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I've finally gotten to Radahn, I understand why people are so pissed now. He's pretty intense, I can't even survive the first few seconds consistently.
 
Something interesting, I justed wanted to point out how Miquella's face is nearly a one to one recreation of Björn Andresen, the progenitor of the Japanese idol, the original "thief of heart."
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WE'RE ALL GONNA said:
For anyone curious, if you want to know more about idol culture in Japan you can pretty much date it back to Björn Andresen. The first idol. He's the original "bishonen," once referred as "the most Beautiful Boy in the world." When he came to Japan in the 1970s, it was teenage girl mass hysteria on par with The Beatles. A whole generation of Japanese artists were inspired by him. For example, Riyoko Ikeda was inspired by his beauty and created Lady Oscar in her manga "The Rose of Versailles."

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He was originally picked by Luchino Visconti, an extremely influential director who made movies with themes of homosexuality and pedophilia. The most disturbing aspect of the whole ordeal is that Luchino was vigilant in protecting him and his "pure image" from film industry associates who wanted to drug and rape him.
...That is until he was no longer useful to the director.

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tldr: idol culture pays its roots to Japanese people in the 1970s parading around an effigy of a European child actor whose mother committed suicide and was eventually drugged and raped to oblivion by gay pedophiles in the film industry.
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X Prime said:
Are we getting to the times when every sane man will admit that Dark Souls 2 was the last even remotely good Souls game?
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I remember when every weapon/build was viable in PVP and PVE alike.

I remember when the worst thing a FS game did was have an elevator go up into a volcano.

I remember when world design balanced different pathways with the freedom to choose. When the DLCs were essentially one big, tightly designed dungeon instead of "the nega world..."

Now you WILL use your resistance talismans or your 60 vigor will act like 10 from the other games. Now every boss and enemy alike is designed for Youtubers to exclaim "YOOOOOOO!!!!" instead of being fun to fight. Now you will be dropped off in a giant empty field, connected to 100 other giant empty fields with the same boss appearing fifteen times.
 
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WE'RE ALL GONNA said:
Something interesting, I justed wanted to point out how Miquella's face is nearly a one to one recreation of Björn Andresen, the progenitor of the Japanese idol, the original "thief of heart."
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Not so fun fact:

The horrible experiences with Visconti ruined this poor man's life. He is a mess - to this day! There is a great but haunting documentary about him called "The most beautiful boy the the world".
 
Strangolapreti said:
Why does Ranni have 4 arms?
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Well, Ranni's body is suppose to be modeled after the snow witch that taught her. The only other people who have four arms are the finger crones, so Ranni's mentor being some sort of renegade finger crone I suppose could work lore-wise, but Miqeulla having four arms makes no sense. It can't be an Empyrean either because his fujo sister and Marika (and Radagon) have only two arms.
 
Coldgrip said:
Well, Ranni's body is suppose to be modeled after the snow witch that taught her. The only other people who have four arms are the finger crones, so Ranni's mentor being some sort of renegade finger crone I suppose could work lore-wise, but Miqeulla having four arms makes no sense. It can't be an Empyrean either because his fujo sister and Marika (and Radagon) have only two arms.
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Except finger crones do not have 4 arms, they actually are 2 armed and the third limb holding the staff is a foot.
You can see it better there.

 
Coldgrip said:
Why does Miquella have four arms
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In universe it's probably religious iconography, if Ranni or Miquella splays their four arms out they have a four limbed silhouette just like the ancient dragons with their four wings. Anchient dragon society also considered five fingers holy, symbolic of the intelligence that the dragons blessed the beasts with in order to create their beastman vassals.
Out of universe it gives them a silhouette like the vitruvian man, the vitruvian man is already referenced by the Fundamentalist and Radagon in all of their Vitruvian-esq posing so it's probably intentional.
 
Sniperwoof said:
It's been a while since I've played Bloodborne but I've beaten it probably five times and I don't believe any enemy in that game including bosses has a seven hit combo.
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DS1 hollows and even some DeS enemies have been renowned for dropping the multihit GETOFFAME combo which kills newbies in a heartbeat, this isn't anything new or special and if Miyazaki had his way from the beginning I expect there would be more of these across every title.
 

You heard it here folks! having kids is a disability and possibly, A skill issue!

Im just shocked its not some 30 year old neckbeard making that claim, But a honest women. How about putting down the controller and look after your infinite child lady. I had no idea she was a mother but, congratulations?

Honestly, If you gonna play a game that cant be paused, Make sure you play that game when you know you dont have any plans. having kids kinda ruins the planning but maybe play something else that lets you pause for a minute.
 
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I couldn’t believe that garbage, and fuck Mutahar for taking her seriously.
To pull out a Microslop document, as if they’re our overlords too, just because they sold their souls to big tech is absurd.

“See! Microsoft says kids are a situational disability! Checkmate!”. Retard, it also says being a bartender and driving are situational disabilities. I’m not taking a thing they, and you for that matter, say seriously. They just want you constantly locked into their stuff.

It’s also nakedly yet another attempt to leash Fromsoft. I may complain about some of the aspects of ER’s story, but I overall love the game and Souls games at large. Westerners trying every trick in the book to get their claws in to reshape the game is annoying.
 
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