I did this in Sekiro after I got frustrated with the Owl guy. Got a mod to make it easier, and happily enjoyed the rest of the game. I don’t feel bad. I know it’s not the recommended experience, but I wouldn’t have finished it otherwise.

I’m clearly out of touch with the world. Over half of these got an audible groan out of me when I watched the trailers.

Strictly from a viewer’s perspective, I use a YouTube client alternative (like GrayJay, Freetube, NewPipe) and subscribe only to the channels I want to see content from. Then I can look at video suggestions for given videos to see relevant content. This entirely removes me from the algorithm as well as any personalization that would put me in an echo chamber. I also branch out to reliable and unbiased news sources, better search engine alternatives, and so on.

Lord of the Rings (movies) came out this century. Let’s give credit where credit is due.

LadyBird can’t come soon enough.

I’m both surprised and not surprised. Considering I’ve purchased the game three times, maybe I shouldn’t be.

I wonder what the ratio is between men who want to become filmmakers and women who want to become filmmakers, and if it’s actually 50/50.

Audiences want good movies, and often don’t care who writes or directs them. It’d be a mistake to say the reason for the low percentage “is because sexism” on such a multifaceted situation. A quick web search says only about 15% of all filmmakers are women, so this statistic sounds about right. Either not enough women are interested, or not enough get the opportunity.

I was going to reply and say “good, about time!”, but also not so good for all the talented devs who are losing their jobs. Maybe they’ll flood into indie studios and give us more short but well refined indie games. I find myself gravitating towards those now more than ever before.

Crazy thing is, Wukong plays like a giant boss rush. Yet I adore it because the difficulty is so incredibly honed in and boss attacks are so well projected. Sounds like Sekiro didn’t refine their difficulty quite well enough.

Ah, that makes sense then.

Well they have to send the tickets somewhere, don’t they?

I love the game, but did admittedly struggle for one reason: regular enemies are pretty easy, then you’ll be hit with a boss that stonewalls you. There’s no build up in difficulty. Enemies = trivial. Bosses = ludicrous. Additionally bosses are often a battle of attrition, and I don’t have the sanity to last several minutes engaged in the same attack pattern.

Is it possible that your phone is killing the VPN client to free up memory? Does it reconnect immediately upon reopening OpenVPN?

It’s fizzy water flavored by filtering juice through a balloon.

Deathbed by Relient K. Used to be one of my favorites, very heartfelt and bittersweet.

I’ve been using their GrayJay desktop app, and I’ve enjoyed it so far.

I haven’t checked out FreeTube but maybe this is the push I need.

I’ve had a good experience with GrayJay. It’s a bit young and missing features but it’s never broken for me.