…those are different words. It is entirely unreasonable to conflate the two.
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…those are different words. It is entirely unreasonable to conflate the two.
If they just called it something else, then the right wing would intentionally mischaracterize that too and liberal politicians would accept their framing to kill support for it.
What is actually relevant is why liberal politicians would accept the right wing framing of a popular policy position in order to kill the momentum of that movement.
Are you under the impression that public perception is not shaped by politicians and pundits? Of course people are negatively polarized to it; their exposure to it was moderate politicians and pundits accepting the right wing framing of the slogan rather than explaining what it meant!
People accepting the validity of the right wing framing of a slogan in order to criticize people to their left is just plainly worse marketing than a slogan, something nearly definitionally ambiguous, being a bit ambiguous.
No, poisoning the well with complaints like this one that concede to the right wing position is terrible marketing.
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I parsed it as pogos, where you throw an attack roughly below you, vs dives. Architect does both. If it specifically means attacking directly below you, then, yeah, it’s just 2/6 since Shaman also has a diagonal hit box. Those two are like the two earliest ones you’re likely to get though.
I’m sure it will get more popular once the likely boss rush DLC comes out. You just get it so late.
Architect is also good for many of the arena fights because the charge attack will kill most enemies in single hit.
4 of the 6 do have down pogos?
Considering that recontextualizing past challenges through progression is one of the major draws of the genre, I think it’s material to point out that flying enemies are not uniformly an annoyance throughout the game.
I don’t really see how the pacing is weird. You get them every 2-3 major areas throughout Acts 1-2. It’s not dissimilar from HK aside from the game just being bigger. You get Clawline roughly halfway through the game.
I disagree on the basis that flying enemies are generally the most fun to fight once you get the Clawline.
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The fact that you can actually equip 4 things that materially help you does.
It's actually Bloodborne. Faster combat that encourages aggression and lessens the ability to use primarily magic until late game and instead encourages the player to frequently use consumables that are appropriate for the given encounter.
The blue/yellow tools are basically the exact same system. Grubsong is available at the very beginning of the game. So is Fractured Mask, which has no equivalent in HK. Deep Focus, Carefree Melody, and Baldur's Shell are available in Act 1. Soul Catcher, and Quick Focus are available early in Act 2.
The constraint to a certain number of colors also doesn't apply as you continue to progress because they're different for each Crest. You can lean fully into any direction you want.
Have you considered that you're just not very far into the game? A minor spoiler for example, that exact charm/tool exists in Silksong. It isn't until *late* in HK where you can equip 4 meaningful charms (w/out overcharming). You can do that in SS as you find a couple Memory Lockets.
Genuine question: how far into the game are you? Because I don’t get how you can look at all the red tools and crests and conclude she’s lacking customization.
I was talking about both. I thought mentioning “healing while airborne” would have made it clear combat was included.
I mean, she just plainly moves faster, she has an upgraded dash that turns into a sprint (that chains with jumps), has two additional aerial movement upgrades, and can heal while airborne. She just plainly is more mobile.
She’s far more mobile than the Knight and has a far broader toolkit. The Knight is more rawly powerful than her, so this does all fit diegetically.
You can understand it just fine, but it builds mechanically off of the first game and is nails hard even having played it, so I’d probably recommend just playing it first.
Act 3 is the (narrative) equivalent to Godhome.
Nothing you just said means I was not answer the yes-no question. The answer is "yes", the batman franchise is responsible for the joker becoming a fascist, populist icon.
Author absolute can--and should--be expected to understand how their audience will interact with their work. I will go back to the point about "The Birth of a Nation" that you--conveniently--ignored. So you are saying those filmmakers are not responsible for the messages of that film?
No, the author having agency definitionally means that they are--partially--responsible for their message being misinterpreted. That's what the words mean.
I am directly answering your yes-no question. Try a new tact.
People cite works of art for changing their minds and forming their world views all the time, dude.
