the Pakistani operated (Chinese made) J10CE

They would unironically probably like that. Many of my clients have negative taste. “It’s a bit bland, can you just add in…” - goes on to describe an aesthetic that would have been considered a ‘bit much’ back in 2008 on someone’s MySpace page.

There are a few options in between hoodie & shorts and a full suit.

Not content with simply watching and the competing to be shittiest, Belgium decided to loudly proclaim that it is, in fact, also very shitty.

Going bowling doesn’t take any level of commitment from the participant though - it’s just a nice thing to do - they’d do that anyway. The bonding part comes from doing something unpleasant to show commitment to the group. I’m not saying the weird shit that it has developed into on campuses is a good thing, that’s way too far. But I was a member of a running club and to be a full member you had to run on a summer Saturday across a set route up and down hills repeatedly just the hardship and over difficult terrain in the heat of the day - it was a long and deeply unpleasant run. But then all the new runners and all the existing members have a big bbq and eat food and drink cold beers together. The old timers congratulate you on your performance and reminisce about when they did it - perhaps it was a heatwave back in ‘92 or there was flooding or whatever. Everyone winces together when they see the size of that guys blisters etc. and just like that you’re bonded. You’ve all had a shared experience of a trial you completed to be part of the group. Hazing like that is a really good experience.

I think it probably also depends on what the hazing entails - making the newbys complete some miserable gruelling physical activity followed by everyone getting drunk together - probably pretty damn good bonding. The new people have done something unpleasant and demonstrated a level of commitment to the cause, and then everyone has cut loose together showing some vulnerability (from intoxication) within each others company - that really will bond people.

If your hazing is forcing new people to get really drunk and then sexual abusing them (which is what a lot of American college hazings seem to be)- I don’t think that’s good (on any level). It may have some bonding affect for the perpetrators but for the victims? I’m not sure. Maybe when they turn perpetrators the following year they would get a delayed bonding affect? Either way that’s not good.

Recommend this. My partner is a fantastic public speaker and I’m so jealous of her for it as it is such a useful and important skill. She wasn’t always good but has had professional tuition and coaching and then buckets of experience. You too can learn it - but it’s getting the practice in front of large audiences that’s the hard part. Her work has a presentation club where staff can volunteer to present anything of their interest to a large audience, just for the experience of doing so, which is a really nice low stakes way to do it. Perhaps universities may have a public speaking society which would do similar?

New copypasta?

I would have to assume there will still be plenty of assholes. But I would also assume that they would be looked down on by society at large - instead of being considered role models, as they are under capitalism.

But communism is when you not own toothbrush, how they own house?