$40 per game apparently LOL

Not sure yet. They did say they were small so probably nothing too egregious, I’d imagine a contact damage nerf if anything.

Splinter is an odd choice to update at all but w/e, Moorwing I felt was tough but fair and really forces the player to learn the fundamentals.

Really don’t think the boss nerfs were warranted at all but the environmental damage change is very welcome.

No see that’s just a difference of opinion, a conservative viewpoint, surely that doesn’t make someone a nazi, right? it’s different! totally different!

EDIT: feels like I apparently need to make it clear that this is sarcasm and all conservatives are in fact nazis.

imagine thinking electoral politics matter lol

and gee idk someone literally spouting nazi ideology every single day just might be a nazi lol

Dead nazis deserve no sympathy.

Capitalism

HK can be trivialized pretty early on by stacking charms and upgrades. Silksong spaces out meaningful upgrades in a way that really forces you to learn the ins and outs of the game before you can start buildcrafting.

FWIW, all the final bosses are easier than HK’s true final boss. The difficulty scaling starts with a rough curve but evens out over time.

This is exactly it. I think the game is a goddamn masterpiece. The most infuriating fights feel like huge accomplishments, not just relief. Phenomenal game all around, but that difficulty curve isn’t for everyone. I can say the same about any Soulsborne game, love them to death but it’s definitely too much for some folks. Difficulty options are a good thing, if a compromise has to be made just have it disable achievements or w/e.

I’ve been using it for ages and didn’t even know about all of this. What a shitshow, jesus christ.

I’m getting a new phone pretty soon anyway so after I stick Graphene on there I’ll find something new instead for sure.

The only games I’m remotely interested for it are DK and that FromSoft game. I’m not buying a new console from Nintendo of all companies just to gather dust aside from one game a year tops. I’ll wait for the emulation scene to do its thing.

Yeah the game’s definitely harder than HK was, but by no means impossible. It’s not nearly as difficult as say Elden Ring for a recent-ish example. The true ending final boss didn’t even take me as many tries as Last Judge or that frog fucker lmao

None of the runbacks are egregious either. There’s just about always a bench barely 30-40 seconds away at absolute most.

This is a big one. I had no problem ditching the rest and I’ve been able to slowly get friends and family onto signal. But discord despite its incessant enshittification just has no real alternative. Matrix is the closest thing and it’s a clunky, confusing mess.

Plus even if I were to switch, what’s the point if the communities I use discord for aren’t moving too? They really built a monopoly out of this dogshit app and it’s going to be ridiculously difficult to get people to switch to anything else. Hell, look at Twitter - people clung to that shithole for far too long (they still do tbh), and didn’t jump ship until bsky came around, which is barely any better. Meanwhile, Mastodon’s literally been there the entire time but nope.

Good shout! Admittedly I’ve been happy with Symfonium so I haven’t looked into FOSS alternatives but this looks really good. When I get a chance I’ll add it to the writeup for sure.

That’s something I’ve struggled to find so far unfortunately. Maybe something exists but I haven’t found an answer yet.

This is a bit over my own head as I’ve only been dabbling with it recently, but so far from what I’ve found that seems to be the case.

You can get creative with the Rules, but that’s always accepting a level of risk. Like to get Beszel and Komodo Periphery working on my VPS, I technically expose some services, but I keep Pangolin’s auth enabled and use the rules to restrict it to certain paths and only my own public IP to bypass auth (1. Allow: my IP, 2. Always deny 0.0.0.0/0).

I really need to get into a better habit of waiting for their friday events lmao, but yeah that’s where I get most of mine from as well. Otherwise, sometimes a physical record comes with a download slip or w/e, or I’ll just go find a download for something I already physically own. But for purchasing digital, Bandcamp is king right now, and I’m definitely interested in other options that are out there too.

At least from my understanding (specifically for Navidrome here), there’s no way to differentiate which user owns which track/album if they’re in the same location. Navidrome’s multilibrary configuration is basically just telling it “hey this folder is this library, that folder is that library”. A combined single folder is perfectly fine if users are fine with that, but in my use case my wife and I have dramatically different tastes so it makes more sense to separate it all out.

It’s nuts LOL. I’m not sure how I clutched out the radiant boss clears but couldn’t handle the binding pantheons, I tried dusting it off this week and I’m definitely way too rusty now. Maybe I’ll revisit it after Silksong

Y e p. It’s a nightmare tbh. No ethical consumption under capitalism etc etc