No, that's not my claim. The author having agency is not the same as the audience having none.
You are aware that both the creator and the audience can share responsibility here, yes?
I'm not making any claims about you or your ideology, so that's irrelevant to me. You however are making those claims about me, which you can very easily see are false.
If I wanted to be taken seriously in a discussion about art, then I think I'd maybe name something other than a commodified fascist-adjacent media franchise made for teenage boys, but maybe that's just me.
Yes, the multibillion dollar media franchise featuring a billionaire vigilante putting criminals--who are often diegetically just desperate to survive--is responsible for its fascist messaging.
My profile is public, bud. Feel free to go stalk it for reference.
No, we're having a discussion. You claimed I misinterpreted something. You can support that claim or you can continue this charade and implicitly admit that it was you operating in bad faith.
I mean, dude, Andor is right there man. The idea that the prequels are maligned because "normies" are incapable of resonating with anti-fascist themes in Star Wars is just plainly untrue.
No, that's just projection because you just got called out trying to move the goalposts. We are talking about whether it's the responsibility of artists to deliver the message they want to deliver, which it just plainly is.
The audience--as a group--doesn't choose to resonate. The artist is responsible for understanding their audience. You seem to be under the mistaken belief that the subjective nature of art just absolves artists of any responsibility for their work and that's just wrong and offensive.
Well, no, the main point was just that those movies were bad and Lucas is primarily responsible for that. I mean, again, this is just projection. I'm not the one who needs to twist myself in a pretzel with a definition of art that fascists don't engage in because they're bad.
Now tell me what I misinterpreted.
I'm a communist, dipshit.
Are the people writing WH40K fascists, now? That seems to contradict the idea that they're not to blame for fascists likely their art, no?
I have not purposefully misinterpreted your claims. If I have unintentionally done that, then you are free to correct that. Claiming that I'm operating in bad faith free of that is just projection.
Someone creating fascist or fascist-adjacent art is responsible for fascists resonating with their work. It is insane to suggest otherwise.
Again, I'm not doing art and you quite clearly understand what I am communicating. Neither am I claiming that art is a "direct conversation." This is just nonsense masquerading as an argument.
You're the one who compared our posting to art, not me! I intend to win any argument I'm in because otherwise I wouldn't be having an argument. That's not evidence of bad faith.
I don't think fascists are right to idolize WH40K, but the artists working on WH40K are absolutely responsible--in part--for the fact that they do.
Okay, so the filmmakers of "The Birth of a Nation" are not responsible for people thinking the film is racist?
Yeah, my posts here are not good art because I am just plainly expressing myself with little attempt to convey that through emotional resonance. You are proving my point here!
Said many people frequently. Meaningfully resonant expression is the core of what makes art art. That people will naturally resonate with art in different ways does not change that. There's no ignorance involved in blaming the principal filmmaker for making a bad movie.
For example, Lucas is responsible for people parsing Jar Jar and Watto as racial stereotypes even if he was just attempting to express comedic levity with some funny dudes.
And if people do not care or cannot parse your feelings then you did not express them. Artists are—at least partially—responsible for how people are going to interact with their work.
I mean, it’s also the filmmaker’s responsibility to deliver that message in an effective way—of which making the film good is a significant part.
That’s criticism that is consistently levied at every souls game, though. When the point of the game is creating friction for the player to overcome, there’s always people who will find the friction tedious.
You can do this in Elden Ring too with the small caveat that you have to quit out before you die while the game still runs in the background.
People probably think that Dems are caving on trans rights and immigration because they are. An early frontrunner for them is openly espousing transphobic rhetoric. Dems attempted to legislate under Biden and Harris campaigned on stricter immigration.
It’s more BB than DS2 tbh.
Just quit out after grabbing the cocoon.
Could have fooled me.
Rundowns are almost always an out regardless of how fast the runner is even at low levels of play. This is closer to hitting a free throw in the NBA than it is completing a pass in the NFL.
