Fatigued Souls (Part 1)

https://selectbutton.net/t/brain-garbage/7701/254?u=vastlecania

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Subway: Prepare to Die Edition

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It’s the anniversary of Bloodborne’s release today and personally i’d love a quarantine event in that game’s underserved multiplayer

a game where people bar themselves in their homes while an eldritch plague plunges the world into deepening horror is also definitely… resonant, right now

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my housemate has spent the last week doing a 99 arcane build bloodborne run. been fun watching that game again.

May I recommend the GREAT SCYTHE

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Dark Souls is forever

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I streamed this for about 2 hours and it was Real Good. Got through Sens Fortress so that skinless gargoyles could carry me to a Castle For Big Boys. it was great

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someone is making a mod for souls 2 that attempts to redesign the game to be lit like the original trailers:

normally I’m skeptical about this kind of thing but the guy doing this seems to be taking a very thoughtful and considerate approach. I hope he manages to pull through.

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what if that mod is what top tubes been up to after leaving the forum

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a win win for all parties involved I guess

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good vid
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the bone fist justifies all of dark souls 2

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:eyes:

John Berger knows all about the inside eyes:

A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another…

One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. Thus she turns herself into an object – and most particularly an object of vision: a sight.

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idk if anyone crossposted this

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I’m not really sold on this analysis, though it has some good observations.

I don’t have a lot of patience for ā€œAND THE GAME MAKES THE PLAYER COMPLICIT IN THESE ACTSā€ analysis, tbh.

It’s trying to turn Bloodborne into Spec Ops: the Line which is just reductive.

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The souls always was about being complicit in eating each other and Bloodborne is the most literal about it, so, idk, at least that works.

Sure sure, but I mean

This is just stupid

Anyone who ever writes ā€œthe only way to win is to not play!ā€ should have a lifetime ban from games criticism

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t H e P l A y E r I s T h E p R o B l E m was fucking played out when killer 7 pulled it. that was over 15 years ago. fuck off, internet. I get it, you played bioshock when you were 13

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