Reality vs Adventure

Yeah I recently downloaded the game from playstation store and it had a bug in it... hahaha Naw, it really did though. A scene when the room goes all black I couldn't find my way out and I walked around forever and ever in pitch black. I looked it up and it was a bug. There was supposed to be a way out, but not for me. Luckily it was at the end of a chapter. Just had to log off and back on and it started me at the beginning of the next ch. where I needed to be. Are bugs common in downloaded games?

I just did agree to disagree If you want to discuss this under politics section, then I'll be happy to discuss that topic with you.

You are right that we should't underestimate Nazis. But we also shouldn't hold them to such high prestige in intelligence. It takes more to see wrong and stand for human integrity than it does to follow or give in to obvious immorality. What we should not underestimate is their intentions and how far their evil can go. As far as games, most shooter games don't get in depth in stories. I don't know what kind of intelligence they should grant Nazis in games. I always see them having high tech. Should every WW2 game show scenes of the Holocaust? Should Vietnam war games depict civilians getting slaughtered? Should modern era war games depict what terrorists do to their victims? I think if a game did go into detail it would create backlash on many sides. Maybe we do need to be reminded. But I don’t think you can keep politics out of games if you stir up the hornets and bees. As far as anti fascists go, we can agree to disagree about who are the ones repeating history.

Yeah it's pretty amazing that rats can get into anything, climb almost anything, swim, build nests out of anything. They are survivors and pretty intelligent. There are a lot of wild rats where I live by the woods and yes they get into everything. I wonder how different wild vs tame rats are. I know that a tame rabbit can't produce babies with a wild rabbit. And wild hogs grow large tusks compared to tame ones. They all really do have unique personalities. There is a squirrel I have been feeding outside for a couple months now. There are other ones that also come around to get some food and they all look exactly alike. But that one I can always tell which it is by its behavior. It will stretch out on a branch and watch me, and seems comfortable around me, not so much yet to hand feed it. I haven't really bothered with that though. Other squirrels don't hang around for long and always do certain things that I know is not my squirrel friend. But that same one will run down a branch and make a noise for me to feed it sometimes when I open my door.

I got to thinking about that. I can’t think of a way for it to be possible to see or hear the thoughts in a brain and relay it on a computer screen. I think it is possible to mentally press buttons on a controller or pad wired to your brain, but to look at the screen of a game and mentally move the character w/o any sort of buttons connected to the brain is beyond reasoning that I can think of. And if we could, then forget about mentally playing a game, at that point we could read the minds of animals and other humans. I can see how we could cause the brain to make movements, create any function the brain does from a panel somewhere else, but to process an image in a person's mind onto a screen and vice versa instantaneously to play a game would be capable of mind reading too.

AC Odyssey has a whole in depth learning experience in its options menu where you go to actual historical locations and tour it moving your character around and so on. And while in the actual gameplay historical sights you come across are noted and you get XP points. And it has a brief summary of it in the map. I thought that was very unique. Some of it has to do with politics because Greece was the beginning of democracy and so there is a lot of history there as well as the olympics which they reveal as well.

So in other words, even though most political games that are historical can also have significance in today's politics. Like in Wolfenstein fighting them Nazis. I can definitely relate that to today's climate. So even though it is based on an alternate history of the Nazis taking over America in the New Colossus, the little collectibles in the game such as post cards and letters have writings that actually depict fascist agendas that have historical and present day relevance. And I say that as the game came out a few years ago and still in 2020 we have heard the same things said in our current political environment almost word for word from trump and party. Such a weird deja vu to hear your government repeat such vile antics. While games shouldn't be used as a political prop, historical games could be relevant today for that simple truth to the matter, history does repeat itself.

Are you talking about electrodes attached to our brain stem? If they ever get to the point where your brain can move a prosthetic arm, then yes the same can be to play a game. And I believe it's a possibility. That opens the door to cyborgs taking over as in Terminator. There is already medical implants that can alert authorities if you miss a dose of drugs. Add nanotechnology that can do who knows what on the cellular level; possibly carrying microscopic 'satellites' relaying messages throughout the brain to control bodily functions and thoughts. Who knows? In the Dark Ages they would of thought flying to the moon or communicating with someone instantly across the planet was witchery, alienation, or God resurrected.

