Sekiro is far and away my favorite FromSoft game. I think people bounce off because they expect it to be more like the classic souls experience than it is; there are three main differences IMO that you need to know to have a good time:
Health doesn’t matter. Breaking posture, not removing hp, is the goal of each fight; damage is only useful because it slows enemy posture recovery and deals posture damage too.
Parrying is (functionally speaking) attacking. Every parry does posture damage, and it’s often better to parry off the whole combo rather than interrupt it at the first opportunity with an attack
HOLD THE PARRY BUTTON. In DS, the parry is a one tap action. In Sekiro, you get something like a full .5s of parry frames as long as you hold the parry button. Understanding this mechanic makes the game much, much easier.
House centipedes are actually friends! They don’t eat your food, clothes, or house, nor spread disease, but they do eat all the little bugs that do those things.
It would be hugely impactful to the high levels of academic math, but I don’t think we’d see any meaningful effects elsewhere. Consistent or not, math works—it performs perfectly for finance, engineering, statistical analysis, and a finite but practically uncountable number of other things. Some abstruse inconsistency won’t suddenly break all that, and if it were discovered we would just keep on using the same “broken” math because it does the job.
I think this is in reference to the flood of AI slop “vulnerability fixes” spamming projects to farm bug bounties—if the vulnerabilities are disclosed in furry porn, security engineers are guaranteed to see them but bots might not.
DS3, ashes of ariandel. I’d gotten invaded and brutalized a couple times in/around the bug basement and had no clue where I was supposed to go. Another invader showed up after I’d cleared a lot of the area; not wanting to lose my progress again, I branched into a box and hid for a couple minutes waiting for him to get bored. He sprinted straight past me a couple times before stopping near where I was hiding. I was sick of coward gaming by this point so appeared and approached him. He gestured for me to follow, so I did, since we were in a horrible place for a fight. Instead of going to a good arena, he took me downstairs and pointed at the lever to progress the area, then vanished. The progression from exasperation at the invasion to giddiness as my stupid hiding spot kept working to gratitude as the phantom I thought had come to kill me instead released me from insect purgatory made the encounter of my favorite gaming memories.
Assuming you need to buy the product, taking on zero interest debt gives you greater liquidity that you can theoretically activate elsewhere to improve your cash flow. For the amounts and time scales of BNPL, though, I don’t entirely see the point.
Edit: I looked closer, and the legs of the round table scream AI to me—either it’s AI or that table was designed and built by exceptionally inept children
Sekiro is far and away my favorite FromSoft game. I think people bounce off because they expect it to be more like the classic souls experience than it is; there are three main differences IMO that you need to know to have a good time: