I get what you're saying, but I feel like you're way underselling how hard the Elden Ring bosses are compared to the Dark Souls bosses (the actual bosses, not the re-used late-game enemies with bigger health pool in random dungeons). I don't think there's a single Dark Souls boss that comes anywhere close to any of the bosses from Morgoth and onward (Fire Giant excluded, obviously). Morgoth, Godfrey, Radagon, Malenia, and all the DLC bosses are much harder than anything the Souls series has seen (unless you count broken/janky mechanics like Witch of Izalith's garbage-tier hitboxes).

That’s not Amazon’s fault.

That’s mostly the fault of consumers who buy from Amazon (and other e-tailors).

There's quite a few retail stores that don't keep inventory, even for common things. Staples comes to mind, where it feels like half their damn office items aren't in stock, so you need to wait for them to have it brought in.

The problem is that those same retail stores can't compete with Amazon's shipping speed. It becomes a case of:

• I want to buy a thing, I need it fast, so I guess I'll check my local retails stores
• My local retail stores don't have it in stock, but I can order it and it'll be there in 4-5 days
• I can just buy it off of Amazon at a comparable price, and have it tomorrow

It's alright if they don't want to carry inventory, but they need to have the shipping speeds to compete, otherwise there's no reason for the consumer not to just buy it off of Amazon directly.

Honestly, if you go back and play the older souls games after Elden Ring, you'll see that they're a lot easier than Elden Ring, unless you summon Mimic Tear for every boss fight, I guess. But on a "player vs boss" scale, the fights in the older games are much easier than some of the later ones in Elden Ring (especially if you factor in the DLC).

Do you think it takes a brilliant mind to come up with that basic-ass mob bullshit?

I feel like you're misunderstanding what I'm saying in, like, an extreme way.

I'm absolutely not saying that Elon is some kind of mastermind. But there are people who legitimately are buying his bullshit. I'm explicitly pointing out that it is bullshit, and that the dude did not "just make a dumb joke without realizing the implications".

You’re talking about two different things here.

I'm really not. This very thread is full of comments acting like Elon is a moron for making his stupid "joke", literally playing into his hand. As @FlyingSquid@lemmy.world said, he's doing the "turbulent priest" thing.

I still don't understand how anyone here (or on the internet in general, for that matter) is still asking "Is Elon stupid? Is he a moron?" in response to stuff like this.

Elon's a jackass, but he clearly knows what he's doing with this. He's inciting political violence and then acting like it was an edgy joke as a way to give himself probable deniability. Dude's an asshole, but he's not literally brain dead.

I was having this discussion with a coworker after Apple's event where they talked about their image scanning AI. Like, if someone takes a picture of me, and sends it to the AI's servers, they'll use it as training data, but I haven't consented to it. So how does taking it down work?

It's obviously a rhetorical question. They obviously won't, and they'll tell me to pound sand.

In this case, it seems like it's the app makers themselves who are requiring the Play Store, though. Unless I'm misreading this, the developers are using the Integrity API to determine if the app was installed through "official channels" (in this case, the Play Store). Feels like people should be upset at the companies behind the apps, here.

The litter box thing annoys me so much. Like, do you have any idea how quickly that shit would fucking go viral if it were true? Like, every damn kid would post about it online. It's so fucking stupid!

Keep in my that "ingredients to a recipe" here refers to the literal physical ingredients, based on the context of the OP (where a sandwich shop owner can't afford to pay for their cheese).

While you can't copyright a recipe, you can patent the ingredients themselves, especially if you had a hand in doing R&D to create it. See PepsiCo sues four Indian farmers for using its patented Lay's potatoes.

Let's be honest, most of Reddit's default subreddits (or whatever the fuck they're called now) are basically just karma farms with no real moderation beyond removing extreme content. The real value of Reddit has always been in its smaller, niche subs. But as those grow in popularity, they end up having the same problems as bigger subs.

I think "common" here would refer to having to produce them, over the actual explicitness of the scene. Whether Mass Effect fades to black or not isn't really the point when the voice actors still have to record the lines that play while the screen is dark.

Yeah, what they're asking for is pretty standard stuff in other media. A friend of mine is an actor who played a scene where he had to shoot a masturbation scene. He was alone in a room with like 3-4 people: sound guy, camera guy, director, and I think the intimacy coach was there too.

Having a whole team watch you pretend to have sex is not okay, what the hell.

Wake me up when the “Congress” actually decides to take actions not just ask “questions” after the damage is done and money is made.

Right. Into Cryo-Sleep you go, then!

The post made me look him up (it's been years since I've seen him in anything) and I just learned that good ol' Lyle McDouchebag was a voice actor in Class of '09. TIL.

Sorry, I didn't realize you were exclusively arguing in bad faith/trolling. I'll stop responding.

You’re the one that decided an entire culture of thinking, feeling people are born objectively evil and can be killed en masse. And that’s fucked up.

I think that's where the issue falls apart. You want them to be thinking feeling people who can change. They don't have to be. If an evil deity creates Goblins, and makes them evil for whatever reason, they can inherently lack the ability to freely think and evolve.

And there's nothing "fucked up" about it.

Look at some villains who are just objectively evil. People point-out the Adventure Time Lich all the time, and that thing is just evil. There's no point trying to argue with it. No point trying to convince it to right its wrongs. It doesn't care, because it's just evil.

Why should a group defined by plundering travelers be more acceptable than a group defined by being short with green skin?

Because in a fantasy world, where we can know for 100% certainty that gods created life, it's not impossible for those gods to have made a certain creature type objectively evil.

In some settings, Orcs are the way they are because their god is the last one to pick a place for them to live, gets pissy, and decides that "Fuck you guys! If that's how you want to play it, my orcs are going to plunder the shit out of your guys' lands!"

In other settings, there has to be some kind of cosmic balance to things, and some gods are just evil because there has to be a natural counterpart to good, and so the creatures they create are just inherently evil.

I think the issue is with this kind of debate is that that it's referred to as "race". We don't really have a one-for-one on this IRL (because Goblins don't exist) and we don't refer to animals as "different races".

Same. Elden Ring's biggest weakness is its open world, in my opinion. It makes the first playthrough great, but it makes subsequent playthroughs a chore. Especially when you're aware that 90% of dungeons/side areas have completely worthless gear and runes. Your subsequent runs just end up being you riding Torrent for long stretches of time from point A to point B.

That’s the issue, Musk and all think they are the resistance.

Pretty sure Stephanie was saying the people still using Twitter love to think they'd join the resistance, but won't even stop using Twitter. Not that Elon thinks he's the resistance.