The fact that the OpenBSD logo has to include its name spelled out really tells you everything you need to know, doesn’t it.

I know that, but it just looks weird. Though on second thought, maybe the issue is the connection between E and K. Star Wars has the R and S connected, but there it looks like a natural extension of the strokes made when writing the letters. Here it doesn’t work nearly as well, and the second line already has two connected letters with T and R anyway. So after thinking about it a bit more, I think I’d just cut the connection between E and K. The K still looks a little odd, but it conforms to the SW logo, and at least the entire bottom right corner doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb.

Is it just me or is the K upside down? Surely this looks better?

About 80% of Dark Souls 2 consists of a detour to get around this bit of rubble.

tHeY cReAtE jObS!

It’s okay to like them while they do good and then change your mind when they turn evil.

there’s a guy on 4chan who’s planning to sue Fromsoft

Lol, no. There’s a guy on 4chan who’s saying wildly outlandish shit in order to have a laugh at anyone who takes it seriously.

A perfectly understandable reaction, but the company will be happy about that. If you willfully destroy a product you bought, they already have your money, and now you need to buy another one.

The enshittification cycle:

Phase one, attract users by providing a good service.
Phase two, once the users are locked in, squeeze them for all they’re worth by selling them to business customers (advertisers and/or data buyers).
Phase three, once the business customers are locked in, squeeze them for all they’re worth by threatening to deny them access to the users on whom they now depend.

Spez seems to think Reddit has the pull to make phase 3 happen. I rather doubt it, but we’ll see.

It does make a certain amount of sense. Big profit now means you get a chunk of cash to invest in other quick profit schemes, and your wealth just keeps snowballing. It works as long as you don’t care that you never build anything that lasts.

Yeah, but none of that bothers his supporters as much as calling him weird. Which is pretty weird if you ask me.

It’s phase three of the enshittification cycle. In phase one, you attract users by providing a good service. Once they’re locked in, you squeeze them for all they’re worth by switching focus to business customers. Once they’re locked in, you squeeze them by threatening to deny them access to the users on whom they now depend.

It’s almost as if the Souls series was a deliberate throwback inspired by classic games and used mechanics copied from them.

It seems to me that the most distinctive feature is the save mechanic that essentially splits the game into levels where you can only save your progress when you reach a campfire.

By this definition, Demon’s Souls is not a soulslike.

just someone speaking poetically about an event that nobody would ever know anything about anyways

Kinda makes me wonder whether he’d feel foolish about what he wrote if he were still alive today and had modern scientific knowledge.

Also, by kicking him out and then implementing it anyway, they take credit for his work. I wonder whether being discarded like a piece of trash the moment he outlived his usefulness came as a surprise to him. A very Trumpian move all-around.

If titles are anything to go by, murderizing an absolute shitzillion of people makes monarchs pretty great.

Not at all! Remember, imagination knows no bounds. You can continue making stuff up with no basis in fact pretty much forever.

Please, lecture me more about what my motivations are. Of the two of us, you’re clearly the expert on that topic. I’m dying to hear more.

That’s also something I was told in response to my skepticism during NMS’ pre-release hype phase, and it’s a complete misunderstanding of what’s going on here. I’m not trying to stop people from being happy, on the contrary, I’m trying to help them avoid disappointment by getting them to stop huffing hopium in industrial quantities. But they don’t wanna stop.