An open world is a design choice with a subtext that to me says "go anywhere, you'll find something interesting no matter what". And when it's well executed, that's a fun way to play, just going in whatever direction looks intriguing and enjoying it every time.
That's... Not what the vibe of a Souls game is to me. I expect to be on my guard at every turn, creeping past dangers, searching for goodies, progressing carefully and learning the enemies' patterns. In that headspace, I'm not recklessly chasing my way to the horizon in search of fun, I'm warily hunting my way through an ugly crapsack world.
The twisting, vertical, meandering, highly constructed and closed-in design of those worlds lends itself to the sense of prowling through a dreadful mystery.
If he loves open worlds so much, I wish he'd do so in a setting that fits the subtext. Using open worlds as a "sense of scale" gimmick is not fresh or impressive anymore.
It was never gonna happen, even if people believed it.
You want to fight authoritarianism? Be an example of disobedience. Violence activates authoritarian followers against you 100% of the time, but an act of defiance gives courage to people who would be your allies. Most people don't know how to defy authority, are taught not to. They need to be the second one to do it. It gets easier with practise, but it's hard to be the first one.
I hate how much copaganda they shove at kids. Yesterday mine said his dream job was to be a cop, so he could chase bank robbers. After deliberately not saying six terrible things(a medium length pause), I just asked, "have you ever seen a cop actually do that?" and left it at that.
I agree. I was imagining maybe a time dilation mod that you could toggle on/off to make your inputs less physically demanding, but I don't know if that exists. That's how I'd do accessibility in this game personally. I don't know anything about your condition though, so really I'm just spitballing and daydreaming simultaneously.
That fucking suuuuuuuuucks. I wonder if there's a mod that could accommodate you somehow. I'm not trying to spawn a big debate about difficulty in games here, but I really wish you'd be able to play it for yourself, somehow.
US hegemony across the globe is largely predicated on the dollar as the world reserve currency, and although it isn't backed by anything, except maybe violence, I suspect that historians will eventually agree the real damage Trump has done to the American empire is that he's permanently shaken everyone's perception of the US as a stable world power.
But also from a purely Forex standpoint, the carry trade in Japan is going to force issues onto the USD in the near future. This might just be that.
I'm sure there are bomb squad technicians who are happy on the job, but even they would hasten to agree it is work.