I came across this game: PS4 We. The Revolution where during the French Revolution you are a judge and decides who to sentence to death. Seems interesting to me, but not sure how it plays out.

That's some pretty good advice. As an owner of rabbits, I try to care for them as you have stated. Seems a bit harder for rats though because at least rabbits chew on hay!!! I've had a couple of accidental litters, but it is simply amazing to welcome them to the family. Rabbits are vegetarian, but rats are omnivores right? Do their pellets have meat in it or can they survive on vegetable proteins? Must be pretty awesome to have them as pets. Sure they are entertaining pets!

I didn't get very far in Bloodborne cause it was too hard. But the game would be really cool if not for that. Any resource or ammo used, you lose it for good even if you die. When you try again you have less ammo and you lose all coin. Every time. So the trick is to play and collect resources then go and buy what you need in upgrades or sell stuff before you die. Kind of takes the play out of game play. I hope Dark Souls isn't the same way. There is a remastered Dark Souls 1 on ps4 that looks like a good start. But which out of the Dark Souls games are better?

Alien Isolation here too!

Those are hard ones to choose from on the list, and I haven't played any! It only comes down to personal favoritism.

A survival game yes; fantasy adventure game no. If you can conjure magic, you don't need to groom anything. But I personally don't like it either way. Sometimes it just works, other times-come on, really?

Which is the better of these games? There was a Demon's Souls on ps3 and a new one for the ps5. Dark Souls has 3 titles and then there is Bloodborne. The only game I played out of these was Bloodborne and it was very hard so I stopped. Which do you think is the easiest and hardest and better gameplay or most interesting? I want to eventually get back into Bloodborne, but Dark Souls 3 looks good. I also have Sekiro, but haven't tackled that yet and I heard that is hardest. But I am interested in the Souls lore. Any input on any of these games and comparisons?

I want the Witcher 3 card game Gwent with all cards and board.

I remember a book called The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron growing up. There was an expression called 'fill the well'. Don't confuse with 'feel the whale'. People would always laugh when I said it. But filling the well is when you MUST go outside and just observe nature, relax, do something new, and just rejuvenate yourself somehow. Also they use something called the 'morning pages' where you write down anything that comes to mind. Not really a journal, but just absolutely ANYTHING. This helps with any art. It works its magic by helping you find answers and just freeing blocks.

Yeah, I'm aiming towards just finishing the story then go on to Hearts of Stone. I'll be at a higher level then, but at the point I'm at, it just doesn't make sense to stop and do a DLC that I could do after. I don't even know what Hearts of Stone is about, just read that it really doesn't matter the order. Was hoping someone here finished the story and DLC, but I think I'll hit the gong first. Or bong

I had to look up myself, but it's the one hit execution with a pistol. Run at them, grab, shoot dead point blank. There is a way using the torch too, but I found the shot execution works good. Can't recall the blade; I haven't reached that point.

Can you imagine if they played broken movies at the theatre opening night? Then they have to edit it and have a better version a few weeks later at the theatre. If a movie can hold out to release a finished product, no excuse for a game not to. If they need to hire 1000 people to play the games through as a trial version like drug test subjects would, then so be it. Or have 1000 volunteers. How many people usually play the trial game? Are these people doped up and think a broken game is a far out intentional thing? Do they send it off to child-labor-ville and have their games approved there?

I'm at that point; getting close to the end. I know that it really doesn't matter which order to play it as long as you have level 31, but I was wondering if anyone has a preference to finish main story then Hearts of Stone, or play it before finishing the main story. Problem is, if I continue with the main story and finish it I will be well over level 31 which Hearts of Stone recommended level for playing is 31. Which is best as far as the flow of the story?

Yes it does defeat the purpose. I started leveling up too fast in Odyssey. But since they increased the skill level to 99 before I was even at 50 made it all ok. The enemy skill level usually stays around the same as mine. But for other games, a boost in XP could offset quest levels.

Wanking Simulator- ahahaaha; I bet that one takes time getting used to

There is an easy way to slay a zombie when you are outnumbered. You have to practice it, but you grab the zombie and kill it one hit very quick. I started playing around Halloween; need to get back to it.