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where is this image from?

I feel you. It's funny, I stopped playing soulsborne games after ds1 through 3. Gonna get back into them soon. I think Ds2: SOTFS would be cool to check out if you can get it on sale. I think the diehard community even does "return to drangleic" events that make the pvp/co-op more active as well.

DS2 made some aspects of the combat a bit more deliberate than the first game. It added a stat called adaptability that affected rolling. Back stab fishing was also made less viable. Magic wasn't as insanely OP akin to something like dark orb spam in Ds1 but still pretty powerful. Don't really like soul level (overall level of your character based on total souls collected rather than matching you pvp wise based on your stat level)

There was a period of time where I played nothing but Dark Souls 1 and 3 (same theme) and thought about these

Sank an incredible post. DS2 is right up there with the other games. All negative opinions are parroted from a single video essay. Majula is the comfiest hub.

that’s half the reason i even bothered to comment lol

Still can't help but wonder if this whole scene, Chapo, these people, Belden, isn't some sort of deep-cover CIA operation meant to contain and guide the inevitable re-emergence of a left in this country. I mean Menaker's father being a double-agent, Belden going to Syria to fight with left flavored but CIA sponsored and approved militia, their connections to people like Dasha. It's all just a little suspicious. In a believable kind of way but also in a they people were all put together in an incubator kind of way. They wouldn't even have to be witting assets either if the CIA was trying to merely guide development in a certain direction. I don't know. It's weird here in the imperial core.

I’m here with you and i think it’s fun to consider but a few points that i think we would have to consider to either make or break this:

-the inevitable reemergence of the left movement requires enough people being in dire circumstances where joining a dissident organization makes sense.

-the US govt doesn’t need an elaborate internet media scheme to keep people pacified. They can still manipulate the standard media offering and shoot IRL revolutionaries like they do and have already done

-For people that are extremely self motivated genuinely don’t want to work for companies that support genocide, the war machine, pick any ugly aspect of clapistan, an indie media career is compelling

I don’t have much to say about the CIA connection stuff. You can’t choose your parents and since TA is the only podcast i listen to regularly i know for a fact Belden isn’t exactly rosy while describing his past self

I need some more info so a grown man willingly sat and watched cocomelon for more than a minute bc the celeb he likes told him to? How big is the apartment?

getting high was way more fun when it was illegal

him and his buddies also made a boat load pumping and dumping the stock market so he accomplished at least two things

Shin Green, Indomie Mi Goreng, Shin Black, Buldak spicy, buldak carbonara is actually really tasty lol. Indomie is probably the best bc it's the most flavorful while keeping empty calories low

It might also be the case that the people youre describing have moved on to having families or focusing on some other aspect of their lives instead of posting. From my recent job search, it seems like anyone mildly motivated it just trying to suckle on VC money and have their own company slicing off a few million from porky. Still better than big corpTM

i’m not sure if any of the typically cited old anti office movies captured how banal they really are. “soul crushing” yes but not right away. The sinister part is how long it took to creep up on me. it’s not a way to live unless you really need/want the money

https://youtu.be/DJklHwoYgBQ