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  • Using a tower shield and poke weapon was the easiest playthrough of the game I’ve done. Easiest of all the from soft games I’ve played, even. The final boss went down in 4 minutes and I barely had to heal.

    I think a problem some people get with these games is they have a sort of tunnel vision. They’ll have a scimitar and lose to the boss lose to the boss lose to the boss, and they don’t really consider trying something else.












  • They said the problem was “widespread”. I’m saying it’s not like everywhere you look, but it feels worse than it is if you only go to the high traffic areas where homeless people go to beg for help.

    Cost of living is rising higher than salaries everywhere. This isn’t unique to New York.

    The fact that homeless people exist is a poor reason to avoid New York, in my view. People act like you’re going to be wrestling with the homeless every day.

    We should do more than ignore the homeless, but that’s a separate conversation.



  • If you live here you don’t really go through Penn station. That’s a major commuter hub.

    I’ve lived here for years and only go there if I need to go to NJ transit for some reason (which isn’t often).

    That’s like thinking all of NJ is Secaucus train station, or all of someplace else is just the airport. It’s not representative.





  • You seem to be media illiterate and I don’t know if I have it in me to do a whole course. But here I am typing on my phone.

    The comic is being derided because it’s showing the NYC subway as a dangerous place where fights just happen. This coincides with the common right wing belief that cities are dangerous, which has racist roots (see: white flight).

    In order for the joke to work, you need to accept that premise. Imagine if the comic was instead someone in the first frame holding a $100 ticket to a zoo, and then a $3 ticket to the subway, where the subway is full of elephants. That wouldn’t make any sense because there’s no idea that wild animals are on the train. It would simply be absurd.

    Even if the author didn’t intend to reference that fear of urban areas, it’s there. Death of the author. Authorial intent does not supersede the text. It can provide clues, but it can’t take something out.

    The joke doesn’t work without the racist context imported.

    The authors usage of woke could be any of those things, but given their comics seem to mostly be making fun of left wing positions, I don’t think it’s plausible that it’s some deep irony. It’s much more likely that they’re a simple right wing troll.

    Also like why are you going to bat so hard for this?