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Chernabog posted:My UO is that souls games would be better if they had an easy mode for us normies. This is a UO I share because of how I play RPGs. I do an easy mode run for my first playthrough so I can really enjoy the world, story, character designs, music and naturally familiarize myself with the controls and combat system. Second time around I'll happily do my nightmare run, and I'll have the muscle memory to ease the fluidity of my controls so I can focus on trying to read opponents and situations. Which is the attraction of Souls games.
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There's a lot of reasons that Souls games should be hard, and most of them sound pretty snobby on paper but make sense once you've spent time with them. Putting all that aside I still don't think it would work with an easy mode. You'd just burn through the game and most of what makes them engaging would be lost. Plus they do have an easy mode, it's co-op play.
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Jun 30, 2017 19:59
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Learn languages for places you want to go to visit or work or live. When you don't have an actual "reason" to learn a language it's super hard to stay motivated without a practical goal in the end. It's also really hard to learn a language if you don't have native speakers you can chat with on the regular. I think it's a bit unfair that the rest of the world shits on north americans for generally being unilingual, we just don't have a reason that forces us to learn other languages. Most of the rest of the world is densely populated with a variety of languages, where you can just travel a few hundred km in any direction and be in another country or another language region so it's super important to speak a few, you're forced into it just to get poo poo done. In the US/Canada (outside of quebec) there's no reason economic reason that forces people to learn another language. You can get by with just english and huge swaths of the country are rarely exposed to other languages let alone large groups that don't speak any english. Like if you're in business in France you can probably get by just speaking french, but it means you can't deal with german customers or Italian customers. Through exposure and need you're really often forced to pick up at least some basics in another language or two. Often that 2nd language is english, so the German and the Italian and the Czech and the Spaniard can all teleconference in English rather than everyone having to learn 4 other languages. This though just further spoils native english speakers, why learn another language when everyone else sees to be learning english as the common international language?
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EvenWorseOpinions posted:Is it a popular opinion that German sounds angry though or is that just my facebook feed? Re that video of a guy saying words in a bunch of languages and yelling when he gets to the German word PHUO: French is not a pretty language. It's full of awful throat noises and sounds terrible. yeah I eat rear end posted:I think languages are one of those things that it's perfectly fine to just learn for no reason. It can be fun and while you might rarely need it, it does open up the possibility of talking to millions of people you couldn't talk to before. Plus even though you can get around Germany easy enough with only english, it's different/more enjoyable if you aren't isolated in a little tourist bubble.
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Tiggum posted:Why German though? Like, why not Arabic or Cantonese or something? Why not? Like I said in the very thing you quoted, you don't need a practical reason like "this language will make me more money". Maybe you like germans and want to talk to them. Maybe you want to work there. Maybe you just feel like it.
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Jul 1, 2017 06:37
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Tiggum posted:It's a pretty common joke, but people who make it always yell the German words they're saying angrily, becaue it turns out that it doesn't actually sound that way when you just speak it normally. Let's be real here, Germany is a much more enjoyable place to visit than Arabia or China.
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Jul 1, 2017 07:05
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Neil Gaiman kinda sucks
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Jul 1, 2017 07:18
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Guy Goodbody posted:Neil Gaiman kinda sucks Well at least he's not Alan "More Words than a God drat Blake & Mortimer Album Just Seriously Words Words Words is this Even an Actual Comic Book Anymore?" Moore
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Jul 1, 2017 07:25
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Jerry Cotton posted:Well at least he's not Alan "More Words than a God drat Blake & Mortimer Album Just Seriously Words Words Words is this Even an Actual Comic Book Anymore?" Moore You do know that Jerusalem wasn't supposed to be a comic, right?
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Jul 1, 2017 07:27
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Guy Goodbody posted:You do know that Jerusalem wasn't supposed to be a comic, right? I don't know what that is apart from a city.
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Jul 1, 2017 07:27
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Jerry Cotton posted:I don't know what that is apart from a city. gently caress you that was a solid joke and I won't let you ruin it
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Jul 1, 2017 07:29
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It probably was anyway but Alan Moore, being the cack-handed twat that he is, decided to leave out the pictures altogether.
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Jul 1, 2017 07:30
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Words in my fiction, oh no!
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Jul 1, 2017 07:48
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Tiggum posted:PHUO: French is not a pretty language. It's full of awful throat noises and sounds terrible. always sounds to me like they've got a giant glob of snot rolling around in their throat when they're talking
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Jul 1, 2017 11:48
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I'm third-generation french and I speak french and I love how french sounds, but absolutely loathe modern french slang, rap, etc etc. French should be preserved in a perfect 19th-century bubble and used as the new latin. This did not serve my ears well when I moved to Canada, ostie de tabarnak
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Jul 1, 2017 18:09
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Language purism is dumb, the only important thing in a language is that meaning is conveyed That one is unpopular for sure. If the French language had been kept pure it would be Latin (or proto latin or PIE or whatever)
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Jul 1, 2017 19:13
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:I'm third-generation french and I speak french and I love how french sounds, but absolutely loathe modern french slang, rap, etc etc. French should be preserved in a perfect 19th-century bubble and used as the new latin. How do you feel about all those immigrants living in France now?
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Jul 1, 2017 19:17
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A muslim ban is dumb, but the Islamic faith is garbage tier.
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Jul 1, 2017 19:20
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I'd have to agree French rap is a sonic abomination.
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Jul 1, 2017 19:25
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Mu Zeta posted:How do you feel about all those immigrants living in France now? They're fine, most of the offenders are lily-white and have been french since "frankish" was a meaningful adjective.
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Jul 1, 2017 19:38
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Jastiger posted:A muslim ban is dumb, but the Islamic faith is garbage tier. That's a real riffraff point of view. I've lived with a muslim family, they prayed multiple times of day and everything. They were lovely people.
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Jul 1, 2017 21:18
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Slime posted:That's a real riffraff point of view. I've lived with a muslim family, they prayed multiple times of day and everything. They were lovely people. Counterpoint: Religious people are generally good in reverse correlation to how seriously they take their faith.
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Jul 1, 2017 21:41
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Jastiger posted:Counterpoint: Religious people are generally good in reverse correlation to how seriously they take their faith. Hot take, boy howdy
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Jul 1, 2017 21:58
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Slime posted:That's a real riffraff point of view. I've lived with a muslim family, they prayed multiple times of day and everything. They were lovely people. Which country was this in?
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Jul 1, 2017 21:59
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Mu Zeta posted:Which country was this in? The UK.
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Jul 1, 2017 22:28
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How did they feel about gays or apostates? They can be nice and tolerant to your face but still have despicable views. Pew Research says Brit Muslims are very conservative.
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Jul 2, 2017 00:28
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People who think that Tesla was amazing and Edison sucked are really stupid
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Jul 2, 2017 00:37
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My unpopular opinion is that Christianity and Islam are both equally bad and both have followers who are shitheads with blood on their hands. Muslim bans are dumb and racist because why single out Islam??? Or people of Middle Eastern background?? Muslims no worse than Christians, on the whole. No better than Christians, either, though. That's where shrieking SJWs get it wrong. They stick up for Muslims, which is good, but then go overboard and are like "Islam is feminist! The hijab is feminist!" and it's like "LOL no it aint". But Muslims arent any different from Christians, good or bad. Both are patriarchal superstitions.
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Jul 2, 2017 02:38
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Agreed. If you are not atheist, you are suspect.
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Jul 2, 2017 04:11
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Blue Star posted:My unpopular opinion is that Christianity and Islam are both equally bad and both have followers who are shitheads with blood on their hands. Muslim bans are dumb and racist because why single out Islam??? Or people of Middle Eastern background?? Muslims no worse than Christians, on the whole. No better than Christians, either, though. That's where shrieking SJWs get it wrong. They stick up for Muslims, which is good, but then go overboard and are like "Islam is feminist! The hijab is feminist!" and it's like "LOL no it aint". But Muslims arent any different from Christians, good or bad. Both are patriarchal superstitions. They are both bad but not equally bad. Islam is clearly worse. Muslims revere a pedophile war monger. On the other hand, everyone can agree Jesus is just some peaceful dude for the most part. Christians don't really have to do anything to apostates. Muslim majority countries actively say it's a crime punishable by death. Islam is far worse.
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Jul 2, 2017 04:31
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Mu Zeta posted:They are both bad but not equally bad. Islam is clearly worse. Muslims revere a pedophile war monger. I got bad news for you about many saints, tons of popes, all churches older than a decade. Also any historical figure you ever respected.
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Jul 2, 2017 10:06
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Mu Zeta posted:They are both bad but not equally bad. Islam is clearly worse. Muslims revere a pedophile war monger. On the other hand, everyone can agree Jesus is just some peaceful dude for the most part. Christians don't really have to do anything to apostates. Muslim majority countries actively say it's a crime punishable by death. Islam is far worse. Christians don't actually care what Jesus did or said though, otherwise they'd actually give many shits about the poor.
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Jul 2, 2017 10:08
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You people realise that most religions will self segregate into different denominations for your convenience in telling their views apart? And that even within that there night be... disagreements? And that some people might not be public with their disagreement or might not care either way? So what on earth does 'Christian' mean as a global political force, beyond smug generalisations from the local Young Socialists meeting? But no we must have clear categories of good and bad or my pulse rate rises 
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Jul 2, 2017 10:22
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Look guyes i apprectiate all that but ISIS is pretty bad.
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Jul 2, 2017 10:25
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Slime posted:Christians don't actually care what Jesus did or said though, otherwise they'd actually give many shits about the poor. It's impossible to literally believe in the bible and also be a good person.
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Jul 2, 2017 10:29
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The only bit in the bible that anyone needs to remember is Amos 5:18.
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Jul 2, 2017 10:31
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Even US fundamentalists don't manage to do that because it's too contradictory. Also because I have a better grasp of theology, just from studying late Roman history, than they do from a lifetime of '''''faith'''''.
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Jul 2, 2017 10:36
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Strategic Tea posted:Even US fundamentalists don't manage to do that because it's too contradictory. Most American "christians" seem to be basic jews in that mostly they just want stuff from the Old Testament. e: Well you know what I mean, real jews have a lot more stuff going on.
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Jul 2, 2017 10:37
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Yes, they are working hard to reclaim Jerusalem.
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doverhog posted:Yes, they are working hard to reclaim Jerusalem. Well some probably are I just meant real jews have more books.
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