I’ve watched a bunch of stuff about Elden Ring (FromSoft, natch) since I finished it. I’m on my fourth playthrough, trying to do a dex character with a healthy amount of Intelligence. I’m in the first third, but I’ve ventured into a later area. I did a mad dash into a fort in Caelid to… Continue Reading
On the RKG Discord, someone wrote the words that are guaranteed to enflame me (even as a Pyro!): DS 2 doesn’t have an easy mode. It was said presumably to me and another person discussing the fact that you cannot start as a Pyro in DS II. I can tell you my immediate impulse was… Continue Reading
In yesterday’s post, I wrote about two letters at Ask A Manager that were about internalized misogyny (more or less). I was midway through dissecting the second, so let’s continue with that. The LW was saying that she didn’t regret the decision she made not to be close to her coworkers/reports, but then whining about… Continue Reading
I’m fat. I have been fat all my life except for the two times I dealt with anorexia (and bulimia to boot one of those times). My mother put me on my first diet when I was seven and has harped on my weight all my life. She is Taiwanese and grew up with very… Continue Reading
Today, there are 2 letters at Ask A Manager that relate to gender-specific assumptions/statements. The first is just a hot mess of internalized misogyny and doesn’t really need much dissection (though she got a ton of it from the commentariat–and I will probably add to it myself. Alison had an excellent and thorough response to… Continue Reading
It takes a village to raise a child. This African proverb became even more popular in America after Hillary Rodham Clinton used part of it as the title of her…memoir? Book? Google tells me the latter and that it’s lessons we’ve learned form our childhood. In that case, the lessons I learned from my childhood… Continue Reading
I became aware of the interview John Fetterman (running for US senate in Pennsylvania against Dr. Oz) gave to NBC. I read about it in Slate before actually watching the interview. What I learned from the article was that he had a stroke in May. He’s back and says that he can still serve. He… Continue Reading
I’ve been thinking about normal lately. The word and the concept, I mean. It’s something that I ponder from time to time because I’ve never been normal, have never considered myself normal, and have never had the luxury of passing for normal. I have been a weirdo from the time I was a little kid,… Continue Reading
It’s been nearly eight months since Elden Ring was released. At its peak, it reached nearly a million concurrent users on Steam. Those are heights that are not seen by non-MM….O? games. Currently, there are roughly 25,000 concurrent users on Steam, which seems pretty damn good to me. In comparison, the latest Platinum Game, Babylon’s… Continue Reading
I am finally writing the post on Elden Ring that I wanted to write in the first place. I got side-tracked in my two previous posts, so here we go. This is about co-op because the Eurogamer video team was complaining about it as they played in the Closed Network Test (CNT). So did the… Continue Reading