I know you had an actual keyboard but this just makes me imagine an iPad kid just tapping the surface of the keys to type.
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I'm a lazy fuck so yeah
Wait a min covid made me weak
I do NOT have weak fingers. It's just that i'm used to being able to actuate a key without pressing it down all the way. With most membrane keyboards it's fine because they bottom out no matter what but some genius at the dell design team decided to cut costs by making the distance between the end of the bump and the actual switch about 15 fucking miles.
here's the build after the switches and keycaps shipped in. The switches have a 70g double spring (literally some of the heaviest switches on the market rn) and the switches ACTUALLY FUCKING ACTUATE WHEN THEY PASS THE BUMP, 0 problems typing and i hit 104 wpm. fucking hate dell.
How the fuck do some people say that they really hate a game and then tell you they played it for 50+ hours?
Like if I don't enjoy a game, I play it for 2 hours tops and then I just lay it to the side. The fact that some people genuinenly put in dozens to hundreds of hours into games they dislike is so fucking insane to me
It's like how there are some of the most repetitive, boring ass shooters that have a community that plays it for hundreds to thousands of hours on average. How the fuck do you enjoy destiny 2 for 1500 hours. What is wrong with you
Like if I don't enjoy a game, I play it for 2 hours tops and then I just lay it to the side. The fact that some people genuinenly put in dozens to hundreds of hours into games they dislike is so fucking insane to me
It's like how there are some of the most repetitive, boring ass shooters that have a community that plays it for hundreds to thousands of hours on average. How the fuck do you enjoy destiny 2 for 1500 hours. What is wrong with you
That's pokemon unite for u. I hate it but it's extremely addicting.
Also I got like 1000 h in unite...
Honestly some games just get worse the more you play them. Celeste's base game is a 50+ hour experience to 100% excluding golden berries, and the golden berries are one of the worst experiences i've had. The c-sides are trivial and the a-sides are piss easy but also massively time consuming. The b-sides are fine since they make you actually learn the level instead of bruteforcing them. I have i think about 140 or so hours in the game and about 80 of those hours are mods.
You guys are gonna crucify me for this one, but there's a niche roblox game i picked up ~3 years ago. It's one of those mindless grinding games, but there is a very in-depth equipment build system that i find fun. i've completed 1 and about 1/3rd of a full playthrough, and the topic of obscure roblox games came up in a gc today, so I figured i'd bring the game up and check how much time i've wasted.
I have over 2500 hours on that game.
to be fair you can really only hate a game after you've pumped enough hours into it
50 is excessive but by that point they know exactly why they dislike the game
if they keep playing it then they're stupid
(for context I am a master duel player)
The same thing is true for pretty much anything. Like I hated mushoku tensei before i watched it, I told myself "People say the worldbuilding and story is amazing, so just try and ignore the fact that rudeus is a freak" and now that i've watched the show I can feel completely justified in saying that rudeus single-handedly ruins the show, and surrounding him with people worse than him isn't the same thing as giving him a redemption arc.
my favorite game of all time is Sonic Battle for the Nintendo Game Boy Advance family of systems. its combat is ambitious but misses the mark, the method for collecting moves to learn is atrocious, and they lowkey butchered Amy's character along with several continuity errors (to the point where it is the sole semi-canonical title in the Sonic Timeline TM). and yet, when i did the mental math and asked myself what my favorite game was, the math didn't lie. it's got fuckin soul, i spent dozens of hours playing and replaying it as a kid, and it has some really good memories in my brain
sometimes you love dogshit games, sometimes you get hooked on them, and you can either love or hate them as a result. sometimes you want to "give the game a fair shake" and get to what everyone calls "the good part". while i'm not the biggest fan of that, i'd hardly say that's a Wrong Approach
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How do you go onto a competitive pokemon website and say this?
I have over 100 hours in Starbound and although I wouldn't say I hate it I would definitely struggle to recommend it
Sometimes opinions on media don't solidify until you've exposed yourself to it lots
"Unfortunate" doesn't begin to describe my series, this game rewards blind luck and nothing else, I am beyond convinced at this point. After getting completely tooled by scheduling with my opponent changing times on me last minute and refusing to provide confirmation prior to the day of the match as to play times, losing this way somehow felt even worse than I had thought possible. My preparation was superior, my play was superior, and I lost, so I don't see a reason to continue engaging in an activity where what is within my control is overwhelmingly outweighed by what is not.
I am done with competitive Pokemon, and you won't get a fond farewell. This community is infected to its roots with a degenerative disease that grows stronger over time but stops short of killing its host. Tournaments used to have a competitive spirit at their heart, this has been transplanted and replaced with an artificial organ that feeds on vitriol and mockery from insecure little boys that heckle by the sidelines and tear each other to shreds over scraps of attention. The environment we fostered has trapped us all like this in a vicious cycle, and escaping it requires acceptance of the harshest reality we all scramble to explain away, that none of the countless straining efforts we put ourselves through here will ever amount to one single shining glimmer of significance. I would make this the end, but World Cup is still ongoing, and I would never leave so many great friends out to dry, so I'll suffer through a few more games for them.