Well, no, because lots of things would also benefit their constituents.
That’s not good enough. Legislators should not have incentives to personally enrich themselves over benefiting their constituents.
If someone is being a condescending jerk here it ain’t them.
The league went from 16 teams to 24 teams during a 7 year period in the 60s and saw no such shift in offense (aside from those created by lowering the mound and the AL adopting the DH), and this was a much larger increase in roster sizes with a smaller talent pool to draw from.
He's outperforming his xBA actually. He hits a lot of fly balls and fly balls have a much lower BABIP.
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It remains incredibly lame that the LLWS still has bracket split between US and international. Aside from the whole issue of transparently stacking the deck, it would be a plainly better experience for kids from Pennsylvania to play Japan or Mexico over South Dakota and Illinois.
Chasing multiple important metrics is just called training. Position player training has always revolved around hitting because it is both the most difficult and most impactful skill. That training has always focused on exit velo and launch angle (Williams wrote about it 50 years ago!).
I like kids. I worked with them for years. It's still nice that child-friendly/centered activities do occasional adult-only events. It's nice that there's a few nights a year at my local aquarium where I can do things that I can't do comfortably normally like take an edible or even just go solo.
That's obviously a good thing, though, so it kind of defeats the point you're attempting to make. It's a good thing that there are various environments that have different acceptable behaviors within a society.
This just feels like projection of the strawman that the expectation is to never be subjected to any member of the [annoying group]. I'm not seeking to debate whether society does enough, but it just factually does limit exposure to obnoxious drunks.
Chili’s and Buffalo Wild Wings are not most restaurants. Drunk people yelling obscenities are just plainly not accepted in the vast majority of public spaces. Society provides the reasonable opportunity to avoid that if you’re so inclined.
It is not accepted to be visibly drunk and yell obscenities in most restaurants.
You’re misquoting them. A space can be made more accessible without being inaccessible previously. Children being in a space is not the same as the space being marked for children.
Beyond that whether this actually happens is just plainly conjecture, if a team is stuck on a single metric to chase then their issue isn’t too much focus on analytics but rather such little focus that they’re incapable of recognizing that they’re bad at it.
Framing is the best part of catching, imo. It’s like getting an assist for a called strike. That’s cool.
Literally the name of the ballot measure.
He has both recently and publicly expressed plainly transphobic statements multiple times, so he is transphobic. You are publicly supporting him, which means you tolerate him. So, I think I’m good actually.
He is transphobic and you’re tolerating him, so, yes, I do.
We failed to repeal slavery less than a year ago.
That the series is problematic irrespective of its author’s current actions as evidenced by the frankly abhorrent way it handles the subject matter of slavery.
Neither was mine to make someone dislike them.
Then your point is a non sequitur.
Neither is flynn.
The author lol 💀
Kreacher isnt a real person lmao 💀
Joanne named him that and it is worth criticizing her and her work for doing so. It’s far from her worst name, but it’s still really bad.
Harry is not a villain in the story lmao.
“I didn’t even register that the character is named ‘creature’” lol. lmao even. You are an unserious person.
This is middle school level narrative comprehension. It is both sad and highly informative that you seem ignorant to it.
He has an entire introspection arc, repents, and proves it by doing the right thing. This common arc of: flaw -> problem caused by flaw -> growth -> fix problem with new growth is absent from many of Harry’s character flaws. That’s the issue.
Harry factually and physically abuses Kreacher. But, wow, nothing gets past you. I definitely wasn’t intentionally pointing out the inherent grossness of his name. Still just too stupid to argue with.
…still defending slavery. 💀
Flynn Rider does face consequences. They are central to the plot of the movie. Once again you prove incapable of comprehending fiction made for children. 💀
The protagonist owning and abusing a slave does undermine any prior positive message of him freeing a slave.
Your illiteracy is not my failure.
Yes, I just said you’re defending the way the series handles slavery. You didnt have to give me examples.