It was amazing, aside from some aspects (like the final boss). Really happy with SotE being the cherry on top of the amazing cake that’s Elden Ring!

Why are you bringing this up like it hasn’t been discussed thousands of times? Like it hasn’t been stated (and cleared) in this very post?

Ah, so you just choose to ignore information you don’t already know? What a rational thing to do. You’re not anti-intellectual at all.

Or are you seriously trying to gaslight everyone into believing Shannon entropy doesn’t exist?

Maybe try looking into the topic instead of confidently repeating your wrong assertions? You’re literally pulling a “my hand is not a number!” right now.

Just because you have a limited understanding of a unit, doesn’t mean that unit is only applicable to what you know. Literally the star example I brought up.

You say “we don’t think in bits because our brains function nothing like computers”, but bits aren’t strictly related to computers. Bits are about information. And since our brains are machines that process information, bits are also applicable to those processes.

To show this, I chose an analogy. We say that people have 10 fingers, yet our hands have nothing to do with numbers. That’s because the concept of “10” is applicable both to math and topics that math can describe, just like “bits” are applicable both to information theory and topics that information theory can describe.

For the record: I didn’t downvote you, it was a fair question to ask.

I also thought about a better analogy - imagine someone tells you they measured the temperature of a distant star, and you say “that’s stupid, you can’t get a thermometer to a star and read the measurement, you’d die”, just because you don’t know how one could measure it.

I also don’t have 10 fingers. That doesn’t make any sense - my hands are not numbers!

Ooooor “bits” has a meaning beyond what you assume, but it’s probably just science that’s stupid.

I wanted to joke that the Apple adapter would be way more expensive, but it seems to be 10€. Maybe that would work?

It’s a very unclear signal as there’s a bunch of other possibilities too. Maybe I already have a similar game I prefer, maybe I don’t like the genre, …

I’ve been playing Parkitect over the last months, it’s pretty fun! Usually I don’t stick with Tycoon games for long, but I did >10 campaign levels there.

Only bummer is that the tooling around blueprints is pretty underdeveloped (can’t sort/tag them, very inflexible), and it gets tiring to recreate all the basic decorations around food courts etc.

Oh, you’re actually just trolling. Almost got me, nice one.

Wow, okay, you’re really missing the point.

Something is either 100% failsafe, or it isn’t. If there is even a tiny chance that something will fail, it isn’t failsafe in the context of GPs point. We’re not talking about “realistic chances” or something here - we’re talking about actual physical laws.

Humans aren’t failsafe, because they’ve failed plenty of times, and can still fail plenty of times. Sure, no accidental nuclear launches have been done, but that doesn’t mean they can’t happen. Both of the humans involved can develop a psychosis at the same time, at which point the system has failed. This even being a possibility means that the system isn’t failsafe. It doesn’t matter whether it already happened or will ever happen.

The reason we’re taking this strict distinction is that human failsafes have failed plenty of times. People in Germany got to know this very well through Chernobyl. There were failsafes in place, and they didn’t work due to human error. That’s why proponents of nuclear energy are focusing on this point - changes in the design of modern nuclear reactors make it literally physically impossible for the same thing to happen. I’m not talking about a 99.999999999% chance that it won’t happen, I’m talking about 100%.

Just to be sure, I’ll repeat it again: human failsafes have failed in the past, and humans can fail in every situation. You won’t believe how many people lost fingers, hands or even arms in spite of a dead man switch that should prevent it. There are plenty of examples of systems that, according to you, should be 100% safe, yet they failed. Because humans can fail.

Are you willfully missing the point, or is this accidental?

The tower of playing cards I built this morning also hasn’t failed yet, so logically we should link nuclear launch codes to it collapsing. After all, it seems to be a perfect system.

Or you could try actually thinking about the point GP was making.

Are you trying to tell us it’s impossible for these two humans to fail at the same time? There’s some physical law preventing them from receiving false information and acting on it? They can’t be manipulated or forced to do things they don’t want to?

That’s the kind of failsafe GP was talking about. Not “99% safe except for rare circumstances”, but actually 100% safe.

Funnily enough this is the one way they could make me interested in these games again (haven’t played since Revelations). There’s a lack of games that focus on expressive and fun movement!

You could either try dockur/windows, a Docker container that runs a Windows VM in QEMU. They have account creation etc. handled automatically afaik.

If that doesn’t work for you, you could try looking into how they set up accounts automatically.

Yes, it’s the game with the jokers

You either didn’t get past the start screen, or you’re trolling.

• Sekiro has a single weapon, Elden Ring has hundreds
• Sekiro has death blows and the parrying mechanic, Elden Ring has staggering, dodging and blocking
• Sekiro has prosthetic tools you can upgrade and switch through, Elden Ring only has ashes of war
• Sekiro has lots of vertical movement through grappling and jumping, Elden Ring has no comparable mechanic

Elden Ring is an evolution of the Demon Souls formula, but already with large changes. Sekiro is completely different.

Meh, on average more than 1.5 years between games doesn’t qualify as yearly for me, especially if you’re counting DLC.

It’s also simply not “the same monotonous bullshit”. Each game has variations and improvements, sometimes leading to drastically different gameplay (compare Sekiro and Elden Ring). Otherwise, why not also count Armored Core?

Now they are releasing an experimental spin-off that again drastically changes a bunch of mechanics, but that’s also somehow not good enough? Seems like you just don’t like their games, irrespective of how much they evolve from the Dark Souls formula.

Souls games are nowhere near “yearly”, and there’s been massive changes throughout the games. How do you get anything close to “yearly FIFA slop” from that?!