The only way to stop a bad kindergartner with a gun, is with a good kindergartner with a gun.

Not to mention death / trauma to the mothers. The single most fucked up thing I’ve ever seen was being called in to do a c-section on a women who needed an abortion and never got one. We extracted a dead, partially decomposed baby from this woman’s abdomen. This was almost a decade ago and that shit still haunts me. It’ll haunt the mother for the rest of her life.

This was before women lost their reproductive rights with Roe v Wade, so idk why she never got one initially. Might have been a religious thing?

When we lost Roe v Wade, one of my immediate concerns was that we’d see an explosion of these types of cases across the country.

GOP legislation is straight up evil.

I guess Einstein was wrong… It’s #3 that’s fought with sticks and stones.

Never said that either. Y’all are great at refuting the words you put into my mouth… maybe try a little less strawman?

When did I say I was furious? Or that I couldn’t come to grips with the mechanics? Or that I couldn’t treat the game as it is? I adapted to ER just fine, and made it to the Malenia fight waiting for the game to rise up to bar the community holds it at. I ‘got gud’, but the game never actually got fun, cuz it never stopped being clunky.

If you find satisfaction in managing the clunk, more power to ya - clunk away. But it’s not my cup of tea.

Idk why folks get so defensive for that game… just in this thread, we’ve post after post getting all heated about how it’s not clunky because [describes how or why it’s clunky]. It’d be like the Minecraft community getting up in flames if I said I didn’t like it because it’s pixelated, and jumping to the defense of their infallible title against such heresy, explaining how it’s not pixelated, the aesthetic was chosen on purpose and carefully made that way!! …vs just advising against playing games that look like Minescraft… because it’s pixelated.

enjoy missing out on the nier titles, the devil may cry series, every fable game, kingdom hearts, the whole god of war franchise, asura’s wrath, and the new final fantasies

Yeah none of those are really on my radar. Fable maybe, for nostalgia sake - played the hell out of the first one when I was in highschool, but haven’t touched the franchise since. I don’t recall getting the impression that it was clunky in the way ER is, but definitely so in other ways… though I wouldn’t hold a game from 2004 up to today’s standards; the entire industry was janky as fuck then.

The rules will not change just because you refuse to learn them.

Bruh that’s what mods are for, hence my first post here. Don’t like something about a game? Change it. Idk if there’s one that can mod the clunk out of ER, but if I get the itch to revisit that world via a more fluid combat experience, then that’ll be high on the to-do list.

Absolutely, but it’s a lot better than whatever the hell we’re doing now. And it can happen fast - biggest holdup would be the sudden change in supply/staffing demands at relatively few facilities, but the VA can limp along while doing its best until those needs are met.

This is speaking as a veteran who receives care at the VA - if there’s one thing they can do well, it’s juggling a clusterfuck while still somehow remaining operational.

Well… there is a federal path to handling state level health care crises.

Two magical ingredients.

First if to actually declare a state of emergency in the Y’all Qaeda infested regions of the US on the basis of denied healthcare leading to the current and worsening humanitarian crisis in those areas; and in doing so, enabling the VA to provide abortion services to non-veterans under section §1784 of title 38, United States Code.

Second is federal enclave, which pretty much states that on federal facilities, state law can eat a bag of dicks.

This dystopian GOP shit is maddening. We need to stop trying to argue with it, and start finding ways to just work around it. Fuck em.

It’s standard practice.

In many cases, yes.

In fighting games, monster hunter, and a bunch of other games, really similar rules apply

…which makes those games clunky. I disliked monster hunter for the exact same reason.

Your take is uninformed and you obviously don’t play much of the genre

I don’t play much of the genre… because it’s clunky. I’m sorry that description offends you.

Making you commit to moves when you make them isn’t clunky.

What is it?

It’s cool if you don’t mind the clunk; apparently it’s a selling point… but that doesn’t mean it’s not there.

…mistook?

I understand the reasoning behind it all, but those design decisions add up to it being clunky. Being intentional and with purpose doesn’t change that.

Which stats? I put over 100 hours into ER if that’s what you’re looking for. Like I said, I really wanted to like it, and ‘got gud’ (learned to time the control’s clunkiness) enough to progress a decent way through the game. But it never actually got fun, nor did it live up to the wildly positive feedback it was getting from the gaming community. ER is an okay game. 5/10. It’s not bad by any stretch, but it’s not the posterchild of a perfect game that it was/is lauded as.

It’s been a while, but I recall most attacks having an obnoxiously long animation, and that animation being set in stone once you trigger it. There is no aborting a sword-swing midway through to dodge or block. And if you make the mistake of pressing the attack button twice, apparently there’s a built-in ability queue that can’t be disabled, so you have to wait for the first animation to completely play through, then wait again for a second animation to play from start to finish.

It makes it extremely unresponsive. That unresponsiveness seems to be what most folks are talking about when they’re applauding the game’s “difficulty”… but you could make any game that flavor of difficult by obstructing the controls.

People like Elon are part of why I refuse to bring anyone into this dumpster fire of a planet.

Hmm, what song would go with this scene? Big butts is already taken…

I really wanted to like ER. It’s fucking beautiful and seems to have a lot of depth, but the a appeal to difficulty doesn’t really hold any water, cuz the only thing that makes it difficult is unnecessarily clunky controls.

Maybe there’s a mod or something now that makes the combat more fluid… I should give it another visit.

“globally” = 11 countries.

We rank worst of those 11, but I can guarantee we’re not the worst globally, lol.

I wouldn’t complain about this becoming an annual tradition.

I used to live in an apartment that also explicitly disallowed window units. The apartment did have a fireplace though, and I figured hot air rises, so we just shoved a window unit in there and let the hot air vent out the chimney.

It did the trick, and we never agreed not to install a fireplace unit.

Any you recommend? I tried this during during the first round of YouTube fuckiness on Firefox, and it didn’t seem to make a difference.

I’m also probably the least techy person on Lemmy, so chances are high that I fucked something up.