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I know that Zen story about the monk carrying the woman across the river is supposed to be wise and insightful and whatever, but honestly, it just makes me think of Calvin.

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Today in what the fuck did I just find on TV Tropes: Happy Game. The fucking Machinarium dudes made this nightmare?

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One person is arguing that Dracula is an offensive stand-in for immigrants and Jews. Other people are mad, because they say Dracula is a stand-in for aristocrats.

Dracula was prior to The Protocols of the Elders of Zion, but “the ethnic groups I don’t like already have too much money and power and still want more” is a pretty old trope. So Dracula can easily be all of those at once.

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93 hours into Elden Ring, I’ve finally reached my “what is wrong with this dev why would they even do this” point. In most bossfights, I use my shield, attack from a distance with magic, or both. Dragons are tricky, because I can’t fully block their breath and they have longer range than my favorite spells, but they’ve been beatable so far. Now here comes the Fire Giant, a mandatory boss who can pound me into the ground with his gigantic shield from much, much farther away than even my arrow spell, and who hits so hard that even trying to block still takes off half my health. I’ve been grinding out HP upgrades on every optional boss I can find, and I still can’t take two hits in a row from this guy.

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Now that I think about it, I wonder if my inability to read body language is related to why I can never figure out the tells for boss attacks in Souls games.