One last thing before I leave you all to react with disdain, ridicule, and self-righteous fervor, before you do everything in your power to minimize my words and thoughts, box them up and shove them to some cobwebbed corner of your memory, and hope they disappear forever as a stain on your finite time ground to dust. From this moment on, nothing you say matters to me. The foulest insults you hurl with intent to wound will calmly settle at the earth before my feet, and the venom you spit will bring all the pain of a warm summer breeze. You are less than anything you can conceive, while I carry on, brimming with joy distilled from detachment.
lol it's the thing the guy in the bkc video said
Sometimes, you really enjoy a game at first, but you gradually start to dislike it as your playtime creeps higher. Sometimes, you keep hearing that a game is really good or gets really good after you overcome some hurdles, so you stick with it for a while despite not liking it. Sometimes, you dislike a game immediately, but you beat it anyway to make sure that your opinion about it is taken seriously. There are many such cases in all of these categories.
>Abruptly dropped Year 5 of the Switch for $40 despite being the sequel to a free pack-in title
>Somehow had less content than said pack-in title at launch
>Can't even properly cash in on nostalgia due to dropping Miis, the most iconic visual element of its predecessors
>Post-launch support experiences inexplicable delays not seen by basically any other major Nintendo game with content updates
>Somehow still managed to sell 13 million copies despite all of the above
What an utter enigma of a game
Everyone's a genius in a bull market. Switch games get eight-figure sales numbers just for bordering on passable.
"Oh no no no we are much closer to Germans than to slavs"
"We are totally central European, NEVER call us Eastern European"
"Beer is sooooo much better than Rakija, but it's only beer when it's brewed according to the Reinheitsgebot"
"Yeah of course I own a Lederhosen, why wouldn't I?"
"My grandpa was totally German, no I don't know where from exactly"
"We are so much more
"Hey don't put so much spice in gulasch!"
"Yes we did deport the German minority from our country, why do you ask?"
yes. out of the four options for social studies at my school, half was entirely about America.
>is an easy-to-learn sports game, which is playable by literally every demographic including my mother-in-law, right now
>is on the Switch
the game wasn't all it could've been, but these two were really all it needed
Why does Bohemian Rhapsody go so hard?
It is by no definition a good song. It has borderline nonsensical lyrics, an out of nowhere electric guitar solo, and constantly changes pacing. It should be a bad song. And yet everyone, me included, loves it. This has to be black magic.
It is by no definition a good song. It has borderline nonsensical lyrics, an out of nowhere electric guitar solo, and constantly changes pacing. It should be a bad song. And yet everyone, me included, loves it. This has to be black magic.
It's three really excellent song fragments jammed together in a way that works just well enough for the excellence of all three to come through. Also, Freddie Mercury sells the whole thing masterfully.
this was not a joke btw, my mother-in-law is playing the new basketball mode in the other room this very second. she's on the online ladder for golf and bowling, she takes this VERY seriously. maybe for some of y'all the online mode held this game back, but for others it is HIGHLY serious
ok so basically
the American concept of race does not really apply to Europe. Discrimination against groups based on ethnicity is most of the time not determined by the color of skin, but by descendance, religion, culture... The best analog is the way Italians and Irish were treated when they arrived in America, it's pretty much the same discrimination that Europeans have among eachother
Of the "big" ethnic groups in Europe, slavs are by far the most discriminated against. Most of their countries were colonized, are still exploited and destabilized to this day by western powers, Russia and I can assure you China will do some shit there too soon. They were sold so much for so long as slaves that the modern day English word slave comes from the word slav.
As with other colonized groups of people, they are often accused as being uncivilized and improper (despite them having a leg up on the many other Europeans in many regards before they were invaded but you know how it is). The men are often seen as violent criminals without reason, whilst the women are fetishized and seen as sex dolls
Most of the slavs have seen this mistreatment and decided to counter it with pride in their history and culture. Except for the Czechs (whose flag it is that is on top of my post)
Some of them just don't wanna admit they're slavs. They larp as Germans because they brew and drink beer and (like every other slavic group on Earth) had a lot of cultural exchange and shared history with Germans. When they're put in the same group as other slavs, they get offended. You say that they're in Eastern Europe and not in Central Europe (neither are particularly clearly defined terms) and they lose their shit
The irony is that they deported the ethnic German minority from the Sudetenland after WWII. And now they celebrate Oktoberfest and wear Lederhosen and reaaaally wanna be Krauts. It's very bizzare
The best comparison would be if some Appalachians would larp as west coast urban pop. There's nothing wrong with being Appalachian and the fault is with people making ugly assumptions about a population based on stereotypes. Instead of loving the mountains and celebrating the cryptids, being all like "I am not like the other Tennesseans", having a "I am with her" tattoo and thinking everyone else is a dummy based on remarks made by people who won't respect you anyways